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Sarah Palin is a polarizing figure.  She’s wildly popular, either for the wrong reasons or the right reasons, depending on which side of the political spectrum you’re on and how much you like making fun of people.  Still, she’s captured the public’s attention quite well, as shown by the fact that the word Palin invented, [...]

It’s one of the most famous examples of vaporware in video game history.  Duke Nukem Forever has been in the works since, literally, 1997.  It’s been announced and pulled multiple times throughout its history, and has changed developers multiple times (3D Realms, Take Two, 3D Realms again, and now Gearbox Software).  People have run through [...]

You’d think that, possible lockout aside, things would be good for the NFL right now.  TV ratings have never been higher, league stars are now crossover TV stars and doing hair-care commercials, and the league is even trying to expand overseas with the standard London games and appearances in Toronto.  However, all the news concerning [...]

It was like a scene out of Gran Torino.  When confronting a group of youths on the lawn of his Uniondale, Long Island home, 31-year-old George Grier went out onto his porch with a rifle.  He told the group of youths to get off his lawn.  During the ensuing argument, Grier did what every movie [...]

When you think of good customer service, what are the places you think of as providing the opposite of that?  Obviously, one of the first things out of any reasonable person’s mouth (aside from the DMV) is the post office.  There’s always a line, it’s usually understaffed, it’s going bankrupt, and generally, it’s a huge [...]

Sonya Thomas is a tiny, tiny woman.  She’s probably 5 feet tall and 105 pounds, on a good day.  However, if you see this spritely-looking woman heading towards your all-you-can-eat buffet, lock the doors, pull the shades, and hope against hope that she doesn’t see you inside, because she’ll eat you out of house and [...]

If you’re heading to Dublin, Georgia, you’d better pull up your pants.  Or, at least, make sure you don’t have your underwear on display for all the world to see.  Dublin, Georgia, is the latest town to pass an anti-sagging pants ordinance, which criminalizes visible boxer shorts.  The ordinance defines sagging as wearing your pants [...]

Dan Goodwin, AKA SpiderDan, has really earned that nickname.  He’s one of the world’s most successful scalers of high-rise buildings, even if he hasn’t been active for awhile.  Some of his previous climbs have been the CN Tower in Toronto, the North Tower of the World Trade Center, and several other climbs.  He even claims [...]

It’s a wonderful day here in the United States.  It’s a day in which all us hard-working men and all those hard-working women get to kick back, relax, and enjoy one last evening of fun and frivolity before the warm weather starts to end and the cold and harsh winds of winter resume whipping us [...]

Controversy is busting out all over the United States thanks to a peculiar language choice.  We’ve all seen those breast cancer awareness bracelets, right?  Those little rubber pink bands that might have a little slogan on them, or say something about curing breast cancer?  Well, Carlsbad, California-based charity organization Keep A Breast, which is designed [...]

Burger King, despite publicity stunts like the Windows 7 burger, interesting food innovations like the Crazy Whopper, and specialty restaurant brands like the Whopper Bar, just can’t seem to get past being second best.  Long the #2 fast food chain in the US after McDonald’s, BK has been trying just about anything it can to [...]

It’s one of the 90′s most enduring pop culture phenomenon.  It spawned a whole miniature empire of spin-offs and remakes, made Tori Spelling into a household name, carried the Fox Network’s non-animated programming banner, and somehow remains an incredibly popular show to this very day.  It’s Beverly Hills 90210, and today is officially 90210 Day [...]