Month: March 2017

It seems we learn more and more about the Neanderthal, our hairy, heavier first cousins, with every passing year. We now know that we have small amounts of Neanderthal DNA within us, and that this “alien” DNA may predispose some of us to certain maladies, like depression. (The Revenge of the Neanderthal!) We can infer…

It’s called “Busojaras,” and it sounds like a whole heckuva lotta fun. It tales place every February in the city of Mohacs, Hungary. Think of it as being to Mohacs what Mardi Gras is to New Orleans, or Carnivale is to Brazil. It’s the big celebration before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. It…

Remember the Florida face-eating psycho killer? Sure you do. His case was especially disturbing to read about because it was that rarity or rarities, a stranger-on-stranger crime. The killer, college student Austin Harrouff, came upon his victims, 59-year-old John Stevens, and his 53-year-old wife, Michelle Mishcon, at random as they were sitting in their garage,…

Growing up—I must be careful, lest I wax overly-poetic and become misty-eyed at the recollections of my childhood in the glorious 80s—my life was comic books, Horror movies, and Professional Wrestling. KISS was on the radio, and I longed for the days when one of the three TV stations we could pick up on our…

There will always be “boy bands,” I’m sad to say. They are a pestilence we all must learn to live with. As soon as one gets long in the tooth and moves on from faddish pop culture saturation into derision and ridicule, another sprouts up to replace them. Boy banders must grow older, after all.…

A site can be clickbaity and still contain some legitimate information. Problem is, you never know until you delve in, wading through pop-ups and retarded (as in slowed down) load times to find out. This article promises ten myths about psychopaths and sociopaths. Alright, I’ll bite. Let us examine those myths. Are these legitimate? (1.)…