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Say what you will about the relative quality of her television show, but there’s one place Oprah can’t be topped:  her giveaways.  She gives away the best stuff to her studio audience, and now she’s managed to top herself in the show’s final season.  During her show, Oprah announced that she was sending her entire [...]

Tommy Dafoe might only be 24, but he knows something about lawns.  Specifically, he knows how to make them grow, care for them, and cut them expertly.  As the eponymous T in T’s Lawn Service, he ought to know his stuff.  However, even Tommy’s skills were challenged when he put his lawn and relationship to [...]

Just in case you had to ask, it’s a bad idea to steal from the Salvation Army.  Now, they’re generally not aggressive people, so they’re not like stealing from the actual army, but they are a large charitable religious organization, and God tends to frown on those who steal from charities and people trying to [...]

When it’s time to rob a store, you can’t just go in empty handed.  A nasty note is well and good, but what’s really effective is a weapon of some kind.  A knife, a gun, a baseball bat… or, in the case of an unusual criminal in Melbourne, Australia, an aerosol can and a lighter.  [...]

In some ways, Foxconn CEO Terry Gou is a fascinatingly lucky man.  His company manufactures dozens of technological devices, from the iPhone to Dell computers at their various factories, so you know he’s doing well money-wise.  However, there’s also a slight problem with his company.  Foxconn is the company where workers have a nasty habit [...]

San Bruno, California, was once like any other neighborhood on the outskirts of San Francisco.  It was kind of like every other neighborhood anywhere else in the world, until one fateful moment when the earth caught fire.  San Bruno is serviced by natural gas pipelines from Pacific Gas and Electric, and those PG&E lines are [...]

If you’re looking to waste time, then you more than likely have a new destination these days.  According to the researchers at comScore, Internet users logged a staggering 41.1 million minutes using Facebook, making Facebook more popular than both Google and Yahoo in total time spent browsing per month.  Facebook accounted for 10 percent of [...]

Whenever Michelle Washington gives people her address, people laugh.  Not because she talks funny, but because she’s got a funny street name.  Ms. Washington, a resident of Macon, Georgia, lives at an address even the writers of Desperate Housewives would consider poor taste:  her street name is Lustful Court. If you’re thinking that Lusty Court [...]

They’re cute, they’re huggable, and they’ve got problems.  They’re the Parapluesch, a line of cuddly stuffed animals with mental illnesses from the Psychiatric Institute for Abused Cuddly Toys.  Seriously, they’ve got some serious disorders to work through.  There’s Dolly the sheep with the personality disorder, Dub the depressed turtle, Kroko the crocodile who is afraid [...]

One of my biggest fears is dementia.  To be of healthy body, but unsound mind?  That’s a nightmare to me.  The last thing I’d ever want to be is some senile shell, burdening my family.  I could never live like that, but according to new medical research, I might not have to (and, fortunately, dementia [...]

Given that I live up the road from Hardin County, I can tell you about the weather in Kentucky.  It’s hot and dry all over.  Well, dry in terms of lack of rainfall, not dry in terms of lack of humidity.  Yeah, the weather’s been rain-free and miserable, which is apparently the perfect conditions for [...]

If you’re going to pay a ton of money for college, the least you can do is get a good education for your bills, right?  Well, if you’re looking to get the most bang for your bucks, a consultation of the list of the world’s top 200 universities might be in order, just don’t expect [...]

From 1996 until 2001, Don Johnson was back in a big way thanks to a television cop show.  No, it’s not related to Miami Vice, the show that shot a white-suited Johnson into the cultural zeitgeist, but the show Nash Bridges, about a San Francisco detective, his partner, and their misadventures that ran for over [...]

Ladies, are you tired of marching into a combat zone, laying down a stream of machine-gun fire, and slaying America’s enemies while looking like you’re wearing a camouflage potato sack?  Well, you’re in luck.  While you’ll still be in camouflage, at least your uniform will fit you a little better as the US Army has announced that [...]

It’s a shocking upset.  To me, you’d think there’s nothing more Texas-approved than taking delicious beer and figuring out a way to deep-fry it inside a pretzel, but apparently there’s one thing more Texas, and that’s Frito pie.  At the Big Tex Choice Awards, the fried-food contest held every year at the Texas State Fair, [...]