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If you’re tired of traditional politicians doing anything to win, there’s someone out there who is ready and willing to do absolutely nothing yet still make an impact based simply on who he is.  That candidate is only 10 months old, but in political years he’s an old hat.  Morris the cat is running for [...]

In two days, Kanye West’s new album Yeezus drops.  Yesterday, something else dropped.  This time, it was out of mother Kim Kardashian.  Five weeks early, Kim Kardashian has given birth to a baby girl.  Kim was taken to the hospital after feeling ill, and then bang, here comes the baby.  The little girl, who has [...]

The patenting of DNA and other genetic material is really controversial.  After all, it’s something that occurs in nature, so how could it be patented as if it were some company’s discovery?  Well, medical company Myriad Genetics tried to patent the breast cancer gene, kicking off a very controversial court case that fought its way [...]

Three weeks ago, Jason Kidd was a member of the New York Knicks and was on his way out of the playoffs.  Nine days ago, Jason Kidd announced his retirement from the National Basketball Association.  Now, he is becoming the NBA’s newest head coach.  Owner Mikhail Prokhorov and GM Billy King have hired Jason Kidd [...]

It’s been kind of a banner year for Marcus Mumford and the band Mumford and Sons.  They’ve been winning awards, participating in a well-regarded concert tour, and they’ve got a headlining set at Bonnaroo coming up.  However, it’s not been a perfect year in regard to health.  Mumford and Sons bass player Ted Dwane has [...]

It’s one of the biggest government spying programs in history.  Millions of phone records are collected every day with the full cooperation of Verizon and all the other major providers of cell phone service and all those records end up in the hands of the National Security Agency.  The NSA isn’t as famous as the [...]

The Today Show has a pretty risky strategy to keep the public interested, and that’s filming outside.  Every morning at Rockefeller Center, the Today Show turns the cameras on its giant windows and crowd scenes and that’s part of what keeps the show interesting, even as it struggles in the ratings war.  You never know [...]

Verizon is a pretty good cell phone company, for the most part.  Sure they have had some poor customer service ideas and they have tried some controversial ideas, but they’re generally okay.  However, as a company with 121 million customers, Verizon is sitting on a lot of records for people’s calls, and the government apparently [...]

There’s a full-fledged drug problem in Major League Baseball.  On every team, players great and small are more than likely using performance-enhancing drugs as we speak.  On ESPN’s Outside The Lines, Biogenesis Lab founder Anthony Bosch gave an interview with the sports network where he went into detail about his 20 or so clients from [...]

One of the smartest things the television program Doctor Who ever introduced is the concept of regeneration.  Time Lords are immortal, after all, and when they die in one body they can come back in another body that just happens to look and sound completely different.  When the first Doctor William Hartnell got sick in [...]

In 1937, one of the world’s most enduring mysteries occurred somewhere in the South Pacific.  Amelia Earhart, the most famous female pilot in aviation history, navigator Fred Noonan, and their Lockheed Electra plane disappeared during a historic around-the-world flight attempt.  She’s been gone for a long time, but the mystery remains unsolved and Earhart is [...]

Year in and year out, the San Antonio Spurs are always considered a favorite for the NBA championship.  However, the Spurs haven’t been to the title game since 2007 despite a run of excellence that stretches back into the 90s.  That’s all changing this year.  The San Antonio Spurs will be the Western Conference representative [...]

Notre Dame had a pretty good 2012 football season, as far as college football seasons go.  The team went 12-0 in the regular season, lost in the national championship game, but still bested expectations for a team that has been struggling in recent years.  They were all set to improve.  They might be losing their [...]

Robbie Rogers made waves back in February when he came out of the closet and promptly retired from professional soccer.  Despite being only 26 and having suited up in the Premier League, League One, Major League Soccer, and the US Men’s National Team, Rogers decided that he couldn’t be both gay and a soccer player. [...]