Unusual Stuff

In case you’ve forgotten, the US South doesn’t know how to deal with winter weather.  The further south you go, the worse the ability to handle ice and snow is, because there’s no need for a plow when your winter bottoms out at 40 typically and you get snow and ice worth treating once or […]

Since 1988, only one face has been the face of NBC Sports during the Olympics, and that is Bob Costas.  For 157 straight primetime appearances, Bob Costas has been leading the pack when it comes to Olympic coverage, and NBC doesn’t have anyone able to even get close to Costas when it comes to being […]

Increasingly, the world is learning to turn its attention away from homosexuality and toward other issues.  Being gay is becoming a non-issue, just another fact of life.  The military dropped its anti-gay policies long ago, even allowing uniformed troops to march in gay pride parades.  One of the last bastions of discriminatory thought is the […]

Every year, it seems the sports world gets more and more crowded.  NBC launched a sports-only network, Fox Sports has a sports-only national network, ESPN is still around and showing games, and it’s just hard to get any attention out there.  The NFL Network hasn’t been hugely successful, but it made its mark in the […]

It was the battle of the immovable object versus the irresistible force.  The league’s best offence versus the league’s best defense.  The one-man passing clinic versus the Legion of Boom.  The Denver Broncos versus the Seattle Seahawks for all the marbles in Super Bowl XLVIII, the first Super Bowl to ever be held in a […]

One is best known as a billionaire social networking maven.  The other is the bad guy from Die Hard With A Vengeance and the creepy-voiced uncle in The Lion King.  Together, they’re actors Jesse Eisenberg and Jeremy Irons, and they’ve got a big career move coming up.  Jesse Eisenberg and Jeremy Irons have been cast […]

Another day, another brush with the law for troubled Canadian pop star Justin Bieber.  As it turns out, being a millionaire since age 15 and being coddled by a legion of publicists, producers, bodyguards, enablers, and hangers-on isn’t really good for personal development.  First he eggs a neighbor’s house, then he goes out drag-racing while […]

Cows can be destructive to property, that much is true.  They’re large, they smell, they excrete poisonous chemicals, and their tongues can destroy your home.  It’s no wonder that cows would, eventually, turn on themselves.  A dairy farm in Rasdorf, Germany, was the scene of an emergency scene with firefighters and emergency services being called […]

The best thing about music awards shows is that it brings together all genres, all styles, all ages, and all possible combinations of artists and puts them together on the same stage.  That musical mix and match was the theme of the 56th Grammy Awards, which featured weird collaborations, weird performances, and lots and lots […]

Another day, another dust-up with the cops for Justin Bieber.  Just two weeks ago, Bieber egged his neighbor’s house and got the cops called on him.  Now, he’s making a Fast and Furious sequel on the streets of Miami, Florida, after a night out at the club with a head full of narcotics.  Justin Bieber […]

For seven quarters, PC sales have declined.  That’s a lot of lost sales, and most of the blame is getting put onto Windows 8 and the so-called Metro interface.  As it turns out, a universal touchscreen-style interface isn’t as appealing to the world as Microsoft thought it would be way back in 2010 and its sales […]

Moving goods and services around the country is one of the toughest things any company can do.  Amazon, with its many fulfillment systems, is pretty good about that sort of thing, and if you’re an Amazon Prime member, you can pretty much get whatever you want within two days.  However, those two days can feel […]

Pizza is big business, and when your business is pizza, then you need to keep pushing.  There are only so many places you can expand to, and Domino’s has already claimed the moon, so you can’t go there.  When you can’t go any farther, because you’ve pretty much put a Pizza Hut in every available […]

Man, teenage pop stars just can’t avoid trouble these days, particularly the current prince of pop, Canadian songbird Justin Bieber.  When he’s on tour, he’s riding around in a bus full of reefer, spraying graffiti and allegedly visiting brothels in Brazil, and peeing in mop buckets at night club.  Even when he’s not doing anything […]

The Bowl Championship Series, or BCS, has been a pretty controversial way to determine a national champion, given its reliance on computers, human bias, and generally not playing a tournament to determine the true winner like NCAA basketball does.  That will be changing next season with the dawn of a four-team tournament; however, the last […]