Unusual Stuff

Billions of dollars in incredibly lucrative advertising.  Billions of viewers.  It’s one of the most lucrative businesses in the world, particularly the sports world.  It’s also infamous for its corruption, but nobody has done anything about it.  Until now.  Leave it to the United States, the least football-mad country in the world, to stand up […]

In 1889, no one thought the Eiffel Tower was going to be a permanent addition to the skyline of Paris.  Some 126 years later, the Eiffel Tower has changed some, but it continues to draw crowds to The City Of Lights, enthralling tourists with some incredible views.  But as anyone knows, what draws tourists also […]

It’s a defining moment in television history.  Passed over for the Tonight Show in favor of Jay Leno despite Johnny Carson’s blessing, David Letterman left NBC and went to blaze new ground, kick-starting a late-night show on CBS.  There he made television history, picking a fight with the richest woman in the world and becoming […]

All good things must come to an end, and one of the longest and most successful runs of any voice actor is apprently coming to an end thanks to a contract dispute.  There have been lots of contract disputes in the history of Fox’s smash hit The Simpsons, and some have nearly derailed the show. […]

What a long strange trip it’s been for the most popular music reality show in television history.  Fox’s American Idol has been a ratings juggernaut, routinely gathering in 30 million viewers and dominating multiple nights of television no matter what was thrown up against it.  It spawned platinum-selling artists like Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood, […]

One of Nicola Tesla’s craziest, most famous ideas was the idea of so-called wireless energy, in which electricity just floated through the air to be plucked down to power your car or headphones or whatever device you might have that needs electricity.  That idea is beginning to take off in a limited way, but a company […]

It seems that as the years advance, HIV and AIDS are becoming forgotten diseases.  Everyone knows they’re there, but they’re not nearly as scary to people these days as they used to be, since the disease isn’t a guaranteed death sentence within a few years anymore.  There are vaccines being worked on, stem cell research […]

Another day, another  troublesome situation.  This time it’s on the sporting field, rather than in the middle of the rioting, fiery streets.  The Baltimore Orioles aren’t known for a lot of on-field success; indeed, the words ‘middling’ or ‘woeful’ is often used to describe the team from a historical standpoint.  Now the Orioles are going […]

Did you get a chance to go by Starbucks last night?  If you did, then you probably came away with a surprisingly large amount of money.  No, Starbucks wasn’t giving cash away, but they weren’t taking cash away either.  Last night, the Starbucks point of sale system went down and the company had no way […]

There’s nothing like a good potluck.  I love it.  Everyone shows up with a big plate or bowl or crock pot of something great and everyone shares and eats too much and then eats more, because there’s so much stuff left over.  The epicenter of potlucks in the South is usually the local church, but […]

Earlier today, the trailer for the upcoming Batman/Superman adventure from Warner Brothers and DC leaked online.  DC made the rounds and got it pulled down wherever possible, but the bat is out of the bag and no amount of takedowns can make us all unsee that.  The best thing about leaked trailers is that they […]

Campaign finance reform is a big issue facing the United States.  Increasingly, it seems like the side with the most money wins the races, or at least both sides have to spend millions of dollars to win anything.  That’s why people who support campaign finance reform tend to be a little more animated about it […]

No college basketball coach has won as many games in a single season as John Calipari.  He’s got three 38-win seasons to his name, and given his prowess at recruiting, that number looks to grow as he racks up wins and NBA draft picks, in that order.  It’s a credit to his ability to coach […]

Drug dealers will do anything to move their product without people paying them any attention.  Anything can be used to smuggle drugs, and nothing is sacred.  Not pregnant women, not kid’s fashions, and definitely not toys.  Even toys related to one of the most adorable holidays on the holiday book aren’t going to escape manipulation. […]

There’s something very satisfying about a nice helping of tea.  Iced tea on a hot day, hot tea on a cold day, tea is pretty much satisfying in any context.  Certainly a man from Little Rock, Arkansas, would agree, or he would have before a very weird, very horrible accident.  An Arkansas man who drank […]