Unusual Stuff

While it’s not quite a 19-pound baby, a 14-pound baby born right here in the United States of America is pretty spectacular.  Matthew Anthony Maldanado was born at a staggering 14 pounds 3.6 ounces.  Fortunately for his mother, Emily, he was born via C-section; unfortunately for Emily, she was in labor for two days.  At […]

Well, the show must go on, right?  When Charlie Sheen started to have his epic freak-outs, CBS pulled Two And A Half Men from its lineup and, eventually, announced that the show was over despite being the top show on TV and having the cast members under contract.  Well, not so fast my friend; Two […]

Like a lot of people who love to try new things, I’ve been anxiously awaiting Google’s release of Chrome OS since Chrome OS was announced in November 2009.  That’s been a long wait, especially considering we’re in the summer of 2011 now.  Still, I’d like to think that Google has made the wait worthwhile, even […]

It’s a tough racket out there for crime fighters.  There are criminals everywhere, so you need to be prepared to defend both your life and the lives of others.  The police will help (occasionally), but they’re also usually not too hot on masked vigilantes fighting crime.  It’s kind of a lose-lose situation; if you bring […]

  When it comes to cats or dogs, I’m definitely on Team Dog. They can be heroes like the dogs that use their highly sensitive snouts to sniff for bombs or help find victims buried in rubble after a disaster collapses buildings. Throughout history there have been dogs used by the military including samurai dogs. […]

                      After watching an episode of the HBO series “Six Feet Under” a few years back, one of my greatest fears is to get choked at home alone and be unable to dislodge the hunk of food and thus die. Authorities aren’t sure exactly what […]

In terms of natural disasters, some strike in an instant without warning, like the earthquakes that struck Japan and New Zealand earlier this year. Now with advancements in technology, tsunamis and even tornadoes can be tracked with appropriate warnings to specific neighborhoods. However, tornadoes still manage to steal hamburgers even in this day and age. […]

In an outing less successful than Bambi’s spin across the ice with Thumper, a deer found itself in dire straits after roaming out onto a frozen lake. The ice wasn’t thick enough to support the woodland leaper and the deer fell through to a potentially cold water ending reminiscent of the finale of The Titanic. […]

Once upon a time, Sirius and XM were competitors for your satellite radio dollar, but due to hard times and a lack of profitability on either side, the two former enemies have become fast economic friends to fight off the difficulty that comes with competing against streaming radio online.  The Sirius and XM merger was […]

For 44.999 years, Professor William Kielhorn did not miss a day of work at LeTourneau University in Texas.  Rain or shine, the 79-year-old didn’t miss a class.  Even when he was undergoing painful radiation and chemotherapy treatments while deathly ill from stage four colon cancer, Professor Kielhorn taught three classes a week.  However, complications from […]

All Brett Henderson, age 35, wanted to do was run in Cincinnati’s Flying Pig Marathon on Sunday.  He drove into town from St. Paris, Ohio, got in line, and started running with the crowd.  Unfortunately, Brett Henderson was naked while running in the marathon.  Also, Brett Henderson was not involved in the marathon in an official capacity. […]

In 2006, Francisco Liriano was on top of the world.  He was the rookie of the month for April, had an ERA hovering around 2, and was the sensation of the baseball world.  Then, he blew his arm out, wrecking his elbow and missing the entire 2007 season after receiving Tommy John surgery, which reconstructed […]

Alfred Stewart, a 31-year-old deaf mute, was out with a group of friends at the Ocean’s Eleven Lounge in Hallendale Beach, Florida, on Saturday night when they caught the eye of 45-year-old gang-banger Barbara Lee.  Stewart and his friends are deaf and communicate via sign language, which Lee mistakenly assumed were gang signs.  I guess […]

In order to distract you from the insane amount of coverage of the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton this morning and the devastating tragedy of the tornadoes that ripped across the South on Wednesday, I present to you racing weiner dogs. The 2011 Weiner Nationals were held in mid April in Golden […]

Well, they certainly didn’t waste any time in confronting the elephant in the room, did they?  During last night’s National Football League draft, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell walked up to the mic to begin the draft and was greeted by a chorus of boos.  After all, this is the first work stoppage for the NFL […]