It's so weird seeing the memorial service for Tony Snow in Washington D.C. on the news tonight. I still have clear memories of him subbing for classes I had in high school back in Cincinnati. It was trippy enough when he ended up becoming one of the area's leading news anchors later in the 90s, but it was truly bizarre once he was routinely on the ( Read more... )

Did you hear, a 66 year old man was attacked and killed by a Great white shark in SoCal today? So CBS 2 News was talking about it and they were down in Santa Monica interviewing some random people on the beach. And this one girl said she was surprised to hear that attack was on a man in a group because she thought there was safety in numbers ( Read more... )

Something has really been bothering me for the past week or so about the recent Oscar ceremony. A lot of people were appalled when Heath Ledger was featured in the Oscar tribute to the recently deceased and Brad Renfro was not. The two actors were contemporaries of each other and even tried out for the same roles, but as Ledger's career took off in ( Read more... )

Everything can cause cancer. Everything can kill you. Were all going to die sooner or later ( Read more... )

One word: Curveball.

One name: Rafid Ahmed Alwan

One question: Can you fucking believe this shit?

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So I was reading the news stories about Baby Jessica. Do you guys remember "Baby" Jessica McClure, the little girl who got trapped at the bottom of a well back in the late 1980s? Well, today is the 20th anniversary of her rescue ( Read more... )

It's been a crazy, crazy 24 hours.

It began with food, fun and debauchery in Hollywood and ended near the site of what's looking to be one of the worst highway disasters in history. If you've heard the big news stories this weekend, you've probably already heard about the latter incident ( Read more... )

Have you guys seen these PSAs on TV lately that are telling parents they should put their children in car seats if they're under 4'9" (57" or 145cm) tall? In some cases, it seems more than a recommendation and basically sends the message that "if you're a good parent, you'll follow this rule ( Read more... )

I've felt like death warmed over this week, but then I came across the following story. While there's always something satisfying when something bizarre happens that stops even the cops dead in there tracks, I felt bad at first because I am an animal lover and I feel bad about the dog in this incident. But then I got to the part about grief ( Read more... )

I'm not really a racing fan, but this clip blew me away. It's from the Canadian Grand Prix which occurred yesterday.

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I'm sorry, but that makes the crash that killed Dale Earnhardt in the 2001 Daytona 500 look like a fender bender. And the guy driving this car, Robert Kubica, just drove himself home from the hospital this morning with only a light ( Read more... )