On Tuesday the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an injunction that stopped Texas’ restrictive sonogram law. Under the reaffirmed law, abortion providers are required to show or describe an ultrasound image of a woman’s pregnancy. The only exceptions to the law are if the fetus was conceived by rape or incest or if the fetus has an abnormality. Women can decline to view the sonogram, but she must listen to the doctor’s description. Continue reading
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Merry Christmas me, er, NBA fans everywhere! After a 5 month lockout the owners and players came to their senses and realized no one makes money if basketball isn’t being played. Now we have a healthy five game menu for our usual Christmas day games. Continue reading
If you’ve ordered anything from Best Buy online since the day after Thanksgiving, you might want to check your email. Your special snowflake might not be getting that Hot New Toy after all.
From a press release issued to FOX 9 in Minneapolis earlier this week: Continue reading
Last month Runner’s World magazine did its “reader’s issue.” A lot of the stories were about the readers of the magazine instead of the running superstars that are normally featured in the magazine. One reader pointed out that it’s very rare to see a black runner on the cover of the magazine.
The editor talked about this in his monthly address at the beginning of the magazine. Lo and behold, there are mostly white runners featured on the magazine because that’s who is reading the magazine. Nearly 90% of readers are Caucasian, 5.2% are Hispanic and a very low 1.2% are African-American. With 13% of the United State population being African-American, one might hope that might be reflected in running demographics, but it is not. Continue reading
In baseball, there are the teams that can afford to pay any price for talent and then there are the teams not called “Yankees.” Michael Lewis spent part of the 2002 MLB season with the Oakland Athletics to see this practice in action. Lewis used the material from the time he spent with the team to write Moneyball. In 2011, a film based on the book was released.
Instead of looking for one player with a dream stat lines, Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane looks for players that in the aggregate would have the same stat line as a team that a superior team would. It’s a great way to save money, or just stay within budget. Despite having a payroll of $41 million, which was about one-third of the Yankees payroll, the A’s were playoff contenders Continue reading
You know, of all the people to rob at gunpoint, a mixed martial artist and UFC fighter might not be my first choice.
Anthony Miranda, 24, faces a charge of discharging a weapon during a robbery in the Southwest Side attack, which left him wounded in the ankle and badly bruised from his confrontation with the the fighter.
There’s something to be said for choosing your battles wisely. Continue reading
56 years ago today, Rosa Parks got on the bus to go home, but was too tired to go to the back of the bus where blacks in the 50’s were supposed to sit. Continue reading
American Airlines parent AMR corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday. This filing leaves Jet Blue and Southwest Airlines as the only two major U.S. airlines that have not filed for bankruptcy reorganization. Continue reading
It was announced early Saturday morning that the NBA players and owners have reached a tentative deal, ending the NBA lockout at 149 days. NBA Commissioner David Stern said that the deal requires “a variety of approvals and very complex machinations, but we’re optimistic that will all come to pass and that the NBA season will begin Dec. 25.”
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Netflix, which once seemed untouchable, has announced that they are predicting losses for all of 2012. They are mainly attributing their losses to expanding service to the U.K. and Ireland, but a loss of subscribers following a public relations gaffe this summer is not helping.