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Nintendo announced earlier this week that their next-generation console, code-named Revolution, will have a new name when it hits the market. The console will be named the Nintendo Wii. That's pronounced "Wee." Yeah, you see the problem. Player 1: "I've got an Xbox 360." Player 2: "I've gotta Wii." Player 1: "The bathroom's down the […]

"United 93" hits the theaters this weekend, and it's gotten largely positive reviews. The movie review compilation site RottenTomatoes.com notes the movie, with a 93 percent positive rating, is the best-reviewed drama so far this year. Of course, there's that 7 percent who don't like the film. Among them is the Union-Tribune's own David Elliott. […]

It seems that both Democrats and Republicans used the same Washington, D.C. station the other day for a photo op railing against high gas prices. The gas station is one block from a Senate office building. I know they're generally a bunch of old farts, but one block?

From an article in today's San Diego Union-Tribune: But in a sign of just how volatile the market has become, independent retailers reported yesterday that wholesalers were warning them to brace for an additional 10-cent increase by today. “The rumor today is that Valero and Shell are having refinery problems and will have to shut […]

The Northern Kentucky University professor who led some members of her English class into destroying a "graveyard for the unborn," authorized, pro-life display on campus has been charged with three misdemeanors. The professor, Sally Jacobsen, was suspended from teaching her classes for the rest of the semester. She will not return as she was set […]

It's only taken New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine four months to get his poll numbers down in second-term Bush range. A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday found Corzine's job approval ratings plummeted in April to 35 percent from 43 percent last month. Corzine campaigned for office promising to reduce New Jersey's highest-in-the-nation property taxes. When […]

A Michigan State mechanical engineering professor is in hot water for "speaking truth to power." I.S. Wichman had the gall to criticize the university's Muslim Students Association as they protested the blasphemous Danish Muhammed cartoons. Dear Moslem Association: As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intened [sic] to protest your protest. I […]

Let's give three cheers to Milwaukee County (Wisconsin) Circuit Judge Michael Brennan who today sentenced four Democrats to jail for slashing the tires of vehicles Wisconsin Republicans had rented to help get voters to the polls. "This case had to be a public example of what can happen when you interfere with voters' rights," said […]

This guy got lucky: When the truck he was working on fell off the jack, the local football team happened to be there to lift the truck off him. However, someone needs to send a dictionary to the Associated Press in Illinois: Officials say Marsh was pinned Saturday morning when the pick-up fell off a […]

That just about describes today's New York Times editorial railing against the use of lethal injection for the death penalty. We believe that the death penalty is in all cases unconstitutional ... Because the world's hardest substance is the skull of a New York Times editorial writer. The editorial bases its constitutional argument on the […]