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It’s become the rallying cry of an entire nation.  With one sentence, software engineer John Tyner has gone from unknown man to international sensation.  When Tyner told Transportation Security Administration agents, “If you touch my junk, I’ll have you arrested,” he sparked a viral video sensation and a national outcry against improved security screenings at [...]

Here’s some news you can’t refudiate.  No matter how much you like or dislike Sarah Palin, there’s no way around the fact that whatever she says immediately becomes very talked about.  Palin’s grammatical missteps are well known, as are her various quirks and oddities as a public speaker, but she’s incredibly influential.  That’s why refudiate [...]

For those in the know, Girl Talk isn’t simply a great musical mash-up artist, but an artist in his own right.  Girl Talk, the alias of Gregg Gillis, takes tunes we all know and love, from Missy Elliot to Black Sabbath to the Doobie Brothers and Li’l Wayne and mashes them up, taking samples lasting [...]

What’s a good way to earn yourself jail time?  Well, if you’re Joshua Simon Ashby, a 20-year-old New Zealander, here’s what you do.  You date a girl on and off for about five months, then when she’s finally through with you, you completely flip out.  You damage two of her dresses, you threaten to kill [...]

Just imagine a combination of Ted Kennedy and Britney Spears.  Wait, I’m sorry.  That’s cruel of me.  Imagine of one of the lesser-known Kardashians ran for California state assembly and ran campaign ads that touted her bikini-clad assets and not her political positions, beliefs, or qualifications.  Well, that’s the case in Poland, where recording artist [...]

It must be hard to be an over-40 sex symbol.  For years, Pamela Anderson was one of the most beautiful and famous women in the world.  As lifeguard CJ Parker, 43-year-old Anderson went from little-known Playboy Playmate to international megastar in the blink of an eye.  Then, Baywatch ended its legendary run, and Anderson’s star [...]

We all need a catalyst to lose weight when we realize we’re losing the battle of the bulge.  In my case, it was a health scare for my father which made me decide to straighten up and start living a little better.  In the case of Bob Mewse, a 56-year-old man from Bristol, England, it [...]

It was a game Giants fans would like to forget marred by moments that the staff at the New Meadowlands Stadium would also like to forget.  Last night, the Dallas Cowboys under new coach Jason Garrett put a hurting on Tom Coughlin’s New York Giants squad 33-20.  While the game itself was fine, during the [...]

It’s a shameful thing to report, especially since the news broke on Veterans Day, but a student at a California middle school has been told that he is no longer allowed to fly and display the American flag on his bicycle while at school.  Cody Alicea, a 13-year-old at Denair Middle School, has been told [...]

When cleaning out their deceased parents’ attic, a brother and sister from the town of Pinner in Middlesex, England, found a blue and white Chinese vase.  The pair set it to one side while they went about sorting their parents’ stuff, then took it to Bainbridges auction house in nearby Ruislip for appraisal.  Pleasantly surprised [...]

It’s the oldest trick on the book, literally.  In 980, Persian physicians detailed how to use maggots to clean infected wounds.  However, it wasn’t until recently that maggot therapy has taken off and gained greater acceptance by modern medicine.  Maggots, leeches, and intestinal parasites might sound like medical problems, but they’re actually medical solutions as [...]

Really, it’s a natural tie-in.  Before the Hummer took its place, the go-to vehicle for the whole of the United States military was the versatile, light-weight, hard-to-kill Jeep.  That’s why the Jeep was a natural choice to team up with Call of Duty: Black Ops and collaborate on a special edition version of the Jeep [...]

There were nearly 4500 people who were stranded when the Carnival Cruises ship Carnival Splendor blew out its engines and completely lost power off the coast of San Diego, California.  The ship was one day into a seven-day pleasure cruise along the coast of California to various spots in beautiful, sunny Mexico.  Unfortunately, the ship [...]

The last Call of Duty video game, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, was incredibly successful.  Its first day of sales netted parent company Activision-Blizzard a staggering $310 million dollars in sales on the strength of 4.7 million sold copies in the US and UK.  That’s child’s play.  The latest game in the Activision franchise, [...]