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The world of sports has been in the news lately mostly for all the wrong reasons. Sex abuse scandals on the campuses of Syracuse and Penn State have rocked the nation. Lockouts due to labor strife have threatened both the NFL and NBA seasons. Now another tragic event has struck college athletics. Oklahoma State head […]

With NASA’s final space shuttle mission having already traveled beyond our atmosphere and safely returned to Earth, many bemoaned the fact that our nation’s space program seemed to have very little vision and future here in the early portion of this century. Recently it seems the organization was more worried about recovering gravel from the […]

The fallout from the alleged child rape scandal at Penn State University has spread from State College, Pennsylvania all the way to the Big 10 Conference headquarters. The conference bigwigs have opted to remove recently-fired PSU head football coach Joe Paterno’s name from the Big 10 football championship trophy. Paterno, a coaching legend, was fired […]

In our age of digital communication, the art of letter writing is a lost skill. Even cursive is no longer being taught in some schools. When we are separated from our loved ones, putting pen to paper to record thoughts and emotions is now replaced by texting and tweeting at 140 character limits or by […]

Today is Veterans Day here in the United States. It’s a day we take to honor those who have before and are now serving our country. No matter the branch of the military, these men and women put our nation before their lives. Obviously we should give them the utmost respect every day of the […]

  For some people clowns are the creepiest thing in the world. For others dolls can cause hysteria. The fear of dolls is known as pediophobia. For those doll-fearing folks, a house in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia would create nightmares worthy of lasting a lifetime. It seems Anatoly Moskvin has been arrested for pulling corpses from […]

Most of the time when we think of police stings, we think of some major drug bust that nets millions of dollars in narcotics and takes an evil drug lord off the streets. But a sting held at a Denny’s restaurant in Lake Elsinore, California brought in a rogue grandmother trying to sell a moon […]

Television commentator Andy Rooney passed away on Friday at the age of 92 according to a CBS News release. For decades Sunday night television included a short segment with Rooney, who was the often grumpy punctuation at the end of every episode of CBS mainstay 60 Minutes. With a lot less fanfare than Oprah’s TV […]

It would be easy to think that a man who wins a million dollars and then begins a long-term romance with a beautiful young woman who has also won a million dollars leads a charmed life. Ethan Zohn might disagree with you. The 37-year-old winner of the television show Survivor knows real life can kill […]

Marketing in the fast food industry calls for some creative thinking to keep a restaurant thriving. A pair of Domino’s Pizza managers in Lake City, Florida came up with an unusual way of getting business to heat up. Instead of making heart-shaped pizzas for Valentine’s Day or new products like breakfast pizzas or promoting a […]

Halloween has blossomed into a $6 billion industry according to reports this year. A large chunk of that will be spent on candy of both the familiar and unfamiliar variety, while another significant portion will be used to purchase costumes, both for adults and for pets. Lawn decorations also make up a piece of that […]

Chalk one up for the good guys in Florida’s battle against invasive species. Like stucco-eating Giant African Land Snails, the non-native pythons and constrictors that are regularly being found in the Sunshine State are a big headache for wildlife management folks and aren’t nearly as rare as a snake with a foot. However, contractors for […]

They’re probably still celebrating under the Arch as a I type this. The St. Louis Cardinals claimed the 11th World Series championship in the franchise’s history with a 6-2 win over the Texas Rangers in Game 7 last night. Fittingly, the Cardinals had to mount a comeback after giving up two first-inning runs to the […]

  It’s that time of year when stores have scary window displays and the aisles and shelves are filled with bag after bag of mini servings of M&Ms and fun-sized Snickers. Although how they could call a half-sized serving “fun” still escapes me. But let’s get back on track. Yep, it’s the week of Halloween. […]

One more violent despot goes down. After the world celebrated the death of Osama bin Laden earlier this year, now another black-hearted tyrant is brought to brutal justice. Reports coming out of Libya this morning alerted the world to the fact that Moammar Gadhafi has been killed. Al Jazeera Arabic broke the news this morning […]