My cousin goes skiing all the time; meanwhile, I’ve never been skiing. It’s not just because I have the grace and balance of a sloth with an inner ear infection, but because skiing is expensive and the last thing I need is another costly hobby. Still, skiing is very popular and a lot of folks […]
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Disneyland Sells Out
Posted 12/29/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganThere’s a weird thing happening in the happiest place on Earth. If you’re looking to visit Disneyland or Disney California Adventure in Anaheim, California, then you’d better get there early. During the first two days of the week this week, tickets have been hard to come by. Disneyland and Disney California Adventure tickets were sold […]
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Billy The Kid Pardon Pending?
Posted 12/29/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganOne of the thorniest issues of Billy The Kid is the promise of his pardon. In 1879, Billy the Kid offered testimony in a murder case in exchange for a pardon for all charges against him in New Mexico. Billy the Kid, AKA William Bonney and Henry McCarty, testified, but New Mexico territorial governor Lew […]
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Rebel Rescue: Dog Stuck With His Head In A Wall
Posted 12/29/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganOh animals. Will you never learn not to put your respective heads in holes in walls? A hedgehog was stuck in a wall and had to be rescued. Rebel, an 8-month-old German Shepherd, had to be rescued after getting his head stuck in a hole in a wall in Desert Hot Springs, California. Well, I […]
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Chupacabra Shot And Killed In Kentucky
Posted 12/29/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganHas a farmer from Kentucky done something next to impossible? Mark Cothren thinks so, and he’s sent off DNA samples to get the proof. Mark Cothren, a farmer from rural Lebanon Junction, Kentucky, believes that he has shot and killed a mythical chupacabra. The chupacabra, Spanish for goat sucker, is a cryptid animal that has […]
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Pro Bowl 2011 Rosters Announced
Posted 12/29/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganWith the conclusion of the unexpected Tuesday Night football game between the Minnesota Vikings and Philadelphia Eagles, that concludes the NFL regular season for 2011. That means it’s time to select the top NFL players for 2011. The line-ups are already set for the 2011 Pro Bowl. Tom Brady and Michael Vick were named as […]
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Giant TV Too Big For Getaway Lexus, Abandoned By Thieves
Posted 12/28/2010 12:00 pm by Ron HoganHere’s a tip, both for you home owners and you would-be criminals. If you’re a home-owner looking to keep his TV around awhile in spite of robberies, then I suggest you buy the biggest television you can afford. If you’re a criminal, then I suggest getting a van or pickup truck for your getaway vehicle […]
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Kindle Becomes Amazon’s Best-Selling Product Of All Time
Posted 12/28/2010 11:30 am by Ron HoganSince its release, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has been Amazon’s best-selling product of all time. Harry Potter is an owl-endangering phenomenon, no doubt, and it’s reasonable that Amazon would sell so many copies considering Amazon’s ease of ordering and ability to preorder things well before their release date. However, Harry Potter has been […]
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Tokyo’s “Business Hotel For The Dead”
Posted 12/28/2010 11:00 am by Ron HoganOne of the hardest things I remember in the wake of my grandmother’s funeral was watching her two children, my father and aunt, make decisions about the funeral. It’s even worse when it’s an unexpected demise. Fortunately, a company in Tokyo, Japan, has a plan to help out bereaved families. The LISS System, a non-profit […]
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National Film Registry Adds Airplane!, Empire Strikes Back, Others
Posted 12/28/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganWhile at the grocery store the other day, I noticed something on one of those year-end memorial editions of People Magazine that I hadn’t considered. Three of the stars of the 1980 classic comedy Airplane! passed away in 2010. Peter Graves, Barbara Billingsley, and Leslie Nielsen all died this year. As such, it’s kind of […]
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Rare Baroque Instrument Stolen From Trumpeter’s Car
Posted 12/28/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganNathaniel Mayfield is living proof that an education doesn’t make you smart. Mayfield is a professional classical musician who makes his living traveling the world and playing the baroque trumpet (also called the natural trumpet or clarino trumpet), a rare musical instrument twice as long as a modern trumpet and featuring no valves that takes […]
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Gas Prices Highest Since October 2008
Posted 12/28/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganHave you been to the gas pump lately? If you haven’t, I can tell you from personal experience that it’s not good out there. In fact, according to the Energy Department, gas prices have topped $3 per gallon; gas prices are the highest they have been since October 2008. In the last week, gas prices […]
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Drug Gang Kidnaps Guadalupe’s Last Cop
Posted 12/28/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganYou have to be brave to stand up to Mexico’s border area drug gangs. They’ve got all the money, power, and weapons they could possibly want; how could Mexico’s beleaguered police forces stand up to that? Well, long story short, they can’t. In the wake of an entire town’s police force quitting after their new […]
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Husband Reading Adulterous Wife’s Email Charged With Felony
Posted 12/28/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganLeon Walker is just suffering bad news after bad news these days. Walker, of Rochester Hills, Michigan, found out via his wife’s email account that she was having an affair with her second husband. Infidelity is bad; marriages have ended over less. Things went from bad to worse when the police got involved. Leon Walker […]
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Neanderthals Cooked And Ate Meat And Veggies
Posted 12/28/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganYou can find out a lot about a person’s life by studying their teeth. Be they living or dead, teeth can tell us a great deal about people, their habits, their nutrition, and their general state of health. When it comes to Neanderthals, an examination of the teeth of three Neanderthal bodies recovered in Iraq’s […]
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Bombay Stock Exchange Launches Islamic Stock Index
Posted 12/28/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganIndia is one of the largest and most dynamic countries on the face of the earth. With a population in the billions and containing hundreds of different spoken languages, it’s not hard to imagine how difficult it must be to reach out to everyone. Given the amounts of devout Muslims in the nation, it’s not […]
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Elton John Is A Father
Posted 12/28/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganNatalie Portman isn’t the only Hollywood power broker to be celebrating an addition to the family. Elton John is also in a celebratory mood, thanks to some good news he and long-time partner David Furnish received. The couple’s first child was born via surrogate mother in California. Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, Elton John and David […]
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Natalie Portman: Engaged And Pregnant
Posted 12/28/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganNatalie Portman is having a pretty good year. The actress’s latest movie, Black Swan, is a brilliant psychological thriller and it features an incredible performance by Portman as an obsessive ballet dancer driven to perfection at all costs. She’s been nominated for a Golden Globe and looks to be in line for a shot at an Oscar […]
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Daniel Balsam, Anti-Spam Crusader
Posted 12/27/2010 12:00 pm by Ron HoganEvery day, 200 billion spam email messages (not Spam the food) are mailed out. Spam accounts for 90 percent of all emails sent, according to Cisco Systems, the company whose products power the Internet. Daniel Balsam was a marketer in San Francisco 8 years ago when he got one spam message too many and snapped. […]
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Did Google Force Logitech To Shelve The Revue?
Posted 12/27/2010 11:30 am by Ron HoganAre there problems between Google and its technology partners when it comes to Google TV? A lot of people got something Google TV-related under the tree this year, including a whole lot of the Logitech Revue thanks to Logitech’s brilliant Kevin Bacon ad. However, are there problems with Google TV? The rumor is that Google […]
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Bottled Civil War Message Opened And Decoded
Posted 12/27/2010 11:00 am by Ron HoganWhen you open an old bottle, you never really know what you’re going to find. Maybe it’ll be champagne. Maybe it’ll be a frog. A sealed glass bottle sat on the shelves of the Museum of the Confederacy since it was donated in 1896. It contained the following: a piece of paper, white thread, and a .32 […]
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Stephen Baldwin Sues Kevin Costner
Posted 12/27/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganIf you want to hear something weird from the legal system, look no further. I’m not sure how I could actually top this one, even if I wanted to. Stephen Baldwin and a friend named Spyridon Contogouris are suing Kevin Costner over shares the two owed in Costner’s company CINC (Costner In Nevada Corporation). As […]
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74-Year-Old Man Lost For Three Days On The Freeway
Posted 12/27/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganAll 74-year-old Mohammed Bellazrak wanted to do was to get from his home in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, to the Gatwick Airport in London. The trip to the airport on December 23 went flawlessly, and his wife made her flight. The trip home was not quite as easy. Mohammed Bellazrak was stranded on the M4 for three […]
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Utah’s State Flag Is Wrong
Posted 12/27/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganIn 1922, a woman named Dolly McMonegal did a job for the state in which she lived, the state of Utah. They needed a state flag, and she was a talented seamstress. Dolly did a state flag for Utah, and for the last 88 years, that’s been the flag for the state of Utah. Unfortunately, […]
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Christmas Day Launch Turns Explosive For Indian Space Program
Posted 12/27/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganWhen you read about private companies launching spacecraft, it makes me think that, these days, it’s pretty easy to get something into space. After all, if some company can do it, why can’t a country do it? Especially a country the size of India, with that level of technical prowess and that amount of money […]
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Jon Stewart Wins 9/11 Responders Health Care
Posted 12/27/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganIt goes without saying that the world has changed quite a bit since the old days. In years before, there was no way that Jon Stewart would become a figure on the world stage as something other than just a stand-up comic and host of a funny show. These days, Jon Stewart is one of […]
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R&B Trailblazer Teena Marie Dead At 54
Posted 12/27/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganTeena Marie was nothing if not a fighter. On her first release, her picture wasn’t on the cover of her album because her bosses at Motown believed that black audiences wouldn’t buy a record from a white singer. However, three years and one collaboration with Rick James later, and Teena Marie was a household name. […]
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Carolina Panthers Win The NFL Draft Sweepstakes
Posted 12/27/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganThere were quite a few things decided this weekend in the National Football League. For one, the San Francisco 49ers were officially removed from playoff contention. In more important news, the race to the bottom to claim the top pick of the NFL draft has been decided. After losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers by a […]
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Air Travel Grinds To A Halt; East Coast Smothered By Blizzard
Posted 12/27/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganThe weather outside is frightful, and hopefully you have a fire that’s so delightful. If you’re on the Eastern seaboard of the United States, you know firsthand just how frightful the weather can be, because you’re right in the middle of a serious weather event. The East Coast of the United States is being attacked […]
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Hugh Hefner To Wed Miss December 2009 Crystal Harris
Posted 12/27/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganCrystal Harris, Playboy Playmate and the former Miss December for 2009, is getting her second December present in a row from boyfriend and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. The first, of course, was the title of Miss December 2009. The second is a year later. Hugh Hefner has proposed to girlfriend and Playmate Crystal Harris. This […]
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