Michael Bloomberg successfully purchases reelection as New York mayor.

Obama declares H1N1 emergency , making people more fearful than they have to be or more full of conspiracy theories than they have ever been.

Inside Lacrosse’s Fall Check in with UMBC’S Kyle Wimer.

Go LA.

The Philadelphia Phillies are returning to the World Series a year after winning the Major League Baseball championship.
When you live directly in the line of two baseball teams, neither one contenders, taking the next best thing is as good as it gets.

Sitting here watching two football games, the Redskins and the Ravens, I can’t help but consider Gladwell’s recent New Yorker piece, in which he “discusses the traumatic brain injuries suffered by football linemen and other ex-athletes, and the inherent dangers of contact sports”.

Offensive Play

Audio/slideshow presentation, very interesting piece about the damage done, seen on autopsies of those who have over the course of their career are hit thousands of times a year.

FCC says if it’s like a real telephone it has to be regulated like one, Google says it’s not like a real telephone it a free internet application.The major telecom monopolizers are banging on the FCC’S doors, trying to get them to dissuade Google’s offering of this application.

FCC To Probe Google Voice

How about we forget Google and make some regulations regarding pricing for the people ripping us off right now?

In Glenn Beckstyle this site explains….

This site exists to try and help examine the vicious rumor that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. We don’t claim to know the truth — only that the rumour floating around saying that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990 should be discussed. So we’re going to do our part to try and help get to the bottom of this.
Why won’t Glenn Beck deny these allegations? We’re not accusing Glenn Beck of raping and murdering a young girl in 1990 – in fact, we think he didn’t! But we can’t help but wonder, since he has failed to deny these horrible allegations. Why won’t he deny that he raped and killed a young girl in 1990?

With constant reminders to look to the bottom of the page where it spells out clearly…

Notice: This site is parody/satire. We assume Glenn Beck did not rape and murder a young girl in 1990, although we haven’t yet seen proof that he didn’t. But we think Glenn Beck definitely uses tactics like this to spread lies and misinformation.

Read the last sentence again. That’s the point. Read it a third time and ignore the name of the site itself, because anyone who believes that we’re trying to actually get people to believe Glenn Beck raped and/or murdered is *whoosh* missing the entire point. So don’t be dumb like a lot of people are. I greatly expanded this text because so many people *read* it, and *still* didn’t understand.

Beck, having no legal recourse because no law has been broken, filed a formal complaint (PDF) to an international internet governing body, the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Md. to begin ban on texting while driving.You can still read text messages.

Did it occur to anyone that for some people, my 18 year old sister for instance, it takes longer to read a message than to type one?

Dumb Maryland.

The Orioles are letting Dave Trembley return for the 2010 season. Trembley: So now we know.
Better luck next year guys.

And what do you know, the Orioles went out and won one for the gipper.

Dan Connolly asks Are the Ravens this good?

Spawning Salmon
How the financial blogosphere gave birth to Felix Salmon.

A House, A Mortgage, A Mess

There’s nothing exceptional about the boxy-looking two-family at 13 Essex Street in Revere, Massachusetts.

What is remarkable is the story behind a subprime-mortgage deal that allowed a lab assistant making about $36,000 a year to buy the property with $670,000 in loans.

New details emerge on events that led to samurai sword killing

It looks so far like the student had no intent to kill, and was defending himself. No charge have been filed.