Thirty-Five years ago, an adventure began.

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While I am sure that there are more complete discussion to be had on the subject, io9 has an interesting little piece,  A brief history of four letter words: "Scumbag," sounds like the kind of hokey insult that would get you laughed at if you used it. When it was used in a New York [...]

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Ilya Shapiro asks, “If luxury stadiums were hugely profitable, why would the savvy businessmen who own the teams let the politicians in on the windfall?”

While there are legitimate questions about the extent to which our government overly classifies material as “secret,” or higher, there’s something about this that doesn’t sound right at all: Just weeks after Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency officials warned publicly of the dangers posed by leaks about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, top officials at [...]

Scientists are hard at work on figuring out how not to spill coffee. MailOnline (“It’s all in the walk: Scientists explore the physics behind NOT spilling coffee“): Researchers are a step closer to understanding the science behind one of life’s common pitfalls – spilling coffee. Scientists from the University of California, Santa Barbara, decided to [...]

Eugene Polley, the inventor of the first wireless TV remote control, has died aged 96.

Among the items blasted into orbit today by SpaceX was a canister containing the ashes of James Doohan, who had played Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek: Scotty has finally been beamed up. The ashes of the actor James Doohan, who played Scotty on the 1960s television series “Star Trek,” were launched to space [...]

The Oklahoma City Thunder is making their first trip to the Western Conference finals after ousting the Los Angeles Lakers in five games. Naturally, rioting and gunplay ensued.

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Robin Gibb, who along with his older brother Barry and twin brother Maurice, comprised the Bee Gees died today in England after a long battle with cancer: Robin Gibb, one of the three singing brothers of the Bee Gees, the long-running Anglo-Australian pop group whose chirping falsettos and hook-laden disco hits like “Jive Talkin” and [...]

It’s been 34 years since the world of Thoroughbred horse racing had a Triple Crown winner, since then 11 horses have won the first two legs of the test only to fall short at the Belmont. This year, a horse with a name that  appeals to bar patrons everywhere has a chance: The 2012 Preakness [...]

Uni-watch is holding a contest for a redesign of the uniforms for the NFL’s Washington Redskins.

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HappyPlace posts the above photo under the headline, “Little kid completely half-asses his letter to a soldier in combat.” via Sky Gerrond, who claims “I got at least a dozen letters like this.”

For years, I’ve used Loretta Lynn as an example of how fast societal mores have changed. It turns out that her marriage at age 13 may be a bit of myth making.

A man is picketing a Wisconsin restaurant for failure to live up to its “All You Can Eat” sign. The two sides offer wildly different accountings of the facts here. If, in fact, Whitt was sharing his food with a buddy, then he’s clearly violated the terms of the arrangement. If, on the other hand, [...]

One of the biggest stars of the Disco era, if not the biggest of them all, died today at the age of 63: Donna Summer died Thursday morning after a battle with lung cancer. Lovingly named the “Queen of Disco,” the 63-year-old was in Florida at the time of her death, according to TMZ. Born [...]

Before last month’s White House Correspondent’s Dinner Jimmy Kimmel apparently ran a few of his jokes by regular attendees, one of them smartly advised him to skip a joke that likely would have caused some serious embarrassment: Jimmy Kimmel delivered a barrage of edgy jokes at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner (WHCD) late last [...]

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Larry Bird has been named NBA Executive of the Year. Is there any basketball-related honor he hasn’t won?

An object lesson in the problems with our intellectual property laws

It’s been nearly twenty years now since I read The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 and The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940, the first two volumes of what was supposed to have been historian William Manchester’s planned three-volume biography of England’s iconic war time Prime Minister. They remain among [...]

Thomas Friedman is like a goldfish who only sees China, jobs, and the Internet.

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The man who developed more than one of the American auto industry’s most famous high-performance sports cars has passed away at the age of 89: Carroll Shelby, a Texas chicken farmer turned hot-rodder who went on to build innovative sports cars like the Cobra that challenged Europe’s longtime dominance of road racing as well as [...]

The United States Football League, which last played a game on July 14, 1985, is returning: FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — The USFL is back in business. Well, almost. A reincarnation of the league, with an entirely different business model, plans to kick off in March. On Thursday, it included Hall of Fame receiver Fred Biletnikoff [...]

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Dish Network is offering customers a DVR that will skip commercials. I’m sure their content providers are thrilled.

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Another bizarre conservative rant about the President.

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Former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal now holds a Ph.D., and it’s not an honorary one: The former N.B.A. star Shaquille O’Neal received his doctoral degree in education from Barry University alongside 1,100 other students during commencement ceremonies in Miami Shores, Fla. (…) O’Neal compiled a cumulative grade point average of 3.813 while completing 54 credit [...]

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The outpouring from my Twitter stream yesterday on the news of the death of Adam Yauch, MCA of the Beastie Boys, surprised me.

College football will get a four-team playoff. What it’ll look like is anyone’s guess.

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HBO’s Game of Thrones is violent and full of sex. Is it too much?

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Junior Seau, who went to the Pro Bowl twelve times over a 20 year career in in which he played with the Chargers, Dolphins, and Patriots, was found dead in his home earlier today of an apparent suicide: Former longtime NFL linebacker Junior Seau committed suicide today at his Oceanside, Calif., home. San Diego Chargers [...]

The cast of The West Wing (well some of them) reunites for a PSA advocating something they spent quite a lot of time doing over seven seasons: Walk & Talk from Martin Sheen H/T Sarah Kliff

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Another potential scandal in New Orleans.