The Best Super Bowl Commercial

As the Super Bowl has become a media spectacle, the television commercials get a lot of play, especially that airtime was going for $3.5 million for 30 seconds. A Ferris Bueller reprisal gave us a nice memory, Jerry Seinfeld brought back the Soup Nazi, Anhauser Busch, as usual, had a stellar one, VW continued on the Star Wars trend and a child using a swimming pool as a toilet got a good laugh, but no other commercial was as good as this one:

The Giants are the Super Bowl Championships...AGAIN!

It has been quite a 2011-12 season for the New York Giants. Tonight, in Indianapolis, they won Super Bowl XLVI and are the WORLD CHAMPIONS!!!! A few months ago, I was quite concerned about the Giants even making the playoffs and mistakes the front office would make, but like the strong leader he is, Tom Coughlin brought this team together, focused them and they won the NFC East; beginning a memorable playoff run, which rivals the 2007-08 season, where they won their right to the Super Bowl in San Francisco two weeks ago.

Expression Through Art

Throughout history, art has expressed a time period or a political position. For years, we've seen those on the left push the envelope with art, be it painting or film, and then when someone criticizes them, they scream that person is violating their free speech and artistic expression.

Send Your Resume to the White House

On Friday, the unemployment numbers will be released and what is significant is that they will be AFTER the Christmas season, when the temporary holiday jobs have ended.

During this same week, President Obama held a Google Plus chat and had a very interesting exchange with the wife of an unemployed engineer. Considering he and his White House have been telling Americans the economy is roaring back and as a result, should be re-elected, he was caught off-guard when Jennifer Weddel told him her husband has not been able to find full-time work in three years! Obama even went so far as to suggest her husband send his resume to the White House.

10 Years @ #1

For the past 10 years, the Fox News Channel has held the top of the ratings at Cable News. To celebrate, some personalities, including Greta Van Susteren, were invited to open Nasdaq. (Something I would one day hope to do, especially if The Calling to Lead is published!)

Florida: After the Vote

Alright, we know it already, Mitt Romney won and won big. In looking at the electoral map of Florida, the predictions that Newt Gingrich would hold northern Florida (the area that MSNBC decided to offensively slander) were true. He won a majority of the counties in the Panhandle, some in the north, yet did not win Duval County (Jacksonville) and three other counties. The rest of the state, with the exception of some Southern-Central interior counties, went for Romney, including the Miami/South Florida region and the very important I-4 Corridor. Exit interviews cite "Romney's electability" as the primary reason for his victory (And yes, I still question it), but it must also be noted Newt was outspent three to one in Florida, had the major political leaders against him (and for Romney) and was uncharacteristically flat in the debates in Tampa and Jacksonville. Moving forward, three candidates, believe it or not, still have a path to the nomination:

Body Scanners Cause Cancer?

Good news out of Washington! Members of the Senate are pushing a bill to force an examination of whether or not the airport body scanners cause cancer. For someone who flies a few times each year, I dread ever having to go through these things and while I came close once, TSA thought the magnetometer was good enough for me the rest of the times. Friends who have gone through these things have complained of various heath issues such as the "feeling of sunburn" lasting for days after and hot sweats a few days after. TSA and Homeland Security pushed these machines upon fliers very quickly and have consistently argued that radiation exposure is at a minimum.