There’s absolutely nothing I love more than a crazy conspiracy. Alien abductions are real, as far as I’m concerned. The moon landing was filmed in a sound stage in Burbank. Area 51 houses the remains of the saucer crash that happened in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. The Great Seal on the back of the United States’ currency is a constant reminder that the country is governed by the Freemasons. Sure, the government denies it. They’ve even published an article ‘explaining away’ all the symbols that make up the Great Seal.

It all makes me laugh! Everyone knows that the more you try to explain something away with perfectly reasonable, non-crazy explanations of how all the symbols in the Seal are simple heraldry, and that famous Freemasons Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Ben Franklin had nothing to do with the design of the seal itself. You might even explain that the Freemasons use symbols like the ones on the dollar because they predate the Ancient Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, and that there’s nothing inherently evil about the vaguely threatening giant eagle or the all-seeing eye. Puh-lease.

It’s cute what you’re trying to do, government. I appreciate the great lengths you’re going to in an effort to debunk years of wild speculation, but if I wanted perfectly reasonable explanations for the design of the dollar, I’d peel off my tinfoil hat and let the CIA beam the thoughts directly into my brain. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m running late. I have to meet Bigfoot and the frozen head of Walt Disney for brunch in the center of the earth.

When it comes to sun protection, humans can’t slather ourselves in mud to preserve our tender skin from the burning rays of the sun, so every year, the Environmental Working Group puts together a list of the safest possible sunscreens.  While the FDA has approved sunscreen additives like oxybenzone (since 1978) and retinal palmitate, the [...]

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In the movie The Social Network, Sean Parker asks Facebook founder Eduardo Saverin a question:  ”You don’t even know what the thing is yet.  How big it can get, how far it can go.  This is no time to take your chips down.  A million dollars isn’t cool, you know what’s cool?  A billion dollars.” [...]

When you’re preparing to receive a billion-dollar windfall in the biggest IPO of all time, it’s a smart move to flee the United States.  Eduardo Saverin, who was Mark Zuckerberg’s friend and business partner at Harvard, owns about 4 percent of Facebook stock as a result of his many court battles with Zuckerberg.  That’s going [...]

In 1978, Loretta Lynn brought actress Sissy Spacek onto the stage at the Grand Ole Opry and announced, to the world, that Spacek would be playing Loretta Lynn in an upcoming biographic film.  That movie, Coal Miner’s Daughter, won Spacek the best actress Oscar and helped turn Loretta Lynn into an icon far beyond her [...]

The change was overnight.  Gone were the heavily hairsprayed helmets and greased-down locks of the 50′s.  The product was minimized; the cut was the thing according to Vidal Sassoon, and he crafted some of the most iconic hair styles of all time at his London, England salon.  He would later go on to revolutionize the [...]

Once upon a time, having a game that renders in 3D was a novelty.  Among the best of this first generation of 3D shooters is the Nazi blasting classic, Wolfenstein 3D.  Wolfenstein 3D is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and Bethesda Software has a unique celebration for that event.  Bethesda has published a free browser-based version [...]