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Hey Tyler Perry, I think I’ve found your next script for that wacky Madea. Instead of preaching to the choir,  pastor Daryl Riley should have been preaching to his music director. Riley chose to fire music director Simone Moore from his position at the New Welcome Baptist Church in St. Elmo, Alabama. Simone Moore, who is […]

Hatred and discrimination in any form is an ugly thing. A group in Germany tried to show some right-wing nationalists that there is a way to end hatred. An organization called  Exit works to let members of hate-mongering groups know there is a way to leave their white supremacist ways behind. To get their message […]

Like a scene out of a Hollywood thriller, scuba divers cruising through the depths of Lake Tahoe came upon a macabre scene recently. These divers weren’t looking for an underwater hotel, but they did find a grisly surprise. Swimming along at 270 feet below the surface, a group, in what was described as a “needle […]

  As you were growing up, how many times did your mother tell you to “Stop playing with your food!”? I know I heard that phrase more than once. But what if your food sort of plays with you? A lot of people are squeamish about eating sushi and a delicacy served in Japan won’t […]

I’ll avoid the obvious jokes about Samuel L. Jackson’s movie Snakes on A Plane, but for a family from the Memphis, Tennessee area a drive turned into an adventure worthy of an episode on Animal Planet. Cruising down the road at 65 mph, Rachel and Tony Fisher and their three children were surprised by an […]

Time and time again, most of society is both appalled and entertained by the bumbling efforts of stupid criminals. Whether it’s sugar-craving idiots who robbed a candy store getting caught because they left a trail of empty wrappers like Hansel and Gretel or the dunces who had to leave their loot on the curb because […]

I must have been doing something wrong years ago when I had goldfish as pets. Inevitably, and sooner than later, the little swimmers all ended up floating at the top of their bowl before taking a swirly trip to heaven via the flushing funeral. I considered the goldfish less hardy a survivalist than Kim Kardashian […]

For the past 29 years fans of literature have moaned, groaned and laughed at the entries in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. For those who think the name Bulwer-Lytton has a familiar ring to it, it’s because Edward George Bulwer-Lytton came up with the often mocked line “It was a dark and stormy night.” to begin […]

We’ve all seen those ancient paintings on the walls of caves in Europe. The sometimes crude artistic works, possibly created by folks after they drank some brew out of the skull of an enemy, depict woolly mammoths and herds of other Ice Age-era animals. Think about this. Have you ever seen such a rendering found […]

Nothing says fun like a Yeti and action figures directed by Spike Jonze. Then throw in the music of the Beastie Boys and you’ve got 11-minutes worth of must-see footage. It’s sort of a combination of Team America/Robot Chicken/Thunderbirds with music. Maybe the rap trio took some cues from the mashup video put together using […]

  How’s that song go? “Love is a many splendored thing.” In this case the lyrics could be changed to “Love is a many feathered thing.” While we American humans keep getting divorced at record rates, true commitment in nature isn’t that uncommon. Many birds, including bald eagles, mate for life. And a rare fowl […]

Normally when I think of works of art, oil paints and watercolors come to mind, not staples, pushpins, packing tape and pencil shavings. I think of works like those of Picasso that were collected by his electrician, not what will fill a shopping cart at your nearby OfficeMax. That was my mistake. Artists can take […]

Nothing says American summer like taking your kids to the park and giving a beatdown to a furry baseball mascot. It’s another tragic case of mascot abuse. This time the victim was Rockey Redbird who leads the cheers for the Memphis Redbirds, a AAA affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals. It seems Rockey chose to […]

The lowest of the low budget films ha,s over time, become a cult classic with a legion of fans. The Evil Dead, starring B-movie hero Bruce Campbell, who may or may not have anything to do with soup, was followed by two sequels and a ton of fan love. There have been video games and […]