I guess it's the deer's fault because it jumped into Lauer's path. Aside from the headline, it's hard to tell if he actually hit the deer. If he did, sounds like the impact may have been lessened (for the deer) by the brakes.

It appears that the deer jumped into the path of Lauer, 51, who hit the brakes to avoid hitting it and who was thrown from the bike, hurting his shoulder, NBC reported.

But more to the point of why I stand by that story is because when the state patrol pulled up to me and my passengers standing by the roadside, it was to tell me that I had to pay a hefty fine.  Why?  For "hunting without a license."  I'm not kidding -- that's how the state covers the costs of clearing roadkill.  

I was so broke already plus facing how to find and pay for a new car that the patrol cop took pity and told me the alternative:  Keep standing by the roadside to see if someone pulled up to ask for the corpus, as it were.  Sure enough, it didn't take long for a venison-lover to offer to take the makings of steaks and sausage stuffing.  Ugh.  But I was off the hook for the fine (and that's why it was clear to me that it was the state's way of covering roadkill cleanup costs).

Both of my incidents were so stupid it's embarrassing.  First shoulder, I slipped on cat barf on the basement step and grabbed for the railing to keep from falling down the stairs or hitting my head.  Second one, I stepped off the curb in a parking lot at night, right into a storm drain I couldn't/didn't see, lost my footing and went down hard.

The good news is that I had a great surgeon, and excellent PT, and five years and four years later, respectively, I have no problems - no pain, no range-of-motion issues; were it not for the little arthroscopic surgery scars on both shoulders, I would forget it had ever happened.

Pop the champaign corks and spread the caviar, they are having a party at our expense.

Matt Lauer hit a deer on his bicycle and flew over the handlebars, separating his shoulder.

Mr. Gutfeld said in the Fox News segment, widely aired on the Internet, that the Canadian military "wants to take a breather to do some yoga, paint landscapes, run on the beach in gorgeous white capri pants."

"Isn't this the perfect time to invade this ridiculous country?" he said. "They have no army."

Timing wasn't great--four Canadian soldiers were killed in Afghanistan the same day.  Here's the youtube of Fox commentators having 'fun' at the expense of Canadians.  Somehow I don't think this is going to win Canadian support for extending the withdrawal date of Canadian troops from Afghanistan.

According to an article in the Boston Globe, an informal poll taken among 200 teenagers has revealed that almost half of them blame the pop star Rihanna for her recent beating, allegedly by her boyfriend, Chris Brown.

It's just one survey. But it's very bad news. And feminists are to blame.

Say what? Later she feels the bizarre urge to note:

This article isn't about closeted homosexuality.

Ron Paul said he introduced a bill HR1207 to eliminate the Federal Reserve. More over to be able to audit the Federal Reserve Board. Sheesh I did not know that the Federal Reserve could not be audited. Shows you what a rookie I am. So I have the opportunity to view the Thomas Files before it times out on me.

Here is a paragraph that was interesting according to Ron Paul.

"Abolishing the Federal Reserve will allow Congress to reassert its constitutional authority over monetary policy. The United States Constitution grants to Congress the authority to coin money and regulate the value of the currency. The Constitution does not give Congress the authority to delegate control over monetary policy to a central bank. Furthermore, the Constitution certainly does not empower the federal government to erode the American standard of living via an inflationary monetary policy."

Ladies and Gentlemen of America we the people do not have the right to audit the operations of the Federal Reserve? For heavens sakes that's nuts.

We wonder why we have a zombie economy.

Sheesh we are ruled by economic thugs...Sorry President Obama but this has to change real fast. For heavens sake people if anyone out there has some congressional pull this audit stuff at minimum has to be done but getting rid of this master piece of the Jekyll Island group that constantly rips off the middle class would definitely be a monumental change in history.

Please Mr. President if you want to really turn a page in history and create the largest perpetual bull free market in history, as was once said to Reagan about the Berlin wall.

Of course it's "only" 180 million so the populist outrage of us little folk should really be ignored; after all we just aren't capable of understanding these things.