Those two teams haven't met in the playoffs since 1941.  From NFL Touchdown:

1. WWII can’t stop the rivalry: Exactly seven days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Packers and Bears met in the first and only playoff meeting between these two teams. In a time when the country was devastated by the advent of World War II, an overflow crowd of more ( Read more... )

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Science Daily: Meaner Than Fiction: Reality TV High on Aggression, Study Shows

ScienceDaily (May 22, 2010) - All the gossip, insults and dirty looks add up fast on popular reality shows, far outpacing the level seen in equally popular dramas, comedies and soap operas according to a new Brigham Young University study.

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Yesterday, I posted " Otaku Fear Factor," the first of two fanfics I wrote for the 2005 rec.arts.anime.misc New Year's Challenge. Today, I'm posting the second, "Win Jonny Fairplay's Money" which ties into both the fanfic I posted yesterday, but also " The Battle of the Self-Inserts," which I posted more than two years ago. Like "Otaku Fear Factor ( Read more... )

Nearly two years ago, I promised you all that I'd " post my long promised January 2005 fanfics (the ones that are actually good) next. When that "next" will be, I make no promises!" That time has finally arrived.

Here's the first of two that I wrote for the rec.arts.anime.misc New Years Day Challenge for 2005. It's the second in a series that began ( Read more... )

CNN: Reality TV producer freed during inquiry of wife's death
By Alan Duke, CNN
April 9, 2010 -- Updated 2239 GMT (0639 HKT)

(CNN) -- Mexican police freed a former American reality TV show producer from detention Friday but kept his passport so he couldn't leave Cancun while they investigate the death of his wife.

Bruce Beresford-Redman was taken ( Read more... )