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These days, you can’t depend on saint relics to keep your monastery in business.  Increasingly, monasteries are leasing out buildings as luxury hotels, and that business practice might have drawn one Russian Orthodox Church monastery into serious trouble.  Sretensky Monastery in Moscow, Russia, has been the home of a secret bordello for some time, according […]

Madonna is nothing if not an outspoken singer who loves a good controversy.  In between her bizarre Super Bowl appearance and her bizarre recent appearances on her MDNA tour, Madonna has been getting a whole lot of attention for a singer her age, flashing her breasts, pointing guns at the audience, and now endorsing a […]

There have been lots of strange things falling from the skies.  While hundreds of fish falling in a desert are weird, a mass event isn’t quite as strange to me as a single incident.  For example, a shark decided to go golfing at a San Juan Capistrano, California, golf course.  Of course, it wasn’t a […]

These days, it looks like Brooklyn in the place to be.  Jay Z is the community leader, hipsters infest Williamsburg, and perhaps most importantly, the sparkling new Barclays Center is drawing sports teams from around the area with the allure of a modern arena, better crowds, closer access to Manhattan, and favorable terms.  The Nets […]

Two 24-ounce cans of Monster Energy Drink in 24 hours may have been fatal for a 14-year-old Maryland girl named Anais Fournier, who consumed the two drinks in the days leading up to Christmas and suffered a fatal heart attack on December 23, 2011.  The Food and Drug Administration is investigating Monster Energy Drink after […]

Whatever you might say about the general quality of the Paranormal Activity series, originator and creator Oren Peli stumbled across something genius when he took $15,000 and turned it into a 90-minute found footage horror movie that achieved its scares despite no budget, no exciting camera work, and mediocre acting.  Since then, the Paranormal Activity […]

Plastic is one of the most versatile products that humans have ever managed to create.  You can find plastic in everything from building materials to bras, and every day the uses of plastic increase.  Now, you’ll even find plastic in your new pair of blue jeans, but it’s not just any plastic.  Levi’s has introduced […]

It’s been an up-and-down few years for Megan Fox.  The actress, who was fired from the multi-million-dollar Transformers franchise, has been fairly active as an actress, but she’s recently taken some time off due to pregnancy.  Well, before long, she’ll be back on set.  Megan Fox has given birth to her first child, a son […]

While campaigning in Youngstown, Ohio, Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan and his wife made a visit to the Mahoning County St. Vincent De Paul Society soup kitchen where Ryan greeted visitors and washed dishes in the kitchen.  Or so he claims.  Not only does the St. Vincent De Paul Society claim Paul Ryan had no […]

After 17 years in the NFL at the middle linebacker position, Ray Lewis has undoubtedly lost a step.  However, don’t tell his opponents that.  What Ray was missing in speed, he made up for in smarts, and was a quarterback for the vaunted Baltimore Ravens defense.  They have been, during Lewis’s tenure, one of the […]

When you’re cooking up a massive piece of food, like a one-ton hamburger, or cooking up a massive amount of food, such as when you’re mass-producing cookies and wyngs to go with your pizza, using a normal oven is out of the question.  What companies turn to are massive, truck-sized industrial ovens that cook by […]

Uggs aren’t just ugly, they’re also dangerous according to a British judge.  When 49-year-old Vera Baxter, the assistant head at Stretford High School in the United Kingdom, swerved her Volkswagen Golf across the dividing line and plowed into a Mercedes driven by 33-year-old Jason Hoang, she had a good excuse for her wreck.  Turns out, […]

With the launch of the energy drink Red bull some 12 years ago in the United States, the Austrian-based company has raked in a mint as the energy drink of choice for pretty much anyone with some impressive stunts and ad campaigns.  Well, now you’re going to have more options of Red Bull to choose […]

When it comes to quarterback play, it’s very difficult to compare the star passers of the 50’s and 60’s to the star passers of today.  The NFL these days is a much more wide-open league, with faster, bigger players and an emphasis on the pass not seen since the glory days of the West Coast […]