(Premiere)- First Nicolas Cage was accused of being a vampire. Now John Travolta is suspected of travelling through time.

The evidence is a photo from the 1860s that features a man who looks like the Grease star. In the auction’s description, the seller writes, “For those of you who don’t know, John Travolta is a Scientologist and many Scientologists believe in a type of reincarnation. Of course, time travel can’t be ruled out as well.” The asking price? $50,000. 

Mike’s Thoughts:  I bet Travolta would give anything for that head of hair right about now, comb-over or no.

An 11 year-old boy in Malvern, Ark., is so good at football that “he’s going to score almost every time he touches the ball”.

And because Demias Jimerson runs circles around the other kids on the field, the school principal has decided he’s not allowed to score more than three touchdowns, provided his team has at least a 14-point lead.

Locals call that “the Madre Hill” rule, after Razorback great Madre Hill, who, like Jimerson, grew up in the tiny Arkansas town and breezed by his competitors…

The principal says she’s re-invoking the rule not to punish the boy, but to provide his competitors with a chance to develop as players, too.

Mike’s Thoughts:  So, what exactly is the message here?

It’s great to excel as long as you don’t excel too much???

Rumor has it John Elway is considering signing young Mr. Jimerson to the Broncos.

(NEWSER) – Bank of America customers beware: Your debit card is about to get a lot more expensive. The bank intends to start charging many customers $5 a month if they use their debit cards, in what the company says is an effort to offset new federal regulations limiting the fees it can charge merchants accepting the cards. “The economics of offering a debit card have changed,” a bank spokesperson tells Bloomberg.

The Dodd-Frank Act caps the “swipe fees” debit card issuers can charge merchants at 21 to 24 cents, starting Oct. 1. The formula previously used averaged 44 cents per transaction, and the change could skim $8 billion off the biggest US banks’ annual revenue. Bank of America said the change won’t affect ATM rates, and will not hit premium accounts or cards tied to its Merrill Lynch wing.

Mike’s Thoughts:  Maybe I’m just getting cantankerous in my old age, but this sort of thing really chaps my ass.

What I’m failing to understand is:  what changed here?  Is my bank LOSING money everytime I use my debit card?  Do they eat fees when I swipe? 

Or is this just another way to nickel and dime the average consumer and help out their bottom line?

(NEWSER) – Til death do us part … except in Mexico City. Citing the fact that most of the marriages that fail there typically end in the first two years, lawmakers have proposed creating temporary marriages licenses. The update to the civil code would let couples get a marriage contract as short as two years in length. If they experience 24 months of wedded bliss, they can renew it. If not, the contract would state how children and possessions should be divvied up, reports Reuters. 

“The proposal is, when the two-year period is up, if the relationship is not stable or harmonious, the contract simply ends,” says the co-author of the bill, which is being promoted by leftists. He expects to see a vote on the proposal by year’s end. Reuters notes that Mexico City is more liberal than the rest of the country. Mike’s Thoughts:  Nothing says “I Love You” like a marriage certificate with an end date on it already.

Oh…the unparalleled joys of teaching your kid how to use a beer bong when he’s 6 years old.

You gotta pass a test to get a driver’s license.

This video is further proof that there’s no test required to be a parent.

UNEMPLOYED WOMAN SENDS RESUMES UP, UP IN THE AIR

A 36-year-old North Carolina woman has been looking for a job in marketing, public relations, or human resources for a year, but has had no luck. She is now putting her resume in helium-filled balloons– and frees one hundred of them a week.

She doesn’t know where the balloons land. And she hasn’t landed a single interview.

She hopes this will at least bring her some attention.

Mike’s Thoughts:  Completely ineffective?  yeah, of course.  But at least it gets you out of the house.

(NEWSER) – Ever wonder why women tend to live longer than men? Well, it turns out the fairer sex is made of stronger stuff when it comes to fighting off disease and riding out shocks to their systems, according to a study published today from Ghent University in Belgium. Researchers found that women have an advantage thanks to that second X-chromosome, which makes them more resilient when faced with microRNA attacks on their immunity genes, the Telegraph explains. Men, with only a single X-chromosome, are more susceptible.

Mike’s Thoughts:  A secondary study suggests that relentless nagging shortens men’s life spans by at least 10%.  Ain’t no extra X chromosome gonna change that statistic.

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Facebook has admitted that it has been watching the web pages its members visit even when they have logged out– but they say it was a mistake.

The social networking site says software automatically downloaded to users’ computers when they logged in to Facebook inadvertently sent information to the company, whether or not they were logged in at the time.

Facebook says it was a glitch in the software and they fixed the problem. 

From a Semi-Random Post Seen on Facebook this week:

Tomorrow, Facebook will change its privacy settings to allow Mark Zuckerberg to come into your house while you sleep and eat your brains with a grapefruit spoon. To stop this from happening go to Account> Home Invasion Settings> Cannibalism> Brains, and uncheck the “Tasty” box. Please copy and repost.

COMING SOON: BAR CODES FOR BULLETS?

Two women from Philly are proposing that all bullets come with bar codes so they can be tracked and killers brought to justice.

The proposal would have every bullet in the US encoded and force buyers to have a gun permit, be at least 18, and have a driver’s license.

It’s called Carla’s law after one of the woman’s daughters who was killed by a stray gang shooting bullet when she was just 17.

The idea is not new. 18 states have introduced bills that would mark ammunition. None of them have passed.

Mike’s Thoughts:  Maybe there’s a piece of this I’m missing.  What would be the downside to this plan?

SOME MEN ARE EARNING LESS THAN THEY DID 40 YEARS AGO

Economists recently ran the numbers and found that the median salary for guys is lower today than it was almost 40 years ago.

When adjusted for inflation, men earned just over $49,000 per year.

These days, they’re earning about $1,500 less.

Yet, over those 40 years, the output of the economy has more than doubled, and the productivity of workers has risen steadily.

Things, of course, have changed in a big way since then. Manufacturing jobs have gone away, unions have gotten weaker and American males have the same level of education as they did in 1973.

So even though things have gotten more complicated and technical in the workplace, guys haven’t improved their levels of education to keep up.

Mike’s Thoughts:  Economic crisis?  What economic crisis?