Our Canuck seems pretty down that Canada has been eliminated from the World Baseball Classic. It's the biggest surprise of the tournament thus far. Right now Italia is playing Venezuela and I'm rooting hard for the Euros to beat Team Chavez. It would be nice for a European team to get some recogniti...

by Latoya Peterson “Though you do add some much needed cultural diversity to an otherwise homogeneous group, your responses to [The Friendship Survey] were deeply disturbing.” —Sheldon to Rajesh, The Friendship Algorithm A few weeks ago, I discovered a new favorite show to watch. M...

Filed under: Forecasts, Good news, Rants and raves, Apple Inc (AAPL), Cisco Systems (CSCO), General Electric (GE), Stocks to Buy, Intuitive Surgical Inc (ISRG), Recession, American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) If there is anything that makes me think we could be close to a market bottom, it is all the peo...

Filed under: International markets, Good news, Management, Citigroup Inc. (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of New York (BK), Wells Fargo (WFC), Chasing Value, U.S. Bancorp (USB) It is being reported today in the Business Journal that the safest bank in the United States is Wells Fargo & Company (...

Filed under: Rants and raves, Personal finance, Politics, Recession General George S. Patton was attributed with saying: "No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country." This was played out to perfection by George C. Scott in the Os...

I knew it would happen to some of my stock picks this year -- but ouch! -- Anglo American (NASDAQ: AAUK) has reported that it is handing out 19,000 pink slips world wide, oh, by the way, you can forget about the dividend -- that's gone too. The stock closed yesterday at $8.75 and is trading down at ...

A newly revealed e-mail indicates the Justice Department was close to completing an internal investigation on senior lawyers who wrote controversial positions on the legality of waterboarding....

Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, American Idol, How I Met Your Mother, Judges, TV Squad Lists, Chuck, Reaper, Reality-Free, The Big Bang Theory, TV Squad Ten So what's a second banana? Well they're certainly not second best. No, in fact they're often the main reason to tune into a particular s...

ALBANY-A week before the process to appoint New York's junior U.S. senator reached its messy end, Governor David Paterson stood onstage at an event with Hillary Clinton and compared his experience in the state's highest office to a dirty movie. "I've been governor for nine and a hal...

ALBANY—David Paterson stood beside Sheldon Silver in the Red Room of the Capitol to present a package of revenue increases, spending cuts and "sweeps" that will bridge the budget deficit in the remainder of this fiscal year. It will not do much more. "Today, the legislature has acco...