So I'm driving around the neighborhood, trying to figure out what's what in my new city and I noticed this wonderful park area where kids were playing, boys were shooting hoops and kids of all ages were enjoying the late afternoon as the sun was setting.
Last Monday, during one of our intermittent newsroom staff meetings, I received an assignment that my editor told me might be akin to war coverage. I am to embed myself in the teeming masses of consumers on the Friday after Thanksgiving (also known to retailers as 'Black Friday') at some of our local stores and try to document the workings of capitalism at it's most feral.
In a strongly worded letter to the Obama Administration, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon told the President that purchase agreements between former President Thomas Jefferson and the late Emperor of Europe Napoleon Bonaparte have not been fulfilled, and that France is foreclosing on the Louisiana Purchase.
Now, there is a website online that can, at the same time, make a person smarter and save a person's (or many person's) life.
According to the Associated Press, the videogame equivalent of a super-blockbuster dropped to retailers overnight last night with the arrival of Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA IV), the latest in a series of crime story style games.
