Eighteen months before he was hanged, Saddam Hussein told the FBI he pretended to have WMD because “he was more concerned about Iran discovering Iraq’s weakness and vulnerabilities than the repercussions of the United States for his refusal to allow UN inspectors back into ...

The team will be at the River Bandits game tonight - Thursday, July 2. We'll be handling the 50/50 raffle. Thanks River Bandits!

I was all set to post a scathing rant on the American Clean Energy and Security Act but thought it would be like putting the cart before the horse. I’ve decided there is still time for those in Congress to at least read it before they vote. If it passes I will post it. Since [...]

I had a combination of deja vu and slight confusion as I parked in the grassy field at the Henry County Fairgrounds last week. I took me several minuets to convince myself that, in fact, I had never been to the Henry County Fairgrounds before. The Henry County and Ogle County Fairgrounds look just ...

My good friend Joyce de Haas is staging a charity poker tournament in the Las Vegas area in late July which I hope you’ll consider playing in if you’re in that neck of the woods then. Joyce’s “Forget-Me-Not” tournament will raise money to buy a ...

An article in today's New York Times informs us (I didn't see any mention of it in the local papers) that the Russian government is closing every legal gambling establishment in the country.One of the largest mass layoffs in recent Russian history is to occur on Wednesday, and the Kremlin itself is ...

I'd like to say I wasn't posting for some good reason, like I was out of power (which I wasn't) or distraught over all the celebrity deaths (sad to lose MJ, but not distraught) but the reality is just that life happens, and I didn't get time to sit down and blog.The last commenter on the previous post ...

I read where the local PBS station WQPT is considering the process of separating from Black Hawk College. The public station has lost it's funding from Black Hawk College about two years ago during State of Illinois Budget cuts. That leaves just federal funds and private donations as the station's ...

(Totally snagged off someone named Natalija's Flickr.She's got some cool pics - you should check it out.Hope she's cool with me using her mayfly.)Sometimes it's bad to be curious. Heading to the parking lot on my way home from work just now, I glanced over at our loading dock. What's usually a ...

For any of us who wish to believe that the Iranian administrative government lacks our "American values" needs to see the PBS "Get Up, Stand Up: The Story f Pop and Protest" which aired June 23, and was a reminder that governments local and national beat protesters even in the U.S.During the years of ...