News: Microsoft enables Kinect support for Netflix

Flip your movie the bird to mute. Give it a good smack to rewind. Bite your thumb to fast forward.

News: Yale senior dies in machine shop accident

Horrible. One month before graduation. Pulled by her hair into a lathe. Awful stuff.

News: GE to repay entire $3.2 BILLION tax refund

Wow. Wait...does that mean that they're doing this just to appease us, since what they really owe us is MUCH more than that? Because that would be the business-smart choice.

Op-Ed: Require voters to take citizenship test in order to vote

I like it. I know it's probably bad and could NEVER get passed (mostly because conservatives are most likely to have its supporters not pass it), but it's an interesting thought.

Like the op-ed says, it's not about stupidity (though I'd probably be for a test of that nature also), but about not knowing things about the government system we use.

Lots of people like to talk about how they love our country and democracy; all the while, they don't have any clue what that actually means...or how it really works.

I'm in.

News: 1st new 'Peanuts' after author's death to be released

Co-written by Charles Schulz's son, Craig Schulz, and Stephen Pastis, author of one of my favorite comics, Pearls Before Swine. I'm cautiously optomistic.