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People love their vanity plates.  From Biotches to Cannibals, everyone wants to show their opinions via the power of that metal tag on the back of their car that shows it is a registered motor vehicle.  This love of expression extends to politics.  Las Vegas, Nevada man James Linlor is a devotee of the GOP […]

It had been 63 years since the country of Northern Ireland has won a major tournament in the world of golfing, with the last being Fred Daly in 1947, just two years after the end of WWII air raid golf.  Now, Northern Ireland has three of the last six major tournaments.  Rory McIlroy and Graeme […]

The United States’ Women’s National Soccer Team lost a heartbreaking World Cup final game to the Japanese women in an epic clash for the ages yesterday afternoon, but while the Japanese team won the penalty kick shootout 3-1 and took home the World Cup, the US women can take heart.  They may not have won […]

For three years, Niko Alm has been under the care of a psychologist, all because he tried to assert his right to religious freedom.  You see, Niko Alm is a Pastafarian, which means he’s a member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and wanted to show his devotion to his religion by wearing […]

One of the dumbest/smartest things a company can do is give stuff away.  When you want to get customers in the door and eating, you give away coupons for discounted food, or free appetizers, or something to that effect.  For its upcoming corporate birthday today, mini-market chain 7-Eleven has a great idea:  free Slurpees.  That’s […]

Janet Johnson and JaMichael Brown were told to expect a large baby.  A few weeks ago, they were told their future son might weigh 12 or 13 pounds at birth, due to his mother’s gestational diabetes.  Well, the joke is on the nurses and doctors at Good Shepherd Medical Center in Longview, Texas; Janet Johnson’s […]

Josh Hamilton just might be the most snake-bit athlete in history.  He nearly lost his career to drugs, has suffered some freak injuries during his All Star career, and has struggled with addiction throughout the course of his life to the point that the Texas Rangers celebrated making the World Series last year with ginger ale rather than cracking […]

The war between Facebook and Google for the hearts and minds of the computing public fundamentally changed when Google launched Google+ (and will change further when Google+ goes public).  That’s Google coming into Facebook’s house and rearranging its stuff.  To get back some of the thunder stolen by Google, Facebook has been teasing a big […]

The brown marmorated stink bug is a growing problems.  Since the Asian insect came to the United States in the late 1990’s, the bugs have spread like wildfire.  Now, those bugs are hitting us where it hurts:  the booze!  Asian brown marmorated stink bugs are attacking wineries across the US.  All it takes are 10 […]

Stephen Colbert has undergone a meteoric rise in the world of television, going from little-known comedian to host of his own nightly television news program, The Colbert Report on Comedy Central.  Since then, Colbert’s fake conservative commentator shtick has struck a cord with his audience, so much so that Colbert has stopped being a TV host and […]

Well, that was fun while it lasted.  Shortly after Kyrie Irving became the top pick in the NBA draft and the Dallas Mavericks won the NBA title, the National Basketball Association has decided to throw a huge bucket of water on what was the most successful NBA season since the 1998-99 strike-shortened season by taking […]

Hey, stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Tylenol Extra Strength bottles are being recalled due to contamination from the fungicide 2,4,6-tribromoanisole (TBA).  No, I’m not repeating a story from 2009, Johnson&Johnson is recalling a February 2009 run of  Tylenol Extra Strength 250-count bottles, bearing the UPC code 300450444271.  The bottles are from lot ABA619. […]