With all the turmoil surrounding the 2012 Academy Awards, there’s no doubt that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was feeling a little uneasy. After all, it’s not often you follow a historically bad telecast with so much drama, losing the producer and star in less than a week. So, the Academy turned […]
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MLB Catcher Wilson Ramos Kidnapped In Venezeula
Posted 11/10/2011 9:00 am by Stephanie SturgisThere’s big news coming out of Venezuela and this time it isn’t about the crowning of Ivian Sarcos as the new Miss World. Normally when the authorities are involved with a Major League Baseball players, the crime usually pertains to performance-enhancing drugs or assaults of the domestic or drunken bar variety. However MLB crime news […]
Read »The World’s Largest Crocodile
Posted 11/10/2011 8:30 am by Ron HoganThe tiny town of Bundawan isn’t exactly a tourist mecca for the Philippines, but they’re doing their best to develop attractions. The first thing on Bunawan’s list of things to see? A 6.2 meter (20 foot) long, 1-ton crocodile that is believed to be the largest crocodile in the world. The world’s largest crocodile was […]
Read »“Family Circus” Creator Bil Keane Dead At 89
Posted 11/10/2011 8:00 am by Ron HoganIt’s one of the longest running comics on the pages, and it shows no signs of slowing down, even without the man behind the magic. Bil Keane, creator of The Family Circus, has passed away at age 89. Keane died of congestive heart failure. I have no doubt that Family Circus will run a heart-warming, […]
Read »Brett Ratner And Eddie Murphy Quit Oscars
Posted 11/10/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganYesterday, Brett Ratner was removed from the 2012 Academy Awards after some homophobic comments. Not long after that, Oscars host Eddie Murphy also chose to step aside, showing his support for Ratner in the process. Fortunately, Brian Grazer has stepped in as the producer of the Oscars, joining co-producer and director Don Mischer, but there’s still […]
Read »Joe Paterno Fired, Effective Immediately
Posted 11/10/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganLong-time Nittany Lions head coach Joe Paterno has been fired by Penn State, effective immediately. The football program whose motto is “Success With Honor” has been very successful, but not terribly honorable over the past decade or so, and the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal has cost Joe Paterno his job. Tom Bradley, the team’s […]
Read »The Christmas Tree Tax
Posted 11/10/2011 6:30 am by Ron Hogan“The Incredible Edible Egg”; ” Beef, It’s What’s For Dinner”; “Got Milk?”; these are some of the best marketing campaigns in history. Collectively, they’ve done wonders for America’s consumption of animal products, and they’ve all got one thing in common. They’re the collective product of their respective farming organization. Now, a new organization wants to […]
Read »Grave Robber Uses Corpses To Make Life-Sized Dolls
Posted 11/10/2011 6:00 am by Stephanie SturgisFor some people clowns are the creepiest thing in the world. For others dolls can cause hysteria. The fear of dolls is known as pediophobia. For those doll-fearing folks, a house in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia would create nightmares worthy of lasting a lifetime. It seems Anatoly Moskvin has been arrested for pulling corpses from […]
Read »Joe Paterno: Final Season At Penn State?
Posted 11/09/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganThe Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal may put an end to a legend. The Penn State Board of Trustees is currently said to be planning to oust legendary coach Joe Paterno at the end of this season over his role in covering up Sandusky’s rape of children. Penn State went 45 years without any […]
Read »“19 Kids And Counting” To Get New Title
Posted 11/09/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganYou just can’t stop those breedin’ Duggars. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, stars of the reality television show “19 Kids and Counting” on TLC, are both way too old to be having any more children. Considering the fact the Duggars just had a baby girl named Josie Brooklyn in December 2009, they should still have […]
Read »Mississippi Personhood Amendment Fails
Posted 11/09/2011 6:30 am by Ron HoganLast night, people around the country went to the polls. Why they did it on the second Tuesday in November rather than the first Tuesday of November I’ll never know, but we did it anyway. While people in my home state of Kentucky were voting on governor and other state offices, people in Mississippi were […]
Read »Good Samaritan’s Life Saved Minutes After Good Deed
Posted 11/09/2011 6:00 am by Stephanie SturgisWhat goes around, comes around is an old saying that refers to karmic payback. Do bad things and bad things will happen to you. Do good things and you will be rewarded in the long term. Unless you’re Citizen Superhero Phoenix Jones, that is. Good Samaritan Victor Giesbrecht didn’t have to wait too long for […]
Read »NASA Nabs Grandma In Moon Rock Sting At Denny’s
Posted 11/08/2011 8:41 am by Stephanie SturgisMost of the time when we think of police stings, we think of some major drug bust that nets millions of dollars in narcotics and takes an evil drug lord off the streets. But a sting held at a Denny’s restaurant in Lake Elsinore, California brought in a rogue grandmother trying to sell a moon […]
Read »Look For Lindsay Lohan’s Centerfold In January/February 2012
Posted 11/08/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganLindsay Lohan has been a very busy girl lately. When not going back to jail due to parole violations, she’s been posing for Playboy Magazine. As it turns out, the shoot has been pretty quick to do, and Lohan’s Playboy debut will be here quicker than expected. Lindsay Lohan’s Playboy shoot will be in the […]
Read »Smokin’ Joe Frazier Passes Away
Posted 11/08/2011 6:30 am by Ron HoganOnce upon a time, there was no sport more glamorous, more tough, and more captivating than the heavyweight division of professional boxing. These days, boxing is kind of a joke, but when you wanted to see the best of the best in the old days, you looked to the heavyweights, and Joe Frazier was one […]
Read »Barnes and Noble Launches Upgraded Nook Tablet
Posted 11/08/2011 6:00 am by Ron HoganThe game of “Anything you can do, I can do better” continues for the technology sector. Not long ago, Amazon unveiled the Kindle Fire, an upgraded, tablet version of their famous ebook reader which kick-started the ebook industry. Barnes and Noble, who followed the first generation Kindle with the Nook ereader, has also taken the […]
Read »Daddy Depression Rubs Off On Children
Posted 11/07/2011 8:00 am by Ron HoganIs it nature, or is it nurture? Or, does it really matter? When it comes to the mental health of children, parents assume quite a bit of responsibility. Most of the time, that burden falls squarely on the mother (at least according to Freudians). As it turns out, fathers have more of a role in […]
Read »Orphan Turned Wannabe Nun Turned Miss World
Posted 11/07/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganOrphaned at 8 years old, Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares spent the next five years of her life in a convent with other orphans, where she trained to become a nun. However, she didn’t end up there. Colmenares won Miss Venezula and now at age 22, Miss Venezuela Ivian Sarcos has become Miss World after winning […]
Read »Former Penn State Assistant Coach Faces Molestation Charges
Posted 11/07/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganFor most of Joe Paterno’s 46 year reign as head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions, Penn State has been the cleanest, most upstanding program in college athletics, let alone college football or the Big Ten. Under JoePa’s grandfatherly gaze, Penn State has run a clean ship, avoiding NCAA pitfalls and following all the […]
Read »Course Record Set At NYC Marathon
Posted 11/07/2011 6:30 am by Ron HoganThe New York Marathon is a weird hybrid event. You’ve got people who are there because they’re professional distance runners vying for the $200,000 top prize, and you’ve also got fools who show up and run in outlandish costumes. This year, the professionals were the main attraction. In the lack of human interest stories like […]
Read »The Devil Found In Church Fresco
Posted 11/07/2011 6:00 am by Ron HoganThey say the devil is in the details, but they generally don’t mean that literally. In the case of a fresco painted by Italian artist Giotto in the 13th Century, the devil literally is in the details. Historians have discovered a devil face depicted in the clouds in a fresco depicting the life of St. […]
Read »John Brown University’s Toilet Paper Tradition
Posted 11/06/2011 8:18 am by Stephanie SturgisWith the St. Louis Cardinals closing out the 2011 baseball season with their World Series win, basketball fans are getting geared up to see their teams take over the spotlight. While the NBA is stuck in a lockout during labor negotiations between the owners and players and games are being cancelled, college hoop fans are […]
Read »TV Curmudgeon Andy Rooney Dies
Posted 11/05/2011 11:43 am by Stephanie SturgisTelevision commentator Andy Rooney passed away on Friday at the age of 92 according to a CBS News release. For decades Sunday night television included a short segment with Rooney, who was the often grumpy punctuation at the end of every episode of CBS mainstay 60 Minutes. With a lot less fanfare than Oprah’s TV […]
Read »Family Claims Ghosts Have Sex In Their Home
Posted 11/05/2011 10:23 am by Stephanie SturgisHalloween may be over but a family in Ohio says there are still plenty of ghosts around. And these ghosts aren’t rattling chains and acting ghoulish. Instead the homeowner says a photo her granddaughter snapped in the living room unexpectedly shows the not-so-holy ghostly couple in the act of making whoopie. Euclid, Ohio resident Dianne […]
Read »Dippin’ Dots Files For Bankruptcy
Posted 11/05/2011 9:00 am by Ron HoganWell, I guess the future never came. If you’ve ever been to a mall anywhere in America, you know Dippin’ Dots. They’re the little cart set up near the food court or around some other eateries, and they sell something called “The Frozen Treat of the Future.” I’ve never seen anyone eating Dippin’ Dots. Even […]
Read »Groupon’s IPO Value: $20 A Share
Posted 11/04/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganThe first initial public offering of Groupon stock was expected to be somewhere between $16 and $18 dollars, but it turns out that deal was a bit low. Groupon’s actual IPO was $20 a share, a price increase for the discount website that will give Groupon a staggering $12.76 billion dollar valuation on the open market […]
Read »GWAR Guitarist Found Dead On Tour Bus
Posted 11/04/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganWhen you’re in a band that performs bloody mock executions on stage while wearing massive, elaborate costumes and playing theatrical heavy metal, you’re no stranger to seeing terrible things happen around you, but what happens when the terrible thing happens off-stage? Namely, a tragedy in the tour bus. How do you handle that? GWAR is […]
Read »Google Does A Barrel Roll
Posted 11/04/2011 6:30 am by Ron HoganGo to Google.com. In the search box, type in the phrase “do a barrel roll.” I’ll wait. If you’re using a modern browser, or the most recent updated version of a browser, your world should have turned upside down. Google has built in a fun Easter egg, “do a barrel roll.” What’s it for? Well, it’s […]
Read »Modern Warfare 3 Tournaments At Walmart
Posted 11/04/2011 6:00 am by Ron HoganIf you didn’t get your hands on one of the accidentally released early copies of Modern Warfare 3 that were sold at Kmart, then you’re going to have to wait a little while longer to start playing the latest game in Infinity Ward’s massively popular shooter. However, there’s still a chance to get an early […]
Read »One Powerball Ticket Wins $245 Million
Posted 11/03/2011 8:00 am by Ron HoganDid you buy a Powerball ticket for last night’s drawing? Did you buy it in Connecticut? Did you pick the numbers 12-14-34-39-46 with the Powerball 36? If that’s you, then congratulations! You just won $245 million dollars. One winning Powerball ticket was sold in Connecticut, netting some lucky person $245 million dollars in cash. Hopefully they […]
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