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Last night was the biggest night of the basketball off-season.  The ping-pong balls have rattled, the prognosticators have looked into their crystal balls, and some of the world’s finest athletes have finished their running, jumping, shooting, and dunking for the approval of scouts.  Last night, the 2014 NBA Draft was held, and one of the […]

Baylor basketball player Isaiah Austin was a legitimate NBA prospect.  Tall and lean, he looked exactly like the sort of basketball player that would make a great member of the NBA, once team cooks were able to pack some muscle onto his frame and fill him out a bit more.  As it turns out, that […]

The Washington, D.C. team that competes in the National Football League has a lot of things, from their billionaire owner Daniel Snyder to their award-winning quarterback Robert Griffin III, but the one thing they don’t have anymore is a team name.  For decades, the team competed as the Washington Redskins, but with the rise in […]

It’s the World Cup, and for those of us in the United States, the World Cup timing is perfect.  Games start at noon and end during prime time, so we’re perfectly positioned to watch every game we want (that won’t be the case in 2018 and 2022).  I’ve watched parts of every game so far, […]

There’s weirdness in the air.  A sense of danger, perhaps.  Foreboding thoughts and visions flutter through the airs like the ghosts of nightmares long since dissipated.  In the shadows lurk mysterious figures wearing masks and obscured by hoods.   This is no ordinary Friday, this is a particularly special Friday.  Today is Friday the 13th, […]

It seems like the influence of the Tea Party is on the wane.  Once a threat to the establishment that routinely endorsed and won primary elections, these days the Tea Party is mostly treated as a joke, or a fringe group, rather than the CEO-toppling political force it once was.  However, just because the Tea […]

Apple is rarely the first company to enter into a product arena, but when they do, they jump into the product line in grand style.  Other companies had smartphones first, but none of them took off like the iPhone.  Other companies have had tablet computers for years, but none of them became a hit like […]

There have been cases of people becoming Internet memes and those meme stars becoming killers, but very rarely has there been a killing or attempted killing inspired by a meme.  However, that has changed thanks to a tall, faceless skinny man in a black suit who has a habit of lurking in the background of Photoshopped […]