Have you ever played “Five Card Draw” in Poker? The point is to get the best possible hand using the five cards you’re dealt. In the game of draw, you can discard the cards that you believe won’t help your hand, and get new, unknown cards to take their place. You see, each card...
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Hey, it’s you! I love watching your show. Don’t know what I’m talking about? OK, let me explain. Remember that movie in 1998 called, “The Truman Show”. It’s the far-fetched film where all the daily activities of a guy named Truman Burbank were sent around the world for all the world to watch. It’s...
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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...
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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...
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If you’ve seen the Simpsons, you know Mr. Burns – the powerful, greedy and slightly incompetent CEO of the energy company who leads the organization during disasters. Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Mr. Burns and the BP CEO Tony Hayward in the same room at the same time. It turns...
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Some sensible ideas to finally make soccer catch-on around the world.
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This week was highlighted by one of the most gut wrenching calls in baseball history. A 28-year-old right handed pitcher from Venezuela, Armando Galarraga, was a single out from what is one of the most storied and elusive feats in the sport: the perfect game. It’s 27 batters walking to the plate followed by 27...
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Two 80′s icons had head injuries and two 80′s icons were in intensive care. But – reflecting on this past week, one has recovered to the biggest week of his life. And tragically, one life was extinguished. First, the life of Gary Coleman. It’s been said that the single most hazardous job in the country...
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It’s not that I mind getting older. I just mind people being younger than me. Maybe that “Drill baby drill” wasn’t the best Republican mantra in 2008 after all. I’m pretty sure that the writers of Lost had no idea where the show was going when they started. Someone stole $125M in art from a...
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July 28, 2010. That’s the day. Ten years from now when we live in a society which vaguely resembles the one envisioned by our founding fathers and we wonder of when our freedoms crumbled, July 28, 2010 should come to mind. You see, that’s the day that the Arizona Senate Bill 1070 (often called...
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