A who's who of entertainers--from Tom Cruise to Tom Hanks to Tom Petty--has agreed to assemble Friday night February 2nd, for an unprecedented telethon on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox to aid the victims of this weeks week's horrific Mooninite attacks in Boston ( Read more... )

Before I get to the serious story - as someone who went to college at the University of Houston while were were still in the Southwest Conference and had Texas as a rival, I can't say I'm happy about Texas winning the National championship. I still have problems with thir fans chucking batteries at us (I was in the band) in a couple of games. ( Read more... )

It's almost the close of another World AIDS Day ( Read more... )

I left a little early from work, and made the drive to the polling place. In most of my experience voting, these places are usually manned by senior citizens and there might be one or two other people voting. I was surprised when the elementary school's parking lot was full at six o'clock at night and there was a line waiting to vote ( Read more... )

I went up to the seat, and jumped in. It was a tight fit, as I expected. I pulled down the restraint and tried to pull it as close and tight to my body as I could. I sucked in my gut tried to pull my shoulders down and waited for the attendant to come over and attempt to snap the the seatbelt connector together. Chris was trying to keep me up ( Read more... )