Bulldog Football Loses Two Over the Weekend

Fri. Dec. 9th, 2011  |  Marc Elliott

MFAN Shorts And MFAN NFL Picks for Week 14!

I'm turning into a Christmas dad

Fri. Dec. 9th, 2011

Whenever someone asks me what I want for Christmas, I look them over and point out something they're wearing. "Your left shoe. Give me your left shoe for Christmas. Now! Take it off and wrap it!"

CT Scans the Biggest Cause of Breast Cancer - Institute of Medicine

Fri. Dec. 16th, 2011

Profiteers in the medical CT scan business took a big hit last week from a major new government

The Kinks, Lester Bangs, and Lawsuits

Fri. Dec. 16th, 2011

Lester Bangs, the notorious and oft plagiarized writer from Rolling Stone and Creem, once described the Kinks’ sound as a “churning vat of rage.”

A Thin Red Line Of Heroes When The Band Begins To Play

Fri. Dec. 16th, 2011  |  Ed Raymond

Congress just passed a $662 billion defense budget to fight a war with Afghanistan, a country without fighter planes, tanks, aircraft carriers, and bombers. It does have an untold number of snoopin’ and poopin’ fundamentalist religious fanatics ...

The Story of the Christmas Truce of 1914:

Fri. Dec. 16th, 2011  |  Gary G. Kohls, MD

In which Christian soldiers on both sides of No Man’s Land recognize their common humanity and drop their guns

Baseball Contract Madness

Fri. Dec. 16th, 2011  |  Marc Elliott

PARK POINT… Well, baseball fans, it’s done: the first major and idiotic contract of the free agent season has been signed, sealed, and delivered. The former St. Louis Cardinal first baseman Albert Pujols has signed a whopper ...

Gadfly: Russian Proverb: “A Pessimist Is A Well-informed Optimist”

Fri. Dec. 16th, 2011  |  Ed Raymond

In the race between education and disaster “The Best Congress Money Can Buy” seems bent on lowering its approval rating with the general public to less than nine percent. The evidence that disaster will win in a tsunami of legislative flotsam is pili

Poor thinking a tough nut to crack

Fri. Dec. 16th, 2011  |  Forrest Johnson

Once again the National Union of Friendly Americans (NUFA) has been called upon to assist reticent nations and citizens in coming to terms with climate change.

Christmas Music

Fri. Dec. 23rd, 2011

Christmas is the one holiday that a person can sit down and listen to the same music year after year and never get entirely bored with it.