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The 42nd President of the United States of America celebrates his 63rd birthday today, perhaps you’ve heard of him? William Jefferson Clinton managed to remain one of the most popular Presidents during his time in office despite certain unmentionable scandals, and has only become more beloved since. After leaving office he single-handedly gentrified Harlem, and [...]

Michael Bay’s latest Ford commercial army recruitment propaganda blockbuster movie, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen comes out this week, and we’re told it will feature all manner of nifty, techy shape-shifters, from building-sized behemoths to bug-sized crawlers. Of course, the latest installment in the franchise begun decades ago by toy-maker Hasbro has plenty of material [...]

205 years ago today, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark struck out from their training sessions at Camp Dubois, Illinois Territory, on their epic journey with their rag-tag group the Corps of Discovery (which, in case you think the same way we do, is already a band’s name). The epic, madcap journey that would go down [...]

We almost let March slip by, dear readers, without having a very serious talk with you. This month is National Talk With Your Teen About Sex Month (seriously), so we feel it’s our obligation to explain a few things. You see, life comes from, well, it’s hard to explain, but this thing happens where, when [...]

We remember, one holiday season when we were about 9 years old, we got the awesomest Ninja Turtle action figure from our grandmother. It wasn’t so much awesome because our granmother had finally found an appropriate, non-knitted gift – in truth, the Leonardo with super chopping action figure was our request, made to our father [...]

With Thanksgiving upon us, the real news is that the holidays are just around the corner (notice, window-shoppers, the brown and orange arrangements being displaced by gaudy red and green displays). This holiday season, rather than disappointing a younger sibling, cousin, niece/nephew, child, etc. with the wrong action figure, achieve gift-giving immunity through obscurity. To [...]