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Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on December 28, 2016 11 Comments
The Trump rooster has arrived to help ring in Chinese New Year. The city of Taiyuan is hoping the statue will bring tourists in by the bus loads. According to People's Daily China:
A giant rooster figure, sporting a Donald Trump hairstyle, has popped up outside a shopping mall in downtown Taiyuan, north China's Shanxi Province. The designer said the sculpture - heralding the upcoming Chinese Year of the Rooster - was inspired by the American president-elect, by both his iconic hairstyle and gestures.

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 27, 2016 7 Comments
I have a sad update to the post on Rogue One that published yesterday. Carrie Fisher, our American Princess of Science Fiction, passed away this morning after suffering a heart attack on Friday.
Carrie Fisher, who rose to fame as Princess Leia in the "Star Wars" films and later endured drug addiction before going on to tell her story as a best-selling author, died on Tuesday aged 60, her family said. ...The daughter of actor Debbie Reynolds and the late singer Eddie Fisher had been returning from England where she was shooting the third season of the British sitcom "Catastrophe."

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 27, 2016 5 Comments
We ned some good news, don't you think? Cancer patient Josh Katrick won free pizza for a year from Mario's Pizza in Northampton, PA. However, he told manager Frank Grigoli he wanted to donate the prize elsewhere:
"I've been getting so much from family, friends, people I don't even know well, the last few months," Josh says. "Getting so much love and support, I just wanted to give back to people that could use it more than I could." Josh wrote Mario's back and asked if he could give his free pizza to someone else.

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 26, 2016 28 Comments
We joined millions of other Americans this Christmas season by heading to the movie theaters. Our target: Rogue One, A Star Wars Story! This is the official spoiler alert, so if you haven't seen the film and want to retain the suspense, please read no further than this. I don't give away much, but I don't want to ruin anyone's cinematic fun, either.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on December 26, 2016 4 Comments
With a newborn and a seven-year-old, quiet is a rarity. But everyone is sleeping soundly after our first Christmas as one, big family. This year has been one of the best, if not THE best year of my life. Getting married, gaining a step-daughter, growing a tiny human -- it's all more than I ever imagined. Regular readers know that I've frequently joked (sort of) about what an awful year 2016 has been. An almost uncanny number of well-known, talented people have passed on this year, our entire political world was tased by the silent majority's Death Star, and to top if off, the year is ending with a nation-wide whipped cream shortage.

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 26, 2016 17 Comments
When will celebrities realize they will not suffer backlash for associating themselves with President Donald Trump? He has not had an easy time finding performers for his inauguration, but he found a yes with 16-year-old Jackie Evancho, who will perform the National Anthem. Of course people have bashed the young girl, who broke through on America's got Talent, and claimed the performance will ruin her career. Yeah...her album has hit #1 and sales have quadrupled. I thought the left was the tolerant ones? Who bullies a 16-year-old girl?

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 25, 2016 2 Comments
We featured this video last year and liked it so much, we’re doing it again. Christmas flash mobs have become very popular over the last few years but so far none have matched the outstanding effort put forth by the Opera Company of Philadelphia in 2010. The Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah is a staple of Christmas music for good reason but when singers from multiple groups joined to create this moment on video, history was made.

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 24, 2016 3 Comments
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has already started to track Santa Claus as he travels the world tonight to bring presents to kids around the world. It has become a tradition for 61 years, which has evolved with technology, allowing parents to show children the exact location of Saint Nick. How did this happen? Well, it all began back in 1955....

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 21, 2016 26 Comments
Adam Saleh is a YouTube personality with over a million followers. Today, he claimed he was removed from a Delta Airlines flight for speaking Arabic. Saleh has a history of creating hoaxes, many of them in order to portray Muslims as victims of discrimination. The facts are still coming in, but it's appearing that this at best was a deliberate over-reaction by Saleh for the camera, or at worst an outright hoax he created from the start as he has done before. Either way, Saleh achieved another round of viral video fame, and his video on Twitter has been shared several hundred thousand times.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on December 21, 2016 10 Comments
Turns out there's a particular group of gals more willing to block or "unfriend" people on social media due to their political beliefs -- Democrats. A survey conducted by PRRI found that only 13% of respondents fessed up to blocking, unfriending, or unfollowing "someone on social media because of what they posted about politics." Given how nasty this two-year-long election season has been, 13% seems low. Both Democrats and those identifying as moderates were more likely to eliminate someone from their political circles than Republicans.

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 20, 2016 41 Comments
As someone with chronic pain from rheumatoid arthritis, the war on prescription opioids has troubled me because the government wants to punish the many who actually need these drugs because a few abuse the pills. The Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation polled those with chronic pain "who have taken the drugs for at least two months during the past two years." The majority said the drugs have helped them function and live a normal life. Someone needs to tell Big Government this information.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on December 20, 2016 18 Comments
The scars of youth are forever...unless you can afford a good plastic surgeon. A New Jersey-based plastic surgeon has seen an influx of younguns looking to undo their permanent marks of self-expression. Turns out, not all employers are fans of neck tats and gauged earlobes.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on December 18, 2016 18 Comments
If you haven't hoarded enough Reddi-wip to get you through Christmas, you might be out of luck. America is in the midst of a nationwide whipped cream shortage. The culprit isn't the cream or anything dairy related, but a shortage of nitrous oxide.
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