Unusual Stuff

  After two days in captivity, Major League Baseball catcher Wilson Ramos was rescued from his kidnappers on Friday night in a mountainous region of Venezuela. Ramos, who had an outstanding rookie season as a catcher for the Washington Nationals, was kidnapped from his home 90 miles outside of Caracas on Wednesday night. While the […]

It’s another case of that saying, “I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like.” What to me looks like a bad snapshot from a boring vacation turns out to be worth a record $4.3 million, at least according to the person who shelled out that much dough to win an auction […]

What’s the second-best thing to hacking an ATM to spit out cash?  Why, hacking into an online database full of delicious credit cards and billing information, of course?  Apparently, Steam, a video-game streaming and downloading website run by Valve is a nice target to shoot for.  An estimated 35 million Steam accounts have been compromised […]

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 […]

There’s big news coming out of Venezuela and this time it isn’t about the crowning of Ivian Sarcos as the new Miss World. Normally when the authorities are involved with a Major League Baseball players, the crime usually pertains to performance-enhancing drugs or assaults of the domestic or drunken bar variety. However MLB crime news […]

It’s one of the longest running comics on the pages, and it shows no signs of slowing down, even without the man behind the magic.  Bil Keane, creator of The Family Circus, has passed away at age 89.  Keane died of congestive heart failure.  I have no doubt that Family Circus will run a heart-warming, […]

Long-time Nittany Lions head coach Joe Paterno has been fired by Penn State, effective immediately.  The football program whose motto is “Success With Honor” has been very successful, but not terribly honorable over the past decade or so, and the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal has cost Joe Paterno his job.  Tom Bradley, the team’s […]

  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 […]

You just can’t stop those breedin’ Duggars.  Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, stars of the reality television show “19 Kids and Counting” on TLC, are both way too old to be having any more children.  Considering the fact the Duggars just had a baby girl named Josie Brooklyn in December 2009, they should still have […]

What goes around, comes around is an old saying that refers to karmic payback. Do bad things and bad things will happen to you. Do good things and you will be rewarded in the long term. Unless you’re Citizen Superhero Phoenix Jones, that is. Good Samaritan Victor Giesbrecht didn’t have to wait too long for […]

Lindsay Lohan has been a very busy girl lately.  When not going back to jail due to parole violations, she’s been posing for Playboy Magazine.  As it turns out, the shoot has been pretty quick to do, and Lohan’s Playboy debut will be here quicker than expected.  Lindsay Lohan’s Playboy shoot will be in the […]

The game of “Anything you can do, I can do better” continues for the technology sector.  Not long ago, Amazon unveiled the Kindle Fire, an upgraded, tablet version of their famous ebook reader which kick-started the ebook industry.  Barnes and Noble, who followed the first generation Kindle with the Nook ereader, has also taken the […]

For most of Joe Paterno’s 46 year reign as head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions, Penn State has been the cleanest, most upstanding program in college athletics, let alone college football or the Big Ten.  Under JoePa’s grandfatherly gaze, Penn State has run a clean ship, avoiding NCAA pitfalls and following all the […]

With the St. Louis Cardinals closing out the 2011 baseball season with their World Series win, basketball fans are getting geared up to see their teams take over the spotlight. While the NBA is stuck in a lockout during labor negotiations between the owners and players and games are being cancelled, college hoop fans are […]

Halloween may be over but a family in Ohio says there are still plenty of ghosts around.  And these ghosts aren’t rattling chains and acting ghoulish. Instead the homeowner says a photo her granddaughter snapped in the living room unexpectedly shows the not-so-holy ghostly couple in the act of making whoopie. Euclid, Ohio resident Dianne […]