I've wondered this for quite a while, and never asked about it because I was afraid the answer is too obvious and I'd get laughed at. But now it's the Super Bowl, the game's ultimate contest, last 15 minutes of football for the year, etc. Seems like the moment to finally open my mouth, consequences be damned.

Just YESTERDAY I tried to use TaxAct.com. It allows you to start your return without registering; I worked my way through mine and was actually pretty happy with how everything was going — until the end, when I wanted to e-file and print. At that point, it asked me to register again, and when I tried, I got a message…

This is late, but I wanted to tell people that I just tried to use taxact.com. Got all the way through my return, tried to register and save it (they say at the beginning you can start without registering), and was told that their servers were too busy and I should try again later. Unfortunately, all my work —about an…

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Ed Hochuli gets any chattier, he'll be the Aaron Sorkin of NFL officials.

Anybody else, listening to this game in 5.1, keep looking over their left shoulder to see who the Giants fan yelling "Cruuuuuuuuz" into their ear is?

I'm pretty sure that the player who scores the touchdown is allowed to do it (anywhere), but nobody else.

So was the Tony Gonzalez dunk, as I recall...

I don't know if this matters, but I saw this guy passing out pre-game energy drinks to LSU...

This coin toss is like listening to my grandpa try and explain the New Deal.

Speaking of, was that Blossom? She hasn't gotten any better looking.

Harrison's blowing containment today like a Dollar Store diaper.

This week on NFL Network's SoundFX: 46 minutes of Big Ben hobbling around and shouting "I'm comin', Elizabeth! I'm comin!"

No. There's also Cheech's ex-wives.

I never noticed how many words have the [s] sound in them until I heard Mike Mayock doing color on this game.

Mike Mate...

I was just telling somebody the other day how much the 2011 Apple reminds me of the 1996 Microsoft.

I was just using one of these this week, to hang a bunch of pictures in a new house. Seriously, seriously awesome. Got it at Home Depot for $14 and it's worth twice that, easily.

I had one of these. She just doesn't want to miss her appointment to get the Digifant looked at. Again.

Once when I was bragging to my dad about some sweet $1,500 speakers I just picked up, he said, "If you have dog's ears, spend your money on plastic surgery."