trigger finger

Surgery for a trigger finger

I think I have a trigger finger (only its my thumb). I can't bend my thumb very well and it hurts. Kind of locks into place. I have heard that surgery is about the only option. If so is it expensive...

trigger thumb

One day I woke up unable to bend my right thumb. Now granted, I am a college student and a musician, right handed. I went to an orthopedic doctor and he said that I need to have an operation to cut...

MLB Trade Rumors: Casey Blake traded to Dodgers; Will Manny be traded??

This morning I posted the Yankees-Pirates deal involving 4 prospects for Xavier Nady and Damaso Marte. As I was driving to the Phils-Braves picture day game with my family, WFAN radio reported that...

Videos Of Tibetan Protest Get YouTube Banned In China

We can now add China to the axis of NoTube as it has blocked all of YouTube after videos from news reports concerning the protests in Tibet began to show up on the video hosting site. What's...

Stop Managing Tons of Feeds, Use Alltop

I have done away with my Bloglines account. At its peak, it maintained 206 feeds that I would review nearly every day; just shoot me.The thought of it still irks me because the simple process of...

Law and Order: Criminal Intent: "Senseless" (Episode 143)

This especially disturbing episode of CI starts with flashbacks of kids in a park, walking around their ‘hood, in the barbershop.  It’s 1999, what is made to be with it’s soothing background music, a...

Pushing Daisies: Corpsicle (Episode 109)

This week, the role of Chuck will be played by... a monkey?: Ned and Emerson get down to business. Monkey business, that is!The denizens of Play-Doh village run riot as, back in the past, child Chuck...

SEGA Announces House Of The Dead 2 and 3 Return for Wii

The Wii will be getting more Wii Zapper zombie shooting with THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD 2 & 3 RETURN. The release will feature the two arcade titles, as announced by SEGA. From SEGA's announcement:...

Trigger Finger Treatments - Making the Best Choice

Trigger Finger is often categorized as a repetitive strain condition that results when a nodule or adhesion that has formed on the tendon of single or multiple fingers becomes stuck within the pulley...

Wii Monday Virtual Console Releases (8/27/07)

Here are the Monday retro additions to the Wii's Virtual Console, now available for purchase!Super C (NES?, 1-2 players, rated E for Everyone? Fantasy Violence, 500 Wii Points): In this...

An Iraq Proposal

McSweeney's contributes to the debate:Here's what I propose for Iraq: Distribute assault weapons to every Iraqi man, woman, and adolescent with the aptitude to crook a trigger finger. After all, the...

Open Letter to the Powers That Be at NESN

Listen. Sox Appeal seems like an interesting idea. But, honestly, I don't need to sit and watch a half-hour's worth of desperate attempts to get laid. Hell, I get enough of that in my own goddam...