Al's Blog-o-Sphere

According to ESPN, Marshawn Lynch will plead guilty to “an unspecified charge” next week in relation to the hit-and-run involving his SUV several weeks ago.

Doesn’t this raise red flags to you?

First of all, what are “unspecified charges?” You can’t tell me they don’t know what to charge him with. It sounds like Lynch and his lawyer are still bargaining over what they will copp to. Still wheeling and dealing with the justice system.

And next week? Haven’t we been patient enough already? Why is this whole thing going according to Lynch’s schedule? Continue Reading…

I heard about Tim Russert’s passing from a CNN Breaking News Tweet on Twitter. They don’t send many of them out, maybe one or two a day, so it showed it was big news.

Russert was a local Buffalo/WNY celebrity, one of those who grew up here, went out into the world and made a name for themselves and we looked upon proudly as an example of our best and brightest. We’d point him out as an example of someone who came from our little neck of the world that everyone, across the nation would know. Continue Reading…

Listening to the news again. I have to stop doing that. Life would be simpler then. But I heard a story today about Cicadas coming this summer.

The story went on to tell about how they live underground and only come out every 17 years and cause a nuisance while they are here to mate. Big news! It only happens every 17 years!

[UPI News Story]

Wait a minute! That’s what they said last year. And the year before.

So I looked into it further. I know that we hear them singing every summer and are as much a symbol of summer as sunburn and picnics. We see the shells of them on the tree trunks where they shed them. Continue Reading…