It has been entirely too long since last we fired the arrows of conventional wisdom. So let us not wait another second.

... of the first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant), turned down an opportunity to strut her stuff on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last week. That's right, the 24 year-old resident of the tiny Faulkner County community of McGintytown ...

Ann Thompson of McGintytown, the National Rooster Crowing Champion (yes, she crows like a rooster), appeared on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last week.

Ann Thompson remains undefeated. She crowed like a rooster more convincingly than all challengers at the World Human Crowing Championship held last weekend in Rogue River, Ore.

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 6, the 219th day of 2008. There are 147 days left in the year.

... World Human Crowing Champion in June at the Rogue River Rooster Crow in Rogue River, Ore., and has crowed on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. Thompson said that she faced nine competitors this year, some of whom were "pretty good" and some of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) Forget the debates, this is the political moment millions have been waiting for.

CHICAGO (AP) President-elect Barack Obama will meet Monday with John McCain in talks that Obama's transition office said would focus on ways they can cooperate on an array of troublesome issues facing the country.

WASHINGTON -- Julie Foudy pointed the spotlight -- in the form of her own hand-held camcorder -- back at the nation watching her, or at least at the cameras the media had trained on her and the United States women's soccer team.

Winners at Sunday night's 51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards: