05.13.08
Michael Jackson gets to keep his Neverland Ranch ... saved from the auction block. Uhhhhhh ... great. What a relief. Meanwhile in China people are still digging through the rubble, searching for survivors.

05.12.08
Largest earthquake in China in almost 60 years kills thousands, this on the heals of the terrible cyclone in Myanmar. The Myanmar government has been reluctant to allow aid workers in. Still the Red Cross is available and taking donations for relief efforts for the survivors of both disasters.  Also, worldvision is taking donations for Myanmar.

05.10.08
Crude oil is now trading at over $120 a barrel.  We could see $5 or $6 for a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. sooner than you'd think. Ain't that just what we need, some analysts argue, the shot in the arm to seek alternative energies.

05.06.08
A woman is accused of pulling a Lizzie Grubman—injuring one woman and
killing one man—after an argument in a New Hampshire bar about whether
it is the Yankees or the Red Sox who suck.

05.05.08
The news is generally awful as usual and it's pretty nice here outside in New York. So that's all we can muster today in this space usually set aside for pithy linkage to other site articles and covers the last few laggered, unaddressed days of news items too...go fly a kite.