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Very Easily Offended

Chuck Shepherd December 18, 2014 Comments Off on Very Easily Offended

— Steve Soifer, CEO of an international support group for people with “shy bladders,” excoriated DirecTV for its series of commercials featuring Rob Lowe, whose “awkward” TV character stands at a urinal and says,

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BABY BEAUTY

Chuck Shepherd December 5, 2014 Comments Off on BABY BEAUTY

Amanda Collins, 28, took beauty pageant mom down to the next level when she entered her daughter Luna in Britain’s UK Princess and Prince International pageant based entirely on the results of Luna’s ultrasound

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Sign Of The Times

Chuck Shepherd November 21, 2014 Comments Off on Sign Of The Times

“Selfie fever” has begun to sully the sacred Islamic pilgrimages to Mecca, according to scholars who complained to Arab News in September. What for centuries has been a hallowed journey intended to renew the

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War is Hell

Chuck Shepherd November 10, 2014 Comments Off on War is Hell

— The newly inaugurated “Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent” (a project of Osama bin Laden’s successor, Ayman al-Zawahiri) failed spectacularly in its maiden mission in September when it attempted to commandeer an American aircraft

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Of Course!

Chuck Shepherd October 16, 2014 Comments Off on Of Course!

— Jonathan Thomas, 50, was charged with DUI and disorderly conduct in Washington Township, Ind., after driving through two backyards and getting his vehicle stuck in the second. Police reported that Thomas “showed his

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Seriously???

Chuck Shepherd October 1, 2014 Comments Off on Seriously???

German Rolf Buchholz, who owns the Guinness Book world record for most body piercings (453), said he was upset to be denied entrance into United Arab Emirates to do a performance at Dubai’s Fairmont

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FB World

Chuck Shepherd September 22, 2014 Comments Off on FB World

Up-and-coming Sicilian mobster Domenico Palazzotto, 28, was outed in August by Italy’s L’Espresso magazine as the owner of a Facebook page that shows off Palazzotto’s muscled, bare-chested body. One concern is that the site

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Dog Potty

Chuck Shepherd August 20, 2014 Comments Off on Dog Potty

Enric Girona recently donated his prototype of a pet commode to the town of El Vendrell, Spain. Owners would train their dogs to use the station — a hole in the ground with a

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Too Much $$$

Chuck Shepherd August 11, 2014 Comments Off on Too Much $$$

Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle Corp., and the world’s fifth-richest person, according to Forbes magazine, is a big basketball fan. He is reported to have an interest in purchasing the Los Angeles Clippers

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DO YOU EAR IT?

Chuck Shepherd August 7, 2014 Comments Off on DO YOU EAR IT?

Artist Diemut Strebe offered his re-creation of the famous ear of Vincent van Gogh for display in June and July in a museum in Karlsruhe, Germany. In part, he built the ear with genes

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