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It’s the hard-rocking band with the funny-spelled name.  Lynyrd Skynyrd has been a band to survive multiple tragedies and continued to tour, record, and play in spite of everything, including a straight-laced gym teacher and coach who dutifully enforced the hair-length policies at Robert E. Lee High School.  He didn’t know that one of the […]

It’s a sign of the times and a sign of a man in the depths of some serious personal problems.  Actor Randy Quaid, known as the crazy uncle Eddie in the National Lampoon’s Vacation series of movies, and his wife Evi Quaid were arrested over the weekend in a luxurious neighborhood in Montecito, California.  The […]

Anysha Panesar is a little nontraditional for beauty pageant girls.  There’s no giant mop of blonde curls, and her teeth look refreshingly Vaseline-free.  Still, she’s a looker, as she’s won quite a few beauty contests in her time.  Her most recent title is America’s Most Perfect Teen, which would be great if she was an […]

Dallas Amber Smith, age 18, was challenged.  The challenge?  She had to do a backflip.  In order to prepare herself for the landing, she doffed her shoes.  When a whiff of her pungent feet got to one of her drinking buddies, the 19-year-old man did what most people would do in that situation (after having […]

Christine O’Donnell has had to beat the odds to get to where she is today.  A member of the insurgent Tea Party, she had to best the official Republican candidate for Senate in Delaware before she could even get support from her own party (and she might not even have it now).  She’s got a […]

There’s something rotten in New York, and it’s more than just the bad attitude of the New York Giants.  The city is in the grips of an infestation the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the pre-DDT days of pesticides.  The problem is bedbugs, and they’re everywhere throughout the city.  Worse for city officials, […]

It’s the final frontier in food.  For years, we’ve tinkered with the food supply to produce seedless bananas, grapes, and watermelon.  We’ve bred chickens to create bigger, tastier birds with more meat on their bones.  We’ve bred cows to be larger, slower, and tastier.  We’ve done a whole lot of interference with the food supply […]

Happy Constitution Day, everyone in the US!  If you’re an American, by LAW, you’re supposed to learn something about the Constitution today on Constitution Day, which is today, September 17.  (If you didn’t know anything about Constitution Day, does learning that there is Constitution Day meet the required education?  I’m not sure, but we’ll say it does.)  Educational […]

Melvin Jesse Blain is what you’d call a career criminal.  He just spent 46 months in jail for bank robbery, and one of the first things he does when he gets out is goes to rob another bank.  Police say 31-year-old Blain walked into a Wachovia Bank branch in North Charleston, South Carolina, and asked […]

Nicholas Rappold, a 21-year-old from Flushing, Queens, found himself on the wrong end of the New York City Parking Authority.  I imagine it’s a common mistake:  he was parked on the street during street sweeping, and thus earned himself a ticket for parking illegally.  There’s only one small problem:  the officer who left Nicholas Rappold […]

There are always many luggage inspectors at every airport you go to, but they’re especially vigilant when it comes to two things.  One of these is carrying fruit across international lines, and the other of these is when looking for smuggled antiquities.  The black market antiques trade is huge business, so no doubt that’s what […]

The first time I saw the Tribute Of Light, when New York City illuminates two giant columns of light using 88 powerful floodlights to create a ghostly image reminiscent of the World Trade Center as it appeared before the events of September 11, I was stunned.  It was beautiful and heartbreaking.  It’s still beautiful and […]

When it comes to the behavior of television hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, you can never quite tell when they’re being serious and when they’re just being funny.  After all, their shows are a combination of satire and actual news reporting, so the blend is sometimes a little tough to make sense of.  However, […]

Bank robbers, car thieves, muggers, pimps, and thugs.  What do they have in common with Babe Ruth, Derek Jeter, Joe DiMaggio, Mariano Rivera, and Joe Torre?  Well, they’ve all been spotted wearing the logo of the World Series champion New York Yankees.  They’re the most popular team in baseball in general, and the most popular baseball […]

Some dogs have big ears or big tails.  Some dogs are just plain big.  Some dogs are just plain fat.  Puggy, a 10-year-old Pekingese, is just plain tongue.  Puggy is in the Guinness World Records book as the dog with the world’s largest tongue.  Pekingese are small dogs, so it’s not hyperbole when experts say […]