
We've packed up and headed south for a week of giving thanks and after five straight 12-hour+ work days I think Kate will never be more grateful for some time off. Posting here will be nonexistent at best and light at worst. The Snead Reader' [...]



There was plenty of noise over the weekend about the Obama Administration's decision to send 5 assholes to New York City for a trial that is all but guaranteed to end in death sentences. People who have no idea what they are talking about (see: [...] 



South Carolina is feeling a little frisky this morning after state leaders politicians brokered a deal with Boeing to land a new assembly line for the 787 Dreamliner. Boeing chose a site in North Charleston over its longtime home in Pugent Sound, near Seattle. The state [...]
Cherry County, Nebraska: A strong ranching tradition protects the 20,000 square mile Nebraska Sandhills, among the nation's largest intact native grasslands and the largest dune formation in the Western Hemisphere. Here, windmills draw up water from the underlying Ogallala Aquifer, one of the Plains' most precious [...] 



The Colorado Rockies swept their final home series of the regular season with a 9-2 win over the Milwaukee Brewers today and clinched a playoff berth while fans celebrated what many hope is the first win of Rocktober, a term coined during the [...] 

Congratulations to the University of South Carolina Gamecocks on their first-ever win over a Top 5 team at home, even though everyone on the planet, myself included, will spend the next week talking about how overrated the pre-season polls had Ole Miss.



It was almost a month ago that I bitched about delays in the Post-9/11 GI Bill and (surprise, surprise!) I'm still waiting. The VA's own GI Bill hotline says to wait 6 weeks after submitting the claim to even inquire about it's status. Awesome. I'll [...]
In what should have been my greatest moment in life since conception (and what was equally messy), I visited a Denver food landmark yesterday, Jack-n-Grill. Featured on the Travel Channel's special Extreme Places To Pig Out and their series Man v. Food, [...] 
The Post and Courier headline "Something to Prove" is spot on for the 2009 Gamecocks, but it doesn't end tonight. The Gamecocks have started strong, winning 9 straight season openers and always taking it to SEC East power Georgia if not defeating the Dawgs in [...]
The film MONEY-DRIVEN MEDICINE reveals how a profit-hungry medical-industrial complex has turned health care into a system that squanders millions of dollars on unnecessary tests, unproven and sometimes unwanted procedures and [...] 