From ENEWSPF:
Our pick for judge in the 15th Subcircuit, Phelan vacancy, is Judge John C. Griffin of Palos Heights. Griffin has four opponents, and was appointed to the bench in 2008. He sits in the Chancery Division.
Judge Griffin is a true Democrat. One of his opponents in the Democratic Primary is [...]
From ABC:
It is what Edgar Allan Poe might have called "a mystery all insoluble": Every year for the past six decades, a shadowy visitor would leave roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac on Poe’s grave on the anniversary of the writer’s birth. This year, no one showed.
Did the mysterious [...]
Have you ever been so angry at friends or life in general that you wanted to explode? Ever fall into a funk with life, feeling down and out, dejected and disheartened?
I was in such a place just before Christmas. The winter solstice brings out the best and worst in us, I suppose. So [...]
The last soap opera I watched consistently was "The Young and the Restless" back when I was in graduate school. I was hooked, and I’m glad I broke the habit.
Apparently, I’m not alone.
"As the World Turns" is going off the air.
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Procter & Gamble, the company responsible for the phrase "soap operas," is [...]
Wow.
From Advocate.com:
Tom Petty admits that his father physically and verbally abused him because he assumed the singer was gay.
"[My father] was scary and violent," Petty said in the new issue of Rolling Stone,according to website Spinner. "He beat the living hell out of me, and there was constant verbal abuse."
Haven’t heard from Tom Petty [...]
From ENEWSPF:
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) has confirmed the presence of 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in a pig sample collected at the Minnesota State Fair submitted by the University of Minnesota. Additional samples are being tested.
"We have fully engaged our trading [...]
Multiple media sources are reporting that charges are pending in the case of Richard and Mayumi Heene, whose son Falcon was the so-called ‘balloon boy’ who millions believed was aboard a helium balloon that reportedly had taken off with the boy inside.
From WTAE Pittsburgh:
A Colorado sheriff said he was pursuing criminal charges in the case [...]
The album, Michael Jackson’s This Is It
, is a companion piece to the Michael Jackson’s This Is It Movie and features the music that inspired the film, demo recordings and two versions of the previously unreleased song, "This Is It".
Source: michaeljackson.com
Here’s the scoop from the Chicago Tribune:
David Letterman acknowledged on Thursday’s show that he had sexual relationships with female employees and that someone tried to extort $2 million from him over the affairs.
During the taping of his CBS late-night show in New York, Letterman discussed receiving a threat to either pay $2 million or risk the relationships [...]
A new friend of mine showed this to me today. I never heard of Matt before today.
Apparently, over 24 million people already know who Matt is. Nice to meet you, Matt.
This is just too, too cool. And a wonderful moment of Zen.
A little bit about Matt:
Matt is a 32-year-old deadbeat from Connecticut who used to [...]
