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Obama Inauguration Performer Murdered
Posted 1/30/2013 9:30 pm by Ron HoganOne week ago, 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton was performing with her classmates in the King College Prep marching band at President Barack Obama’s inauguration. She was a drum majorette, twirling a baton and marching around with her friends from Chicago, Illinois. A devoted reader and an honor student at the prestigious high school, Pendleton was walking […]
Read »Ray Lewis And Deer Antler Spray
Posted 1/30/2013 6:30 am by Ron HoganEven as his playing career winds down to a final game at the Super Bowl in New Orleans, Ray Lewis still courts controversy. The Baltimore Ravens linebacker and mainstay of one of the top defenses in the NFL for the better part of a decade has made a miracle recovery from a torn triceps muscle […]
Read »Disney Pulls Star Wars 3D Rereleases
Posted 1/29/2013 6:30 am by Ron HoganWhen George Lucas was in charge of Star Wars’s destiny, the plan wasn’t to make more movies, the plan was simply to update the old movies to 3D and put them back in theaters one at a time over the course of the next six years. With Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, that […]
Read »Half Of All College Degrees Are Wasted
Posted 1/28/2013 8:00 am by Ron HoganAccording to 2010 Labor Department data, there are too many college graduates in the work force without college-level jobs to sustain them. In the workforce, there are roughly 41.7 million people with college diplomas, either associate, bachlors, masters, or doctorate-level. There are only 28.6 million jobs that require college degrees. That means nearly half of […]
Read »Chris Brown Picks A Literal Fight With Frank Ocean
Posted 1/28/2013 7:30 am by Ron HoganChris Brown and Frank Ocean have a history of confrontation, but it has not been physical until their most recent clash. Mostly, it’s been rumors of notorious woman-beater Chris Brown using homophobic slurs against Ocean, the first gay hip-hop star, though Brown has denied this on Twitter. Well, apparently all that tension came to a […]
Read »No More Vegetable Oil In Gatorade
Posted 1/26/2013 7:30 am by Ron HoganPepsi is making a change in direct response to a Change.org petition uploaded by a teenager from Mississippi. When 15-year-old Sarah Kavanagh took a glance at the ingredients of Gatorade to see if she could continue to drink the energy drink while on a vegan diet, the ingredient bromiated vegetable oil stood out to her. […]
Read »JJ Abrams To Direct Next Star Wars Film
Posted 1/25/2013 6:00 am by Ron HoganWith the purchase of Lucasfilm by Disney, that cleared the last hurdle. One of Disney’s major plans has been to create a new series of Star Wars films. That’s right, kids; new adventures in your favorite sci-fi universe without George Lucas’s involvement! Perhaps most importantly, it’s a Star Wars film for a new generation of […]
Read »New Orleans To Become The Pelicans Next Season
Posted 1/24/2013 7:00 am by Ron HoganThe New Orleans Hornets are going to be a team to watch next season. They have a loaded roster with Anthony Davis, Austin Rivers, Eric Gordon, and lots of other great young players (with more on the way). However, there’s a problem with watching the Hornets; they won’t be playing in the NBA next season. […]
Read »Women To Be Allowed In Combat
Posted 1/24/2013 6:30 am by Ron HoganWith every passing day, the United States military grows more and more inclusive. First, “don’t ask don’t tell” was repealed, then uniformed servicemembers were allowed to march in gay pride parades. Now, the hundreds of thousands of combat positions once closed to women are now going to be opened up for females. The Department of […]
Read »Man Rides His Camel To The Sundance Film Festival
Posted 1/23/2013 7:00 am by Ron HoganWhen it comes to the Sundance Film Festival, getting in is probably bigger than winning something while you’re there. If you get into the festival, then you can sell your movie, make back what you spent making it, and maybe even kick start a career. Director Jason Andreozzi knows just how important Sundance is, so when […]
Read »Did The Oakland Raiders Throw A Super Bowl?
Posted 1/23/2013 6:30 am by Ron HoganSuper Bowl XXXVII was one of the strangest football games in NFL history. On one side, you had the Oakland Raiders, led by former Jon Gruden assistant coach Bill Callahan. On the other side you had the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, led by former Oakland Raiders coach Jon Gruden. The year before, Gruden was traded by […]
Read »Elder Scrolls Online Launches Beta Test Sign-Ups
Posted 1/23/2013 6:00 am by Ron HoganBethesda Softworks/Zenimax has been producing video games for a very long time, recently celebrating the 20th anniversary of their groundbreaking Wolfenstein 3D first-person shooter. However, today the focus isn’t on the past, but on the future. The best-selling Elder Scrolls games have made Bethesda a mint, but the company is looking to expand its reach […]
Read »Aspirin Increases Blindness Risk
Posted 1/22/2013 7:00 am by Ron HoganOne of the most common preventative medications in the world is aspirin. If you have a headache or , pop some aspirin and you’ll start feeling better almost right away. If you have heart problems, you’ll definitely find yourself taking regular low-dose aspirin treatments. However, protecting your heart might cost you your eyes. According to […]
Read »High School Graduation Rates At A 40-Year High
Posted 1/22/2013 6:00 am by Ron HoganEvery year, millions of students exit the hallowed halls of the public education system and are thrown in to the world of colleges and seeking gainful employment. Most of those graduate, but not all of them. However, according to recent studies, it seems like the graduates are growing in number. The national high school graduation […]
Read »Norwegian Gets 1 Million Facebook Likes For Sex Bet
Posted 1/21/2013 1:30 pm by Ron HoganPetter Kverneng, a 20-year-old man from Norway, has had a crush on Cathrine Johansen since they were high school students together. Two years after graduation, that crush has not gone away. In fact, it’s intensified, but Petter has come up with a way to get that crush turned into a real relationship. The bet is […]
Read »Seattle Will Be Getting An NBA Franchise
Posted 1/21/2013 10:30 am by Ron HoganIn 2008, one of the NBA’s most storied franchises found itself without a home. The Seattle Supersonics were uprooted and sent down the road to Oklahoma City, where they became the Oklahoma City Thunder and picked up Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and one of the most exciting teams in the NBA. Seattle, which had a […]
Read »TSA To Remove Airport Naked Scanners
Posted 1/19/2013 10:30 am by Ron HoganFans of personal liberty and not being humiliated, like noted libertarian and former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura, have a reason to celebrate today. The Transportation Security Administration, who oversees airport security in the United States via public groping and hair-picks, has announced a plan to remove controversial backscatter imaging machines, aka the naked scanners, from […]
Read »Australian Amateur Finds 11-Pound Gold Nugget
Posted 1/18/2013 7:00 am by Ron HoganAs a kid, you think that the moment you buy a metal detector, you start finding all kinds of cool stuff. Most of the time, all you find is old bottle caps, but for one Australian treasure hunter, he found much much more. Outside the town of Ballarat, Australia, a man with a metal detector […]
Read »Lance Armstrong Admits To Doping
Posted 1/18/2013 6:00 am by Ron HoganIt’s a huge coup for Oprah Winfrey and her struggling OWN cable television network: an interview with the most controversial athlete in recent memory. Everyone’s talking about Lance Armstrong, and it’s got nothing to do with his Tour de France titles or his hundreds of milions of dollars raised for cancer research. It’s all about […]
Read »Mila Kunis Underwear Ad Banned
Posted 1/17/2013 7:00 am by Ron HoganMila Kunis is a beautiful woman, but the question of how she gets her beauty is one that the world may never answer. No doubt it’s a combination of makeup and cosmetics, personal trainers, stylists, makeup artists, and incredible genetics, but according to a British government agency, you can’t give all the credit to makeup. […]
Read »Notre Dame Linebacker Manti Te’o And His Fake Girlfriend
Posted 1/17/2013 6:00 am by Ron HoganSenior linebacker and Notre Dame Fighting Irish linebacker Manti Te’o had a stellar season this year. As the emotional and physical leader of one of the nation’s top defenses, Te’o finished second in the Heisman Trophy race to Johnny Football and took Notre Dame to the national championship game. Not too shabby, right? Well, it […]
Read »Energy Drink Hospital Visits Have Doubled Since 2007
Posted 1/16/2013 6:30 am by Ron HoganEnergy drinks are very popular these days. Between the little shots of Five Hour Energy to the distinctive cans of Monster and the energy-boozing of pre-ban Four Loko, everyone’s churning out an energy drink and everyone’s consuming them in increasing numbers. However, there’s a dark side to all this energy, and it’s taking a toll […]
Read »Facebook Introduces Friend-Mining Graph Search
Posted 1/15/2013 8:30 pm by Ron HoganIf you’re a Facebook user, it’s a good time to check your privacy settings, as the company has been tinkering under the hood and preparing to monetize your massive collection of personal information. Facebook is entering the search realm starting today. Facebook calls its new search technology graph search, because it searches what Mark Zuckerberg […]
Read »Meet The 2014 Corvette
Posted 1/14/2013 7:00 am by Ron HoganWhen it comes to comebacks, General Motors is a company that knows a lot about making a flashy return. Despite multiple bankruptcies and a multitude of development problems, there’s one brand that GM refuses to give up on, and that’s the vaunted Chevrolet Corvette. GM is rolling out the all-new 2014 Corvette, and it looks […]
Read »The 2013 Golden Globes Recap
Posted 1/14/2013 6:00 am by Ron HoganThere’s nothing quite like a good pat on the back, and last night Hollywood gathered to give itself a big pat on the back, via the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. That’s the organization that gives out the Golden Globes, and the show attracted a full slate of interested and interesting celebrities, and featured some very […]
Read »Homeland Security Tells Users To Disable Java
Posted 1/11/2013 10:45 pm by Ron HoganIf you’re a computer user, you’re exposed to Java every day. Not the good-for-you coffee, the computer program from Oracle. It’s a cross-platform program that is used on all computer operating systems, from OSX to UNIX, Windows to Linux, and it helps certain web-based programs function across various platforms. It’s pretty useful and very popular, […]
Read »The 2013 Oscar Nominees Are Out!
Posted 1/11/2013 6:30 am by Ron HoganWhen Seth MacFarlane takes the stage at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California, on February 24 to host the 2013 Academy Awards, he’ll have a big slate of movies, stars, and awards to work his way through. The nominees for the 85th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards have been released, and the […]
Read »Amazon’s AutoRip: Buy A CD, Get Free MP3s
Posted 1/10/2013 8:15 pm by Ron HoganAmazon has been in the music business since 1998, which is a long time to keep track of customer purchase histories. However, if you’ve bought your music collection from Amazon, you’ll be glad they’ve kept up with your purchases, because it’s going to benefit you in the end. Amazon has announced the awesome AutoRip program, […]
Read »Baseball Hall Of Fame Adds No One
Posted 1/09/2013 8:00 pm by Ron HoganIn the 75 years in which the Baseball Writers of America gathered to decide who was worthy of entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, only one time previously did the writers not elect someone into the Hall. With the rise of players with numbers tainted by performance-enhancing drugs, the BBWA […]
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