• Howdy folks…Hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving. Today’s the day where all the crazy folks go out and hit the malls, shops, etc. in an effort to get a lot of their Christmas shopping taken care of. Usually, they just come home with headaches over the traffic, the lines and the other moronic folks like them out there. Personally, I say shop online for whatever ya can. You just can’t beat that. Hey, come to mention, Jay & Silent Bob’s Secret Stash has some great holiday gift items that, coincidentally, CAN be ordered online (nice segue and shameless promotion at the same time, ‘eh?). If you have those orders in by December 15th, they’ll even guarantee Christmas delivery.

Oh, and while we’re in this commentary, a correction to newsbites from the last update: The whole Erik Larsen thing was the opinion of the scooper who sent in the story, and not us here at News Askew. It shouldn’t have been posted as it was, and it got missed in the editing process. We have corrected the item to make it more neutral, and apologize. Sure, we’ll give you our own stupid opinions sometimes, but that wasn’t one of them.

Alright then, we’ve got a couple things to talk about today, so let’s get crackin’: