I was so happy to read this - perhaps I can avoid dementia after all:
Coffee May Lower Risk of Alzheimer's Risk

I was also relieved that police in Gastonia, North Carolina, caught this so-called "spree killer" who was terrorizing the small town of Gaffney, South Carolina. I was terrified by this because my daughter is getting ready to move to Columbia and this guy was rumored to be moving south. The whole thing was creepy - he was just randomly shooting people for fun. I actually spent one day listening to the police scanner, and they were following every lead from kids shooting off fireworks in the woods, to strangers driving through town.
Even Though Threat is Gone, Emotional Scars Linger in Cherokee County.

George R. R. Martin, author of the Song of Ice and Fire Books, and otherwise known on Livejournal as grrm, is in Helsinki for Finncon, a celebration of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Anime. Yesterday grrmwrote about visiting the Sveaborg, which he referred to as a "great island fortress" and from these Pictures it's easy to see why it would inspire him.

Congratulations to Al Franken and the entire State of Minnesota on his Swearing In as Senator Number 60 for the Dems.

My nephew wondered on Facebook the other day how long it would be until Michael Jackson rose from the grave as a Zombie. It appears he didn't even wait until the burial because CNN picked up his ghost on camera!



And if that's not enough, someone has Seen his Face in a Birch Tree Stump in Stockton, California.

The Paranormal World is also mourning the death of their own enigmatical icon: Writer John Keel author of The Mothman Prophecies. He apparently died penniless and basically alone. Edit: Please read the comment  below by his friend, Loren Coleman. I sincerely only mean to honor Mr. Keel and was just sorry to hear that he did not have an easy life towards the end in spite of the  movie based on his life's work starring Richard Gere.  I doubt the movie studio paid him half enough for his story, which is all I meant in my original post. I'm a huge fan of both Mr. Coleman and Mr. Keel, and only wanted to memorialize his work in a week when Michael Jackson got all the attention.