This week is just to short and too busy for a long-winded blog entry...so here is some more little tidbits for you to digest:
Dexter's Troubles:
Did you know that the actor who plays Dexter on "Dexter", Michael C. Hall, was actually married to the actress, Jennifer Carpenter, who plays his sister on the show?
Don't get too excited about this fact as Carpenter has just filed for divorce from Hall!
Season 5 of Dexter just ended this past Sunday...I guess this is a way to keep it in the news until the show returns 9 months from now!
Phillies Fly:
The Philidelphia Phillies of the National League in Major League Baseball have now wrapped up potentially one of the strongest starting pitching rotations ever with the (re) acquisition of Cliff Lee late yesterday (December 13).
Their top 4 pitchers are bona-fide all stars/past Cy Young Award winners--Lee, Roy Halladay, Roy Oswalt and Cole Hamels.
Lee was with the Phillies during the 2009 season...he was sent to Seattle to start the 2010 season, traded to Texas mid season and helped them get into the past season's World Series.
Lee was being aggressively pursued by the bottomless pit of money know as the New York Yankees before the Phillies scooped in to get him for the next 5 years.
A Penny For Your Thoughts:
A Senate committee has recommended that the Canadian penny be eliminated.
The copper one cent piece apparently now costs approximately 1.5 cents each to make. More and more pennies have actually had to be made by the Canadian Mint in the last decade because Canadian are hoarding or saving them rather than using them for cash transactions
This committee sites the countries of New Zealand and Australia as examples of "penniless" economies, as these 2 countries both eliminated the penny from their currencies a number of years ago.
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