The 2012-13 NBA Season is launching on October 31st. After a strike shortened season in 2011 in which the Miami Heat dominated the Oklahoma Thunder in the season finals, as always, there are lots of stories to watch as they unfold. One of them to watch is the progress of…
October 1977: The Atari 2600 console is released during the height of the handheld video game craze, by Atari, Inc. It retails at $199, a price point to this day that represents the benchmark for video game consoles. 8 additional games were sold seperately. Only 277,000 consoles were sold. Atari,…
Is the Tea Party the victim of a rush to judgement in our political climate today? September 12, 2009: A census-taker was found hanging in a tree at the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky. Bill Sparkman, 51, was found dead in a remote portion of the national forest,…
The Higgs Boson Particle – Discovery and SignificanceThe Higgs Boson particle has definitely gotten the scientific world all excited. Its discovery has actually been in the process for decades but it is only this year that the existence of the Higgs-Boson has been verified without question. Dubbed as the “God…
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and specific departments within the Justice Department finally figured out (or accepted the fact) that a majority of the guns used by Mexican drug cartels come from their side of the border (took them long enough). Hence, an operation to flush…
1961: Bob Dylan starts his career by relocating to New York City after dropping out of the University of Minnesota after his freshman year. He begins performing at various folk clubs around Greenwich Village, befriending other folk singers and gathering material. Dylan records his first, self-titled album at Columbia Records,…