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Of the many measures the European Union has taken to reduce its collective environmental footprint, the worst of the bunch has been the banning of the incandescent light bulb.  To further make things more restrictive, on top of that ban, they’ve also banned all light bulbs over 60 watts, meaning useful and bright bulbs like […]

The gubernatorial race for the state of New York is basically between two men:  Andrew Cuomo and Carl Paladino.  One, Cuomo, is the Democrat son of former New York governor Mario Cuomo.  Paladino is the GOP candidate for the same position.  However, thanks to New York State’s crazy debate format, all the fringe weirdos got […]

LaShawn Merritt is the reigning 400-meter champion, having won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2009 World Championships in Berlin.  He’s also suffering extreme humiliation, thanks in no small part to an issue related to his failed drug tests.  The three positive tests Merritt has been nailed with means he was […]

It’s a movie that launched several careers, and all it took were some roofies.  When Todd Phillips took the reigns of the raucous guy comedy The Hangover, he was making stars out of pretty-boy Bradley Cooper, doughy comedian Zach Galifianakis, movie character acter Ken Jeong, and TV supporting player Ed Helms.  While he was at […]

In 2005, Ray Ozzie shocked Microsoft when he authored the revolutionary internal memo, The Internet Services Disruption.  In that memo, among other things, Ozzie went into great detail about the importance of the cloud in computing, and how Microsoft’s core businesses were being impacted by the Internet and how, indeed, they might be killed by […]

To a lot of people, the drug problem in Mexico is only getting worse.  Through either police intimidation, police incompetence, police corruption, or just general cleverness on the part of drug dealers, it seems as though the drug trade will never end in Mexico; however, Mexican police do occasionally have success stories to crow about.  […]

I love Mexican food.  Granted, I don’t like real Mexican food, because I don’t like cheese, but I do love things that are incredibly spicy and oniony, so I like kind-of Mexican food.  Tamales are my go-to food, but I’m learning to like enchiladas too.  However, I don’t think I’d want to try the world-record […]

The more famous Justin Bieber gets, the more I think it’s starting to bother him.  Generally, he does a good job of seeming laid back, but when you cross him, God help you.  If he doesn’t send his army of hackers after you, then he’ll do the job himself, allegedly.  At a laser tag center […]

It was a thunderous special teams collision.  Rutgers Scarlet Knight Eric LeGrand, a 6’2, 275-pound defensive tackle collided head-on with Army Black Knight Malcolm Brown, a 5’11, 180-pound slotback.  Both players were sent tumbling to the ground.  Only one of them got up.  Malcolm Brown was fine; Eric LeGrand was paralyzed from the neck down. […]

Multiculturalism is a long-held sticking point for certain elements of every population in the world.  No matter what country, there’ll be someone that says that immigrants need to learn how to be like us, not like how they were in their old country.  That’s why the public school system was founded, and that turned out […]

The Simpsons are America’s ambassadors to the world.  Overweight, dumb, violent, well-meaning, endearing… they’re America, in a nutshell, a country with little shame and much power that acts in what it perceives as the best interests of those around them.  However, they’re not the best role models in the world, unless you’re talking to the […]

I went to a lovely wedding over the weekend.  The bride and groom were wonderful, the location was great, and the ceremony was beautiful, but what every person remembers about every wedding is the food.  When it comes to a wedding, that’s the most important thing for the potential bride and groom to remember.  In […]

Sixty years ago, the Swiss engineer Carl Eduard Gruner sketched out plans for what was then an impossible feat:  a tunnel through the famous Swiss Alps connecting his home town of Basel with the southern city of Chiasso.  At the time, it was a crazy pipe dream.  Now, it has become a reality.  The Gotthard […]

Even given the increasingly polemic rhetoric of politics, the latest anti-Obama billboard to sprout up is pushing the boundaries of good taste.  It’s also accomplished the rare feat in that it has both the Republican and Democratic parties united in universal disapproval of the billboard, its message, and it’s caricatured drawings of the President.  The billboard in Grand […]

The Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals in Hillsboro, Oregon, is apparently a popular target for criminals.  The museum has already been robbed once, and a second robbery was just foiled by a very smart police dog.  Gregory Liascos was completely camouflaged by a ghillie suit (a suit designed to look like ground and […]