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Since about 1998, Baltimore has been besieged by insects.  We’re not talking your standard insects either, we’re talking about the Halyomorpha halys, or brown marmorated stink bug.  It’s a particularly unusual pest, since it’s one of those dangerous invasive species I’m always prattling on about.  The Asian stink bug has no natural predators in the […]

The affluent suburb of Edina, Minnesota, like most places, has a law against leaving your pet poop just piled in a park somewhere.  No, they expect you to curb your pet and dispose of his or her waste properly.  However, unlike most places, Edina was actually willing to provide you with a free baggie in […]

Did you notice anything different about Twitter yesterday?  Well, maybe if you’re Ashton Kutcher or Justin Beiber you did.  Thanks to a Twitter bug which allowed people to force users to follow them, all of Twitter’s follower functions were shut down yesterday.  For a brief time, everyone had zero followers and zero people followed!  Cats […]

Jacob and Isabella.  Two of my least-favorite names.  Not because of the names themselves being bad, but simply because of the connotation they’ve taken on since Twilight has overtaken the consciousness of women everywhere.  Thanks in no small part to the Twilight books, Isabella and Jacob have become the two most-popular baby names in the United States; […]

Poor David Leroy Blurton.  The 50-year-old man maintains that he accidentally shot himself in the groin in self-defense.  He maintains that he was attacked by an unknown assailant in a grocery store parking lot in Dillon, Colorado, who hit him in the back of the head.  When he went to draw his gun, it discharged […]

When you think of safe, effective alternate fuel cars, a few years ago all you’d think about is Toyota’s Prius.  After all, it’s the hybrid car of choice for celebrities everywhere, since it was the first one onto the market.  However, thanks to new developments in hybrid vehicles and Toyota’s safety failures, bad press, and […]

Israel has a lot of enemies in the Middle East, and I doubt they need to make more.  However, it appears they just might be doing that, if Lebanon’s side of the story is to be believed.  Lebanon accuses Israel of co-opting traditionally Middle Eastern food, marketing it as Israeli food, and making millions of […]

The campaign to get Betty White on as host of Saturday Night Live came out of nowhere, and no one was more surprised by it than Betty White herself.  However, SNL‘s initial reticence to the idea seems to have been for nothing as not only did Ms. White perform admirably given the material she was […]

I certainly wouldn’t have expected it.  Dallas Braden is far from a household name.  He plays for a small market club, the Oakland A’s.  He’s only making his 53rd career start.  He grew up in adversity in Stockton, California.  Nevermind all that; Dallas Braden became one of the few men in Major League Baseball history […]

I hate it when lettuce gets recalled.  I’m not a vegetarian since I love the flavor of death, but I do eat a salad pretty much every day.  It was an important component of my weight loss regimen back in my dieting days, and is even more important for general good health.  Except, of course, […]

If you’ve got your retirement funds in the stock market, you were sweating bullets yesterday.  The Dow-Jones Industrial Average, or the 30 stocks that are grouped together to help show an overall picture of financial health, dropped nearly 1000 points starting at about 2:40 in the afternoon.   While there’s a lot of worry in the […]

Convenience store owner Sanjay Patel had no problems when filmakers wanted to use his store to shoot a robbery for a movie. In fact, he was thrilled by the idea, because he got to play himself!  So he closed up the store on a Tuesday morning, and the film crew moved in.  Unfortunately for director […]

Lois Henry thought she was going to get away with it.  The 40-year-old woman, accused of trying to rob a Chase Bank branch in Columbus, Ohio, thought her robbery was going according to plan until an off-duty cop got in line behind her at the teller window.  That’s when Lois panicked and tried to cover […]