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It’s that time of year again.  For 55 years, the good folks at the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, have been following Santa Claus on his journey around the world.  This year will be no different, except that now Santa will have even more followers trailing his every move via satellite.  NORAD’s Santa […]

Norway has an unusual problem, and that problem is reindeer.  According to the International Center for Reindeer Husbandry, Norway is home to 200,000 of the massive horned beasts, and every year 500 of them are killed in collisions with motorists in the Arctic regions of Norway, where the sun doesn’t rise for six months out […]

Andrew Thomas Gallo is only 23 years old, and he may be spending the rest of his life in prison.  He’s the lucky one.  Gallo was over twice the legal limit for drunk driving, speeding, on probation for a previous drunk-driving offense, and driving illegally on a suspended license when he ran a red light […]

I must confess a fascination with cavemen.  Not the fictional type, but the actual type.  Human-like ancestors that may or may not have had a role in shaping humanity with their genetic peculiarities?  That stuff fascinates me, even if I’m not sure finding a few bones or teeth is proof of an entire species of […]

You’re looking to make a phone call, say to a friend in England from your home base in the US.  You don’t pick up the phone, do you?  Heavens no!  The phone is for animals!  If you’re smart, you simply fire up Skype and have them do likewise, then talk to your heart’s content.  Unfortunately, […]

Recently, outgoing Florida governor Charlie Crist has seen fit to use his power of governmental pardon to give the late Jim Morrison a get-out-of-jail-free card.  Imagine it as a sort-of “sorry about having you arrested and sentenced to jail” present, forty years too late.  While Doors fans like myself are pleased, The Doors themselves are […]

There are a whole lot of e-readers out there to choose from, and the e-reader is going to be the hot gift for the holiday season yet again.  However, how do you pick one?  Between dedicated e-readers like the Kindle and Nook or do-it-all devices like the iPad and Galaxy Tab, there’s an awful lot […]

Sometimes, the reason for an incident isn’t necessary.  Sometimes, the reason doesn’t really matter, because the whys aren’t nearly as interesting as what actually happens.  That might be the case for Christopher Nathan Davenport, a 23-year-old man from Murfreesboro, Tennessee.  On Friday, sheriff’s deputies tried to arrest Davenport for driving his tractor recklessly and tearing […]

Some dogs, like Ramona Wegemann’s Rhodesian Ridgeback Etana, are used to giving birth to large litters of puppies.  Etana’s first pregnancy yielded eight puppies.  However, no one was prepared for what happened with Etana’s second pregnancy.  After a staggering 26 hours of labor, Etana the Rhodesian Ridgeback gave birth to a litter of 17 puppies, […]

When Stephen Griffiths was arraigned by Leeds Crown Court for three murders he committed in Bradford, he didn’t announce his name as Stephen Griffiths, he announced himself as Crossbow Cannibal.  The Crossbow Cannibal is what the media has dubbed Griffiths for killing three women and eating parts of them in a brutal and shocking serial […]

Things have gone from bad to worse in California.  Only last month, the state was suffering from drought conditions.  Now, they’re suffering from too much of a good thing.  A yearly storm phenomenon known as the Pineapple Express has arrived, and rather than gracing California with some much-needed rain, it has decided to brutalize the […]

The government of New Zealand has been collection information for 45 years.  Drawings, eye-witness reports, video tapes, and even writing samples supposedly collected from and about UFOs, flying saucers, aliens, and what-have-you.  Rather than destroying their UFO documents like Great Britain, New Zealand has thrown open the record books and released thousands of documents related […]

Once Tom Coburn became a fixture in the Senate, the Republican from Oklahoma has dedicated himself to a singular cause:  fighting government waste.  To that extend, Coburn has been doing his best to name and shame those government projects which he sees to be the height of excess in his annual Wastebook.  This year’s round-up of wasteful […]

For the better part of a month, I’ve been sick.  I’ve just been fighting off one ailment after another.  From a 3-day flu to a stomach virus to a strained back and a sinus infection, I’ve not been healthy for longer than a week for a couple of months.  To fight off these ailments, I’ve […]

Look around your town.  How do the streets look?  Not good, right?  Lots of pot holes and cracks and stuff?  Well, it’ll probably end up getting worse.  According to economists, 100 US cities are threatened by bankruptcy, thanks to $2 TRILLION dollars in debt. “Next to housing this is the single most important issue in […]