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Whoever does the travel planning for Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, should probably be filling out a resume right about now because if I was the Prince of Wales, they’d be looking for a new job.  Last night, while heading to the Royal Variety Performance, the future King of England and […]

On Black Friday, an unfortunate Polish immigrant got more than she bargained for, but the culprit wasn’t overzealous shoppers.  The people who beat her and left her battered and bruised were a pair of uniformed New York Police Department officers from the 100th Precinct.  Ann Stanczyk was walking her dog Psotka when two police officers […]

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it was all Jennifer Noble and her family could do to survive in the oppressive heat and humidity of devastated Biloxi, Mississippi.  During the chaos, the family cat, a Russian Blue and tabby mix named Scrub, got lost in the shuffle, escaping out an open window.  The family had […]

It’s long been the fever dream of mad men with too much money, like Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic.  Now, it’s a reality.  With a little help from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the commercial space transportation company SpaceX has become the first company to successfully launch a commercial space vehicle and successfully return to […]

If you want to embarrass someone, there’s not a better way than to pull them from the screening line at the airport and give them one of those enhanced TSA pat-downs.  Not only does everyone thing you’re a security risk after that, you also get fondled by a stranger.  It’s bad news all the way […]

Carl Crawford is the best defensive left fielder in Major League Baseball, bar none.  He’s got solid hitting at the plate, blazing speed on the base paths, and even has a little power on his bat (he hit 19 home runs last year).  He’s a four-time All Star and won the Gold Glove last season […]

It’s hard to be the head coach at any college football program.  No matter how modest the school, the football team is the crown jewel of their sporting crown, unless they’re a basketball school. Even then, it’s a lot of pressure.  From the looks of things, the pressure (and health scares) got the best of […]

When the right-wing fringe group the English Defense League was set to demonstrate in Birmingham, England, police officials knew they’d need to rally the troops.  Generally, demonstrations usually lead to counter-demonstrations, and that leads to the potential for violence.  Birmingham raised 100 police officers in riot gear and had them police the demonstration.  Little did […]

If all goes well, at 10:43, history is going to be made.  That’s the scheduled launch date for the new private commercial space agency SpaceX, AKA the Space Exploration Technologies Corporation.  The company has an ambitious plan.  SpaceX is looking to launch its Falcon 9 rocket, place the SpaceX Dragon space capsule into orbit, leaving […]

Emergency medical workers in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, responded to a 911 call made by a man who was having difficulty talking.  When the police arrived, they found a man bleeding from the mouth and his wife, both of whom were singing Christmas carols.  Well, the 50-something wife was singing; her late-70s-age husband wasn’t really able to […]

When it comes to the job of being a head football coach, it’s not all about wins and losses.  Yes, those things are very important, but witness the snake-bitten head coaching career of Dave Wannstedt.  After mixed results coaching at the professional level, Wannstedt landed his dream job.  He was coming back to his alma […]

Bad news is all around these days for President Obama.  It seems like no matter what he does these days, he’s going to get on someone’s nerves.  Critics from the right and critics from the left are attacking him at every turn, and it seems he just can’t do anything right.  Perhaps he might seek […]

Yesterday, doctors announced that Elizabeth Edwards was ceasing cancer treatments so that she could live out her final days in peace.  Not long after that article went live, Elizabeth Edwards succumbed to the cancer that she’d been fighting since 2004.  She leaves behind three children, the youngest of which is still in elementary school, and […]

If you thought America was immune to currency errors, think again.  Currency mistakes aren’t just things that happen in other countries or happen in America’s distant past.  Even today, people screw things up and (more factually) machines can mess up.  America’s long-delayed new $100 bill has been delayed again, as government officials have to check 1.1 […]