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“Weird” Al Yankovic first got attention back in the 1970’s with homemade recordings of parody songs performed by a boy and his accordion on the Dr. Demento radio show.  Dr. Demento is long gone from the airwaves, but Weird Al seems to be stronger than ever some 30 years after he first took a swing […]

Everyone wants to talk to celebrities.  No matter how crazy the celebrity, everyone wants to be friends with them and get a little attention from one of the more interesting celebrities on social media.  Twitter makes this much easier than Facebook, which isn’t exactly as user friendly or celebrity friendly as Twitter, but they’re actively […]

It seems odd to fly a plane over a war zone, but some 300 flights a day took place over the disputed eastern regions of Ukraine, mostly at heights between 33 and 37,000 feet.  That’s high enough to avoid most surface-to-air missiles possessed by the Russia-backed insurgent groups.  However, that’s no longer safe, and the […]

As it turns out, greed is still good, Gordon Gekko.  After all, using ill-gotten gains, you just might make enough money to buy a professional sports franchise, where only the sleaziest of men can survive.  It’s just a shame it has to happen to the Cleveland Browns.  Pilot Flying J has agreed to pay a […]

Even under the most controlled of circumstances, bulls are dangerous.  In Spain, where bull fighting is still a revered sport in most locations where it isn’t banned and matadors are still something of a heroic figure when they don’t poop their pants running away from the bull, the bull is both a figure of sport […]

Everyone likes a good roller coaster.  Well, most people like a good roller coaster, even if I am not one of them.  Not that I think they’re inherently unsafe, even though they do occasionally get stuck upside down and the riders have to be carefully evacuated from them, but I’m just not a big fan […]

If you have plans for a Fourth of July party and you live on the eastern coast of the United States, prepare to have those plans disrupted by an unplanned guest named Arthur.  Namely, Hurricane Arthur (not your Uncle Arthur, he’s still in Boca).  The first tropical storm of the season has matured into the […]

Last night was the biggest night of the basketball off-season.  The ping-pong balls have rattled, the prognosticators have looked into their crystal balls, and some of the world’s finest athletes have finished their running, jumping, shooting, and dunking for the approval of scouts.  Last night, the 2014 NBA Draft was held, and one of the […]

Baylor basketball player Isaiah Austin was a legitimate NBA prospect.  Tall and lean, he looked exactly like the sort of basketball player that would make a great member of the NBA, once team cooks were able to pack some muscle onto his frame and fill him out a bit more.  As it turns out, that […]

The Washington, D.C. team that competes in the National Football League has a lot of things, from their billionaire owner Daniel Snyder to their award-winning quarterback Robert Griffin III, but the one thing they don’t have anymore is a team name.  For decades, the team competed as the Washington Redskins, but with the rise in […]

It’s the World Cup, and for those of us in the United States, the World Cup timing is perfect.  Games start at noon and end during prime time, so we’re perfectly positioned to watch every game we want (that won’t be the case in 2018 and 2022).  I’ve watched parts of every game so far, […]

There’s weirdness in the air.  A sense of danger, perhaps.  Foreboding thoughts and visions flutter through the airs like the ghosts of nightmares long since dissipated.  In the shadows lurk mysterious figures wearing masks and obscured by hoods.   This is no ordinary Friday, this is a particularly special Friday.  Today is Friday the 13th, […]

It seems like the influence of the Tea Party is on the wane.  Once a threat to the establishment that routinely endorsed and won primary elections, these days the Tea Party is mostly treated as a joke, or a fringe group, rather than the CEO-toppling political force it once was.  However, just because the Tea […]

Apple is rarely the first company to enter into a product arena, but when they do, they jump into the product line in grand style.  Other companies had smartphones first, but none of them took off like the iPhone.  Other companies have had tablet computers for years, but none of them became a hit like […]