... says the Pinstripes are bad for baseball? I suppose that qualifies as the "ends." Here's some odds to think about, courtesy of Bodog. Get your wagers ready folks! Odds to win the World Series New York Yankees - 5/6 Los Angeles Angels ... - 7/2 Philadelphia Phillies - 4/1 World Series Matchup Odds Yankees/Dodgers - 3/2 Yankees/Phillies - 7/4 Dodgers/Angels ...

Before delving into a couple odds-and-ends, let me first issue a major apology. If anyone out there in Inter-nets Land actually takes my Premier League picks to heart and bets them, well, last weekend I'm massively sorry. Going 2-and-8 is frankly, unacceptable. If this were a reality television program, I'd have been asked to take my laptop and go. ...

... special "Waters of Mars" has been announced: Sunday, November 15 at 7 p.m. UK time on BBC One. And then airing secretly in other places roughly 45 minutes after it ends. + If you're trying to get into the Halloween spirit, this might help. Starting tonight at 8 p.m. EST, you can listen to a streaming broadcast of Orson Welles' classic "War of the Worlds" production -- ...

– A new book claims that the “Greek mafia” controlled not only the drug trade in Tarpon Springs but the local Greek Orthodox Church, too. Some say the book is “a bunch of garbage.” – Church of Greece bishops are anxious about the new Socialist government’s plan to tax church property. Don’t forget about property owned

I am really really fighting falling back into depression, damn am I fighting. I do not want to be back in that dark place, mentally or physically. I don’t think I ever will be again. I am still scared though. I have been to some very dark places, places I do not talk about here on anywhere. Which is fine. I know I will never be back there, but the fact that I even went there in the first ...

Quite a bit of flap has arisen in business circles over the administrations "pay czar" slapping 90% salary cuts on a number of executives at firms which requested or took government aid, e.g., GM, Citigroup, AIG, BofA. If anything, this illustrates the point of this post back in April about a lack of boundaries between government and business. I wrote, "In my opinion, as well as ...