Two months 'til Christmas. Have you begun putting off shopping yet?
- California is burning. Let the blame game begin!
- The U.S. has designated Iran's real-super-scary-sounding Revolutionary Guard Corps "a proliferater of weapons of mass destruction." Really? And the proof of this is …?
- The government's terror watch list has topped 750,000 names — still short of the 300 million goal.
- Anybody remember when the Red Sox used to always choke and blow it in the end? Neither do they.
- Rangel fires the first shot in the coming tax-code overhaul battle.
- Sarasota identity thieves should have made it a Blockbuster night.
- Microsoft buys a stake in Facebook. I guess that's the end of that.
- You ever wonder how long a human being can stay awake for? Truth is, no one knows for sure.
This article appears in Oct 24-30, 2007.