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Bears are smarter than we give them credit for.  Perhaps Yogi Bear wasn’t smarter than the average bear, but just as smart as the average bear in the real world.  I make this lofty claim because Yogi always went after picnic baskets, because they’re easy targets.  In the real world, bears go after minivans because […]

Twenty-five years ago today, one special little girl underwent an untested, foolhardy procedure in an attempt to save her life.  Born with a disease called hypoplastic left-heart syndrome, Stephanie Fae Beauclair, known as Baby Fae to the world at large, needed a heart transplant.  Dr. Leonard Bailey and surgeons at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital […]

When it’s a quarter after 1 in the morning, all you want to do is get something to eat and then go to bed.  You’re probably tired, or have been out partying, or whatever.  Nobody really wants to be out and running around at that time of night, and you definitely don’t want to be […]

Apartments seem to be getting more and more expensive.  A few years ago, when I worked in an apartment complex, the largest apartments were close to $500 or so.  Now, the smallest apartments are $500, and it’s only been a few years!  However, bargains are out there.  For example, there’s a lovely one-bedroom, first floor […]

In what is one of the oddest air travel stories I’ve ever heard, a Northwest Airlines flight had to turn around upon reaching Eau Claire, Wisconsin.  Why?  Because it was supposed to stop in Minneapolis, 150 miles in the other direction!  As it turns out, the pilots missed their destination because of what they say […]

It’s not every day that a man will go to the police station and ask to be sent to prison, but then again we don’t have the life of Santo Gambino.  The 30-year-old Sicilian from Villabate (outside of Palermo) got pinched for dumping hazardous materials illegally, so he got some jail time.  He spent sime […]

Eric Williamson says he just wanted to make some coffee and start his day.  Fairfax County police say that he was intentionally displaying himself.  Either way you look at the issue, a man got arrested for being naked in his own home.   He faces up to a year in jail and a $2,000 fine, […]

Social networks are gigantic.  However, there’s a clear winner in the field of social networking, and that would be Facebook.  With over 95 million active users, Facebook continues to grow and add new features while MySpace, the initiator of the market and the first social networking website to break into the mainstream, lags behind with […]

You know how the hardest thing to decide at any party is what sort of music to play.  If you’re like me (as always, pretend you are), then  your friends listen to all sorts of different music, from hippie jam bands to hardcore punk to gangsta rap and everything in between.  That makes it incredibly […]

Just when you think you’ve gotten away with a robbery after seven years, police link you to the crime thanks to blood and DNA samples taken from a leech.  Doesn’t that just suck?  In 2001, Peter Alec Cannon and another man robbed an old woman of $500.  Seven years later, after an arrest on drug-related […]

When you’re dealing with technology, you get a lot of, “Me too!” devices that hit the market.  The success of the iPod lead to a thousand and one MP3-playing devices.  The success of TiVo lead to a metric ton of DVR machines of all stripes from the Apple TV to the local cable company’s DVR-tuner.  […]