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when you go on vacation so that the burglars don't notice all the papers piling up and decide to rob you. Oops, that doesn't work anymore: L.A. Times subscribers burglarized after requesting vacation holds - CNN.com

The French army was sent there to restore order, but the rebels are scorching the earth behind them. Islamist rebels torch Timbuktu manuscript library: mayor - Yahoo! News

Rupert Murdoch was apologizing for a tweet disparaging an overweight woman who fell when a sidewalk collapsed beneath her. Well, he somewhat apologized, he's still angry that (he assumes) the taxpayer is on the hook for the woman's medical bills.

It's official! Glenn Beck now totally insane: Glenn Beck announces plans for Independence, USA | The Lookout - Yahoo! News

My friend joined the Imperial Forces when he graduated high school. He made it through boot camp at the top of his class and won a spot on the Death Star. Those goddam blood thirsty Jedis blew it up. RIP Kowlen Sputmanner you will not be forgotten!

There's a scene in the book Northern Lights that I can not find with Google book search. The character's name is Charlene Galloway and she is thinking about her life in Lunacy, Alaska, the lodge that she owns, and the years that have gone by. It's been a long time since I read it, but I think I...

Here's another celebrity reading of 50 Shades: Now It’s David Sedaris’ Turn to Read ’50 Shades of Grey’ – Flavorwire It's David Sedaris, so I actually watched this one. Well, some of it anyway. I can't think of any other way to describe this besides completely disgusting. I love to hear David...

Patricia Cornwell, in a case that reads like one of her mysteries, sues her financial management firm, alleging it cost her tens of millions. - Metro - The Boston Globe Wow! Look at the numbers they are talking about. I had no idea that best selling genre fiction writers made that much...

I'm not sure I understand "space-time", and I certainly do not understand how either space or time can be expanded or contracted. Could someone rephrase the above quote in layman's terms please?

Mark Bauerlein says that this book is bad for our culture. You may not know who Bauerlein is, or what is supposed to be good for our culture, but he's gonna fill you in right now: The novel America needs in 2013 - CNN.com

You don't see any humor in a hobo with a 20 pound back pack in a hip wine bar in a hip neighborhood ranting and raving while waving around a copy of Atlas Shrugged? The only way it could have been funnier is if he had a Romney/Ryan bumper sticker on his soiled back pack. Well, let me put it...

Last night I was having a few drinks at a local wine bar. It's a hip place, modern decor, has a portrait of Marilyn Monroe's eyes, nose, mouth and beauty mark painted on one wall, a framed silhouette of two women making out on another wall, and yet another framed silhouette of two men making out...

I liked the old book with pens logo better than this one.

An article from NPR on self publishing success stories: Self-Publishing: No Longer Just A Vanity Project : NPR The comments from the self pubbers exalting the leveling of the playing field are humorous, even the ones who are cleverly plugging their own books. One of them, while commenting on...

This could be fun, although I think I would be indicted for vandalism if I participated....

In your case Facebook has helped facilitate blogging, in fact that's how I get your updates, through facebook. I think I have only visited your blog site once, and from then everthing has come via facebook. If a blogger isn't using facebook like you are, which is what I meant in my earlier post...

Websites that feel like they are being killed by facebook need to join facebook. Programmers can script their sites so that updates on it will appear, in some form, on facebook.

The carrier misses my Barron's delivery almost 50% of the time, and missed my WSJ delivery a couple of times. However, there have been no missed deliveries in the last two weeks. And this week there was a Christmas card and a self addressed envelope expecting a gratuity. When I think of the time...

http://news.yahoo.com/erdrich-wins-national-book-award-fiction-032529260.html;_ylt=A2KJjb2ZqqRQ1wMAHy3QtDMD Seems like this should be a bigger deal. It wasn't on the home page of any of the news sites I visit regularly.

The competing Oxford Dictionaries named GIF as word of the year. And Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year Is … | TIME.com