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It’s been a long, strange road for Radio Shack.  Long before the Internet, long before Best Buy and disposable electronics, there was Radio Shack.  If you wanted to, say, repair a radio or tinker with some electronics, that was the place you went for kids, parts, and the like.  If you needed a vacuum tube […]

I live in a place where we don’t get a lot of very bad winter weather, but when we do, the whole town gets shut down.  Anything over, say, 8 inches of snow is too much for the city to handle, but I live in Kentucky, not New York City, where they get real weather […]

The New England Patriots lambasted the Indianapolis Colts 45-7 in the AFC Championship game.  At points, it looked like the two teams were playing different games, and as it turns out, they might have been playing the same game, but with different equipment.  Almost immediately after the game, the allegations started trickling out:  the Patriots […]

The flu vaccine is kind of a crap shoot.  Every year, doctors formulate a new vaccine based off of whatever strains of the flu were more active the previous flu season, and every year, if they’re lucky, they get it about half right.  There’s no universal flu vaccine, despite the best efforts of doctors, and […]

With every passing gray day, the summer draws closer.  One of the sure signs of summer’s approach is that, one by one, the big summer concert festivals begin to roll out their lineups and announce to waiting music fans just what they have in store for the sweltering, sunny days ahead.  Billy Joel is going […]

The goal for any coach is to win a national championship, if they’re looking at pie-in-the-sky results.  Most coaches would be happy with bowl games, improvement, good recruiting.  Urban Meyer wasn’t hired to improve, he was hired to win it all.  Be it in bowl game championships, a final game between the top two seeds, […]

Australia is a strange land full of strange creatures and stranger habits.  The continent island is home to some of the most unique animals on planet Earth, but it’s also a dangerous, unforgiving place.  Every year, Australia suffers from wildfires that can run out of control through the wilderness, putting animals at risk.  Among the […]

It’s a new year, and with a new year comes a new national champion crowned by a new national championship format.  Gone are the days of coach polls deciding who gets what hardware at the end of the season, and the BCS is an afterthought as well.  It’s all about that college football playoff, and […]

Microsoft is a company beset on all sides by challengers, both in the desktop universe, server hardware, mobile phone operating systems, and pretty much every other possible avenue, but MS is also a company more than willing to fight back, even if that means moving into someone else’s playing field.  Google Chrome is fast, lightweight, […]

Americans love coffee.  We drink more coffee than we have any right to, sometimes in ridiculous amounts.  But it’s not the 10-shot espresso drinks, it’s the constant companionship of a hot cup of java that soothes the American soul.  It’s not surprising that Keurigs took off in this country, because the only thing better than […]

It’s a scene out of the latest comic book movie.  Police giving chase to a mad driver, who speeds along with one hand on the wheel while throwing bombs out the window with the other.  Except it’s not something from the minds at Marvel, it’s something that’s happening in real life in Clackamas and Multnomah […]

When it comes to his play on the football field, Cam Newton has proven himself to be a spectacular NFL player.  He’s not consistent, and he’s not great, but he’s really good in spite of his team’s record.  He’s been to the Pro Bowl twice, and he set all kinds of rookie passer records just a […]