There’s just something about the look of Mad Max that appeals to me. It’s one of my favorite films. I love the car chases, crazy post-apocalyptic landscape, and the bloody-mindedness of it all. Needless to say, I was very excited for Mad Max: Fury Road, and I made it a point to see it on […]
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TSA Agent Fakes Security Search To Molest Traveler
Posted 8/28/2015 7:36 pm by Ron HoganThe Transportation Security Agency is an agency that’s basically out of control. They’ve already been sued for abusing their power, and that lawsuit hasn’t really changed things all that much. TSA screeners still abuse their power, and one gross example of abuse took that quite literally. A TSA security screener used his position to lure […]
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Facebook Tops 1 Billion Concurrent Users
Posted 8/27/2015 7:50 pm by Ron HoganThere have been no rivals for Facebook. Once it came onto the scene and lapped MySpace in total users, the battle was over. Sure, the occasional pretender to the throne made some noise, but these days, everyone’s on Facebook and just about everyone depends on Facebook to stay connected with family and friends. When Facebook […]
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Burger King To McDonald’s: McWhopper Team-Up?
Posted 8/26/2015 5:52 pm by Ron HoganBurger King has been trying for years to dethrone McDonald’s as the king of America’s fast food empire, but they’re been unsuccessful thus far. They’re tried pretty much everything: a Microsoft Windows 7 tie-in, a gigantic burger served like pizza, delivery service in select markets, and a complete menu overhaul and redo. So far, nothing’s […]
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Japanese Sending Whiskey Into Space
Posted 8/25/2015 3:42 pm by Ron HoganIt doesn’t matter what country you’re in or what their nominal national spirit is, these days everyone loves brown party liquor. This is a world in which Russians love Scottish whisky, a heady post-Mad Men world where clear is out and the barrel-aged is in. Suntory is a world-famous brand, makers of the best whiskey […]
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“Fear The Walking Dead” Sets Cable Debut Record
Posted 8/24/2015 6:21 pm by Ron HoganPeople have been waiting for the debut of Fear the Walking Dead all summer. It’s not every day that the hottest show on television expands its universe and heads in a different direction from the companion show, but here we are, there’s AMC footing the bill, and there’s more zombie action for the television screen. […]
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Drug-Resistant Super Lice Are Here
Posted 8/21/2015 7:50 pm by Ron HoganWhen I was a kid, there was nothing I hated more than the school head lice check. Now, I never had lice, but I always felt indignant that they were going to go through my hair with a literal fine-tooth comb in a chair in the gymnasium, then repeat the process with several hundred other […]
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Caitlyn Jenner Faces Possible Manslaughter Charges In Fatal Crash
Posted 8/20/2015 6:33 pm by Ron HoganYou can change your face, you can change your name, you can get Siri to vouch for you, but there’s one force you can’t escape from, and that’s the law. Caitlyn Jenner is finding that out the hard way as Los Angeles prosecutors have decided to ask the district attorney to consider bringing her up on […]
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Batman Meets NWA: Straight Outta Gotham
Posted 8/19/2015 6:58 pm by Ron HoganWhat happens with this summer’s hottest musical biopic, Straight Outta Compton, about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-enshrined NWA, meets the hottest movie of DC and Warner Brothers’ superhero lineup, Suicide Squad? I’ll give you a hint, the end result is really, really awesome. A rogue gallery of DC villains being kept down by […]
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American Flag Raised Over Cuban Embassy
Posted 8/14/2015 8:28 pm by Ron HoganThings have changed drastically since the days when the United States had active spy networks working in Cuba. Once upon a time, the goal of the government was to topple the Castro administration, and Cuba has been kept in the dark for a long, long time after the Communist uprising. The Cold War, the Cuban […]
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Transgender Birth Certificate Bill Vetoed
Posted 8/13/2015 5:52 pm by Ron HoganYou’d think that in the middle of a crowded political primary, busy politicians like New Jersey governor Chris Christie would be neglecting their home state. Well, primary or not, Chris Christie is still New Jersey’s governor, and he’s still doing governor things, like vetoing bills. Chris Christie has vetoed a change in New Jersey law […]
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EA Sports Pulls NHL 16 Cover
Posted 8/12/2015 5:56 pm by Ron HoganIf you’re a professional athlete, getting on the cover of a video game is a big deal. That means you’re not just a star, not just the face of a franchise, you’re the face of your entire sport. Athletes love being on the cover of games, even if the Madden Curse tends to derail football […]
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North Korea Injures Two South Korean Soldiers With Mines
Posted 8/10/2015 8:11 am by Ron HoganIt’s pretty easy to laugh off North Korea. After all, they’re prone to doing silly stuff like changing their time zone for no good reason and prancing around with ridiculous medals. All that provocation can go too far, though, and according to South Korea, the North has made a naked declaration of aggression against their […]
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North Korea Now Has Its Own Time Zone
Posted 8/07/2015 6:30 pm by Ron HoganIt doesn’t really matter who is in charge, North Korea is going to stay strange. Kim Jong-Il pushed the country pretty far, and Kim Jong-Un is going even farther than his father, or at least is allowing the country to go farther. Your guess is as good as mine as to who is really in […]
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Unlucky Scientist Discovers Venomous Frog The Hard Way
Posted 8/06/2015 7:21 pm by Ron HoganIf seems that frogs, toads, and other amphibians can exist pretty much everywhere on earth, save the polar regions. Frogs are basically everywhere, and yet it seems like unusual new frogs are being discovered everywhere as people continue to explore the earth’s hidden places. Two new frogs were discovered in Brazil, and these frogs are […]
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John Mayer Joins The Grateful Dead Spin-Off Band
Posted 8/05/2015 7:58 pm by Ron HoganJohn Mayer might not seem like a wild child, but he’s got a bit of that 60’s way about him, and not just in his lifestyle. I don’t know if he imbibes like the jam bands of old, but he can definitely play guitar like them, and that’s what’s taking Mayer on a long strange […]
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Kermit and Piggy Are Broken Up On ABC’s The Muppets
Posted 8/04/2015 6:38 pm by Ron HoganOne of the best pieces of news for the fall television series wasn’t something new, it was something old making a comeback. The Muppets were a television and movie phenomenon, and with the rebirth of the Muppets on the big screen, it only makes sense that the Muppets would come back on the small screen, […]
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