Topic of the Week

In the latest attempt to address the ailing housing problem the government has announced changes to a federal program that will make it easier for struggling homeowners to refinance to today’s near-record low rates.


Song Pick of the Week

Kelly Clarkson – What Doesn’t Kill You

Off The Wall Segment

Otep Shamaya is an American singer-songwriter, and the lead vocalist of the metal band Otep. After making her debut in 2000, three of her albums 3 of have opened the first week on top of the billboard’s hard rock charts. She is openly lesbian, a vegetarian and is known to be an advocate of animal rights.

Quiet Lightning is the FIRST edition of complete short stories EVER released by Otep Shamaya. The pages were collected from various blogs, essays, magazine articles, and tour journals (published and unpublished) OTEP has scribed over the years. These writings represent the various arms, identities, faces, voices, spiritual uprisings, intellectual cleansings and wild language that exist and are cultivated within the astral stratum of her ever-spinning mind.

Jackass of the Month

Airline and train travelers were diverted and halted from their final destinations this weekend as harsh weather across the Northeast crippled airline and Amtrak service, with some passengers stuck for up to 14 hours.
The government is now investigating a Jet Blue flight from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Newark, N.J., that left travelers stranded on the tarmac at the wrong airport for more than seven hours.