Value Up, Value Down

Here's a look at five things that are hot right now and five things that have seen better times.

Value Up:

1. The World Wide Web - Some members of Congress might not know what it is but for those of us who do it's no longer just email, news, and sports scores. With dating services, personal sites like myspace and thefacebook and informative sites like wikipedia we are now in the golden age of the information age.

2. Interactive tv - Between the Lost Experience and webisodes of The Office tv networks are taking things to the next level. Personally I love the ideas because the one criticism of network television are the constant reruns and down time. Concepts like this help pass the time in between seasons and the fans are the real winners here.

3. Larry Johnson - Grandmama 2 came out of nowhere last year to dominate in the second half of the season for the Chiefs and now he is the most talked about football player on the planet even more so than Terrell Owens. Is there a magazine cover he's not on or commercial he's not in?

Value down

1. Yankees fans - I don't even want to be one anymore if you're going to continue booing Alex Rodriguez for no reason at all. The boos are tarnishing the image of used to be one of baseball's best fan bases.

2. Middle East violence - Enough already!

3. Global warming - 112 in Bismark in July and more Hurricanes than at a University of Miami football game. Yeah there's no such thing as global warming.

4. The Wayans brothers - How did somebody read the script to Little Man and think that it would be a good idea?

5. Dry eye - Having it sucks. If you could trade illnesses I would gladly trade in my dry eye for some asthma. And yes I'm being serious.