Rueben Wright

Just in time to make you feel old is the Dreamcast's 17th birthday!
In 1999 Sega released this beast of a system, and though it was short lived, it set the tone for console gaming for over a decade. Even powerhouse console, Xbox lives in the shadow of being only 2nd console to have a LAN adapter…

Good news from the world of threatened wildlife! The Giant Panda has made the move from, 'endangered' to 'vulnerable' this year due to a 17% increase in their population this decade when a census found 1,864 pandas in the wild in China. And the World Wildlife Fund couldn't b…

200 artists including:  composer Hans Zimmer, R. Kelly and members of the Go-Go’s, the Black Crowes, Linkin Park and Three 6 Mafia filed a brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals because they were concerned about the ruling in the case brought by the family of Marvin Gaye, who filed a lawsuit …

Speaking as a kitty-convert myself, cats take some getting use to. BUT now I wouldn't trade my cats for any dog in the world!
Some people will never see things my way, and thats ok. There are folks are definately "dogs only" people. I really love dogs too, but I married in to s…

No doubt Emily Blunt has some BIG shoes and a BIG bag to fill, being cast as the new Mary Poppins. She said that she was worried about not being able to live up to the role that has become so important to so many people's childhoods.
But all of her worries were quashed when Rob Marshall, the director…

McDonald's announced to the public that it was recalling 29 million of its STEP-IT Activity bands pictured above due to complaints of skin-irritation.
Reports come from concerned parents of children who experienced burn-like skin-irritations from long term exposure to their wrists...

Our very own, home-grown singer-songwriter and actor Jared Leto has been in the acting game since the early 1990s. With movies like "Fight Club" and "Requiem for a Dream" under his belt, he has MORE than been around the good movie block a few times...

Dick Van Dyke is a solid entertainer even at 90 years old!
Here's The star of SEVERAL classics (Mary Poppins, Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, and The Dick Van Dyke Show) sitting in a Denny's with some barber-shop singers doing a rendition of a song from one of his starring roles...

Too early to start talking about Halloween?
I don't know about you, but I start planning MY Halloween the day AFTER Halloween! And thanks to M&Ms I already know what I'm getting for my trick-or-treaters.
M&Ms just announced a new flavor hitting Target this Fall, and its white…

Take this story as a lesson. That lesson being, tie up your loose-ends before you die...
A 55 year old man in Egg Township, New Jersey passed away last Tuesday and left behind a wife AND girlfriend.
Leroy Black was apparently a bit of a player...

China is finally road-testing it's new elevated bus!
Cars will be able to drive UNDER the bus to ease traffic congestion. China, being heavily over-populated for it's size has dealt with insane traffic conditions for a long time.
Click on the video below to see how the elevated bus will grea…

A 70 year old woman in West Virginia went to the local Wal-Mart to pick up a few things and brought her dogs along.
She made sure they were totally comfortable and left the car running with the air conditioner on so they could stay cool. And how did they repay her...