This Just In! Well, it is déjà vu all over again… You may recall that on January 4th, we reported how mixed martial arts’ (MMA) greatest light-heavyweight fighter, Jon Jones, defeated an Olympian in a historic title defense.  Then, just a few days later, we unfortunately had to update our readers that Jones failed a drug test, thereby tarnishing his reputation.  Well, lo and behold, one month later, we write about Anderson Silva, the greatest MMA fighter of any weight class, returning to competition after enduring a horrific injury that almost derailed his career. Silva triumphed in his return (as…

A Brief History On February 5, 2008, a date known as “Super Tuesday,” a series of powerful tornadoes hit the Southern United States, leaving 57 people dead.  An astounding 86 twisters hovered over Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi, bringing with them terrific thunderstorms, winds peaking between 166 and 200 mph and hail that caused massive damage.  Even hail the size of softballs (4 inches) was reported! Digging Deeper The hardest hit areas were in the vicinities of Memphis, Tennessee and Jackson, Tennessee.  The 57 deaths and hundreds of injuries were the second worst human life toll from a February tornado…

A Brief History On February 4, 2004, Internet genius Mark Zuckerberg founded the social media networking site he called Facebook while he was at college.  Almost as soon as clients from Harvard University joined by the flocks, and membership was opened first to Boston area colleges and then the Ivy League, those intelligent and educated people began to show signs of losing intellect. Digging Deeper As membership grew throughout the country and more and more people signed up, the trend toward mental stupidity only got worse.  With almost a billion-and-a-half members today, this has had a severe effect on the collective…

A Brief History On February 3, 2014, one year ago today, Fox Broadcasting announced that the previous day’s Super Bowl XLVIII (no. 48) had been the most watched television event in U.S. history with 111 million people watching the Seattle Seahawks beat the daylights out of the Denver Broncos 43-8 in the Meadowlands of New Jersey. Digging Deeper This game was also significant as it was the first Super Bowl played in cold weather in an open-air stadium. Although both teams entered the game with a regular season record of 13-3, the game lost much of its competitiveness as the…

A Brief History Earlier today, we posted an article about last year’s Groundhog Day debacle in which New York City’s mayor Bill de Blasio managed to accidentally kill a groundhog named Charlotte.  That is right, New York’s police are not the only ones Mayor de Blasio has “let down”! Digging Deeper This year, however, the most famous of all groundhogs, Pennsylvania’s Punxsutawney Phil, got his apparent revenge for groundhog kind on all of us humans.  We are saddened to report that Phil saw his shadow and thereby predicted six more weeks of what has already been a most unpleasant winter. …