These days, I think everyone is using or working for some sort of ride-sharing service. Of these, the most popular has proven to be Uber, which is running into problems left and right in places with strong cabbie culture but a real boon to places without taxis. Everyone but cabbies and state governments, who miss […]
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Charlie Sheen To Announce Rumored HIV Positive Status.
Posted 11/16/2015 5:55 pm by Ron HoganFour years ago, Charlie Sheen’s public melt-down was big news. It seems like he was in the papers daily, ranting about this or that, mentioning his tiger blood and talking about how he was winning. That was a long time ago. These days, Charlie Sheen’s public profile is a lot lower, but he’s still making […]
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Starbucks Has A Secret Holiday Menu
Posted 11/12/2015 5:47 pm by Ron HoganEvery year, the start of Pumpkin Spice Latte season is greeted with a host of social media posts, Instagram photos, Facebook likes, and all the other stuff that people do to spread the word about sugary goodness. However, not every holiday drink is the star of such a social media platform, even if most of […]
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New York State Goes After Draft Kings/Fan Duel
Posted 11/10/2015 8:15 pm by Ron HoganFantasy football is America’s true national pass-time. Everyone I know who likes sports (and a lot who don’t) play fantasy football. I’m in a league and I run a league on my own for my friends, and every year the leagues keep getting more and more popular. Everyone loves fantasy football, even real players, and […]
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SeaWorld Is Ending Killer Whale Shows
Posted 11/09/2015 6:49 pm by Ron HoganEveryone loves to see exotic animals, no matter what they’re doing. People line up at zoos just to watch tigers eat, polar bears swim, and animals generally doing animal things. Most animals don’t even get to do some special show, but the whales at SeaWorld have always been different. The centerpiece, the thing that gets […]
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Ex-Walmart CEO Makes Emergency Plane Landing
Posted 11/03/2015 6:28 pm by Ron HoganMost of the time, air travel is perfectly safe. Even when there are problems with equipment, most of the time the plane doesn’t take off and the problems are discovered before any issues arise. That’s not always the case, but planes are usually built in with redundant equipment to prevent catastrophe. However, when emergency landings […]
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Kansas City Royals Win The 2015 World Series
Posted 11/02/2015 7:52 am by Ron HoganLast year, the Cinderella story ended early for the Kansas City Royals, as they were beaten by the San Francisco Giants in the World Series. They fought to the seventh game of the World Series, but couldn’t quite bring it home. Call it practice for this season. The Kansas City Royals topped the New York […]
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American Pharoah Wins The Breeders’ Cup
Posted 10/31/2015 6:25 pm by Ron HoganThere are bigger horses, but there might not be many better horses. Bob Baffert’s 3-year-old colt American Pharoah has been exceeding expectations since he first stepped on the race track, and now he’s joined the legends of the sport with a season that pretty much any horse short of Secretariat would be impressed by. American […]
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Military Blimp Escapes, Crashes In PA
Posted 10/28/2015 5:33 pm by Ron HoganBlimps are pretty cool. Just think about it, giant floating bags of air traveling on the winds or moving via churning motor. They’re great, both from a sheer fun standpoint and from a usefulness standpoint. Blimps can do a lot of things, provided they cooperate. A multi-million-dollar military blimp decided to not cooperate, escaping confinement […]
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Cops Add Nunchucks To Their Arsenal
Posted 10/27/2015 6:09 pm by Ron HoganIn every martial arts movie, there’s a scene where someone breaks out the nunchucks. A very simple weapon, two sticks connected by a chain, the weapons are very useful in a situation where the other person is unarmed. They’re also useful at stopping criminals in their tracks. Even the cops are getting wise to that. […]
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Cured Meats Cause Cander
Posted 10/26/2015 10:48 pm by Ron HoganCured meats are one of the core of human civilization. Every culture in the world has some sort of cured meat, from bacon to sausage to smoked everything… and it’s some of the most popular food out there. Bacon in particular seems to be beloved, be it as a cure for a hangover or as […]
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Starbucks Goes Beast Mode With Protein Packed Lynch Latte
Posted 10/23/2015 5:57 pm by Ron HoganStarbucks loves to roll out special drinks, from the massive Trenta to one of the venerable Pumpkin Spice Latte. Another thing Starbucks loves to do is donate to charity, particularly with some kind of celebrity tie-in. Marshawn Lynch is an All-Pro, a Super Bowl champion, and a character the likes of which the NFL doesn’t […]
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Judge To Defendants: Donate Blood Or Go To Jail
Posted 10/20/2015 6:19 pm by Ron HoganWhen it comes to money, the court takes things seriously. For example, in Marion, Alabama, Perry County Circuit Court officials had a big court session to deal with some outstanding debts. However, court costs are a lot of money, and when it comes to paying them back, it’s not something most people can just cut […]
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Facebook Debuts “State-Sponsored” Hacker Warning
Posted 10/19/2015 8:15 pm by Ron HoganWhen you’re the biggest social network on the block, a multi-billion dollar company with billions of people using it every day for pretty much every purpose. Take that away, and as we’ve seen with every Facebook outage, people start freaking out. When your account is compromised, it’s even more heartbreaking and worrying, so Facebook has […]
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All-Marshmallow Lucky Charms And How To Win Them
Posted 10/15/2015 5:50 pm by Ron HoganI sure hope you have the luck of the Irish on your side, because you’re going to need it. Cereal is a very important part of the world’s diet. Some cereal needs no dressing up, provided you get the authentic stuff. Other cereal can use a bit of help, but becomes incredibly delicious when doctored […]
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Donald Trump To Host Saturday Night Live
Posted 10/13/2015 5:38 pm by Ron HoganDuring the first episode of the new season of Saturday Night Live, Hillary Clinton made a surprise appearance in a skit making fun of herself. Briefly, she held the national spotlight. If you know anything about Donald Trump, billionaire, reality television star, real-estate mogul, and maverick Republican candidate for US President, you know he wants […]
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USC Fires Steve Sarkisian; Sarkisian Enters Rehab
Posted 10/12/2015 7:22 pm by Ron HoganSince the glory days of Pete Carroll, the University of Southern California has been troubled by difficulties. There have been NCAA violations, coaching instability, and lots of middling to bad results on the field. The mighty Trojan is looking a little deflated these days, but it’s still one of the top jobs in the nation, […]
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Cat Used To Save Suicidal Jumper
Posted 10/09/2015 6:43 pm by Ron HoganThe last few months of 2014 were just awful for me. My uncle passed away suddenly a few weeks after my birthday. The little gray kitten I adopted when I was in college passed away in October. My grandmother-in-law passed away in November. Just one thing after another, over and over again, with no real […]
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John Williams To Get AFI Lifetime Achievement Award
Posted 10/08/2015 7:45 pm by Ron HoganYou won’t know his face, and you might not know his name, but you’ll know his music. The Star Destroyer chases the Rebel Alliance ship to the sounds of his composition. Jaws terrorizes New England with his thrumming, ominous base. ET soars, Indiana Jones quips, Harry Potter entrances, and Private Ryan gets saved, and composer […]
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Pet Store Owner Attacked By 20-Foot Python
Posted 10/06/2015 9:44 am by Ron HoganGiant pythons are not the kind of creature you want to mess with. Pythons can grow quite large, and pythons routinely eat whole deer in places where the two species coexist. It goes without saying that a 20-foot python can be quite a handful for the unwary, as one pet store owner found out. Terry […]
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Coca-Cola Tells FIFA To Fire Sepp Blatter
Posted 10/02/2015 5:37 pm by Ron HoganThe FIFA World Cup is one of the richest events in sports, bar none. The World Cup, soccer’s biggest event, draws hundreds of millions of viewers and is worth over $1 billion dollars just on the strength of sponsorship alone. Those sponsors pay a lot for the privilege of branding the world’s sport, and they […]
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Smithers Will Come Out To Mr. Burns On The Simpsons
Posted 9/28/2015 7:42 pm by Ron HoganHaving recently settled a work dispute with Harry Shearer, voice of multiple major characters on The Simpsons, it seems like the show is going to get the most possible use out of him they can in Season 27. Shearer voices both Waylon Smithers and C. Montgomery Burns, renowned for Smithers’ unrequited love for his 100-something-year-old […]
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Discrimination Due To White Girl Dreadlocks
Posted 9/24/2015 5:43 pm by Ron HoganWhen I was in school, we had a fairly strict dress code in school. No logos, solid color polo shirts and blue, black, or khaki/tan/brown slacks, and hair on men that didn’t touch ears, eyebrows, or shirt collars. Also, the only facial hair allowed were creepy mustaches or sideburns to the earlobe. The moment I […]
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Robert Lewandowski Scores 5 Goals In 9 Minutes
Posted 9/22/2015 7:56 pm by Ron HoganWhen Pep Guardiola brought Polish national team player Robert Lewandowski off the bench, his FC Bayern Munich team was behind 1-0 to rivals VfL Wolfsburg. While Bayern won the Bundesliga last year, Wolfsburg was nipping at their heels the whole way. Lewandowski took the pitch and then proceeded to do something that’s never happened in the […]
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EPA Says VW Deliberately Violated Clear Air Act
Posted 9/18/2015 7:12 pm by Ron HoganFor a company founded by Hitler, Volkswagen has done a pretty good job of distancing itself from its roots and promoting the company’s cars as fun, safe, and a good alternative to gas-guzzling American cars. Volkswagen does great ads, but it turns out those are just that… advertisements designed to sell products that don’t live […]
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Florida Woman Arrested With 3500 Bladed Weapons In House
Posted 9/17/2015 8:30 pm by Ron HoganWelcome to Florida, where no amount of weapons or crazed reptiles is enough to make things all that unusual. How about a house full of bladed weapons and what might be an altar to Satan? Pretty normal by Florida standards, but still interesting for the rest of the known world. Cops serving felony warrants at […]
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Budweiser To Buy Miller, Merging All The Beer
Posted 9/16/2015 7:40 pm by Ron HoganWhen you’re the biggest beer company in the world, you don’t have a lot to be afraid of, except for maybe the second largest beer company in the world. If you can’t beat them, often times the best option is to join them, and that’s what’s got the creators of Budweiser and Miller sitting down […]
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Facebook Adding “Dislike” Button
Posted 9/15/2015 10:12 pm by Ron HoganNobody likes the like button. Everyone clicks on the like button to show support or approval, but sometimes a person’s Facebook status update or linked thing doesn’t merit approval, but disapproval, or sympathy, or something other than a mindless click of the like button. This has been an option people have wanted for a long, […]
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Happy 30th Birthday Mario Brothers!
Posted 9/14/2015 6:19 pm by Ron HoganTwo Italian plumbers became megastars by stomping on turtles, punching bricks, and throwing fire at mushroom people. The Mario Brothers, Mario and Luigi, remain cultural icons. You can’t go to a Halloween party without seeing them on someone’s costume, and the devoted fans have the brothers permanently inked on their skin. Now those salutes have […]
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Justin Bieber Berates Cameraman During “Today”
Posted 9/10/2015 6:52 pm by Ron HoganJustin Bieber has had a lot of problems over the years. The list is numerous and pretty legendary. Of all the modern pop stars, he’s been the most troublesome, and now he’s on the comeback trail, making his first television appearance in a long time this morning during NBC’s The Today Show. He sang four […]
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