Battle of the windbags

Published 2:35 pm Thursday, October 22, 2009

Suit up, Rush, but not for football: The Rev. Al Sharpton has threatened to sue conservative radio talk show host and bounced football team buyer Rush Limbaugh after Limbaugh said Sharpton played “a leading role” in two riots in the 1990s, although Sharpton was not present during either melee.

Forget football, we’re buying season tickets to Sharpton vs. Limbaugh.

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Can we talk? By the middle of next year, cameras, cell phones and computers will be able to “talk” to each other using Wi-Fi without first connecting to a wireless network (Page D2).

Here’s what they’re just itching to share amongst themselves: The camera says your shots are always out of focus. Your phone says your text messages are laughably misspelled. And your computer has been saving up a history of all those “adult” Web sites you like to visit.

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Party like it’s Dec. 20, 2012: Scientists already are working overtime to debunk the latest claim among the tinfoil-hat crowd who point to the final days of the ancient Mayan calendar as proof that the world will end on Dec. 21, 2012 (Page A6).

Considering Mayan civilization won’t be around for the end of its own calendar, we’re not putting off buying our LOL Cats calendar for 2013.

—Jon Bauer, Herald staff