Navigation » Unusual Stuff | Videos | Images | Monthly Archives

In tough economic times, it’s never easy to negotiate a new contract.  Companies are looking to tighten their belts, while employees are looking to keep from tightening their personal belts.  That’s even the case with Verizon Wireless.  The nation’s largest wireless carrier, Verizon made $6 billion dollars last year, yet the company is still trying […]

  As you were growing up, how many times did your mother tell you to “Stop playing with your food!”? I know I heard that phrase more than once. But what if your food sort of plays with you? A lot of people are squeamish about eating sushi and a delicacy served in Japan won’t […]

      It seemed like the NFL lock-out would never end, and really, I was beginning to think it wouldn’t.  Despite the fact that the NFL and NFLPA agreed to a CBA way back in July, nothing has actually happened aside from the players returning to training camp and signing union cards.  Well, fret […]

Yesterday was a bad day for those of us who have retirement money tied up in the stock market.  Me, for example.  I had a terrible day yesterday, and I shudder to think just how much money I lost yesterday due to the stock market taking an abrupt, scary nose-dive.  The Dow Jones industrial average, […]

As happens too often in this day and age, an intended good deed leads to headaches and troubles. An 11-year-old Virginia animal lover stepped in to save a bird from turning into a cat snack in her father’s backyard. The rescued feathered friend turned out to be a baby woodpecker, not a fortune-telling dove. Skylar […]

There aren’t many people who can go from starring on the football field to starring in movies, on television, and in commercials, but Bubba Smith was a rarity in every field he was involved in.  As a Spartan at Michigan State, the 6’8 defensive lineman from Beaumont, Texas, inspired the fans to chant “Kill Bubba […]

There comes a time in a comic book’s life when you kind of… run out of stories to tell.  For example, Brian Michael Bendis has been writing Ultimate Spider-Man since the title debuted in 2000, and he’s got 160 or so issues under his belt of that title alone.  Surely he’s got to be a […]

I’ll avoid the obvious jokes about Samuel L. Jackson’s movie Snakes on A Plane, but for a family from the Memphis, Tennessee area a drive turned into an adventure worthy of an episode on Animal Planet. Cruising down the road at 65 mph, Rachel and Tony Fisher and their three children were surprised by an […]

It’s one of the most dramatic comeback stories ever.  Once upon a time, no one thought Representative Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat from Arizona, would ever open her eyes again.  Gabrielle opened her eyes.  They thought she’d never be able to leave the hospital.  Giffords walked out of rehab.  Now, Rep. Giffords has returned to the […]

No one ever went broke underestimating the public, and as the old saying goes, Mitch Mortaza probably isn’t going broke.  Mortaza is the founder of what is probably the best idea ever.  Capitalizing on the success of the Lingerie Football League, Mortaza started the Lingerie Basketball League in 2009; since then, lingerie basketball has spread […]

Activision bought a gold mine when it bought up Blizzard.  Not just any old goldmine, but a working goldmine.  Yes, Activision had hits like Guitar Hero and whatnot in their lineup, but none of those things are as world-shakingly popular as Blizzard’s properties:  Warcraft, Starcraft, and Diablo.  After World of Warcraft got its expansion, and […]