Those long lines at the airport are about to get longer. Instead of the recent adage of getting to the airport an hour or two before your flight, it might be advisable to come three hours before. All of this is due to a new screening policy to be enacted by the end of the year, according to sources.

Netflix is great. If you want to watch a movie, drop your old one in the mail and two days later, you get a new video. Not so great for instant gratification, but if you plan ahead luck out you'll get the movie you want when you want. Otherwise you'll get another movie from your list. But for those of us with no patients, Netflix streams some movies to you computer, and soon to your Wii as well.

By Jamie Lee Curtis

I am shocked and saddened by the seemingly insurmountable amount of visual carnage that is being pushed as news. With the advent of the internet and 3G and 4G technology, images and streaming video of gruesome accidents, attacks and yesterday, on this very site, images of a stoning. I hope these gruesome images result in some social change and public outrage but I fear it will be just a spectator sport for so many. In the sequel to A Fish Called Wanda, Fierce Creatures, a New Zealand media tycoon talks of buying the TV rights to executions. That was a parody, a clever social statement and a fiction. Today, it is seems seconds away from becoming a grim reality.

This article was written by Thomas Conroy.

Brett Favre made a less than spectacular return to professional football Friday night at the Minnesota Metrodome as starting quarterback for the Vikings, in a 17-13 win over the Kansas City Chiefs that was unremarkable. Favre played two series on offense, and could not manage to drive his new team to a first down. He completed only one of four passes, for a mere four yards.