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Steampunk Stormtrooper helmet

Rick — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:39:54 PDT

This Stormtrooper helmet was customized by Brian Rood and it will be auctioned of in the near future for Make a Wish. If you like Star Wars and you are into steampunk, than this helmet might be...

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It’s official: the Masters will feature at least one self-described sex addict

Rick — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:47:33 PDT

Tiger Woods is ending his “indefinite break” from that golf thing. He has announced that he will be playing at this year’s Masters beginning April 8. Undoubtedly skanky whores...

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Virginia’s Attorney General is a birther

Rick — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:22:13 PDT

Republican Ken Cuccinelli is the Virginia Attorney General and he is also a birther. He believes President Barack Obama was born somewhere other than the United States of America. The popular myth...

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If socialized medicine is so yucky, why is David Beckham flying to Finland?

Rick — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:45:43 PDT

For over a year now, I’ve heard Republicans and those on the right talk about how awful socialized medicine is, especially the socialized medicine that they have in Europe. If that’s...

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Execute php code in WordPress posts

Rick — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:49:13 PDT

I stumbled upon a great WordPress plugin the other day. It’s called Exec-PHP 4.9 and it was created by a German person by the name of Sören. His name sounds like a character from Lord of the...

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David Beckham tears left Achilles’ tendon

Rick — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:10:15 PDT

David Beckham has severely injured himself while playing soccer in Italy. From Yahoo! Sports: David Beckham has torn his left Achilles’ tendon and is at risk of missing the World Cup. The former...

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Wal-Mart fires a man for legally using medical marijuana

Rick — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:16:59 PDT

Joseph Casias, a Michigan Wal-Man associate , was fired after he failed a company drug test. The test showed that Casias was using marijuana, something he had a legal right to use. Joseph Casias,...

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Gun used by the Pentagon shooter came from Memphis police department

Rick — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:30:47 PDT

One of the guns used by the anti-government terrorist and 911 “truther” John Patrick Bedell came from the Memphis police department. They seized the gun in 2005 and then later...

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Courage? Really?

Rick — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:38:46 PST

We were out and about today and I happened to spot a ginormous display in the bookstore featuring the just published memoir of Karl Rove. It is entitled, Courage and Consequence: My Life as a...

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Banned from all Wal-Mart stores for life

Rick — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:48:23 PST

Over on Consumerist, a reader has reported an incident at his local Wal-Mart that has resulted in him being banned from the store and all other Wal-Mart stores for the rest of his life. The reason? ...

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I just ordered my iPad!

Rick — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:54:32 PST

I just finished pre-ordering my WI-FI 16G iPad. Apple says it will be delivered to my door on April 3 which means I don’t have to make a road trip to my nearest Apple Store in the Montgomery...

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This is why I never pursued a career in avionics

Rick — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:40:08 PST

Even though I spent nearly ten years in the United States Air Force working on airplanes and I have an associates degree in avionics, I’ve never tried to get a job in aerospace. This is...

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The Queen as the Joker

Rick — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:11:14 PST

A t-shirt featuring this awesome artwork can be had for a mere $20 over at Threadless. Some might say $20 bucks is kind of pricey for a t-shirt, but you can’t buy stuff like this at Target or...

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Just like someone from Lancaster to bring buttery popcorn to a meat thermometer fight

Rick — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:43:45 PST

From the Los Angeles Times: A dispute at a Lancaster movie theater during a screening of “Shutter Island” ended with someone plunging a meat thermometer into the neck of the man who...

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Nomar Garciaparra retires

Rick — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:52:40 PST

Nomar Garciaparra, a one-time Hall of Fame lock, has called it a career after 14 seasons in Major League Baseball. He has officially retired and will now begin working as a baseball annalist for...

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One of the Corys is dead

Rick — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:48:49 PST

Corey Haim, former 80’s teen actor, was discovered unresponsive in his Los Angeles area apartment early this morning and was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. He was 38...

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Amazon has (finally) spoken

Rick — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:08:24 PST

Like most people that tried to take advantage of Amazon’s great Marvel Comics omnibus sale/mistake this past weekend, I received an email from Amazon late this afternoon informing me that my...

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What were Oscar voters thinking?

Rick — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:49:59 PST

The Oscars have come and gone, and the big winner at this year’s Oscars was the Iraq war movie, The Hurt Locker. It won Best Picture, Original Screenplay, Film Editing, Sound Editing, Sound...

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Sarah Palin used to travel to Canada for icky, awful government health care

Rick — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:07:47 PST

Former governor of Alaska and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin was in Canada speaking to a bunch of Canadians when she admitted to the crowd of listeners that as a child, she used...

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‘Iron Man 2′ trailer

Rick — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:03:23 PST

Evidently the movie industry threw itself an award show last night and for some odd reason, it was televised on national TV. Immediately after this award show, give or take an hour, a commercial for...

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The great Amazon Marvel Comics omnibus glitch of 2010

Rick — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:33:15 PST

I was reading Bleeding Cool this morning when I read that Amazon had most (if not all) of the Marvel Comics omnibus hardback editions massively on sale for only $8.24. These books normally retail...

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You call that feminism?

Rick — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:11:14 PST

Chris Sims at comic book blog Comics Alliance posted a blog post entitled, Girl Week: A Celebration of Feminism. It features comic book images showing females attacking men in the testicle region. ...

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Now that health care reform is taken care of, Obama wants to tackle immigration reform

Rick — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:54:46 PST

Now that President Obama has licked health care reform, he wants to next focus on immigration reform. He must be a gluten for punishment. He wanted to ensure that every American had access to...

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Ben Roethlisberger is once again accused of sexual assault

Rick — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:16:07 PST

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has been accused of sexually assaulting an unnamed 20-year old female Georgia college student at a dance club. For those counting at home, this is...

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The Herald-Mail is once again passing incorrect facts as opinion

Rick — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:24:48 PST

From a letter to the editor penned by Edgar M. Foltz Jr. of Greencastle, Pennsilvania published on March 5, 2010: Unfortunately, capital punishment has been outlawed in some states, including...

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Apple iPad available in US on April 3

Rick — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:18:13 PST

Apple has announced that the Wi-Fi model of the iPad will be available for purchase on Saturday, April 3. The base price for the 16GB version will be $499. Starting on March 12, customers may...

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In Christopher Hadley’s own words

Rick — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:56:22 PST

Eric A Chase, the attorney for Christopher Handley, the Iowa manga collector that plead guilty to two criminal counts in connection to books he ordered from Japan, posted a statement on The Comics...

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Stephen Strasburg to make his professional baseball debut in the minor leagues

Rick — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:52:19 PST

Stephen Strasburg, the highly touted top pick of the 2009 MLB spring draft, will likely start the 2010 season in the minor leagues and not for the Washington Nationals in the big league. Not that...

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Tecmo Super Bowl returns

Rick — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:33:44 PST

As if there isn’t already enough reason to look eagerly to the return of spring, Tecmo Bowl is coming to the Xbox 360 and the PS3 Spring 2010. Tecmo Super Bowl was a game that came out in the...

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Senator Jon Kyl: Unemployment insurance dissuades people from getting jobs

Rick — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:14:16 PST

Yesterday on the Senate floor, a debate on unemployment compensation showed what Republicans think of people who are out of work and receive unemployment insurance: they are lazy deadbeats who...

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Does America now love hockey?

Rick — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:35:45 PST

If you watched Canada beat the United States in overtime Sunday night in the Olympics, you were not alone. Far from it. From Puck The Media: The 27.6 million viewers for Sunday’s gold medal...

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Buy your very own vinyl Twitter bird

Rick — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:37:57 PST

Ollie the Twitter bird is rotocast (whatever that means) in high quality vinyl and goes for $19.95 from Icon Factory Gear. I can think of much better ways of spending twenty bucks, but to each his...

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United States men’s hockey team picked a bad time to lose it’s first game

Rick — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:43:45 PST

The United States men’s hockey team lost in overtime today to Canada 3-2. It was a demoralizing win. It’s bad enough to lose to Canada, it’s even worse when it’s none other...

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The Regal Valley Mall 16 is quickly turning into a real dump

Rick — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:52:30 PST

Sheri and I went to the Regal Valley Mall 16 last night to see The Crazies (loved it) and I was surprised to see what a dump the theater has become. This 16-screen theater opened in the Valley Mall...

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Congresswoman’s car still parked in congressional parking garage three years after she left office

Rick — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:13:14 PST

Once upon a time, there was a Republican congresswoman from Pennsylvania named Melissa Hart. Though she technically lost her congressional seat in 2006 and is now a registered lobbyist, it seems...

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New York Governor David Paterson no longer looking for reelection

Rick — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:07:55 PST

New York Governor David Paterson announced that he is no longer seeking reelection as New York’s governor. Then again, he was never actually elected governor. He was elected lieutenant...

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This week’s second million dollar comic book

Rick — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:36:02 PST

It was only a few days ago that a graded copy of Action Comics #1 went for a million dollars. It marked the first time a comic book had sold for one million dollars. It now has company. Bleeding...

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Buzz Lightyear as a real person

Rick — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:22:48 PST

From artist Raoni Nery’s gallary on CGPortfolio via my new favorite blog, Super Punch.

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Killer whale kills trainer

Rick — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:23:38 PST

Dawn Brancheau, 40, a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando was killed today by a killer whale. Tilikum, the 30-year-old, 12,300-pound bull orca grabbed Brancheau by the waist and began thrashing her about...

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Tony Kornheiser suspended two weeks for making fun of Hannah Storm’s wardrobe

Rick — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:38:44 PST

Tony Kornheiser, famed former Washington Post columnist and current co-host of of the wildly popular ESPN TV show PTI has been suspended for two weeks from PTI for something he said not on PTI, but...

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World’s first million dollar comic

Rick — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:05:42 PST

Comic Connect is reporting that they have sold a graded copy of the Action Comics #1, the first appearance of Superman, for $1,000,000. And to think I thought spending $5.00 on a newsstand copy of...

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Proof Jesus loves America a lot more than he loves Canada

Rick — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:50:37 PST

The United States beat Canada last night 5-3 in one of the biggest upsets in Olympic Hockey. The game was so big, so important, that NBC televised the game on non-HD MSNBC. How great is that? Who...

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$4.99 for a Marvel comic?

Rick — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:59:35 PST

I was in Books-A-Million yesterday when I noticed they had copies of Captain America #602 sitting on the shelf. It’s the issue that takes a well deserved poke at members of the TEA Party for...

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Make any URL look much more terrifing

Rick — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:40:27 PST

Want to make a website’s address look a lot scarier before forwarding the link to a friend or co-worker? Go to ShadyURL and make it look a lot more foreboding that it truly is. For instance,...

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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View

Rick — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:31:44 PST

If you use Internet Explorer 8 to access the web and have noticed that some websites just don’t look right, or that some features just don’t work, you need to know about something called...

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Joseph Stack was a terrorist

Rick — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:08:01 PST

I was reading Facebook the other day when I read something one of my Facebook friends wrote concerning a press conference held the day Joseph Stack slammed an airplane into a Austin, Texas building...

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Guy who thought we would be greeted in Iraq as liberators thinks Barack Obama will be a one-term president

Rick — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:15:12 PST

Former vice-president Dick Cheney speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) told attendees that he thinks President Obama will be a one-term president. Those in attendance...

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Tax cheat Joseph Stack really did not like paying taxes

Rick — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:09:47 PST

A disgruntled software engineer, Joseph Stack, 53, flew a small single engine airplane into an Austin, Texas office building that contained offices for the Internal Revenue Service, killing himself...

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Why is Obama meeting someone in the White House who pretends to have magical powers?

Rick — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:39:45 PST

The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and if he had his way, the dictator of Tibet, is traveling to Washington D.C. to meet President Obama in the White House. Why is the...

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Washington Wizards trade Antawn Jamison to the Cleveland Cavaliers

Rick — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:32:20 PST

If an NBA team fails to have legitimate NBA players on the team, is it still an NBA team? The joke that is the Washington Wizards just became a bigger joke by trading away Antawn Jamison, their lone...

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