I don’t remember being able to “talk” to the television as a child.
This is the strangest phenomenon: talking televisions, that is. It is kind of uncomfortable when I’m watching Dora or Mickey Mouse Clubhouse with Kate and all of a sudden a big, animated cartoon head is staring blankly into my eyes waiting for us to repeat something. Weird!
I didn’t notice it at first, but my husband pointed it out and now I am ever on the search for a show in which the main characters aren’t pretending they can hear us. Is this the next generation of reality television? Or has this been around for awhile?

The month of August should be a sports fan’s delight! Everything starts off today with the opening of the 2008 Olympic Games. Add the PGA Golf Championship, the pre-season football games and a nightly pro baseball game and you have an excellent slate. Then, of course, the highlight will be the initiation of the Bo Pelini era, when the Nebraska Cornhuskers host Western Michigan at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln!

Tonight is the first night for our first ever YORK SUMMER GAMES.  Over the next 3 days we have over 100 participants representing 6 local teams competing in a series of fun events—both physical and just plain fun.

Get back to work, Congress. You have unfinished business.

The American Civil Liberties Union is at it again, trying to deny a group of Americans their freedom of religion.

Dear Fellow Nebraskans:
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services celebrated its first anniversary as a restructured agency recently. This restructuring is bringing greater efficiency, transparency and accountability to the work of Health and Human Services.

A bra? Huh? First of all, I was so tomboyish I don’t think I even realized I was female at all. Plus bras were for grown-ups — I hardly fit the bill. And there was the issue that to wear a bra, you well, frankly, have to have something to put in it, and I certainly did not.

I canoe, can you?

You’ll never get rich doing what I do, but sometimes there are payoffs in another currency. What I refer to is this job’s tendency to provide folks like me some experiences folks like you — which is to say people with a ‘real’ job — miss out on. This summer is a case in point.

As of July 30, 2008, the United States Congress has spent $9,540,453,424,495.37 more than it has taken in. (If you lost track of the zeros, that's 9.54 trillion dollars!)
The estimated population of the United States is 304 million people, so each citizen's share of the national debt is $31,337. That's ‘each’ citizen — you, your spouse, your child, your grandchild, your grandmother, everyone!