Ridesharing platforms are big. Uber is the thing to do if you’re going out on the town and don’t want to have to worry about finding parking, and Lyft is right there behind them, separated by only a few stray pink mustache hairs. Now it looks like a bigger company is going to get out […]
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Matador Takes Infant Bull Fighting
Posted 1/26/2016 9:44 pm by Ron HoganFrancisco Rivera Ordonez was simply carrying on a family tradition. He’s a fifth generation bullfighter, meaning fighting bulls is the family business. Generation after generation after generation, his family has been in the fighting ring year after year after year, and now he’s getting his daughters into the family business. Ordonez put a picture up […]
Read »Charlotte Rampling Calls Diversity Complaints Reverse Racism
Posted 1/22/2016 1:01 pm by Ron HoganFor the second year in the row, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences rolled out an Oscar list that was pretty pale in color. No blacks were nominated for any of the major award, and of course, that means black celebrities have been complaining non-stop. Of course, when some people speak out, others […]
Read »Mos Def Arrested In South Africa
Posted 1/20/2016 1:36 pm by Ron HoganMos Def has had a lot of careers. He was a child actor, a rapper, transitioned into adult acting, and is known around the world for his prowess in the entertainment world. However, he’s not known for his political and personal beliefs, which are… well, unusual. Mos Def has been arrested in South Africa for […]
Read »Houghton Lake MI, Home Of 77-Cent Gas!
Posted 1/18/2016 10:51 am by Ron HoganGas prices don’t usually go down. They go up. Gas prices rose for decades, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, but always up on a long enough timeline. Not long ago, $4 a gallon for gas was a very real proposition. Nobody thought prices would go in the other direction, and yet… gas prices are going down […]
Read »Goodbye St. Louis! Rams Moving Back to Los Angeles
Posted 1/13/2016 5:24 pm by Ron HoganStan Kroenke is a man with a dream, and that dream is to be the king of West Coast football. Thanks to a clause in his contract with the Edward Jones Dome, the city of Saint Louis either had to replace the stadium, upgrade the existing stadium, or the team would be free to move. […]
Read »David Bowie Dead At 69
Posted 1/11/2016 6:51 pm by Ron HoganThe Thin White Duke, Ziggy Stardust, the Space Oddity, the guy in the tight pants from Labyrinth, David Bowie has had a lot of identities over his career, morphing from rock to soul to electronica to movie star to music superstar to androgynous chameleon. He was even the first artist to be covered in a […]
Read »Mein Kampf To Be Published In Germany
Posted 1/08/2016 10:14 am by Ron HoganIt’s been 70 years since the death of Adolph Hitler, and that means the copyright to a very famous book is finally expiring. Since the death of Hitler, Bavaria’s government has used their control over Hitler’s copyright to keep Mein Kampf out of German publishing houses. The book’s been available all along, but not from […]
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