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There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that the Denver Broncos, playing Sunday’s Super Bowl in New Jersey, have hired Governor Chris Christie as a linesman to block incoming traffic from getting to Peyton Manning.

The Marlboro man has died of lung disease. Eric Lawson, an actor, has joined the long list of Marlboro men who died smoking-related deaths. Men growing more facial hair are cutting into Proctor & Gamble’s profits(Gillette). Could say P&G profits have been shaved, ’cause we’re not. JPMorgan Chase paid over $20 billion to settle fraud…

He knows when you are sleeping, he knows if you’re awake, he can tell if you’ve been bad or good…. Sounds kinda creepy when it’s not Santa, but Macy’s. Retailers now can track your activity through your smart phone.  Yup, they know when you’re in the store, how often you go to the store, where…

Illegal hugging? Madison, Wisconsin’s Snuggle House offers cuddling for $60/hr.  The city, however,  is not feeling the love, believing that touching leads to….well, more than touching.  So they’re trying to close ‘em down. Cuddling has evidently been a cottage industry for years.  Rochester, NY’s Snuggery offers overnight cuddling.  San Francisco and Boulder, Colorado have thriving…

Highlights of some of the new Maryland laws went into effect last month: If you’re driving while using a hand-held cell phone, you can now be stopped by the police just for that.  Before, they had to stop you for something else, and then could ticket you for the cell phone violation. All of your…

Sunday Brian Harris, a Catholic charities worker, went outside to enjoy the warm day.  Shots were fired and he was hit in the stomach, but got up and walked away.  The bullet had hit his wallet, went through credit cards and cash, then stopped, millimeters from his body. Who says money can’t buy happiness?

As if use of sarin gas in Syria weren’t bad enough, the Center for Disease Control has issued a report warning that almost two dozen antibiotic-resistant microbes are infecting over two million people a year, causing over 23,000 deaths. CDC Director Thomas Frieden says “Without urgent action now, more patients will be thrust back to…

Conspiracy theorists were right.  Area 51, long denied by the government to even exist, has been officially admitted to be real.  Although the feds still say no aliens are housed there (see Independence Day, Super 8, and a slew of other sci-fi movies), the area, near Groom Lake in Nevada, was home to testing for…

In a 7-2 vote the Supreme Court has struck down an Arizona law that required voters to prove they are United States citizens in order to vote. In the name of public safety our phone calls and emails are now monitored.  (Maybe, in response to my daughter’s call today, the NSA will stop at the…

Earlier this week Montgomery County, Maryland dedicated what is possibly the first public school in the country named after a Holocaust survivor, the Flora M. Singer Elementary School. Is the popular Game of Thrones HBO series too violent? As David Gibson wrote in the Washington Post, George R.R. Martin (author of Game of Thrones) doesn’t…