Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Invites Fraudulent Claims
Cut to the chase: SOPA will invite fraudulent piracy claims and cost America millions in legal bills. The hot news of the day is the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), or a bill that has…
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Penn State Game: Nebraska Prevails 17 to 14
In a wild game that was entirely different than any the previously played contests the formerly undefeated Penn State Nittany Lions played, they lost at home to Nebraska 17 to 14. It was the first…
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 30th Annual “Contemporary Documentaries”
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ began its 30th Annual “Contemporary Documentaries”series on Wednesday, October 19 at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood and it will continue through December 7….
Moammar Gadhafi Killed, Hillary Clinton Says “Wow!”
After 42 years, Libya’s dictator Moammar Gadhafi was killed, and the range of really brutal events and expressions around his demise signals the emergence of a society that’s so violent, it’s scary. From the may…
Romney and Perry Go At It
The GOP Debate last night on CNN was insane, and Anderson Cooper seemed to enjoy every moment. The candidates ran amok at certain points, most notably Mitt Romney and Rick Perry. The two had some…
Jim Harbaugh v Jim Schwartz: Poll Says Schwartz Wrong
In the “NFL Hand Shake Scandal” between San Francisco 49ers Head Coach Jim Harbaugh and Detroit Lions Head Coach Jim Schwartz, who was right? An unscientific but hard to game poll at Zennie62.com reports that…
Carson Palmer Trade To Raiders Has Hue Jackson Mark
Carson Palmer is an Oakland Raiders quarterback as of today. And the man who was the long-time (2003) Cincinnati Bengals signal caller who went to USC, gets to stay out in the West Coast and…
Norman, With Dan Byrd, Emily VanCamp, Opens Friday, Oct 21
Norman, a film that opens this Friday, October 21st and stars Dan Byrd and Emily VanCamp, and is directed by Jonathan Segal, has a compelling story line unlike any this blogger has seen before. Consider…
Magnolia Pictures Gets Rights To Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz
Magnolia Pictures – the film distribution arm of the Wagner/Cuban Companies, a group of media properties co-owned by Todd Wagner and Dallas Maverick’s Owner Mark Cuban and which includes the Landmark Theaters chain, and the…
Al Davis and Steve Jobs: Bay Area Loses Two Raiders in Three Days
Atlanta, Georgia – The Oakland Raiders’ Al Davis and Apple’s Steve Jobs. That the San Francisco Bay Area could lose two icons (two “Raiders,” if you will) in three days, should be noted. Al Davis,…
New iPhone 5 By Apple – What’s The Story?
So Apple’s about to introduce the much anticipated iPhone 5 on Tuesday morning at 10 AM (and not at Moscone Center, but at Apple’s Headquarters in Cupertino). What’s the deal? Well, that Apple’s not holding…
Cute Kitty Cat Fears Hurricane Irene in Bangor Maine
At the end of August the east coast was hit with Hurricane Irene. People on the west coast may not have seen it as a big deal, but although many people were fine there were…
Hope Solo Shows Muscle Is Hot On Dancing With The Stars
Hope Solo was wronged. Let’s get that out of the way. A blogger at the Seattle Times, and a woman at that, for some reason decided to take off after the U.S. National Women’s Soccer…
Perry and Romney at the Tea Party Debate
CNN hosted the Tea Party Republican Debate last night in Tampa, Florida. The eight presidential nominees were there, but the spotlight was really on Rick Perry and Mitt Romney – the two bickered back and…
Anti-Michael Arrington TechCrunch Posts Show Insecurity
The news is all over that TechCrunch Founder and Editor Michael Arrington may step down from running the blog not just to operate a new venture capital fund, but because the rumor is he was…
BART Cell Phone Block Action – BART Issues Statement
At 12:59 PM, or about 7 minutes ago as of this writing, The Bay Area Rapid Transit System or “BART” issued an updated statement regarding its rationale for the controversial and apparently illegal cell phone…
BART Powell St SF Project To Clear Asbestos Underway – Mass Transit News
BART Powell St SF Project To Clear Asbestos Underway – Mass Transit News. Last week on Friday, as this vlogger was headed to something called the SFChefs (vlog to come), I noticed a giant tarp…
S&P Blames GOP For U.S. Credit Problem, Associated Press, Politico Cover It Up
The Standard & Poors’ rating agency decision to reduce the United States’ long term debt from AAA to AA+ was explained in a press release that specifically mentioned “the majority of Republicans in Congress continue…
Laser focus on jobs
The good news as Wall Street gives a thumbs-down to the “No taxes, No jobs” deficit-ceiling-deal (with its built-in automatic spending cuts virtually certain to kick in amid more Congressional gridlock) is that U.S. crude…
Google Nexus S Phone Free Today Only For AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile
Someone tell Chamillionaire that the free Nexus S Phone Google gave him at last Friday’s TechCrunch Mobile Conference wasn’t – unfortunately – just free for the famous rapper. Oh, follow me on Twitter at Zennie62,…
Ashley Hebert: Bachelorette Picks White Guy From Group Of White Guys
I must confess, I’ve watched all of 35 minutes of the ABC show The Bachelorette, and that’s it. I turned the channel. I understand the show does well in places like Orlando, Florida, but, well,…
Peyton Manning Signs Long Deal Contract With Colts
Peyton Manning has signed a five year contract with the Indiana Colts. The Colts’ Owner Jim Irsay posted on Twitter that Manning would make $90 million in the five year contract and in the first…
NFL Lockout Almost Over, Twitter Reactions, Timeline For Week
The NFL Lockout is, barring a wild, unexpected NFL Players Union negative vote today, over. This blogger can only say “Yeah!” But really, the idea of the NFL not playing football in 2011, with so…
Alameda City Manager John Russo Interview
Former Oakland Councilmember and City Attorney John Russo is now firmly planted in his office as Alameda’s first non-Interim City Manager in several years. He leaves Oakland after 16 years of service, and as he…
USA vs Japan in Women’s World Cup
The United States Women’s soccer team has not been to the FIFA World Cup Finals since 1991, and today the USA will compete against Japan. The game is about to start right now on ESPN…
Casey Anthony Update: More Lawsuits & Appealing Convictions
Casey Anthony jurors assure the public that the “not guilty” verdict does not mean “innocent.” However, Anthony was found guilty of lying to law enforcement – which she is trying to appeal. Really? She is…
Rod Blagojevich
Rod Blagojevich should prepare himself for prison, because although having his wife on the NBC show I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here to try to win him some sympathy and let her convince…
Casey Anthony Overload
Casey Anthony, Casey Anthony, Casey Anthony – not to sound insensitive, but would everyone just shut up? Stop reporting about it every twenty minutes. Give us updates when big stuff happens – it has gotten…
San Francisco News: Transbay Transit Center Meetings Wednesday
This important San Francisco News is about an upcoming Transbay Transit Center-related meeting this Wednesday. As you know, the Transbay Transit Center is currently under construction, replacing the demolished Transbay Terminal. Part of the new…
Good Morning America Top Trend Due To Fran Drescher?
As of this writing, something interesting is going on with Google Trends: the top listed trend is for “Good Morning America,” but the results are all over the place, and days old. Could the Worldwide…
Hugh Hefner Left At Altar By Crystal Harris – Twitter Goes Nuts
You know, TMZ.com’s take on this, with the latest news from their well-placed sources, makes me feel sorry for Playboy Founder Hugh Hefner, who was left at the alter by Crystal Harris, just five days…
John Russo – City Of Oakland Debt Plans Point To Bankruptcy
Originally, this blogger was planning to run Part Three of this video recap last Wednesday, but frankly elected to stretch out the content production opportunity. The video is over 38 minutes long, and only a…
Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are the new Zac and Vanessa
Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens were such a cute big deal, but that Disney Fairytale came to an end. It is unclear whether or not they will get back together, but has anyone else noticed…
Federal Government Shut Down
Well, this is definitely a big deal topic. Wish it was possible to do more than just blog – as a journalist it would be so ideal to be able to have first hand interviews…
President Obama to sign 1099 Health-Reform Repeal
CFO.com has reported that the Senate has passed the 1099 repeal of the requirement of health-care reform law. This is going to President Barack Obama for his signature to make this official. There was an…
Sebastian Vettel of Formula 1 Wins With Kinky Kylie
‘Kinky Kylie’ of course is the name of Sebastian Vettel’s vehicle that helped him win Formula 1 race last weekend in Melbourne, Australia, the season opener. Formula 1 online does an exclusive one on one…
Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79; Hollywood’s Queen
Actress Elizabeth Taylor, long the symbol of Hollywood glamour, gossip, and elegance, passed away at 79 years old, after being hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles with what was called congestive heart failure. Taylor,…
AT & T Marries T Mobile No Reception – Can I Get iPhone?
AT&T bought T-Mobile for $39 billion and to improve it’s phone service. It also makes AT&T one of the largest communications companies in the World. And to think, I got away from AT&T because of…
