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When it comes to politics, things can get messy when fans get tangled up with celebrities or governmental agencies.  Fortunately for American Idol champ and recording star Kelly Clarkson, Ron Paul fans are the supportive type, not the destructive type.  On Twitter, Kelly Clarkson Tweeted her support for dark horse Republican candidate Ron Paul for […]

If you’re like most of America, you have your cellular phone via Verizon Wireless.  They’re the largest cellular phone provider in the US, and as such, they’re pretty popular.  Well, if you need to settle up your $18,000 or $22,000 phone bill, then be prepared to pay a little extra, depending on how you pay. […]

Mother Nature is at it again. Afternoon traffic came to a sudden halt in Coventry, England due to an unexpected downpour. No, it wasn’t hailstones that weighed nearly two pounds falling from the sky. Instead it was an onslaught of small green apples dropping from the heavens. Drivers initially assumed the falling fruit pelting their […]

When it comes to rivals, the first pairing you think of might not be the Pac-12 and the 12-team Big Ten.  The two 12-conference college sports conferences have nothing in common:  think California cool versus Midwestern grit.  They have two competing sports networks, and the two conferences do not share states.  Still, something must work […]

The year 2011 was not a good one at the movie theater. It’s not exactly the year of the bombs, but movie attendance was down even as prices continue to rise.  That means some very expensive movie investments became harmful expenditures by companies trying their best to turn a profit.  It’s not as if 2011 […]

To call the New Orleans Saints offense prolific is to disrespect them.  New Orleans, lead by quarterback Drew Brees, are legendary.  Guiding a record-setting offense, Brees and company destroyed the Atlanta Falcons 45-16 at the Mercedez Benz Superdome on Monday Night Football last night.  In the process, Drew Brees broke Dan Marino’s single season passing […]

As more and more companies latch onto the Twitter bandwagon and hire people to write on social media outlets for them, the question of ownership is going to come up.  Who owns Twitter posts?  Is it the company who employed the writer, or is it the writer who actually churned out the Tweets?  In the […]

It wasn’t weird flavors like breast milk and fish and chips, just plain old Edy’s Ice Cream that stopped traffic in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  It wasn’t something the ice cream did, it was something the truck carrying the ice cream did.  A semi truck spilled a staggering 40,000 pounds of ice cream on Interstate 69 […]

Are you trying to get from The Shire to Mordor?  Well, Google Maps can help you.  After all, Google added walking and bicycling directions to its map service, so you can figure out how to get anywhere you might want to go.  However, Google Maps has a warning:  one does not simply walk into Mordor.  That’s […]

According to a recent study completed by researchers in the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, the American teenager is more at risk for being arrested than at any time in our nation’s history.  While the survey itself is not exactly guaranteed, up to 41 percent of Americans will be arrested by age 23.  Those numbers deal […]

When it comes to investing, the oil-rich leaders of Saudi Arabia are more than willing to put their money where their mouths are, and the biggest investor of all the house of Saud is Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.  Prince bin Talal owns a chunk of Newscorp and is the largest individual investor in Citi Group, […]

Since 1994, the nation of North Korea has suffered under the reign of tyrannical dictator Kim Jong-Il, the son of the founder of North Korea, Kim Il Song, and the widely reviled yet widely mocked figure at the head of one of the most insular communist nations on the map.  All dictatorships enforce quiet with […]

Attention K-Mart shoppers, there is a good Samaritan in your midst and it’s not the K-Mart employee who found $10,000 and returned it to its owner. In these desperate economic times, it’s easy to become jaded and think no one else cares about their neighbors and fellow citizens. That’s not so, according to reports coming […]

Now that we’ve hit the mid point in December, everyone with an opinion is rolling out their list of the best and worst of just about everything imaginable from books to television shows to influential people. Movie rental company Netflix will likely make several lists at the end of 2011 for some of its poorly […]