Weekly News and Commentary

• The Netherlands have cut the apron strings and are going all digital broadcast. If you want to continue to use your pitiful analog TV, you can. You just need a converter box that you can buy for less than $70. It'll happen here someday, too. When it does, then the analog frequencies will be freed up for WiMax (glorious day)! Imagine a voice over IP (VOIP) phone that you can carry like a cell phone, or using a laptop basically anywhere without worrying about finding a hot spot.
  

• The college dorm where I stayed my freshman year at college is being torn down. I really liked living there the first year. It was a good transition from the excellent care I got at home to the cold cruel world of apartment living. Oh, the memories!

• If the idiocy of the Kyoto treaty wasn't enough, now you can buy some 'carbon credits' to give for a Christmas gift. For a mere $75, you can help the world make up for the greenhouse gasses emitted by Santa's reindeer. No, I am not kidding.

• A robber has a finger severed by a sword wielding victim. The robbers thought they had knocked out Guillermo Tovar Sr. and forgot about him. When he came to, he went all Medieval on them with a sword. A trigger finger was severed and left behind by the robbers in their haste to vacate the premises. Police were able to identify Terence Stewart, 28, from a fingerprint taken from the abandoned digit.

• This one I still cannot believe. A 4-year old was accused of sexual harassment after hugging a teacher's aide. The hug was deemed inappropriate by some politically correct nincompoop. My 4-year old does all sorts of inappropriate things, he loves to pass gas (fart) and giggle until the giggling makes him pass more. This gets the other two boys into a giggling tizzy. This generally happens during dinner. This is all not appropriate. But he is A Four Year Old. How can a 4-year old sexually harass anyone? I think the person with the problem is the one that reported the little guy.