Hollywood loves a good excuse to get together and give out awards. No reason quite as good as the business of making movies, right? The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gathered in Los Angeles last night to give out golden statues to the best and brightest of the film industry during the 88th […]
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Gianni Infantino Takes FIFA Presidency
Posted 2/26/2016 5:26 pm by Ron HoganFIFA has been without a head for quite some time, once Sepp Blatter received an 8-year ban from the world’s most corrupt sporting organization for being extra corrupt even by FIFA standards. Well, you can’t be banned from an organization and also the president of the organization, so FIFA’s latest congress gathered in some sort […]
Read »SeaWorld Spied On Activists
Posted 2/25/2016 7:02 pm by Ron HoganSeaWorld Entertainment is a company in a lot of trouble at the moment. A documentary exposing the violent behavior of their killer whales and a possible link between violence and captivity has caused the company to permanently shelf the very reason for its existence, the killer whale show, at some of its parks. The company faces […]
Read »NYC Restaurant Menus Now Warn About Salt Content
Posted 2/24/2016 5:28 pm by Ron HoganNew York City is one of the largest and most progressive cities in the country. For all its faults, the Big Apple is trying its best to make its citizens be a little bit healthier, and it’s not afraid to take on the restaurant industry to do that. First they came for the large soda. […]
Read »Tennessee Lady Vols Out Of Top 25 After 31 Years
Posted 2/22/2016 7:16 pm by Ron HoganPat Summitt turned an afterthought into a powerhouse. On February 17, 1985, the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers entered the Associated Press top 25 rankings for women’s basketball. That streak has now ended. The Lady Vols are out of the Top 25 after a staggering 31 year run near the top of women’s basketball. That’s a […]
Read »Government: All Hoverboards Are Unsafe
Posted 2/19/2016 7:24 pm by Ron HoganEveryone wants a hoverboard. While the technology isn’t there for the kind of actual hoverboard everyone wants, the Marty McFly special, there’s a good fill-in product on the market right now. They’re called hoverboards, and they’re basically scooters that you control with your feet, hovering without hovering. Well, there’s a little issue with them, and […]
Read »$900 Million In Meth Hidden In Bras And Glue
Posted 2/15/2016 12:12 pm by Ron HoganIt seems like there’s only one real place women go to hide things. It doesn’t matter what they’re smuggling, whatever they’re hiding gets stuffed into their bra. Lots of cash? The bra is fashion’s perfect pocket, and since there’s metal in bras, they can sometimes fool metal detectors. However, some enterprising smugglers went past the […]
Read »First Baseball Player Gets Lifetime Ban For PEDs
Posted 2/12/2016 6:09 pm by Ron HoganThree failed tests, one calendar year. When it comes to performance-enhancing drugs, some baseball players just don’t know when to quit. The good old days, when sluggers gulped HGH and pitchers doctored their bodies instead of the ball, are over. Baseball’s been cracking down on drug offenses since instituting testing, and it seems like every […]
Read »Burger King, Prince Of Hot Dogs?
Posted 2/10/2016 9:40 pm by Ron HoganBurger King is a company in crisis. Sure, all signs point to the company’s resurgence thanks to a 5 for $4 offer to get people into doors, but there’s still the perception that Burger King is America’s second (or third) fast food choice, and that won’t change any time soon unless Burger King changes it. […]
Read »Google Offers 2GB Of Free Storage For Safe Computers
Posted 2/09/2016 5:44 pm by Ron HoganWe live in an unsafe world. It seems like every day, there’s some sort of new terror to be worried about. Be the fears real or invented, fears they remain, but it’s up to companies like Google to encourage vigilance, make sure users pay attention rather than just follow blindly, and make sure everyone works […]
Read »Leopard Goes To School In India
Posted 2/08/2016 5:27 pm by Ron HoganWith every passing year, it seems like people are getting closer and closer to the habitats of some of nature’s most dangerous creatures. In places like India, for example, those creatures can be really, really dangerous. India is home to many rare and dangerous big cats, and those big cats are increasingly coming into contact […]
Read »Johnny Cash, The Tarantula In Black
Posted 2/04/2016 8:59 pm by Ron HoganLet’s not kid ourselves. Spiders are creepy. Even cool-looking spiders are still enough to make normal people feel all squicky inside. It takes a special kind of person to devote time to studying, classifying, and discovering new species of spiders. However, people do it, and people find new species of spiders all the time. See, […]
Read »Eagles Versus Drones
Posted 2/02/2016 9:21 am by Ron HoganThe more drones reach out to the skies, the more problems people are having with them. Drones are straying into airports, traveling onto people’s property, and can be a huge nuisance in the wrong hands. That’s why Dutch police are searching into ways to control drones. There are ideas to remotely hack them, shoot them […]
Read »“Groundhog Day” On Groundhog Day
Posted 2/01/2016 5:36 pm by Ron HoganIn the classic movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray stars as a weatherman forced to relive the same day over and over and over again. He wakes up to Sonny and Cher, gets dressed, and goes out to watch weather-predicting rodent Punxsutawney Phil determine whether or not there’s going to be six more weeks of winter. Every […]
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