Mother Nature doesn’t really care if her unpredictability irritates you. Take volcanoes. In 2002, ten of the world’s major active ones erupted, including Italy’s Etna and Stromboli. In 2003, Mama cut eruptions to six, four of which were in Indonesia. Would she continue the trend? Well, no. In 2004, 26 …

The world is cringing looking at pictures of the terrible earthquake in Haiti. No one knows for sure, but the death toll could top 100,000. And right now lives are in the balance, as there are folks alive in the rubble. Already, thousands of American military are going to Haiti …

Chevrolet doesn’t want owners of its upcoming Volt plug-in hybrid to just have a car to get them from A to B. For Chevrolet, owning a Volt is all about the experience of having one of the most advanced cars on the road, a feeling the automaker wants owners to …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Healthy Choice President Obama spoke in Ohio Monday about insurance premiums under his health care plan. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) OBAMA: Your employer, it’s estimated, would see premiums fall by as much as 3,000 percent, which means they could give you a raise. …

As we’ve been reporting, there is ethnic tension between students at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, California, outside of San Francisco. The controversy is being driven by the new Arizona law that broadens local police power over illegal aliens. The fuse was lit on Cinco de Mayo when …

She looks at you and then looks away. He touches your arm lightly as he tells a story. She threads her fingers through her hair. She smiles in a way that somehow says more than hello. He looks in your eyes as you tell a story, never breaking his gaze. …

All I could think about this weekend was one word: Halliburton. Everyone in the universe knows what Halliburton is. It’s Dick Cheney’s evil oil company. Yup, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, they’re just puppets of the big oil companies like Halliburton. So, getting in bed with Big Oil is …

It seems like a foolish question that has a perfectly obvious answer. But if it was such an easy inquiry, then why all the drama around it? That’s the easy one. Cheating is a major relationship rocker because it has to do with the murkiest thing life has to offer: …

The commanding general in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, has asked President Obama for 40,000 more troops to contain the Taliban. So far the president has not agreed to send those forces, saying this: (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: We’re not going to make a decision about any further troop deployments …

The New York Times has just assigned somebody to watch FOX News because they’re missing stories and can’t find them on their own. The way America sees itself and the world is changing and it worries me because we used to have a common vision. But now that vision is …