Trending Now

This is another running topic I will try to keep with.  I plan on using BING.com as my search engine for these posts because they only have four topics trending where Yahoo! has ten.    I do not have the attention span to briefly touch on ten topics.

1. Super Bowl - The Big Game.  NFC Champions Green Bay Packers (-2.5) vs. AFC Champion Pittsburgh Steelers.  Super Bowl XLV.  Kickoff is scheduled for 6:25 pm at Jerry World in Arlington, Texas.  I am picking the Packers because of one B.J. Raji.  Big man in the middle against a backup center for the Steelers.  Watch out you rapist.

2. Ronald Reagan - 40th President of the United States.  He would have turned 100 today and still hits home with younger people who weren't even alive or old enough to remember his time in office.  The Gipper, as he was known, was a true leader.  My father loves him, and I may have to delve deeper into what he was all about.  I lack on my political knowledge, but I'm intrigued by Ronald Reagan.

3. Christina Aguilera - American recording artist.  This Staten Islander (she was born there, anyway) will sing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl.  Since released her first album in 1999 with "Genie in a Bottle" as the main track.  She's always been quite the performer and besides music has been in four movies, including Burlesque in 2010.  I think the over/under on the time of the anthem is set at one minute and fifty-four seconds.  I'll take the over.

4. Muslim Brotherhood - Islamic transnational movement.  They're basically an oppositional group to the government in Egypt.  They've come to their senses and decided it's time to sit down with the government to try to end the country's political turmoil.  The thing Egypt needs to do is simple, and this is a sentiment shared by President Obama - get Hosni Mubarak out of office.  This would end all this camel-charging nonsense going on in Egypt.

Hope this provides you with some insight into what the world is interested in today. 

Me, I'm interested in getting the hell out of this gym after the game and whipping up some food before I pass out on the couch only to be awaken again by my alarm at 4:39 am to head back here for practice.

Take care.