Out of billions of Yahoo! searches, Valentine’s Day searches have been in the top 450 for more than a week.

Five hundred thirty-five members of the House and Senate, more than 13,000 registered lobbyists in DC — you do the math.

It’s hard to escape Super Bowl fever in South Louisiana this year. The New Orleans Saints are in the game, something most Bayou State residents thought might never happen in their lifetime.

President Barack Obama, in his budget plan for the upcoming fiscal year, is putting off a trip to the moon. In 2004, President George W. Bush had outlined a strategy to return Americans to the lunar soil, which was set to take place as soon as 2020.

As the years have progressed, the number - and wackiness - of the prop bets has progressed exponentially.

Let’s be honest: The Super Bowl is about much more than football. Some years, it’s about the halftime show. Sometimes it’s the GoDaddy commercials. Most of the time, it’s about the beer commercials.

“Sprinkles” are little bits of candy of various shapes, colors and flavors that are sprinkled onto desserts. The ones that are basically tiny sugar pellets also are called “nonpareils,” as are the “rounded wafers of chocolate covered with such pellets.”

President Barack Obama should have approached health care reform as a long-term project. He should have prioritized the major issues and then worked on them one step at a time. It may have taken him three or four years to get all the pieces passed through Congress, but he would have eventually completed his goal of reforming the system.

Kevin Haas reaches into the grab bag every so often when we’d rather just repeat news, instead of research it ourselves. Here’s what we’ve been following this week.

The American Institute of Food Distribution claims that Super Bowl Sunday is second only to Thanksgiving in terms of food consumption.

The Super Bowl has become bigger than Christmas, July 4th and Thanksgiving. It’s a bloated excuse to party, an annual exercise in pretense — that anyone really gives much of a darn about two teams that don’t happen to be theirs.

I've been really proud of myself for not mentioning Tiger Woods or his scandal for all this time. However, now I have to talk about it. The scandal has grown beyond what I had imagined, for it now involves one of the biggest institutions in our country: insurance companies. Because of Tiger, corporations that pay athletes big money to endorse their products are looking into buying insurance in case their athletes misbehave.

Leading up to Tuesday’s Season 6 premiere of the uber-popular drama “Lost,” it seemed the only way you could avoid all the hype was to be lost on a desert island. At the very least you had to de-activate your Facebook and Twitter accounts and blow off work for the day.

Ever watch one of those early pre-Wright brothers film clips of some hapless inventor trying to fly a 10-winged monstrosity, which inevitably crashes in a heap? That pretty much sums up health care reform.

On Tuesday morning I cursed Punxsutawney's legendary low-grade land beaver after he saw his shadow and signified six more weeks of winter.