Two Belgian draft horses bedecked in red Christmas bows pulled a traditional horse-drawn carriage up Pennsylvania Ave. today in Washington, DC, stopping at the North Portico of the White House to deliver an 18-1/2 foot Douglas fir which will be [...]
At a Columbus, OH book signing last week where she appeared to promote her best-selling Going Rogue: An American Life book, Sarah Palin told Canadian comic Mary Walsh that “Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private [...]
Happy Thanksgiving from a turn-of-the-century c. 1907-1915 Uncle Sam! Our readers know of our penchant for unusual vintage postcards, and this one is a winner with its patriotic red, white and blue motif, combined with Uncle [...]
No, not with a bill, or in a pothole or in a traffic jam. I’ve found the Holy Grail an H1N1 flu shot. It took seven weeks. As someone who’s had bronchitis since age 12 and who’s [...]
The hard rock band KISS has a Thanksgiving Eve treat for us — their first live Internet webcast, which we can all see and hear when the heavy metal [...]
An unassuming-looking Kentucky wildflower that grows nowhere in the world but Bullitt County and Jefferson County is on track for federal designation as an endangered species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has released its latest list of candidates eligible for protection under the [...]
Although our regular scheduled programming was interrupted by some road trips, we thought we’d pick up where we left off in the blog, with some thrifty tips for the persistent.
Pajamadeen recently saved $159.56 in one day by being…persistent, [...]
Once in awhile, you meet someone who’s just so cool that you want to tell the world. Unlike my “neighbor,” who suddenly showed up one day at the back door — squinting through the Venetian blinds — and waving a check for…$50 [...]
Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), 77, died of brain cancer last night, just before midnight, at his Hyannis Port, MA family compound. First diagnosed in May 2008 with a malignant glioma after experiencing a seizure at home — and initially given less than [...]
A horribly burned and disfigured young dog, Mambo, will have a rare opportunity to face his alleged tormentors in open court in December. Set on fire and left for dead on August 10 in the small French Pyrenees village of Espira-de-l’Agly in southern France, the dog suffered third-degree burns to [...]
The Chinese economy must be doing well, based on these examples of what people are doing with their discretionary income in Wuhan, in the Hubei province. Money spent on pets in China has increased nearly 500 [...]
Legendary CBS news anchorman Walter Cronkite, 92, died this evening of cerebrovascular disease. Before CNN and the cable television explosion, before websites and blogs and social networking and Twitter, before wall-to-wall coverage of everything, there was Cronkite — anchor of the CBS Evening News from [...]
Michael Jackson’s death certificate was filed today with the Department of Health Services in Los Angeles. It’s signed by Los Angeles County deputy coroner Cheryl MacWillie, and lists the cause of death as “deferred.” You can see a copy of the death certificate here.
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As funeral arrangements were underway for pop star Michael Jackson, Gene Simmons, lead singer and bassist of the heavy metal group Kiss, took great pains to remind us of some of the less savory chapters in Jackson’s life. Simmons told [...]
Since the day Michael Jackson died, the public’s thirst for Michael Jackson news has been increasingly exploited by Internet hackers intent primarily on identity theft. Sophos, a highly regarded computer security company, detected the first scam — which was an email promising readers a “breaking news video” — on the [...]
During the “Golden Age” of postcards, c. 1901-1915, people mailed postcards to one another at almost any time, including the Fourth of July. July Fourth and Halloween postcards tended [...]
As some of you know, my mother’s been in an nursing home assisted-living facility since last October. In a recent call to her to say Hello, she spoke as usual about her frustration at not being allowed to go home, to' [...]
Rumors are swirling that pop star Michael Jackson will be buried on Wednesday at Neverland, his now-dilapidated ranch near Santa Barbara, California. Jackson, who died last Thursday, has not lived at the 2,800-acre ranch [...]
The “King of Pop,” Michael Jackson, was due to move into Foxbury Manor, a mansion in Kent, by next Wednesday. The home is about 10 miles from London’s O2 [...]
Even as word first came from TMZ that Michael Jackson had died, and long before CNN (and other networks) finally reported the death (supposedly out of a politically correct “abundance of caution” but really because they consider TMZ kind of sleazy, although TMZ and CNN are both owned by Time [...]
The night before Michael Jackson died, the “King of Pop” rehearsed at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California in preparation for his ironically named “This is It” comeback [...]
Michael Jackson has suddenly died. The music legend was found unresponsive this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home in Los Angeles, having suffered a cardiac arrest. According to CNN, Joe Jackson, Michael’s father, said [...]
Golden-maned actress Farrah Fawcett, seen here in a 1979 publicity photo, died at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California this morning. She had been hospitalized for the last two weeks and was in the [...]
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s six-day disappearing act — which included abandoning his four children on Father’s Day and which was satirized on the Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert [...]
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Does Allah hear the cries in the dark, calling to him in Tehran as gunshots punctuate the night?
Saturday was a day of destiny for 27-year-old Neda [...]
If we had lived a century ago, we would be celebrating Decoration Day today, instead of Memorial Day. While the patriotic sentiment of honoring the fallen remains the same, the holiday, originally celebrated to honor Union troops who perished in the [...]
Madonna raised eyebrows last week in this outfit. Is it any wonder? She wore this garb to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute ball. (Thinking: Clearly, money and good taste are not always synonymous.) The Louis Vuitton [...]
We rarely take time to hand out our Dodo Award, as there are so many noteworthy contenders and so little time. But Sgt. Walter Schmidt, a prison guard at the Franklin Correctional Institute (FCI) in Carrabelle, FL, southwest of [...]
Mine That Bird, a little-known three-year-old Canadian-bred colt with 50-1 odds, who was improbably hauled to the Kentucky Derby by a trainer with a broken foot in a 21-hour drive from New Mexico, pulled off the [...]
Have you ever wondered how well you’re doing with SEO (search engine optimization) of your website or WordPress blog? Are your efforts effective? Hubspot has an easy-to-use tool to give you a rough idea of how you’re faring, [...]
Pajamadeen was lost in thought, working on a client’s WordPress blog when the phone rang. A recorded female voice said that, due to recent unusual activity, my bank account at the Tiny Town Bank (The [...]
Never-Never Land has suffered a brush with reality, with the Walt Disney World Co. confirming today that 1,900 jobs have been lost at its theme parks: Disney World near Orlando, Florida and Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Over the last several [...]
If my mother’s alive in 2010, next year will be the birthday that all children of Alzheimer’s patients dread — the forgotten birthday. Since my post about last year’s birthday — and in the space of less than a year — [...]
Happy April Fool’s Day! We thought we’d highlight a charming French custom concerning this holiday which — like Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, George Washington’s birthday and May Day — has waned in importance as cultural [...]
Michelle Obama broke ground for the first organic garden at the White House today, on the first day of spring. A proponent of healthy eating, she wants to encourage Americans [...]
It’s not too late to run away from home. If you want to reinvent yourself, here’s one possible solution: Run away to Liverpool, England — birthplace of the Beatles — and enroll at Liverpool Hope University. They’re offering a master’s degree in a [...]
The owner of a deserted heart-shaped island featured by Google Earth is being swamped with requests from romantics who want to visit the island of Galesnjak, hastily renamed Lovers’ Island. It’s located in the [...]
It seems ironic that President Barack Obama won’t be visiting Hodgenville, KY today, as we celebrate the 200th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s birth. Obama admires Lincoln and — in light of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation which [...]
In the wake of the worst wildfires in Australian history and the country’s worst natural disaster, Victoria Premier John Brumby is expected to introduce the toughest building standards in Australia’s history for areas prone to bushfires. [...]
While trolling the Internet today, we ambled over to Lorelle’s blog and learned — much to our surprise — that someone loves WordPress enough that they’ve had themselves permanently tattooed with the WordPress logo. No, we’re not kidding. (And yes, WordPress is a brand name.)
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I’m happy to report that this blue-eyed woman is related to Brad Pitt and Paul Newman. A Danish professor has traced the evolution of blue eyes to a genetic mutation dating back 6,000 to 10,000 years — somewhere in [...]
We saw a robin yesterday and — especially in light of last week’s devastating ice storm — were elated with the chirping of this first harbinger of spring. But I forgot about that other harbinger of spring…NASCAR. Somehow, Wrinkled Wretched Randy’s delight last night at [...]
Some of the chickens came home to roost for Olympic athlete and swimmer Michael Phelps today, after a recent photo surfaced of him smoking marijuana at a Columbia, SC party. Kellogg & Co. has decided not' [...]
Leave it to all-American athlete Michael Phelps to screw up “the perfect storm” of advertising opportunities. The swimmer, who’s won 14 gold Olympic medals — including a record [...]
We’ve been waiting for years to write this post. After almost a decade of national trauma, it finally feels real: President George W. Bush is leaving and has less than 24 hours left in office. We’re still not sure what planet he [...]
A crowd estimated at perhaps 400,000 celebrated this afternoon in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, as the “We are One” [...]
Controversy has erupted in the tiny town of Notasulga, Alabama. (Big Word Alert for the reader who complained that some of the words we use are “too big.”) It seems that sleepy Notasulga harbors an ailurophobe. She complained via the Internet to [...]
Beleaguered Circuit City (OTC: CCTYQ.PK) — the nation’s No. 2 electronics retailer — which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring in November, has pulled the plug on its 567 U.S. stores and is proceeding to full liquidation to satisfy creditors. Acting [...]
Meet Chesley B. Sullenberger III. That’s quite a mouthful, but “Sully,” as he’s known, is quite a man. In fact, he’s a miracle worker. Sullenberger, 57, is the [...]
