By: Mary Fran Bontempo Nik Wallenda is a praying man. It's a good thing, too, as the aerial artist has a tendency to do things that appear to require some serious divine intervention. Last summer, Wallenda walked a tightrope over Niagara Falls, a distance of 1800 feet, at 200 feet above the churning Niagara River. Sunday night, the daredevil (or mental case, your choice) stepped across the Grand Canyon, a 1400 [...]

    By: Mary Fran Bontempo To hear an audio version of this post, click the play arrow below. Sometimes I think this privacy thing is overrated. The recent disclosures by computer nerd and privacy protector (and possibly, traitor), Edward Snowden over the scope of the U.S. National Security Administration’s snooping into our private communications has created a firestorm of protest. Seems everyone is horrified to learn that the NSA has been snuffling [...]