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When is California going to stop playing COVID games? Your columnist devoutly follows the guidance of public health officials. I wear two masks around town, even after having had all three vaccine shots.

This is the shocking moment Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Bears fans started a violent brawl after Thursday’s game. Footage shows two groups of fans pummeling each other along the Solider Field concourse level in Chicago. Fans adorned in both Bears and Cowboys jersey can be seen engaged in the multi-person bust-up which saw some being hit while down on the ground.

We've been a fed a myth about heroic individuals -- and that allows the 1 percent to prosper at everyone's expense. Americans have been deceived by the notion that individual desires preempt the needs of society; by the Ayn-Rand/Reagan/Thatcher aversion to government regulation; by the distorted image of 'freedom' as winner-take-all capitalism; by the assurance that the benefits of greed will spread downwards to everyone. Our current capitalist-driven inequalities will only be rectified when people realize that a strong community makes successful individuals, not the other way around. These are a few of the ways we would benefit with a...

The most interesting number in this new Bloomberg poll: Hillary Rodham Clinton's image rating is now on a par with another well-known Democratic 2016 contender -- Vice President Biden. The poll shows 48 percent of American adults view Clinton favorably, compared to 44 percent who view her unfavorably. (As we've noted before, Clinton's declining image was pretty predictable; it has happened whenever she has been a national political figure.) But it's all the more noteworthy when you consider that the man nobody expects to beat Clinton in the Democratic primaries -- the vice president -- has very similar numbers. Forty-six...

Soccer riots in Brazil claimed the life of a man who was killed by a toilet bowl thrown from the stands at Arruda Stadium, the latest scene of fan violence that has plagued the country in the lead-up to next month's World Cup. Globoesporte of Brazil reported that rioters ripped three tiolets from the stadium bathroom and tossed them from the stands during Friday night's 1-1 draw between Santa Cruz and Parana. One of the toilets struck a fan identified as 26-year-old Paulo Ricardo Gomes da Silva, killing him instantly.

BCS Selection Show on Fox 8 PM EST Final Rankings- AP Top 25Sun Dec 7, 2008 1. Florida 2. Oklahoma 3. Texas 4. Alabama 5. USC 6. Penn St. 7. Utah 8. Texas Tech 9. Boise St. 10. Ohio St.

KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan -- Taiwanese restaurateur Eric Wang has given new meaning to the traditional revelers' cry of bottoms up. His eatery in the southern city of Kaohsiung delivers its food not on conventional plates and dishes, but in miniaturized Western and Asian style toilets, both the flush and non-flush variety. For anyone missing the point, diners are encouraged to stir up mushy, earth-colored offerings like curry chicken rice and chocolate ice cream to conjure up - well, the real thing. Located in a downtown area with a variety of competing eateries, Marton - the name means toilet in Chinese -...

Sheila Jackson Lee just entered it into the House Records on live C-Span that the 2004 Super Bowl held in Houston Texas was the best one ever and the best one to uphold family values.

Searching the back files over at Simple Truth Inc. during a recent down moment, we discovered that not every tradition endures. That genetically modified turkey that John Madden always rolled out on the Thanksgiving Day football telecasts, for example: Gone. And, for that matter, so goes Madden. Now sentenced to life on Monday nights, more than two decades of NFL Sunday work officially behind him, the big man this week will spend his first Thanksgiving at home in forever. Madden jokes that he won't know where to sit. He will, however, know what to watch, because even the great Madden...