This is going to be a short and sweet entry today. I heard no Paris Hilton news today. No mention of it on the morning radio show, no one walking by me desk with the proverbial "You hear about Paris today?" I am sooo tired of getting dragged into this news story even when I hate the very idea of having to listen to any of it. There are plenty of important things going on in the world, and this is what I have to discuss with my coworkers? So apparently the Lord has smiled on me and removed Par...

p>For those our there who do not know what the "Deadliest Catch" is, let me give you a description. This is a show that is on the Discovery Channel. It follows the working life of several Alaskan crab boats as they work to recieve your future dinner on the Bering Sea. Here is the blurb that the Discovery Channel says about the show... "Each year, hundreds of fishermen converge on Dutch Harbor, Alaska, for the beginning of the Alaskan king crab season. While at sea, they face nearly 24-ho...

In Grand Rapids, Michigan today, a man in a wheelchair got stuck to the grill of a semi-truck, and was driven 2-3 miles down the highway at 50mph. I am not making this up. Now, I don't want everyone to think I am making fun of people in a wheelchair, that would be incorrect, I am really just truly confused. Here is the link to the article in the Detroit Free Press. Apparently the man was crossing an intersection when the truck driver got the wheelchair lodged into his grill. He apparent...

My time was thoroughly and intensely wasted today. This I can say with absolute certainty. In fact, I can point to a specific group as someone who helped further the advance of global warming by making me drive around for 30 minutes looking for a stinking drop box. OK, here is the situation...JD wants to enter the Ann Arbor City Tennis Tournament. On the website for the tournament it says a drop box is located at an address that does not exist. Mapquest or Streets and Trips cannot find it, ...

   One of my coworkers, who shall remain nameless said that he heard an ad on the radio for a product called "Colonblow." Lets just say that a rousing round of man humor followed in the discussion of the product, and all the fun that you could have with practical jokes. I have to admit that I honestly did not think that this was serious. But no, JD is wrong, a little googling and wham...there is the website for a actual product called "Colonblow." Motto: Poopin' is Cool!   ...

   One of my coworkers, who shall remain nameless said that he heard an ad on the radio for a product called "Colonblow." Lets just say that a rousing round of man humor followed in the discussion of the product, and all the fun that you could have with practical jokes. I have to admit that I honestly did not think that this was serious. But no, JD is wrong, a little googling and wham...there is the website for a actual product called "Colonblow." Motto: Poopin' is Cool!   ...

Here is the statistic: 8.4% of Major League Baseball players are currently African American, as opposed to over 15% just 10 years ago. This has quite a few people in the baseball world rightfully upset and worried. So what are the causes for this decline? Many people cite economics or college scholarships as the reason. They say that blacks are more likely to get a scholarship for football, and therefore that is where they invest their time and talent. Also, with more scholarshi...

I was just wondering what everyone's impression of the state of the US Big Three automakers are? I live around Detroit, so I know that we see things a little differently here. I can tell you that the general perspective around here is that GM has turned the corner, and the Ford is on the way down. I know it may sound old fashioned, but I really am rooting for the comeback of the domestic automakers. I don't think that many people around the country know how much it means to this area. Imagine...

I was wondering if anyone out there in Joeuser land had any insicder information on Civilization 4? I have read the reviews, but i am looking for some more in depth information. Does anyone have a firm launch date? I am defintely waiting in breathless anticipation. Thanks, JD

I was just reading this article Link . It is all about how there are several states that the minorities are now the majorities. Now this does not mean that any single group of minorities, aka hispanics are the majority, it just means that no group has over 50% anymore. To me this is really the future of America. In the future you are going to find that there is no clear majority, mabye a bunch of groups making up 20 percent or so. I think this a a very good thing, and that this shows how grea...

Me and one of my co-workers were talking about the unfortunate crash of the plane, a Boeing 737, over in Greece. Apparently it lost cabin pressure and all the people on board froze to death. Besides the fact that this seems like a very unpleasant way to die, freezing to death at 35,000 feet, we were wondering what the effect would be on Boeing's stock. With both of us being from Detroit, we like to root for the American guys over the foreign ones, so we have been happy as of late that Boeing ...

I need some help! I cannot remember the title of a cheesy 1980's sci-fi flick. This is what I do remember about the movie. 1. Took place in a dystopic future where America had lost its competetive edge to Japan 2. I remember that all the Ivy League schools had been moved to Japan and reassembled brick by brick. This is really all that I remember. I know that is really not very much, but I am hoping that someone out there is JU land can help me identify the movie. Thanks

I was thinking today that the Unites States pretty much has fought all its major wars the same since about the Civil war. We use a strategy of anniliation, or maybe better put, a stategy of total victory. We base our ability to fight war on the idea that we have superior resources and therefore we should be successful. This strategy worked well in WWI and WWII. We basically won a long war of attricion, becasue we had superior weapons and resources. This was a sound doctirne during a time...

I am shaking in my boots...... I, as a serious democrat, am scared of the prospect of Howard Dean leading my party. The scary thing is that I actually support him and the ideas that I know he will being to the forefront. What I am scared about is the prospect of what the man will do to support of the party. He is going to alienate far more people then he is going to attract. I am worried that the democrats are not learning the cold hard facts that this past election pointed out. We ar...

Let me preface this by stating a couple of facts: 1) Hummers cost more then the average income of a family of four in the United States. Average MSRP, just over $50,000 2) The average Hummer can...according to the GM website, ford 2 feet of water, has 17 inch wheels, and has a gas tank that hold 32 gallons. 3) My 1994 Chevy Cavalier can ford about 3 inches of water, has tiny ass wheels, and has a gas tank that holds 12 gallons. 4)The average Hummer can run over my Cavalier and the...