[Photo: stock.xchng.com] Recently, a friend sent me the link to an article about some absolutely wacky sounding illnesses. At first when I started to read down through the list, I thought it might be a humorous article. But then I came upon Pica. We all know that one as an uncontrollable urge to eat...

Michael Steele Bows Down to His King. MC Michael Steele with the hippity-hoppity music and the rapping and the shizizzzle thought he was the Big Man of the GOP Saturday on DL Hughley’s show… …but then the REAL Big Man of the GOP, the KING OF THE GOP himself, Rush Limbaugh, fired ba...

Michoel Lipman emails: Israeli authorities captured two religious Jews in Jerusalem this week accusing them of being ring-leaders in a high-profile drug smuggling case going on now in Japan. Unfortunately, when the Jerusalem arrests were reported online, secular news portals and even some religious ...

Etta James' tirade about Beyoncé at a Seattle show last month? It wasn't a dis so much as it was a joke that none of us got because the audio making its way around the Internet didn't have the audience's laughter properly amplified, she told the New York Daily News: "I didn't really mean anything. ...

Poynter’s Amy Gahran has an interesting post up about a false report from the Press Association that moved its way around the web: On Nov. 29, the story ran in Wales Online: “We thought we were safe… then CNN stepped in!” said the headline. As of this writing you can still fi...

As the temperature rises, so should concern for the ventilation and shading systems of glass structures. Ventilation control accessories traditionally see limited use during colder months, thus with increased use proper lubrication and adjustments to these accessories are needed so they can remain d...

Filed under: In the Autoblog Garage, Convertibles, Mazda, First Drive Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2008 Mazda MX-5. Just as it appeared that winter was finally drawing to close here in Michigan, one of the definitive summertime cars turned up on our doorstep -- the Mazda MX-5 Miata . So...

Dave Grohl has posted a sorta-denial of the open letter to Metallica that made the rounds last week, which inquired after the progress of their current album (particularly the drum parts). While not denying that he said the words that were picked up "by everyone from Blabbermouth to Rolling Stone," ...

The Boston Herald is surely drowning in hate mail right now after it retracted a Feb. 2 article accusing the New England Patriots of videotaping the St. Louis Rams’ Super Bowl XXXVI walkthrough. It turns out no such tape exists. Um, oopsie? The Herald now admits they didn’t the have the ...

Diddy definitely didn't know about that time Tupac got shot in 1994, the LA Times just wants you to know that. What? You already knew that? Well, the LA Times wants to make it even clearer. It's already apologised for running the story that falsely implicated Diddy in Tupac's shooting, a...