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There are times you can look at a picture and just get a sense of what’s going on.  When I look at the above photo?  My eyes start watering, my stomach starts churning, and I just kind of start feeling queasy, because this unfortunate soul has to smell terribly.  The slim fellow, from Wuyan County […]

Letitia A. Long is a remarkable woman.  Pretty much since she started working in the intelligence world, she’s been a trailblazer.  This noteworthy woman has been second-in-command at the Defense Intelligence Agency and deputy director of Naval Intelligence, and now she’s the first woman to head a US Intelligence Agency as today she’s expected to […]

If your child was sick between 2006 and 2008, and the child got salmonella, you might be blaming the wrong food for the illness.  No, it wasn’t your pork tartare that made the child sick (well, it might have been), it might have been Fido’s fault.  A Mars Petcare plant in Pennsylvania might be the […]

Kids these days.  They grow up so fast, don’t they?  Yesterday, I had a birthday.  I turned 29, which makes me feel amazingly old and fills me with dread for the upcoming 30th birthday.  I don’t feel like I’m almost an adult, but chronologically I am.  That must also be the case for more girls […]

Joseph and Jeannie Campbell make no secret about their leanings.  The couple are avowed Neo-Nazis, and it shows both in their Holland Township, New Jersey, home (which is decorated with skulls, knives, and swastikas) and in the names of their unfortunate children, Adolph Hitler, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation, and Honszlynn Hinler.  The two parents have officially […]

When the food world starts to tinker, they do so with two mindsets.  One, they want to far surpass anything a normal person might cook, like when they invented the Double Down or the Grilled Cheese BurgerMelt.  Two, they want to make their food as much like real food as possible.  That’s the rationale behind […]

Just after midnight, a woman’s home was broken into.  She was hit in the face with a pistol and tied to a bedpost while the criminal rummaged through her stuff at her Glenwood Avenue home in Atlanta, Georgia.  However, the woman is nothing if not resourceful.  Despite being bound to the bed, she was able […]

When you’re described with words like “obsolete” and “too old to matter,” or told that you are “slow,” “fuzzy,” “sluggish” and “lethargic,” you might get the hint that your bosses think you’re having a little trouble adapting to the modern world.  Brian Reid, a 54-year-old former director of operations and engineering for Google, claims that […]

Lynn France thought she had the perfect marriage.  After all, they started their couplehood together by flying to Italy and getting married in a beautiful old Catholic Church, and what can be more romantic than that?  Well, except for maybe getting married while dressed as Prince Charming at Disney World.  Unfortunately for Lynn, that’s what […]

The pursuit started when Donna McCall was 10 years old.  She wrote a letter to her crush, child star Butch Patrick, who played Eddie Munster on classic 1960’s sitcom The Munsters.  Some 45 years later, she got reacquainted with Patrick after her memories of their correspondence were triggered by a news report and now Donna […]

There’s nothing more dangerous to an animal than your car’s engine block.  Animals love warmth, and when they’re small, they need to stay warm to survive.  Granted, it’s 90-something degrees outside, so I’m not sure why a 5-week-old Siamese kitten ended up behind the grill of a Mazda, but he was there.  The kitten survived […]

Jerry Douthett, a 47-year-old man from Rockford, Michigan, is alive and well today.  Yes, he’s missing a toe, but the rest of him is intact and relatively healthy, and it’s all thanks to his dog.  Jerry and his wife went out for a night on the town, and Jerry had six or seven beers and […]

Warren Buffett is one of America’s richest men.  Also, he’s one of America’s most charitable men.  After the recent announcement that Buffett convinced his billionaire friends to donate half their fortunes to charity, you can also call him one of the world’s most influential men.  Buffett, whose philanthropy is legendary, tag-teamed with equally legendary charity […]

Winston Churchill is one of the most famous leaders in the world, and he is noted to have had a particular fascination with one topic his modern counterparts disavow completely:  flying saucers.  While the Ministry of Defense in Great Britain has destroyed its UFO records, one set of correspondence says that a secret meeting took […]