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Silvio Berlusconi is Italy’s version of Eliot Spitzer, except much more powerful.  The controversial Italian prime minister just can’t stay out of trouble when it comes to either his public appearances or his taste in women.  Silvio Berlusconi is accused of abusing his power in an attempt to get an underage teenage stripper named Ruby […]

The world of Superman, Batman, and Spider-man might be exciting, but it’s hardly educational, right?  Well, that’s where you’re wrong, my friend.  Comic books and graphic novels are increasingly becoming useful in education.  In fact, teacher R.J. Casey of Elk Grove, Illinois, recently got a grant to put comic books and graphic novels into the […]

The albatross around the neck of Julie Taymor just will not stop squawking.  However, just because the production has been delayed four times from its original opening date doesn’t mean people don’t want to see it.  Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark is the most successful non-open musical I’ve ever seen.  However, it has a release […]

When it comes to explaining away this winter’s weird weather pattern, with snow on the ground in 49 states and strangeness all around, there’s no one root cause.  Instead, the lead forecaster at Columbia University’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Tony Barnston, has pointed out two phenomena as the root cause for this […]

When it comes to recovering a missing child, every second counts.  Hence the popularity of the Amber Alert system, a missing child warning system that pushes out information about abducted children to news organizations, television stations, and even highway signs and websites all at once.  In the name of protecting children, the Amber Alert network […]

Best Buy has a noble goal.  The company wants to collect 1 billion pounds of ewaste over the next five years, and to help meet their goal, they’ve come up with a plan.  Rather than simply selling new electronic goodiess and hope that when the time comes you’ll recycle them at a Best Buy store, […]

Peter Fonda made his name as a hell-raising biker rebel in films like Easy Rider and Wild Angels, but as it turns out, Peter Fonda is a civic-minded gentleman.  After all, when the 70-year-old actor caught sight of something unusual in West Los Angeles, California, the first place he went was the West Los Angeles […]

With a group of her closest friends and her husband at her side, injured Arizona representative to Congress Gabrielle Giffords has shown an incredible amount of improvement in only a few short days since she was injured by a crazed assassin at a meet-and-greet in front of a Tuscon, Arizona, grocery store.  Gabrielle Giffords, who […]

If you thought Brett Favre was the troublemaker in his family, think again.  A $50,000 fine and a pending lawsuit for sexual harassment are nothing for the 41-year-old NFL quarterback when compared against the troubles of his sister.  That’s right, Brett Favre’s sister, Brandi Favre, makes Brett look like a Boy Scout.  Brett Favre’s sister, […]

Well, the wheels went off that particular train pretty quickly, didn’t it?  Ted Williams, the homeless man with the golden voice who lost everything to drugs and alcohol, claimed he’d been sober for two years when the Internet turned him into an overnight superstar.  Well, after looking into the incident where Williams and his daughter […]

Phoenix Jones isn’t an ordinary superhero.  Unlike those of DC Comics or Marvel Entertainment, Phoenix Jones doesn’t have any super powers.  He’s just a normal person like you or me, except with one key difference:  Phoenix Jones is on the streets of Seattle, Washington, fighting crime in an armored superhero costume.  In that way he’s […]

When it comes to closers, there are only a few names which spring to mind.  One of these is New York Yankees star Mariano Rivera.  The other is former Padre and Brewer Trevor Hoffman, who is Major League Baseball’s all-time saves leader with 601 saves.  One of these men will pitch next year, and it […]

Every morning, when electrician Wang Han-chin leaves his home in central Taiwan, there’s someone waiting to curse him.  Wang Han-chin is suing his neighbors, saying that they taught their mynah bird to curse him.  Every morning, the bird greets Wang Han-chin with the cat-call, “Clueless, big-mouthed idiot.” Being cursed at daily by a foul-mouthed bird […]

In the Siberian city of Omsk, Russia, justice is tough, and justice bringers are tougher.  Even a little thing like having your car set on fire won’t stop the wheels of Siberian justice from grinding down the population.  The city judge in Omsk, Russia, had his car set on fire by a former police officer […]