News: Current Events

Do Your Job, People

4 Nov 2008 at 9:54am <From the Current Events and Legal / Justice / Politics Departments> Before today, the last election I took part in was to decide who would lead our fraternity for the next year. Prior to that, I voted for class president in high school. Before that, the... read on »

Prison Camps, the Amero, and Insanity For All

17 Sep 2008 at 9:24pm <From the Current Events Departments> Listen, I get that there's plenty - PLENTY - of paranoia in the world. There are people that still swear the Earth is flat; there are people that believe Bigfoot roams the deepest, darkest jungles... read on »

Will You Make a Brand Switch?

17 Jul 2008 at 7:45pm <From the Current Events and Food & Drinking Departments> You may have heard that Anheuser-Busch, brewer of the entire Budweiser, Busch and Michelob families in addition to Grolsch, Bass, Becks, Hoegaarden, Natty, Red Hook, Kirin (need I continue?), recently sold its company to InBev,... read on »

What Were They Thinking?

11 Sep 2007 at 10:42am <From the Current Events, Media and Morons Departments> When I wake up for work, which I hate doing, I at least try to get into a positive mood. The best part about alarm clocks is that you can pick, more or less, what... read on »

The Lasting Impact of 9/11

9 Jul 2007 at 9:25am <From the Culture and Current Events Departments> This weekend I decided to drive around aimlessly, ending up lost somewhere in Waterbury before eventually finding my way back to I-91. At one point, Cara fielded a call from her sister. She mentioned something... read on »

Freedom of Speech, Sort Of

6 Jul 2007 at 4:25pm <From the Current Events and Legal / Justice / Politics Departments> The American Civil Liberties Union recently published a copy of the once highly-secretive Presidential Advance Manual. This document outlines specific steps and tactics the Secret Service is to follow during any of several types of... read on »

Two Tragedies, One Blessing

27 Jun 2007 at 12:49pm <From the Current Events and Stupidity Departments> Early Sunday morning a seven-year-old child was choked to death by his father as he lie in his bed. The previous day, that same child may very well have witnessed the bloody struggle between his... read on »

Tragedy Befalls Trumbull

26 Jun 2007 at 11:15am <From the Current Events and Humor (take a joke) Departments> TRUMBULL (Reuters) - Connecticut State police were greeted by a grizzly scene today in the Trumbull corporate park. After receiving several 9-1-1 calls reporting eerie maniacal laughter and screams, several state troopers were dispatched to... read on »

Something to Think About

8 Jun 2007 at 5:03pm <From the Current Events and Legal / Justice / Politics Departments> Kidnap an eighteen-year-old girl from a Target, drive her away, then strangle her to death with a ligature, guarunteed 25 years to life, with possibility of lethal injection. Mutilate your husband while he's not looking,... read on »

How to Ensure a Long-Lasting Relationship

1 Jun 2007 at 4:27pm <From the Current Events, Humor (take a joke) and Sports Departments> So many people in this world have trouble making relationships work. There are times when you feel like you just need to get away. There are times when you're concerned your significant other doesn't love... read on »

Steer Clear of Geezers

3 May 2007 at 11:04am <From the Current Events, Cynicism / Rants and Legal / Justice / Politics Departments> I just read an article on CNN that described an upsetting event that happened today: a seventy-year-old man had driven to a Belmont, CA middle school to pick up a child. Instead, he mowed down... read on »

Bostonians are Idiots

1 Feb 2007 at 11:55am <From the Current Events, Legal / Justice / Politics, Morons and Stupidity Departments> Yesterday, the Boston police department, fire department, paramedics and government were on edge. Why? Because several people mistook a Cartoon Network advertisement campaign for a terrorist threat. The advertisements were Lite Brite in nature, depicting... read on »

The Obesity-Fighting Test

31 Jan 2007 at 10:57am <From the Culture and Current Events Departments> I've made my stance on fatty-fat-fatties incredibly clear. It's a fact that United States obesity rates are soaring out of control. It seems that we've finally made a little progress. A CNN article reports today... read on »

Microsoft Ridiculed, Yet Again

24 Jan 2007 at 12:23pm <From the Current Events, Media and Web / Technology Departments> I read on CNN.com today that Microsoft has been, yet again, shunned by society (or, at least the web portion of society) for allegedly offering a technical blogger money to correct slanderous entries on Wikipedia.... read on »

UI to Charge Consumers 50% More to Fund New Website

19 Dec 2006 at 9:43pm <From the Current Events and Morons Departments> Not really. But check it: I just found out that the nice people of the Department of Public Utility Control (DPUC) approved nearly a 50% rate hike for the United Illuminating Company (UI). Control? What... read on »

Tom Delay's Unknown Acrostics

11 Dec 2006 at 9:34pm <From the Current Events and Web / Technology Departments> A few clever websurfers are quickly and secretly leaving their mark on Tom Delay's brand new website / blog. For those of you who don't know who Tom Delay is, or have heard the name... read on »

James Kim Technorati Search Results

8 Dec 2006 at 11:30am <From the Current Events and Web / Technology Departments> While I'm on the subject of James Kim... After submitting my previous post, I visited Technorati to ensure that my blog had been updated there. Technorati is just a collection of blogs that allows you... read on »

The James Kim Tragedy

8 Dec 2006 at 11:01am <From the Current Events Departments> If there's anyone left in the world who hasn't yet heard of the whole Kim family tragedy, I'd be surprised. Actually, if you show me a person who hasn't heard of the incident, I'll show... read on »

What's Wrong With Drinking Santa's Ass?

6 Dec 2006 at 1:30pm <From the Current Events, Food & Drinking and Legal / Justice / Politics Departments> The other day, while perusing cnn.com for possibly the thirtieth time that day, a news story caught my eye: "Maine bans boozy Santa beer label". Since the headline was filled with Cory keywords (namely, beer... read on »

Fat America

22 Nov 2006 at 2:28pm <From the Culture, Current Events and Food & Drinking Departments> As I have referenced in the past, I'm quite disgusted with the fact that the United States is the fattest country on Earth. However, disgust is one thing, while surprise is another. I'm not at... read on »

Will We Ever Be Racism-Free? I Doubt It.

21 Nov 2006 at 11:48am <From the Culture, Current Events and Morons Departments> I'm not really sure what point I'm trying to make with this post, if any. I guess I'm just still amazed at how much we (the citizens of the United States) still pretend that we're... read on »

My Contingency Plan for Saddam's Death Sentence

6 Nov 2006 at 2:47pm <From the Current Events, Humor (take a joke) and Legal / Justice / Politics Departments> Okay so I've been thinking about this whole Saddam execution. First of all, I doubt it will happen. Since Iraq is now the country that all other countries feel they should have control over, thanks... read on »

Cory Who?

12 Oct 2006 at 11:26am <From the Current Events, Cynicism / Rants, Media and Sports Departments> If you haven't yet heard about the atrocity that happened yesterday in New York, then you're either a deaf, dumb, blind, mute, or Cory Lidle's flight instructor. What? Did you cringe? Good - that was... read on »

Kids These Days

9 Oct 2006 at 2:39pm <From the Current Events, Cynicism / Rants and Media Departments> 9 Oct 2006 (Joplin, Missouri) 6 Oct 2006 (Grand Rapids, Michigan) 2 Oct 2006 (Paradise, Pennsylvania) 2 Oct 2006 (North Las Vegas, Nevada) 29 Sep 2006 (Cazenovia, Wisconsin) 27 Sep 2006 (Bailey, Colorado) 15 Sep... read on »

Silly T.O., Drugs Are For Kids

27 Sep 2006 at 11:18am <From the Current Events, Sports and Stupidity Departments> Owens hospitalized after suicide attempt This just in. Nationally-famous multi-millionaire Atlas-bodied supreme athlete Terrell Owens attempted to "commit suicide" Tuesday night. Of all the suicide attempts in the world, this, somehow, does not surprise me.... read on »

Light-Emitting Shirts?

9 Sep 2006 at 12:03am <From the Culture, Current Events and Web / Technology Departments> Philips' Light-Emitting Shirts Seriously? I don't get it. What's the idea? These shirts certainly aren't a fashion statement (yet). Although, I can see a time in the near future where we no longer pay to... read on »

Spam This!

8 Sep 2006 at 10:34am <From the Current Events, Legal / Justice / Politics and Web / Technology Departments> Dis spammer be goin' to jail. Finally, somebody's doing something about the millions of spam emails being sent every year. Jeremy Jaynes was just convicted under an anti-spamming law and sentenced to nine years in... read on »