November 13, 2010 – 6:55 pm
How perfect is this? It wasn’t quite a Kennedy Center Honors Award show, but the entertainment in Yokohama, Japan Saturday evening made President Obama smile as Japanese performers of traditional Kabuki theater put on a show for world leaders in town for the APEC summit. Kabuki is highly stylized Japanese singing and dancing which has […]
October 18, 2010 – 4:36 pm
Now, this is funny. And inventive: Sarah Palin Has Balls — Big, Plushy, Pink Ones Sarah Palin recently expressed her desire for President Barack Obama to grow a pair of “cojones.” Now, one quirky toy company is making sure the outspoken politician has a portable pair of her own. While her sassy statement may have […]
September 27, 2010 – 2:20 pm
Rachel Maddow? Who Dat? That’s what The Politico is pushing with: Poll: Bill O’Reilly is popular, but Rachel Maddow is unknown to likely voters More people are getting their news about the upcoming election from cable television than any other source, and from Fox News more than any other cable channel, according to a POLITICO/George […]
September 25, 2010 – 7:14 pm
Looks like someone forgot to tell Harrisburg that the recession is over Turns out even zombies can’t fight City Hall. But they can change the neighborhoods they haunt. The sponsors of Harrisburg’s social media-driven Zombie Walk are doing just that this year. The midstate’s “undead†will take their second annual Halloween season perambulation, held in […]
September 23, 2010 – 1:18 pm
Woo hoo, here’s a project we can all get behind! New Campaign Suggest You Should Vote Naked You’ve heard of voting early and often in Chicago, but casting your ballot naked? A new get-out-the-vote campaign is suggesting you do just that. The point of the campaign is that Illinois state law now permits people to […]
September 19, 2010 – 3:02 pm
Bloggersrejoice.Ireallythinkeveryoneshouldget (breathe) somebecausetheymakethedaygobyveryfastsowhatifyoutypelikeasquirreloncrack In a 400-square-foot storefront across the street from Iowa State University, a peppy woman cooks up a batch of Iowa’s newest alternative energy. Allison Nelson pulls a sheet of brownies from the oven, lets it cool, then slices the sheet into 4-inch-long treats. Baked inside each is the magic ingredient of Nelson’s […]
September 8, 2010 – 12:48 pm
Love it! CAROLINA BEACH, NC (WECT) – A restaurant in Carolina Beach is stirring up controversy over a couple of signs reading, “Screaming children will not be tolerated.” The owner of the Olde Salty restaurant, Brenda Armes, is tired of having her customers complain to her about children misbehaving and screaming when others are trying […]
August 30, 2010 – 6:35 pm
Whew! I was a bit worried. Frozen iguanas obeying Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation can reach painful speeds vis a vis a shot to the noggin’ Good news, winter haters: After record snowfall in the mid-Atlantic and unusually cold weather down South, the Farmers’ Almanac is predicting a “kinder and gentler” winter. After eyeing the […]
August 24, 2010 – 7:29 pm
Marc A. Thiessen, certainly not as perky and hawt as Tiffany A. Thiessen (though, Marc certainly has a more steady gig), puts it all in perspective Much attention has been paid in recent days to a poll by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life showing that 18 percent of Americans incorrectly believe that […]
August 16, 2010 – 4:38 pm
AGC stands for “Amazon Golf Course” The Amazon Golf Course might just be the world’s most remote links. Getting to it means first getting to Iquitos, a bustling city of around 450,000 on the banks of the Amazon River. This is not the easiest thing. Iquitos is now the world’s largest city that is accessible […]
