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When she first took over as queen, steam locomotives powered the country and connected the world.  Now, she’s the Queen of Facebook.  Serving her country during WWII, Queen Elizabeth has overseen a time of relative peace and prosperity as a royal, aside from The Troubles and the issue of the Falklands.  Compared to a lot […]

There are an estimated 44 million Americans that smoke cigarettes.  Despite all the smoking bans in public places and increased awareness of the dangers of cigarettes, it’s a very hard habit to kick and it’s a very lucrative business for companies.  Among them was CVS, the nation’s second-largest pharmacy chain, which sold an estimated $2 […]

One of the best treats in the world, at least when I was a kid, was an order of pancakes and sausage from McDonald’s.  Of course, it wasn’t as good as a Personal Pan Pizza to eat while watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but it was probably the next best thing, and a pretty rare […]

The Transportation Security Agency is an agency that’s basically out of control.  They’ve already been sued for abusing their power, and that lawsuit hasn’t really changed things all that much.  TSA screeners still abuse their power, and one gross example of abuse took that quite literally. A TSA security screener used his position to lure […]

Burger King has been trying for years to dethrone McDonald’s as the king of America’s fast food empire, but they’re been unsuccessful thus far.  They’re tried pretty much everything:  a Microsoft Windows 7 tie-in, a gigantic burger served like pizza, delivery service in select markets, and a complete menu overhaul and redo.  So far, nothing’s […]

People have been waiting for the debut of Fear the Walking Dead all summer.  It’s not every day that the hottest show on television expands its universe and heads in a different direction from the companion show, but here we are, there’s AMC footing the bill, and there’s more zombie action for the television screen. […]

You can change your face, you can change your name, you can get Siri to vouch for you, but there’s one force you can’t escape from, and that’s the law.  Caitlyn Jenner is finding that out the hard way as Los Angeles prosecutors have decided to ask the district attorney to consider bringing her up on […]

Things have changed drastically since the days when the United States had active spy networks working in Cuba.  Once upon a time, the goal of the government was to topple the Castro administration, and Cuba has been kept in the dark for a long, long time after the Communist uprising.  The Cold War, the Cuban […]

If you’re a professional athlete, getting on the cover of a video game is a big deal.  That means you’re not just a star, not just the face of a franchise, you’re the face of your entire sport.  Athletes love being on the cover of games, even if the Madden Curse tends to derail football […]

It doesn’t really matter who is in charge, North Korea is going to stay strange.  Kim Jong-Il pushed the country pretty far, and Kim Jong-Un is going even farther than his father, or at least is allowing the country to go farther.  Your guess is as good as mine as to who is really in […]

John Mayer might not seem like a wild child, but he’s got a bit of that 60’s way about him, and not just in his lifestyle.  I don’t know if he imbibes like the jam bands of old, but he can definitely play guitar like them, and that’s what’s taking Mayer on a long strange […]

As someone who grew up a huge fan of professional wrestling, and who watched it pretty consistently until the mid 2000s, I’ve seen a lot of my favorite wrestlers pass away.  I was always more Hulk Hogan than Ultimate Warrior, but Jim Hellwig’s death still hit me hard.  Now another childhood favorite has passed away. […]

Just when you thought it wouldn’t be harder to find a presidential candidate goofier than Donald Trump.  And yet, someone has found him. Deez Nuts is one of many declared presidential candidates lining up for consideration in November.  He joins my favorite candidate, Louisville house cat Limberbutt McCubbins, as one of many people to file […]