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Paralyzed By Gas Station Nachos

Posted 5/18/2017 6:54 pm by

I’ve never had a problem eating food from a gas station.  Just two weeks ago, I ate a couple of hot dogs purchased from a gas station.  They were delicious.  That’s not the first time I’ve eaten gas station food, and I doubt it will be the last.  There’s nothing like a fun food novelty. […]

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McDonald’s Lauches The Frork, And Also New Sandwiches

Posted 5/01/2017 6:40 pm by

McDonald’s is a company in transition.  The old favorites seem to be losing popularity; kids these days just don’t want Big Macs anymore.  That means time for a new invention, and it appears that McDonald’s is taking some cues from Japan by getting creative with their hamburgers.  McDonald’s is adding three new sandwiches to their […]

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Raiders Fleeing Oakland For Vegas, Baby

Posted 3/28/2017 8:29 am by

Commissioner Roger Goodell gathered 32 NFL owners for one big question.  One of the league’s most wanderlust-stricken franchises is looking to move again.  The Oakland-Los Angeles-Oakland Raiders, tired of gutting it out in a run-down stadium, were once again looking for greener pastures.  Only the Miami Dolphins refused to cooperate.  With a vote of 31-1, […]

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McDonald’s Blasts Number One Customer Donald Trump

Posted 3/16/2017 7:21 pm by

It’s not every day that a Twitter account dedicated to promoting McDonald’s as a business, but now it’s made a statement that will either increase business or cause a boycott and hashtag frenzy.  It’s all based on how you feel about President Donald Trump.  If you’re a fan, you’re booing.  If you’re not a fan, […]

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Tony Romo Leaving Dallas

Posted 3/08/2017 6:54 pm by

In 2006, an injury to Dallas Cowboys starting quarterback Drew Bledsoe opened the door for an undrafted free agent by the name of Tony Romo to take the helm of America’s Team and lead the Dallas Cowboys to an early playoff exit.  Bledsoe went from starter to afterthought in a season.  Now, the circle continues […]

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Xbox One Adds Netflix-Style Subscription

Posted 2/28/2017 12:21 pm by

There’s a certain charm to having streaming services at your beck and call.  I don’t get to watch as much as I want, but when I get a chance to watch something on demand, I usually take it.  I love Netflix, and I’ve watched more bad movies on Netflix than I have any right to […]

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Whoops, Here’s The REAL Best Picture

Posted 2/27/2017 9:37 am by

For 89 years, Oscars has never had a major mistake.  The last few Oscars might have had a few flubs, but at least they never got the most important category of the night wrong.  Well, that’s now changed, all thanks to OG Bonnie and Clyde legends Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway.  When Faye Dunaway called […]

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Queens Bull Captured After Merry Chase

Posted 2/21/2017 6:40 pm by

There’s the concrete jungle.  There’s the urban cowboy.  There’s all kinds of farm and animal metaphors that concern New York City, but none of them actually reflect the actual animals.  The bull market on Wall Street has little to nothing to do with actual bulls, so any time you see a strange animal loose on […]

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Tom Brady’s Jersey Stolen From Super Bowl LI Locker Room

Posted 2/06/2017 5:41 pm by

Tom Brady has been wildly successful, if controversial.  He’s the first quarterback ever to win five Super Bowls and only the second player to do so after Charles Haley.  Unlike Haley, Brady won all his Super Bowls with the same team, the New England Patriots.  The only thing that seems to be able to stop […]

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Panic! US Bacon Reserves Hit 50-Year-Low

Posted 2/01/2017 7:01 pm by

As of right now, the United States Department of Agriculture has 17.8 million pounds of pork belly in storage.  Pork belly is the delicious part of the pig that turns into bacon when cured and fried.  It tastes good, smells better, and is even good for you!  It seems like a lot, but it’s actually […]

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Ben Affleck Keeps Cowl, Gives Up Director’s Chair

Posted 1/31/2017 7:42 pm by

Ben Affleck, no matter what you might think of him, is a talented actor and director.  He’s got the goods, but he’s smart enough to know when he’s in over his head.  All along, since he took on the mantle of Batman, he’s had his eyes on writing, directing, and starring as the Caped Crusader. […]

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Concentration Camp “Escape Room” Shut Down

Posted 1/27/2017 7:37 pm by

There’s a new game genre out there.  Part simulation, part social game, part physical challenge, escape rooms are really popular.  You wander through a scenario, stuff happens, and you have to try to figure your way out in a certain amount of time.  I’ve done similar things, but I haven’t done a full-fledged escape room […]

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Fired IT Worker Locks College Out Of Accounts

Posted 1/17/2017 6:10 pm by

In May, students for the for-profit American College of Education were running into some problems.  Their access to email accounts and course information was locked down by Google, who had disabled their accounts.  The reason why?  A fired IT worker for the American College of Education locked the school out of their Google cloud account. […]

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Yahoo To Become Altaba With New CEO

Posted 1/09/2017 8:51 pm by

There’s just a constant state of flux in one of the web’s biggest companies and the pre-Google version of Google.  Yahoo, limping along while its former corporate child Alibaba has become a major player in the online world.  Yet poor old Yahoo keeps struggling along, but maybe a new name will yield new fortunes?  Yahoo […]

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Amazon Echo Witnesses A Murder

Posted 12/27/2016 6:36 pm by

When Victor Collins was murdered, sometime between the hours of 1 and 3 AM, it is believed to have happened in the home of one James Andrew Bates, of Bentonville, Arkansas.  Police have arrested Bates for the murder, and are actively looking to put together a criminal case, and there’s believed to be only one […]

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Electoral College Chooses Trump; Clinton Loses Votes

Posted 12/19/2016 6:44 pm by

The story of this election has been the divided country we live in.  Just because the election has been decided that doesn’t mean that the election story is over.  Oh no.  The United States uses something called the Electoral College, which basically means that every state is worth a certain number of electoral college votes. […]

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Synthetic Pot Leads To Brooklyn “Zombie Outbreak”

Posted 12/16/2016 6:21 pm by

Synthetic marijuana is nothing to sneeze at.  In fact, it’s nothing to even try smoking, either, because it’s dangerous, dangerous stuff.  A street corner in Brooklyn, where Bushwick meets Bedford-Stuyvesant, has become known as “zombie corner” because of the massive amount of K2 addicts gathering there.  During one weekend day, 33 people passed out in […]

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One Billion Yahoo Accounts Hacked

Posted 12/14/2016 6:31 pm by

It wasn’t all that long ago that Yahoo suffered the largest single hacking attack on record.  At that time, 500 million user accounts were compromised.  Turns out, that’s just the tip of the iceberg for the flailing online giant.  Yahoo announced today that one billion Yahoo accounts have been compromised.  No, not one billion total; […]

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Man Spends Stolen $1 Million On Game Of War

Posted 12/12/2016 6:40 pm by

People spend a lot of money on games on their phone.  Even a free game like Pokemon Go can rack up hundreds of dollars in fees if you decide to become a pay to win player (which is what most game companies are counting on)  For example, the biggest money-making game of the last two […]

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Philip Morris CEO Looking At A Smokeless Future

Posted 11/30/2016 7:20 pm by

The old days of “smoke ’em if you got ’em” have been gone for a long time, and it seems that every day, more people kick the smoking habit.  Even in the state I live, where cigarettes keep people employed and where a quarter of the population still smokes, smoking is on the downswing.  Too […]

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Donald Trump’s Victory Tour

Posted 11/29/2016 7:01 pm by

Donald Trump is back in the news again.  Stop me if you’ve heard that before.  However, it’s not his policies that are drawing attention this time; if anything, he’s getting attention paid to him thanks to the one thing he can do well:  draw crowds.  Donald Trump somehow transferred his reality show popularity and media […]

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A 5-Second Video Will Crash Your iPhone

Posted 11/22/2016 7:46 pm by

The modern electronic is a far cry from the old days of tubes and transistors.  These days, things are way more delicate than they used to be, and the funniest things can become big problems for smartphone owners.  Every time an operating system gets updated, problems arise.  Even something as simple as watching a video […]

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New Balance: The Official Shoe Of White People

Posted 11/15/2016 6:50 pm by

Donald Trump has a way about him that makes people go crazy.  Take your pick of how he makes people go crazy.  Either he’s leading huge rallies of people or he’s driving people to destroy their cell phones and smash up public monuments.  There seems to be no difference.  Now, because of a statement that’s […]

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Gawker And Hulk Hogan Settle Lawsuit

Posted 11/02/2016 7:51 pm by

Gawker has been completely destroyed by their own actions.  Terry Bollea, AKA Hulk Hogan, was publicly humiliated by Gawker when the media company essentially published a stolen sex tape and refused to take it down even after a court order was issued against the company.  Judges hate it when you ignore court orders.  Judges also […]

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AT&T To Buy Time Warner For $80 Billion

Posted 10/22/2016 4:13 pm by

It’s time to buy, if you’re a major corporation.  No one’s been trying to buy more things than AT&T, and nobody’s been trying to get bought up more than Time Warner.  Charter tried to buy Time Warner and failed.  Comcast tried to buy Time Warner and failed.  AT&T tried and failed to buy T-Mobile, but […]

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Amazon Launches Unlimited Music Streaming Service

Posted 10/12/2016 9:30 pm by

There are a lot of music streaming services out there.  Apple, Spotify, Google Play Music, and any number of others.  that’s a pretty crowded field, and yet, Amazon has spotted a softness in the marketplace, and a good way to add some value to Amazon’s Echo home entertainment/concierge system.  To that end, Amazon is ready […]

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NFL Disgrace Greg Hardy To Become MMA Fighter

Posted 10/11/2016 7:54 pm by

At age 28, Greg Hardy should be lining up on Sunday afternoon for a professional football team.  He was an All Pro player in 2013, and his performance on the field cannot be questioned.  However, his behavior off the field is the problem.  Hardy can’t stay out of trouble, whether it’s being arrested for domestic […]

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Samsung Recalls All Galaxy Note 7s

Posted 10/10/2016 8:38 pm by

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but Samsung is recalling their defective Galaxy Note 7 phones.  They’ve already announced one recall, but it looks as though the replacement phones are just as dangerous as the original versions.  Samsung is recalling every Galaxy Note 7 phone it has produced.  If you have a Galaxy […]

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Millennials Don’t Eat Big Macs

Posted 10/08/2016 11:50 am by

McDonald’s has tried valiantly to change its business around, to keep growth happening and to keep their place at the top of the fast food world, but it’s not happening quite as easily as it might have.  Mickey D’s attempt at all-day breakfasts hasn’t sparked the way it was expected, and while they’re still changing […]

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Parade Features Hillary Clinton’s Execution

Posted 10/05/2016 8:50 pm by

The political system in America, by and large, works pretty good.  Sure, there are occasionally disagreements between various political factions, but most of the time things don’t go past the argument stage.  There are occasional issues with Donald Trump’s more ardent supporters, but even those pale in comparison to what goes in in some other […]

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