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Ford police interceptor: Faster and more fuel efficient (just wait for the utility vehicle)

Overkill?

interceptorFord Motor Co. today unveiled its new bad-ass cop car -- the Police Interceptor sedan, complete with tinted windows. It looks like something from the 1980s classic film "Mad Max." The car is expected to replace the industry's leading police car, the Ford Crown Victoria (you know, the cars that cab drivers love too). The powerful car is also more efficient, including an "EcoBoost" option with all wheel-drive, along with an array of safety technologies. The car will be based on the same platform as the new Ford Taurus: Ford Americas President Mark Fields promised in a news release the car (pictured here) would be superior in every way to its predecessor, calling it "the ultimate police vehicle."

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Jon Stewart roils Fox News for apparently biased coverage of health care protesters

Fair and Balanced?

stewart_jon_aComedian Jon Stewart, America's most trusted newsman (we're not kidding), notes that Barack Obama is making a concerted final push for health care reform. The president's main opponent? Not the Republican Party. Rather, Fox News, which stretched reality when protesters without health insurance peacefully took to the streets to call for the inclusion of a so-called government-sponsored public option that would help them. Stewart last night roiled Fox News for making the demonstration seem like a mob preparing for armed revolt. But buried in the coverage, he found some unlikely rebels, including some disabled people. "I don't think you can storm things in a wheelchair," Stewart said. Stewart noted that Fox journalist Megyn Kelly, seemed particularly cruel, saying Fox just might "be the meanest sorority in the world." 

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Conan O'Brien finally tweets a winner, announces 'half-assed' comedy and music tour

Mr. RIKSHAZ9LIRK

obrien_promoWhat's Conan O'Brien been doing since he was ousted from his late night talk show job on NBC so that Jay Leno could have the slot back? He's been tweeting like mad. For instance on Feb. 25, he tweeted, "This morning I watched Remington Steele while eating Sugar Smacks out of a salad bowl. I was naked." And we'd assumed he was walking around in his underwear. A day later, he struck again: "Today I connected all the freckles on my arm with a Sharpie. It spells out RIKSHAZ9LIRK. Clearly I am The Chosen One."

Now O'Brien finally has something real to tweet about.

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How driving I-70 in Colorado is like an extreme sport

Winter Sports

cdoti702I write this as a passenger in a car driving in the westbound lanes of Interstate 70 amid Colorado's steep, climbing Rocky Mountains. Between the dangerous rockslides, the avalanches, crossing deer and elk, and hazardous weather, including ice and fog, a typical traveler's destination -- winter sports -- won't be the first extreme mountain adventure of the day."

A rockslide on Monday sent tank-sized boulders crashing along and, in some cases, right through, the curviest part of I-70’s Glenwood Canyon, an already nerve-wracking stretch of road. Last month, a five-foot wall of snow stretching for 50 feet along the highway near Vail Pass came rumbling down. Luckily in both cases, nobody was harmed.

This morning, yet another avalanche struck. This one closed U.S. Highway 6 over Loveland Pass.

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The I-70 highway-closing rockslide in pictures

WhyDonCha Stay a While?

cdoti703Don't expect Interstate 70 in western Colorado to open anytime soon. After a massive rockslide early this morning, officials expect the highway to stay closed for several days as crews work to remove debris.

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