I’ve no idea what the Brewers will or can do with Ryan Braun next year ($130 million remaining is a lot to shop around), but a simple question: how do you feel about his role next year? I’ll say he seems like Armstrong to me, too many false denials, too insistent in each one. Untrustworthy…

Over at the Huffington Post, there’s a story about a taste test of civet-poop coffee. Civets eat coffee beans, but digest them only imperfectly: It comes from a bean that’s been swallowed and partially digested by a civet, a mammal native to parts of Asia and Africa that looks a bit like a cat but…

Martha, the last passenger pigeon, 1914 Scientists just might be able to bring back the now-extinct Passenger Pigeon. As though a story about Jurassic Park (but with harmless bids instead of carnivorous dinosaurs), Sarah Pruitt writes about the possibility of reviving that now-extinct species: The last known passenger pigeon, named for Martha Washington, died in…

No need for jokes about jumping the shark, when jumping from them is the very plot of the Syfy Channel’s upcoming July 11th original film, Sharknado. Here’s the trailer for the film: So, probable masterpiece or likely travesty? I’ll say masterpiece, but what do you think? Can’t wait… Sharknado: Probable Masterpiece or Likely Travesty?

In this world of Kindles, iPads, etc., would you choose a traditional print book or an e-book for reading? I’ll go with e-book. What do you think? E-Book or Print Book?

Months ago, shoppers found a monkey named Darwin wandering in an IKEA parking lot in Toronto. Canadian officials placed the animal in Toronto Animal Services’ care. Now Darwin’s owner, Yasmin Nakhuda, wants her monkey back. She contends that she was was tricked into surrendering the animal. (Those wily Canadian bureaucrats!) It’s a hard case: I…

Singer Jacqueline Simpson is suing McDonald’s for injury to her voice after eating a McChicken sandwich that she claims had a piece of glass in it. She now alleges that the glass damaged her voice, and her singing voice now sounds like a man’s, affecting her musical ambitions. She’s upset: “Now when I sing, I…

All one’s life one has probably heard stories about the possibility of flying cars, with some of those accounts insisting that the flying car would be just around the corner. CNN has a story about another company, Terrafugia, that claims it’s now got flying automobiles. At CNN, Dan Gross writes about Terrafugia in a post…

Yesterday, in the NHL playoffs, Eric Gryba hit Lars Eller, leaving him bleeding on the ice: Montreal Canadiens center Lars Eller was taken off the ice on a stretcher after being leveled by a hit from Ottawa Senators defenceman Eric Gryba on Thursday night. With 6:37 remaining in the second period of Game 1 of the first round Eastern Conference playoff…

Milwaukee hosts Miami this Sunday at 2:30 PM in Game 4 of a best-of-seven playoff series. They’re down 0-3. Do they win on Sunday, or get swept? Bucks or Heat, you pick. (This year, sorry to say, I think it’s all Miami.) What do you think? Game Four: Milwaukee Bucks v. Miami Heat?

Heineken is considering illuminated beer bottles, that glow when you toast or sip. Really (at least, I think really). So, good idea? I’ll say — no. What do you think? Illuminated Beer Bottles?