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For any DirecTV customers out there, myself included, the past 2 weeks have been....well...in my opinion AWESOME! Why you ask?  Simple.  The dispute between DirecTV and Viacom Network who own such stations as MTV/Nickelodeon/Comedy Central etc meant I no longer had to scroll through my guide to see the further demise of "Music Television"...

Let's face it, Rush Limbaugh has said plenty of incredibly idiotic stuff in the course of his life, but just wait til you get a load of the utter crap spewing from his mouth this week. This week marks the release of The Dark Knight Rises, the widely anticipated final film in director Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy...

:: IF YOU HAVE NOT READ OR SEEN THE INTERVIEW, OR DON'T WANT A POSSIBLE SPOILER DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER.....YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED:: If you follow late night TV (Trust me, I try not to) then you might have caught "The Late Show" with David Letterman...

How would you feel if you found out that an airline was using the Internet to track down photographs and personal information about you before you even boarded the flight? Surprise — it’s happening.

Laylan is a 20-year-old Iraqi native who’s also the star player of an all-female basketball team she started. That fact alone may not seem like much to a lot of us in America, but to the people of the country who are still suffering through gender inequality, it’s a huge deal.

The South American country of Uruguay wants to put drug dealers out of business, and it’s considering a rather novel way of doing it: the government itself would sell marijuana to registered citizens, making it the first country in the world to do so.

The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point will release some of the 6,000 documents that were seized in last year’s raid of Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, resulting in his death one year ago Wednesday. This is the first time the general public will have access to the al Qaeda leader’s papers.

The senior United States Senator from Texas Kay Bailey Hutchison was in Victoria this morning making a swing through south Texas expressing her gratitude to her constituents for their support over the last 18 years while she served in the Senate...

The press conference with Victoria County Sheriff T. Michael O’Connor has just wrapped up. O’Connor stated that at approximately 8PM last night a report was made to his office regarding a missing child. Deputies arrived at about 8:07 at the child’s residence on Old Goliad Road and soon after that multiple search and rescue teams assisted the Victoria County Sheriff’s office...

Airplane design has remained pretty standardized over the last century or so – sure, some people goof around with funky wings and weird engines, but for the most part the single-wing design has been large and in charge. Things are about to change.

I've said it before. I don't have time for TV. Don't have time for video games. For Pete's sake, I barely have time to take a dump. Sad but true. So I find it hard to believe that ANYONE could possibly have so little to do, that they can participate in something this asinine.

I remember a friend asking, "whad'ya mean they cloned a sheep? And who's they?" They = Scientists. Cloned = replicated a living creature, cell by cell. Creepy, huh? Think it stopped there? Don't be foolish. If YOU could clone someone or something, who would it be? Here's my take...