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During last night’s Maui Invitational game between my beloved Kentucky Wildcats and the Washington Huskies, there was a lot of rocking and rolling.  I’m not talking about the hyper fans in Lahaina Civic Center, though they did get raucous at times.  I’m talking about actual rocking and rolling, in the form of an earthquake.  During […]

The emergency response system known as 911 has remained essentially the same since 1968, when it became the national emergency response number.  You pick up the phone, call and talk to a dispatcher, and help is on the way.  While that’s still useful, it’s not quite as relevant for the modern world.  After all, we […]

As a drug researcher who works with animals, UCLA professor David Jentsch is used to being harassed by animal welfare folks.  After all, he lives in California, which is animal welfare nut central, so I’m sure he’s been experiencing this for a long time now.  However, ALF and affiliated protest groups are really turning up […]

It’s one of the most horrifying incidents to ever occur in one of the biggest cities in the world.  In an old brownstone apartment in the Prospect Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, a bit-part actor named Michael Brea used a stainless steel sword to butcher his 55-year-old mother, Yannick Brea, in what appears to […]

The plan is in place.  Everyone seems fed up with the TSA and the humiliating choice between naked scanners or crotch-fondling, so why not do something about it?  Tomorrow, Wednesday the 24th, is the biggest traveling day of the entire year, since it’s the day before Thanksgiving.  More people travel on this Wednesday than they […]

If you’re planning Thanksgiving this week, or you’re looking for an idea to bring something that’ll knock everyone’s socks off, then look no further than Google.  I’m not talking about a Google search, either; I’m talking about Google’s Thanksgiving Doodle.  If you click through on Google’s Thanksgiving Doodle, you’ll find a collection of recipes from […]

These are some of the highest-trained agents in the employment of the United States Government.  They’re the agents of the Department of Energy’s Office of Secure Transportation (OST), and they are empowered to transport nuclear materials within the United States.  Their security record is very good where it counts:  there have been no fatal accidents […]

Imagine a world in which Buffy The Vampire Slayer is not completely controlled by Joss Whedon.  Well, that world is our current world, and soon, Buffy will be returning to the big screen without creator Whedon or any of the characters made famous by the television series.  Whit Anderson, a 29-year-old actor, writer, and Buffy […]

When Englishman Nigel Page won a $90 million dollar jackpot from the Euromillions lottery, he knew he was set for life.  However, his celebration with current partner Justine Laycock has been dampened a bit by, guess who?  Page’s ex-wife.  Ten years ago, Page’s ex-wife Wendy cheated on him with a co-worker and then left him, […]

During the annual Hoguk military exercises, tensions between North and South Korea are always high.  Seoul takes to the waters of the Yellow Sea off of the island of Yeonpyeong for military drills and naval exercises, which Pyongyang always bristles at.  However, usually it doesn’t involve trading artillery fire, but this year it did.  North […]

For the last 11 years, Dave Talley has been living on the fringes of society as a homeless man in Tempe, Arizona.  He hasn’t had a drivers license since 1999, and has been a recovering alcoholic since 2003, but it’s that newfound sense of responsibility and sobriety that acted when he found $3300 in cash […]

It’s strange, but one of humanity’s greatest inventions is our modern system of waste disposal.  Before the toilet and the sewage system were conceived, you just squatted over a hole in the ground or punched in the side of a castle that emptied out in to a cistern.  Well, these days, most of us have […]

I don’t know anything about Amber Portwood and Gary Shirley, but I know enough about the pair from my few exposures to MTV’s hit reality show Teen Moms to know that Amber is the kind of person who should not be raising a child, or even having children.  Long story short, she’s a crazy, violent, […]

For the first time, astronomers have discovered a planet from outside of the Milky Way galaxy.  Some 2200 light years from Earth, scientists from the European Southern Observatory have discovered a planet they’ve named HIP 13044b, which entered the Milky Way from a group of planets and galaxies called the Helmi stream.  This is the […]