I was never a major Michael Jackson fan (aside from 'Billie Jean', which I always thought was brilliant musically, until I understood the weird lyrics). At any rate, we saw the 'This is It' movie last night, and I must say that the guy really was incredibly talented, and showed no visible precursors of a man about to be, well, dead. It makes it seem all the more like a case of ...

Number one on the list is "drive the biggest vehicle you can afford to drive". And #10: If anyone tries to force you into your car or car trunk at gun point, don't cooperate. Fight and scream all you can even if you risk getting shot in the parking lot. If you get in the car, you will most likely die (or worse). The author calls this "Black Swan avoidance". (via lone ...

Okay, this is starting to look like a bad habit but I have a pretty good excuse for missing the post for last weekend. Friday night Friday night was movie night. Nothing unusual there. We saw All About Steve, which was weird. I didn't hate it but I didn't love it either. It was quite left field, quite off-centred. Sandra Bullock did play quite a different character than what she ...

At the time of Gourmet's untimely death last month, editorial plans were well underway all the way past summer 2010, so Eater National put out a call for unpublished Gourmet feature articles. Today, Eater National runs an article slated for the defunct Conde Nast Vehicle, entitled "Speed Dating For Farmers & Chefs." Get your temporary Gourmet fix.

Sir often when I mention the impact of the Basel II regulations many observe that they were not really in effect, completely ignoring that just the announcement of these regulations, and especially their approval by the G10 in June 2004 immediately led the financial sector to initiate adapting to them. When Caitlin Long writes “Wall of US maturing debt threatens to extend the crunch” ...

(Here is a link to last year’s post regarding the five-year mark of the passing of my grandmother.) Today marks six years since my grandmother passed away. November 18, 2003 was a sad day for the Brewer family as Eva Maria Stephens (nee Schmidt), a German immigrant who would gave birth to my mother and her three siblings, passed away during a visit to a friend’s house in Longview, ...

... Judges Sloviter, Fuentes, and Nygaard. Per Curiam. Overturning the BIA in a case originally heard by IJ Walter Durling. The BIA erred by ruling that a notice of appeal to the BIA was untimely filed. The BIA ignored how the date stamp on the notice of appeal indicates that ICE counsel received it two days before the deadline. The decision does not explain much more of what happened, but ...

There has been a lot of very significant Rugby played this week, with USA qualifying for the 2011 Rugby World Cup, and Canada’s women and men in action. These matches are reported below. But it all seems rather irrelevant currently as we deal with the murder, in his own house, last Friday, of one of the leading figures in NACRA Rugby;Sergeant Jacob Thompson, Chairman of the Jamaica Rugby ...

The story of Cyrus Elijah Wolgemuth-Lamb's birth (with pictures)... I (Jenni) started feeling contractions around 7 in the morning on Friday 20 November, 2 weeks before my due date. I had my ''show" that morning and told David on our way to work that I suspected we'd be having the baby in the next couple of days. But I didn't tell him about the contractions -- they ...

I’m both shocked and genuinely saddened by the news that writer Robert Holdstock has died this weekend following a short illness. He was 61. I first met Rob at a convention in Hinkley. It must’ve been around 2002 or 2003. That same weekend I also met Ian MacLeod for the first time. Rob and Ian were then being published by Earthlight with John Jarrold at the helm, and John was in the ...