I don’t remember when NASA suffered its most famous and high profile disaster, but my aunt and mother, who both worked in the school system all their lives, remember the horrifying moment. On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger took off from NASA only to suffer a catastrophic failure of some rubber O-rings and […]
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Charlie Sheen Rushed To Hospital With Abdominal Pain
Posted 1/28/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganTroubled actor Charlie Sheen, who just can’t seem to stay away from drugs and prostitutes, is once again in the news for his erratic behavior and its long-term effects on his health. Sheen, who was recently seen partying at his house with five women of ill repute, was rushed from his Los Angeles Home to […]
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Egypt Shuts Off Its Internet Connection
Posted 1/28/2011 6:30 am by Ron HoganWith the country racked by anti-government protesters and pro-democracy rallies, the country of Egypt has gone to extremes in an attempt to silence dissent and make the lives of protesters that much more difficult. Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has ordered the Cairo-based government to shut off Egypt’s Internet connection. The 80-million-strong country of Egypt has completely disappeared off of […]
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College Professor Pees On Colleague’s Door For Revenge
Posted 1/27/2011 1:00 pm by Ron HoganTihomir Petrov, a 43-year-old math professor at California State University-Northridge, has had a longstanding disagreement with a colleague that bubbled over, quite literally. Professor Tihomir Petrov took vengeance on a colleague by peeing on the other man’s door. Unfortunately for Petrov, his urination inclination was caught on tape. Urine trouble, Professor! While piddling on someone’s […]
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Breast Implants Linked To Blood Cander
Posted 1/27/2011 12:30 pm by Ron HoganThose life-saving breast implants just might kill you. According to a new study released by the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, women with breast implants should be on the look out for a rare blood cancer called anaplastic large cell lymphoma, or ALCL. The FDA said it has identified as many as 60 cases […]
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Sony To Launch Next-Gen PSP This Year
Posted 1/27/2011 12:00 pm by Ron HoganFor all of Sony’s success in the console wars, the company hasn’t gotten much mileage out of its latest offerings. The PlayStation Portable, Sony’s hand-held offering, was a dud. The future-proofed PlayStation 3 is incredible, but expensive and slow to be adopted by gamers who already own Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 systems. Still, […]
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New York City Paralyzed By Another Snow Storm
Posted 1/27/2011 11:30 am by Ron HoganNew York City is not getting much of a break this winter. The Big Apple and the rest of the eastern seaboard keep getting hit with snow, time and time again. As of this morning, Central Park was under 15 inches of snow, and more is on the way in a full-fledged snow emergency. If […]
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Jay-Z And Will Smith To Reboot Musical Classic Annie
Posted 1/27/2011 11:00 am by Ron HoganFor those that don’t remember, Jay-Z scored a huge hit with the song “Hard Knock Life,” which had Jay-Z slinging rhymes over top of the song “It’s A Hard Knock Life” from the musical Annie. It goes without saying that Jay-Z’s interest in musicals hasn’t waned in that timespan. Jay-Z, chicken impresario of Brooklyn and musical genius, […]
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Will Ferrell Heading To The Office
Posted 1/27/2011 10:30 am by Ron HoganNBC’s hit comedy The Office is in a state of transition. After 7 seasons in charge of Dunder-Mifflin’s Scranton, Pennsylvania branch, Michael Scott, AKA Steve Carell, is stepping down at the end of this season. Fortunately, he’ll have an old friend to celebrate his final four Office episodes with. Will Ferrell is joining the cast […]
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UK University Awards Masters Degree In Beatles
Posted 1/27/2011 10:00 am by Ron HoganMary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy is a trailblazer of sorts. Not only is she a former Miss Canada finalist, she’s also one of the first 12 students in the world to enroll in Liverpool Hope University’s unusual masters degree program specializing in Brit Pop band The Beatles. Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy has a masters degree in Beatles, Popular Music, and Society, making […]
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The Memo That Fooled Hitler
Posted 1/27/2011 9:30 am by Ron HoganWhen it came to ending World War II, no move hastened the end of the hostilities more than D-Day, the invasion of Normandy by the Allies. However, D-Day was the end result of a complicated network of double-crosses that fed the Germans wrong information about where the invasion was to be launched. Normandy was relatively […]
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Dennis Kucinich Sues House Cafeteria Over Olive Injury
Posted 1/27/2011 9:00 am by Ron HoganWashington, D.C., is no stranger to unusual lawsuits. After all, the District of Columbia is the home of the Supreme Court, but it’s the Federal District Court that’s home to this particular weird lawsuit. Representative Dennis Kucinich, a Democrat from Ohio, is suing the cafeteria at the Longworth House Office Building. Kuchinich alleges that he […]
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Hubble Telescope Finds Most Distant Galaxy Visible From Earth
Posted 1/27/2011 8:30 am by Ron HoganThe Hubble Space Telescope has proven itself to be one of the most invaluable pieces of equipment in modern astronomy. For all the talk of the other equipment in the science arsenal, the Hubble is a major piece of equipment. The Hubble Space Telescope has already captured the oldest object in the universe, now it’s […]
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Fan Page Hacked
Posted 1/27/2011 8:00 am by Ron HoganNot even the guy who invented Facebook is immune to hacker attacks. In the second high-profile hacking of the week, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook fan page was attacked by hackers. The image of the hacked Facebook fan page was captured by Tech Crunch before Facebook pulled the page offline. Earlier this week, controversial French […]
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Rabbis Buy Glenn Beck Protest Ads On Fox-Owned Newspaper
Posted 1/27/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganA prominent Jewish group is calling on News Corp head Rupert Murdoch to sanction his two most infamous employees, Roger Ailes and Glenn Beck, for their use of Holocaust-themed rhetoric. Beck, a popular host on Fox News, described Jewish billionaire and prominent liberal money man George Soros as a “Jewish boy helping send the Jews […]
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Jimmy Buffett Falls From The Stage
Posted 1/27/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganJimmy Buffett was excited to be in Australia, and Australians were excited to see the soft-rock superstar perform his easy-going tropical hits, like Margaritaville and Cheeseburger in Paradise. However, perhaps the excitement was too much for 64-year-old Buffett, as flashing stage lights got him disoriented and the flip-flop-wearing singer walked off the stage, falling into […]
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Goodbye, Homeland Security Color Chart
Posted 1/27/2011 6:30 am by Ron HoganThe much-maligned, much-mocked Homeland Security Advisory System, a Sesame Street-style color chart designed to indicate to Americans how scared of terrorism they should be, has been in existence since March 11, 2002, when it was signed into existence by President Bush. Now, it’s expected that the Homeland Security Advisory System of color-coded terror warnings will […]
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Country Music Hall-Of-Famer Charlie Louvin Dead At 83
Posted 1/26/2011 1:00 pm by Ron HoganI have a list of artists I want to see before they (or I) die. Every so often, a name will pop up as being someone who has passed away and I’ll heave a sigh and mark them off my list. Charlie Louvin, one half of the Country Music Hall-of-Fame Louvin Brothers, was on that […]
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5-Foot-Long Lizard Roams California Neighborhood
Posted 1/26/2011 12:30 pm by Ron HoganAnimal control officers are used to hyperbole. Every giant monster is a simple snake or lizard or frog. Every wild dog out of control is someone’s escaped pet. However, panicky calls from a residential neighborhood in Riverside, California, concerning a giant Godzilla-like monster turned out to be pretty accurate. A five-foot-long black-throated monitor lizard was […]
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iPad and iPhones To Make Purchases
Posted 1/26/2011 12:00 pm by Ron HoganJust a few days ago, it was announced that Starbucks was bringing a payment app to the world of the Blackberry and Apple iDevice. Since that came out, Apple has taken the ball and run with it. Where the Starbucks app was a scanned barcode that displayed on the screen, Apple is turning its payment […]
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The Fantastic Four Down To Fantastic Three
Posted 1/26/2011 11:30 am by Ron HoganIn December, the news broke. One of the Fantastic Four, Marvel’s cornerstone superhero franchise for the past 50 years, was going to die. Not comic book death, either. Supposedly, the dead Fantastic Four member was going to die actual death. Well, with the final issue of the Fantastic Four, a year-long storyline by writer Jonathan […]
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The Dangers Of Distracted Pedestrians
Posted 1/26/2011 11:00 am by Ron HoganI think we’ve all seen it. We’re driving along in our car, minding our own business, when some fool on a bicycle or some moron jogger–in a state of blissful ignorance–darts out in front of us, lunges across the street, or both. Distracted pedestrians is a growing problem, and laws are springing up around the […]
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Orange County Choppers Bankruptcy-Truth And Rumors
Posted 1/26/2011 10:30 am by Ron HoganEvery morning when I wake up, I check the Google Trends listings to see what people are talking about, searching for, or looking to learn about. Usually, it’s a bunch of nothing. However over the past few days, there have been a lot of searches concerning Orange County Choppers, or OCC, and whether or not […]
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Pizza With A Side Of Cookies And Wyngz
Posted 1/26/2011 10:00 am by Ron HoganNow, don’t get me wrong. I love frozen pizza. I love pizza in pretty much all its forms, but a good Tombstone or DiGiorno pizza fresh from the oven? Forget about it, I’m as happy as a clam. I also love cookie and chicken wings or wing-type chicken products, and I’m a lot less picky […]
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Jersey Shore Heading To Italy AND England
Posted 1/26/2011 9:30 am by Ron HoganAfter three seasons of inexplicable fame in which a cast of sub-humanoids from New York and New Jersey were paraded around in front of a string of cameras to feud, fornicate, and intoxicate themselves into a frenzy, there’s no stopping MTV’s hit reality show Jersey Shore. No matter how far they get from Jersey, they […]
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Jesse The Body Versus TSA Body Screenings
Posted 1/26/2011 9:00 am by Ron HoganAs a professional wrestler, he was called “The Body.” As a governor, he was called “The Mind.” These days, you can call Jesse Ventura “The Lawsuit.” Former professional wrestler and Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura is suing the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration over body scanners and pat-downs at the airport. Also […]
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Indonesian Crop Circles Man-Made, Experts Say
Posted 1/26/2011 8:30 am by Ron HoganWhen crop circles were discovered in an Indonesian town, it became a sensation. Was Indonesia playing host to aliens from another planet? The crowds came to gawk at the circles and ponder what it all means. The crop circles appeared basically overnight. Just as quickly, experts have struck out at the crop circles, saying that […]
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The Hunger Games Movie Release Date Set
Posted 1/26/2011 8:00 am by Ron HoganLionsgate, like most movie studios, missed out on jumping on board the Harry Potter franchise when the going was good, but they’re not making that mistake with the latest Young Adult book series to garner national acclaim and huge amounts of praise and attention. Lionsgate snapped up the rights to The Hunger Games and have […]
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Australians May Be Getting New National Flag
Posted 1/26/2011 7:30 am by Ron HoganAustralia has recently celebrated Australia Day, and with every Australia day comes a renewed argument about the future of Australia. For example, the current Australian flag leaves something to be desired. After all, it’s basically the British flag with the Commonwealth star and the Southern Cross, and that’s not particularly Australian, especially since it’s a […]
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Toyota Recalls Another 1.7 Million Vehicles
Posted 1/26/2011 7:00 am by Ron HoganThe biggest myth in the automotive industry is the lack of quality American cars. American cars are junk, the common refrain goes; Japanese cars are superior because they’re better engineered? Well, I’d imagine Toyota and Lexus owners aren’t in agreement right now. Toyota is recalling another 1.7 million cars over fuel leak issues stemming from […]
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