Well, this week, Wired Magazine reported that Google and the CIA have gotten together to track Twitter posts, blogs and websites to understand relationships in order to predict the future. They’ll use that information to determine the “momentum” of any event.

Or – put it this way.  Using your posts from and about you, our friends in the government can know what you’re thinking.  We at MullerOver believe that if both Google and the CIA are involved, it has to be a good idea.

“Preposterous!” you say?  Yeah,  Google and the CIA knew you’d think that.

To demonstrate how this technology works, we at MullerOver thought we’d give this technology a spin.  We’re going to read your thoughts and put what you’re thinking in italics.

Whatever.  This MullerOver site is so idiotic.  How do they stay in business?

Well, there you go.  Your first thought read by the mighty power of Google and the CIA.

Wait – how did you do that?

You see, Google and the CIA can use all those Facebook posts, search terms as well as things people say about you figure out what you’d think in every situation.  When they put all these together, they can know everything that will ever happen. Read more »

Without a doubt, the single greatest drama ever on television is “The West Wing”.   If you’ve discovered this post, you no doubt agree.  Just for fun, this is a list of what I consider to be the ten best moments ever on the show.   Read more »

A thought hit me today.  There’s two different types of societies in the world.  The highly  evolved, wealthy economies like the United States.  And what we’d call the backward, third world poor economies like people in Jamaica.

If you haven’t been there, in Jamaica, people have little money and live near the shore eating coconuts and lying in hammocks.

In the United States, people work 40-60 hours per week plus several hours commuting in high stress jobs to earn enough money to possibly earn a five day vacation somewhere like Jamaica lying on a hammock and drinking out of a coconut.

Come to think of it, which one was rich and which was poor?

There’s a few jobs that as parents, we hope our children never decide to do.  Things like an Alaskan fisherman on one of those boats in “Deadliest Catch”.  Or – being a radioactive waste transporter.

But there is a job that is so hazardous, so deadly, that we’re wondering if there should be a law against people taking this role.  We call on Congress to begin hearings to regulate this profession and to stop people from what appears to be certain doom – child actor.

We all know the others:  Gary Coleman, Todd Bridges, Dana Plato, McCauley Culken, Britney Spears, etc.

Now, a Judge Marsha Revel of Los Angeles had to do what Lindsay Lohan’s parents refused to do for her whole life:  send her to her room.  This time for 90 days. Read more »

On Friday, tech guru, Steve Jobs, addressed his followers with a stunning admission that left many in tears, and others crying into the sky, “Why?  Why?”.

For those MullerOver readers who haven’t been following this story, Steve Jobs is the leader of a fast growing cult marked by followers carrying his electronic tracking devices in their pocket and superior snorts of derision at any mention of Microsoft.

On Friday, to the shock and tears of millions and in response to the scandal called “antennae-gate”, Jobs told the crowd, “You know, we’re not perfect.”

But – still few believed it.

One follower immediately clarified to our MullerOver correspondent, “Note that he said ‘we’re not perfect’ meaning the entire Apple employee base.  That doesn’t necessarily imply that Jobs himself isn’t divine.”

Although he normally appears to his followers only once per year with a larger than life video screens followed by cultists camping outside his worship centers called “Apple Stores” for days at a time, Friday’s appearance was a special treat for the Apple-heads everywhere.

What if the Gulf of Mexico is sitting on an immense bomb on a global scale? And BP just inadvertently lit the fuse?

Our MullerOver on-staff geologist, Jacques, may have finally earned his keep when he rushed into our editorial meeting with boxes of charts and graphs like “Doc” Brown from Back to the Future.  It turns out that there’s a story here – far beyond the oil-slicked beaches – that few are talking about.

We’ve known for decades that the Gulf of Mexico is sitting on top of immense deposits of natural gas called methane which has been safely contained for eons.  However, scientists have warned that the gas is under pressure far beyond what drilling equipment can handle.  Where most drill heads are under 1,500 pounds per square inch of pressure, these deposits are thought to be between 30,000-100,000 pounds per square inch.

And – there’s growing speculation that BP accidentally pierced that methane bubble like popping a balloon.  The same gas which caused the Deep Water Horizon rig to explode could get far worse. Read more »

This week was one of heat.  In every sense of the word.  From the Miami Heat already printing up their “Five-Peat” shirts after the announcement by LeBron, to the hot air coming from the Gulf Coast, to the quite literal oppressive heat that’s making Canada to even look like a viable habitat, the nation had temperature on the mind.  So, as a recap of the week of all that’s hot …

LeBron can take the Heat

This week, perhaps the most over-hyped basketball player ever, LeBron James, broke up and crushed his long-time partner, the Cleveland Cavaliers.  While most reasonable break-ups are done more respectfully like via a Twitter text, King James decided do it in perhaps the most publicly forum in history, an hour long show broadcast from Ohio (ooh – that’s cold).

And, with all the anger of a jilted Alanis Morissette song, Cavs owner, Dan Gilbert, mocked James and called his decision a “cowardly betrayal“.

Maybe we should just call this “Day One” of the King James marketing machine for the next five years.   For instance, Ford will rename their truck, the LeBronco.  Or get ready to buy the new “LeBrawny Paper Towels”.

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How can you determine the value of something? Well, I suppose by adding up the total sum that people are willing to give up for it.

On this Independence Day, the editors of Muller Over would like to salute those who are making a sacrifice to preserve our freedom. And far too often, we forget that those making those sacrifices for our country aren’t just those wearing a uniform, but also by those who go to school for months at a time without being able to hug their mom or dad.

So how much sacrifice is being paid to secure that freedom? Or put another way, how much is our freedom worth? Based on the expressions of these young boys and girls, it must be worth an awful lot.

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