Here is a good example of the fine journalism that Jim Souhan is producing week in and week out since he was promoted to Sports Columnist.

Do we really need stories focused around a naked Mike Redmond walking through the club house?

If that wasn’t enough, do we need stories about Redmond wearing a girdle?

I think those are the definition of Too Much Information.

Addendum: I think I posted this in the old forum, but for fun: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Jim+Souhan+sucks

oh, good.  it’s been so long since news about jonbenet ramsey has dominated the airwaves, i’m really really happy that it’s happening again.  and it’s so much more fun to read now that i have a daughter.

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Sorry for the continued lack of original material on my part, but this is all I’ve got time for these days. To the links!

This is a story showing just what kind of dangerous people we’ve got showing up at airports these days.

This is a lengthy treatise on just how unlikely the liquid bombing plot is, and what other restrictions seem prudent in the face of these new threats.

Fun times.

And just because you’ve been such good people for enduring the bad news, there’s a fun video after the jump.

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purple pride, purple pride, purple pride.  if you believe what the east-side fish-wrap factory says, KoRo got picked up in mankato last night on suspicion of drunken driving.  drunken driving may actually be a leap; he was charged with driving under the influence, and this morning KFAN’s mike morris said that certain painkillers can make football players loopy enough to seem like they have been drinking heavily.  however, given the time of day that robinson was arrested, his well-documented history of abuse, it seems prudent to connect those dots. 

if true, i feel very bad for him.  he obviously has some demons that he hasn’t conquered yet, and he needs to do whatever possible to get healed.  and for the vikings…  this should no longer be a surprise, right?  you didn’t think that losing moss and culpepper would mean that the character issues would be over, did you?  kevin williams, willie offord, and KoRo are just the latest in a long line of purple-helmeted warriors to do our state proud.  do the vikings lead the league in off-field issues over the last decade?  or am i just more exposed to their problems because they’re local? 

actually, i don’t really care.  i’m a baseball fan. 

The good news is that removing VX2 and Look2Me wasn’t as hard as expected, the bad news is that something else called Suggestor was an SOB.

Turns out VX2 was set up in my System Restore folders (while this whole ordeal, which isn’t over, was quite painful, the silver lining is that I’ve learned a ton in a short time), which I discovered is not searchable by adware and virus scanners.  So I had to dump all my previous system restore points by turning the feature off.

As for Look2Me, I was able to download a program to remove that.  However, in the meantime this “Suggestor” adware popped up out of nowhere. 

As I mentioned before I had given up and decided to play the “post my log file” game on one of these forums (in particular the Lavasoft Forum where my Adware removal program was from).  After going overnight with no response, I decided to take the law into my own hands (Doug Llewelyn would not have been pleased).

So I downloaded one of the most mentioned tools called HijackThis.  It’s a handly little took that scans your system to find what you are currently running, and what is going on in your registry, and gives you a nice little report.   This is the point where all the forums tell you “DON’T DO ANYTHING UNTIL WE TELL YOU TO!!!”  Being a) stubborn, and 2) an armchair geek, I pushed forward by researching every…single… process…and … file in the log. 

So I learned a lot, and deleted a lot, but there were a couple of files that just wouldn’t disappear.  To make a long story short (too late), I had to kill a running process, delete that file, then HijackThis could finally delete the files. 

About this time someone finally responded to my post telling me to run CCleaner.  I ignored this advice thinking I had solved everything on my own.  Sadly I was wrong.  I was (and still am) 99% of the way there, but I am still getting the occassional pop-up for WinAntiVirus Pro 2006; and I can’t find anything that is causing them.  So I ran CCleaner, which found and deleted 650 MB of useless stuff (WOW!).  But even that hasn’t solved the problem.  So now I’m back playing the game where the guy on the forum has asked me to run a slew of other programs and post a fresh log file. 

Unfortunately, I don’t think I have any other options…although I might be willing to deal with the occassional pop-up at this point.  Now I understand why some people just buy a new computer when this sort of thing happens.

Adware and Virus authors, I hope you enjoy your spot in hell!