According to recent numbers released by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, recent polls show that some 8 out of every 10 Americans, or 80% of the country, don’t trust in big government and larger governmental organizations to solve the country’s problems. Only 22 percent of people polled believe that they can trust in Washington to […]
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British Navy To Rescue Stranded Citizens
Posted 4/19/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganFrustrated with the lack of movement and beset on all sides by cancellations and closures due to citizens stranded abroad, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has finally had enough of the delaying and lethargy that has beset Europe since air travel was closed in the wake of the Iceland volcano disaster, and he’s going to […]
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Mugged By An Octopus
Posted 4/19/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganA diver has an unusual encounter with an octopus on Friday. It’s not often that these reclusive creatures are captured on film by divers, but it’s even more unusual when an octopus comes out of hiding to mug a diver and steal his camera. However, that’s exactly what happened to Victor Huang, the man who […]
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Punished Via Cheese
Posted 4/19/2010 6:00 am by Ron HoganWhen students at Atlantic City High School in Atlantic City, New Jersey, organized an epic, school-wide food fight one day in the cafeteria using their cell phones, the administration had to respond. However, I doubt any of the students expected so draconian a response. For two days, the entire school got nothing but a prisoner […]
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Hanako Of The Toilet, A Bathroom-Haunting Ghost
Posted 4/15/2010 11:30 am by Ron HoganIt’s one of the weirdest, and most awesome, urban legends I’ve ever read about. You know it has to come from Japan, if only because it’s so exceptionally strange. She’s called Toire no Hanako-san, or Hanako of the Toilet, and she’s a Japanese ghost that haunts girls’ bathrooms all over Japan. The third stall on […]
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Rare Silent Film Found In A Barn In New England
Posted 4/15/2010 11:00 am by Ron HoganFrancis Ford looked a whole lot like Abraham Lincoln. In fact, Ford was the star of eight silent movies about Honest Abe that have been lost to the mists of history. Or presumed lost, anyway. Most of the movie made in the silent era have disappeared over the years, lost to carelessness, studio fires, or […]
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Montana Marmot Motorway
Posted 4/15/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganThe little critter seen above might be called a yellow-bellied marmot, but there’s nothing cowardly about this critter. His den, as you can see, is actually a pothole in a highway in Montana! Apparently, the little critter will pop his head out, and then melt back into the road when traffic is coming. Coyotes aren’t […]
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Robonaut Reporting For Duty, Sir!
Posted 4/15/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganThe dream team of General Motors and NASA have finally figured out a way to turn sexbot technology into something useful for everyone, not just lonely perverts. When the Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its final mission, the astronauts aboard will have a robotic companion, the Robonaut 2! It’s basically a humanoid android with […]
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500 Snakes Used As Revenge Plot
Posted 4/15/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganIt’s a revenge plot torn straight from the pages of a Dr. Phibes movie, or some sort of set piece that’ll be used in the next Saw picture, I know it! When two brothers, Guo Gongwei and Guo Gongtian, wanted to get revenge on the leader of their village, a man identified only as song, […]
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Baked Blow-tato
Posted 4/15/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganYou know the old song, “You say tomato, and I say to-mah-to. You say potato, and I say cocaine-o. Let’s snort the whole thing up our nose!” Or not. Police say a 21-year-old man in Athens, Alabama had a unique disguise for his five ounces of cocaine. After being tipped off that a man […]
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The T.rex Of Leeches Lives In Your Nose
Posted 4/15/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganTalk about gross. A new creature has been discovered that is the perfect storm of horrible, gross, and generally terribly disgusting things. It’s a leech (strike one for grossness) that lives inside your nose (strike two) and has 8 giant teeth (strike three, time to pass out). There’s only one name you could possibly give […]
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The Library Of Congress Is Now Watching You Tweet
Posted 4/15/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganBig companies have routinely watched Twitter streams for mentions of their products, good or bad. If they can use that information, no doubt others can too. There’s a lot of stuff on Twitter, some of which has proven to be very important in terms of historical usefulness, like the first tweet ever, Obama tweeting his […]
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Meteors In Milwaukee
Posted 4/15/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganWisconsin is more than just the land of dairy, it’s also a hotbed of meteor activity. Last night, around 11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, people deluged the National Weather Service in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with frantic telephone calls reporting a giant fireball in the sky. The event wasn’t localized in Beer City, USA, either! All throughout […]
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Do Not Cheat At Fishing In Texas
Posted 4/15/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganDuring the 2009 Bud Light Trail Boss Big Bass Tournament on Lake Ray Hubbard in Texas, 45-year-old Robbie Rose caught himself a whopper of a bass. He turned the big fish in to officials and went on about his business, heading to the tournament’s polygraph area. Fishing tournament officials noticed something wrong with Robbie’s fish, […]
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Volcano Forces Airports Across Europe To Close
Posted 4/15/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganA month ago, I talked about the potential disaster that could be caused by a volcanic eruption on Iceland, thanks to Iceland’s location and the strength of previous eruptions. Well, Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull glacier volcano eruputed as feared, and as I expected, the world is feeling the consequences. While it’s too soon to know the environmental […]
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Man Sets Guinness Record With 1501 Piercings
Posted 4/15/2010 6:00 am by Ron HoganJust call Ed Bruns the human pincushion. During a marathon 4-hour, 27-minute session at Pain for Sale piercing and tattoo parlor in Gillette, Montana, he broke the Guinness World Record for most piercings. Actually, he didn’t break the record, he shattered it by a staggering 304 piercings! In total, Bruns got 1501 piercings during the […]
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Anti-Alzheimer’s Brain-Food Diet
Posted 4/14/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganOne of my biggest fears isn’t death. I mean, everyone dies, why worry about it? No, what I’m afraid of most is debilitation. Specifically, diseases that rob me of one portion of my health or another, like diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. Losing control of my mind is one of the scariest things I can imagine. […]
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Man Goes To Strip Club, Leaves Baby Locked In Car
Posted 4/14/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganA 42-year-old New Zealand man’s lust for naked women knew no bounds. Certainly, the fact that he was responsible for watching his baby wasn’t going to stop him. Because it was late at night, he figured it was okay to leave the sleeping child in the car while he visited the Mermaid Strip Club in […]
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Handcuffed Man Steals Cop Car
Posted 4/14/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganI’m not sure how this is even possible. You’d think that being handcuffed and being in the fenced-off back of the squad car would make it impossible for someone to get away with a cop car, yet a suspect in Stone Mountain, Georgia successfully escaped from cops by swiping their squad car from under their […]
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3D View Of New York City Via Google Earth
Posted 4/14/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganNow this was too cool not to share. Those mad scientists at Google have put together another great use for Google Earth. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more useful thanks to creating a whole alphabet with images, they’ve done and done more. Now, thanks to Google Earth, you can fly around a […]
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New Wrigley’s Prom Dress Made From Gum Wrappers
Posted 4/14/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganElizabeth Rasmuson had an idea. She’s heard about dresses made out of weird materials before, so she decided to take some inspiration from duct-tape fashions and her love of colorful gum wrappers. So, , she decided to make her own prom dress using wrappers from Wrigley’s 5 gum. Unknown numbers of sticks later, and she’s […]
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Man Gambles Away £20,000 Bank Error In Two Hours
Posted 4/14/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganLuke Aldridge had a fight with his partner before he took off for Amsterdam. Just when it seemed like nothing was going to go his way, he checked his bank balance and discovered an error in his favor. It seems his bankers at the Abbey (now called Santander), had mistakenly deposited £18200 meant for a […]
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Scary Birthday Clown Is A Big Hit
Posted 4/14/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganClowns are a mixed bag. For every person that loves clowns, and there are a lot of them, there’s a person that is mortified by clowns. When you pick up a clown for a child’s birthday, there’s no shortage of happy, cavorting folk in greasepaint making balloon animals, but where’s the evil? That’s what Dominic […]
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Criminals On The Lamb
Posted 4/14/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganArgentina seems like it’d be a bad place to go to jail. Any jail is bad, but an Argentine jail seems like it’d be the worst. I’ve seen some of those world’s toughest prisons shows, and they talk a lot about Central and South America. It’s no wonder that Ariel Diaz and Maximiliano Pereyra wanted […]
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Used Video Game Nets Man $31,600
Posted 4/14/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganTanner Sandlin should count himself very lucky. After all, it’s not every day a junky video game that isn’t very good manages to land you $31,600. However, his copy of Men-A-Vision’s Air Raid, that he bought new at a discount store (because nobody wanted to buy it), sold at auction for $31,600 recently. Unlike other […]
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Another Day, Another Toyota Safety Problem
Posted 4/14/2010 6:00 am by Ron HoganIt’s kind of an unprecedented move. When testing the 2010 Lexus GX 460, a luxury SUV made by Toyota, Consumer Reports issued a strongly-worded article calling the product a safety risk because of a high risk of rollover during certain turns. The last time Consumer Reports said that a car was unsafe was way […]
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Spanking Leads To Aggression In Children
Posted 4/13/2010 11:00 am by Ron HoganI think any parent could tell you that sometimes you just have to spank a kid. After all, sometimes children will not listen to reason, because they’re kids. Sometimes, to get them to not do something dangerous or extra-annoying in public, your only course of action is to make them run the circle of spanking. […]
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Erotica For The Vision Impaired
Posted 4/13/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganLisa J. Murphy is a tireless activist for the blind. Having gotten a certification in tactile graphics, she used her training and her skills as a photographer to make picture books for blind children. They’re basically 3D bas-relief images or pop-ups that are shaped like animals, to help blind kids equate the word cat with […]
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Suicide Hotline Pastor Falls Asleep On A Caller
Posted 4/13/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganA suicidal man in Sweden had only one hope to keep him from doing the unthinkable. The blue lights weren’t helping ease his depression, so the man turned to the Church of Sweden, which operates a 24-hour help crisis hotline for moments just like this. The man came to the church feeling psychologically unstable and […]
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Give Me Back My Meat!
Posted 4/13/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganIt’s a pretty simple solution. When someone doesn’t pay you for goods you’ve given them, you simply come and take them back. Right? Well, while it might be easy for dentists to repossess false teeth, what about butchers? A German butcher stormed into a busy restaurant and repossessed $600 worth of meat and sausage, […]
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