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In the movies, Kevin Costner defended the soggy world of Waterworld against the machinations of evil villains like Dennis Hopper’s Deacon and his band of marauding smokers.  In the real world, Kevin Costner is defending the oceans of planet earth against the incompetence of evil corporations like BP.  As it turns out, the Hollywood actor […]

In a lot of ways, Samantha Young is like most kids in the elementary school age bracket.  The 9-year-old loves to have friends over to hang out at her house.  Of course, Samantha Young is a bit different from most kids, because when Samantha shows off her special talents, she’s wrestling 8-foot-long alligators into submission.  […]

If the classic Irish novel Ulysses by James Joyce were being released today, there’s no doubt it’d be the center of a huge marketing blitz, all based around the date.  “A DAY IN THE LIFE OF LEOPOLD BLOOM, COMING JUNE 16!”  There’d be bookstore parties, signings, and any number of booze-ups and Bloomsday parties.  Well, […]

For some reason, Joy L. Cassidy has a serious problem with the library.  According to police in Boise, Idaho, the 74-year-old woman was arrested on Sunday for dumping a jar of mayonnaise into an Ada County Library book drop.  According to cops, she’s also a suspect in 10 other condiment-related vandalism cases, most of which […]

The fact that a 26-year-old German student attacked a group of Hells Angels with a puppy isn’t even the weirdest part of the following story.  First, he made rude gestures at the Angels, which is crazy.  Then things got crazier, when he hurled the puppy at them.  Then, to put nutjob icing on the crazy […]

For a brief moment over the weekend, it looked as if the college football landscape was about to completely implode.  The Big 12 conference, one of the nation’s top football conferences and a staple in college football’s elite BCS championship system, was very nearly turn asunder.  Colorado left the conference for the sunny confines of […]

Gary Faulkner is a man on a mission.  That mission is a simple one:  track down Osama bin Laden.  At least, that’s what authorities say his goal was.  Faulker, a 52-year-old man from California, was detained by police in Pakistan as he tried to cross the border into Afghanistan in the Nuristan province.  He was […]

When Olivia Bouler heard about the Gulf oil spill and how the oil was harming wildlife, she cried.  Then, after getting all her tears out, she got to work. She wrote a letter to the Audubon Society, asking how she could help.  In the letter, she included a drawing she did of a bird.  The […]

Yes, Lee Dixon was and is one of the most successful criminals of all time.  However, just because he’s a thief, that doesn’t make him a bad guy.  The 35-year-old unemployed man from Frome, Somerset, admits to breaking in to over 105 properties and stealing a staggering £120,000, but how he did it was what […]

One night, a friend of mine asked me if I used Chatroulette.  I told him no; I don’t have a webcam.  He said it was pretty cool and that you could meet a lot of interesting people on there, if only you could withstand an assault of naked men doing gross things to themselves.  I’m […]

Once upon a time, people paid for wireless internet access in public places.  First and foremost among the WiFi offering joints was Starbucks, who has been offering WiFi to its customers for years.  All they had to do was pick up a Starbucks card, enter the code, and they got two hours of WiFi service.  […]

There’s just something about fast food places that makes people really angry.  Maybe because they’re hungry.  Maybe they’re just craving some fries.  Maybe it’s because the service is always terrible and they struggle to get orders right.  Actually, it’s mostly the last two things about services and mistakes that seem to set people off.  Slow […]

For a lot of people, work is like a second home.  They might spend more time at the job than they do in their own home.  For Carolyn Weatherly and Audwin Mosby, Home Depot is so near and dear to their hearts that they took the unusual step of having their wedding at Home Depot […]