Analyzing the New York Giants - New England Patriots game has been done in virtually every possible way by nearly every available pundit! Are there any unique ways left? Handicapping a Super Bowl or a horse race! As a young man I was a somewhat frequent visitor to the horse track. As a frequent visitor, I would spend a great deal of time pouring over the Racing Form trying to pick the eventual rac...

The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for the first Watcher's Council match up of 2012, carved eternally in the akhasic records of cyberspace. This week's winning essay, The Mellow Jihadi's Lance Corporal Donald Hogan, Marine Hero is a prime example of the Jihadi's unique literary style as he takes a stirring look at an American hero in and re...

Expensive rents, high taxes, a struggling economy, crime, traffic, $10+ tolls, construction and even the mobs of #OWS can present problems for business owners trying to succeed in New York! But what about the smells of the city? Can they also present a unique problem for business owners? Not if you sell coffee and the neighborhood smells like cinnamon buns or you have a restaurant in the Meatpacki...

Tunisia is holding elections today for the 217-seat assembly that will draft a constitution and appoint an interim government. Former President Zinedine el-Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown nine months ago. Regardless of what some of the usual suspects are saying, this is not going to be some kind of signpost as to where the other elections in the region will be heading.Tunisia is unique in that a hi...

Councillors support unique 'Big Table' local furniture business under threat from Crossrail. Westminster Labour Councillors have raised strong objections to Crossrail plans to bring the massive concrete tunnel segments into the Westbourne Park area with 140 lorries a day travelling through neighbouring residential streets for 18 months. Labour say that this is contrary to the original un...

The UK is organising a "unique and ambitious" conference to discuss the challenges facing cyberspace.

This 2 minute video is from a President Obama news conference where he is answering two questions off-the-cuff, not very well! There are no duplicates! Each um, uh and er is unique. On the 60th anniversary of the first episode of I Love Lucy, suffice it to say that this President has got some serious 'splainin to do to the American people about a variety of scandals. For now let's just f...

GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney made a major foreign policy speech today at The Citadel, the military college in South Carolina and got cheers from the cadets and faculty there as he criticized what he called the Obama administration's "feckless policies of the last three years." "I believe we are an exceptional country with a unique destiny and role in the world," Romney said, with an...

High commodity prices have made European farmers much less dependent on farm subsidies, offering debt-laden countries a unique opportunity to reform the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), a new report published yesterday (5 October) by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has concluded. More »

As the scientific forester may dream of a perfectly legible forest planted with same-aged, same-species, uniform trees growing in straight lines in a rectangular flat space cleared of all underbrush and poachers, so the exacting state official may aspire to a perfectly legible population with registered, unique names and addresses keyed to grid settlements; who pursue single, identifiable occupati...