It’s been brought to my attention that many of you are having trouble posting comments, for reasons beyond my pay grade. I’ve passed on your emails to the appropriate party; hopefully the problem will be rectified soon. Please bear with us. We’re young, we make mistakes, but our guidance counselor has insisted we have, like, scads, of potential… **** update: Looks like a lot of comments were getting caught both

Google Inc.’s YouTube, the most popular video-sharing Web Site, started local versions of the site in Brazil, Japan, the U.K., France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain — meaning that the opportunity to gawk at a designer shoe-clad Brazilian Ninja chick with crooked teeth, a dry sense of humor, and a love of of cheese, Guinness, hash brownies, and borscht, has increased by, like, 9000-fold, if my calculations are

St James Presbyterian Church in Littleton, CO wondered, “If you could ask God one question, what would it be?” — an exercise that drew hundreds of responses, most of them (sadly) quite predictable. Notes the Rocky Mountain News, “the 10 most-asked questions will be sermon grist for the next 10 Sundays.” The results: What’s my life all about? Why are some people healed and others not? Will you really forgive

From the BBC: One of the first people thought to have been killed by gunfire in the Americas has been found in a burial plot near Lima in Peru, scientists have said. A skull bearing a gunshot hole was discovered amongst the remains of 72 bodies in a suburb of the capital. Archaeologists believe the bodies were those of ancient Incas killed by Spanish conquistadors 500 years ago. See? This

Speculation is, he could be angling for a presidential bid as an independent — though the only people likely to vote for him are non-smoking, trans-fat-free urbanites who like their taxes high and their government big. Meaning “moderate” Democrats — suggesting that a Bloomberg candidacy would almost certainly help Republicans, given that Bloomberg, despite winning his Mayoral race as a Republican candidate, is about as likely to embrace “conservatism” as

Flipping through the channels last Thursday or Friday, I paused for a moment to watch a bit of ESPN’s early-round coverage of the US Open Championship. But alas, ESPN had made the (insane) decision to put Chris Berman in one of the tower analysts chairs — which is the sports equivalent of asking, say, Don Imus to give Al Sharpton’s eulogy. Only without the money lines about pomade, Jews, and