Another week jam-packed with news, news and more news.
A selection of some of the highlights are below, including the end (again) of professional football in St. Louis:
- NFL Rams snub STL and head to L.A.
- ..... and ex-Ram Lawrence Phillips found dead in prison cell
- David Bowie dead at age 69
- ..... and so does 69-year-old Alan Rickman
- Secretary of the Navy orders gender-neutral Marine Corps boot camp
- Canada's crucial Nipigon River Bridge fails in bitter cold
- "The Revenant" wins Golden Globe for Best Movie Drama
- ..... and leads the field with 12 Acadamy Award nominations
- Taiwan voters elect first female president ever; that's big news..... so big, we'll feature her picture here on MattChat
- U.S. House passes FOIA reforms
- Obama delivers his final State of the Union speech uttering this useless line: "It's one of the few regrets of my presidency, that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better."
- George Washington University rescinds Bill Cosby's honorary degree
- Alabama beats Clemson for college football national championship
- Iran releases 10 captured U.S. Navy sailors
- Michigan governor calls up National Guard to help with Flint's lead water crisis
- trio of lucky folks win the mega, mega, MEGA Powerball lottery
- G.E. moving HQ to Beantown
- 2 Marine helicopters crash north of Hawaii's Oahu
- Trump and Cruz break away from the pack of Republican contenders
- Hurricane Alex becomes first Atlantic hurricane to form in January since 1938
- National Retail Federation says holiday sales miss forecasts
- Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles is for sale
- Cubs gain control of more than 50% of the iconic rooftop properties
- crude oil futures dip into the $20's
- militants launch gun and bomb assault in Jakarta
- shipments of personal computers suffered their biggest yearly decline ever in 2015
That last one makes complete sense. After all, when was the last time you heard of someone buying a PC (or laptop) rather than a smartpad, tablet, Chromebook, etc.?
Out for now.......
Matt
A selection of some of the highlights are below, including the end (again) of professional football in St. Louis:
- NFL Rams snub STL and head to L.A.
- ..... and ex-Ram Lawrence Phillips found dead in prison cell
- David Bowie dead at age 69
- ..... and so does 69-year-old Alan Rickman
- Secretary of the Navy orders gender-neutral Marine Corps boot camp
- Canada's crucial Nipigon River Bridge fails in bitter cold
- "The Revenant" wins Golden Globe for Best Movie Drama
- ..... and leads the field with 12 Acadamy Award nominations
- Taiwan voters elect first female president ever; that's big news..... so big, we'll feature her picture here on MattChat
- U.S. House passes FOIA reforms
- Obama delivers his final State of the Union speech uttering this useless line: "It's one of the few regrets of my presidency, that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better."
- George Washington University rescinds Bill Cosby's honorary degree
- Alabama beats Clemson for college football national championship
- Iran releases 10 captured U.S. Navy sailors
- Michigan governor calls up National Guard to help with Flint's lead water crisis
- trio of lucky folks win the mega, mega, MEGA Powerball lottery
- G.E. moving HQ to Beantown
- 2 Marine helicopters crash north of Hawaii's Oahu
- Trump and Cruz break away from the pack of Republican contenders
- Hurricane Alex becomes first Atlantic hurricane to form in January since 1938
- National Retail Federation says holiday sales miss forecasts
- Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles is for sale
- Cubs gain control of more than 50% of the iconic rooftop properties
- crude oil futures dip into the $20's
- militants launch gun and bomb assault in Jakarta
- shipments of personal computers suffered their biggest yearly decline ever in 2015
That last one makes complete sense. After all, when was the last time you heard of someone buying a PC (or laptop) rather than a smartpad, tablet, Chromebook, etc.?
Out for now.......
Matt