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‘Gun Owners Support Starbucks Day’ Mixes Coffee and Second Amendment Rights
Last month, Second-Amendment enthusiasts rallied together for the poorly timed Gun Appreciation Day. Last week, a man set a new and dangerous record for the most expensive Starbucks drink ever. Now,...
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PHOTOS: Lamborghini’s New $3.9 Million Veneno Supercar
Attention, McLaren and Bugatti: the gauntlet has been thrown. On Monday, Italian carmaker Lamborghini introduced its Veneno supercar, a 750-horsepower beast whose $3.9 million price tag immediately...
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Researcher: Zombie Fads Peak When Society Is Unhappy
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Zombies seem to be everywhere these days. In the popular TV series “The Walking Dead,” humans struggle to escape from a pack of zombies hungry for flesh. Prank alerts have warned of a...
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Starbucks CEO Doubles Down on Gay-Marriage Support, Telling Shareholder to...
Howard Schultz, the outspoken CEO of global coffee chain Starbucks, calmly but firmly defended his company’s support of same-sex marriage last week at a shareholder meeting. In response to a challenge...
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William Shatner ‘Appalled’ IRS Spent $60,000 of Taxpayer Money on Star Trek...
Wondering where your taxpayer dollars are going? Well, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) could have spent them on a Star Trek parody video. The agency admitted Friday that it spent $60,000 to make...
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Hello Kitty and KISS to Team Up For New Animated Series
Peanut butter and chocolate, chips and dip, Hello Kitty and KISS? USA Today’s Pop Candy is reporting that the adorable cartoon kitten is teaming up with infamous rock band KISS for a new animated...
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Samoa Air to Charge Passengers by Weight
Here’s yet another reason to get in shape before you hit the beach: if you’re flying Samoa Air, you will now pay only for what you weigh, according to its website. The airline is calculating the cost...
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Want To Look More Popular? Rent-A-Mourner Will Send People to Your Funeral
Worried that not enough people will show up your funeral? Let Rent-A-Mourner help. The ingenious and aptly-named company allows concerned parties to pay for professional grievers to fill a funeral home...
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Nike Pulls ‘Boston Massacre’ T-Shirts from Shelves
Sports retailer Nike has pulled a T-shirt that some shoppers might find insensitive in light of the recent events in Boston, the Huffington Post reported. The T-shirt — with the words “Boston Massacre”...
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These Are the Best and Worst Jobs of 2013
Analyzing numbers from the U.S. Department of Labor and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and other government agencies, Careercast.com has published its 25th annual rankings of 200 common jobs...
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Italy Faces a Shortage of Pizza Makers
A growing slice of Italy’s pizza makers are not actually Italian. Despite a long recession and high unemployment, Italians may be less inclined to take pizza-making jobs because of the long hours and...
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Employees Get Tattoo of Company Logo For Pay Raise
Talk about company loyalty. A New York-based real estate firm Rapid Realty has offered its 800 employees a 15% pay raise if they tattoo the company’s logo onto their bodies, and the offer is...
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U.K. Call Firm Flies Staff To New Zealand To Cover Overnight Shift
A Welsh call center is using a novel solution to provide its customers with 24-hour service. Rather than hiring more workers or switching current staff to the overnight shift, U.K.-based Moneypenny is...
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Fiji Is No Paradise for Low-Wage Workers, Says New Website
If you are daydreaming about a vacation in a tropical paradise, you may hop online and Google “Fiji.” If your search goes as planned by the International Trade Union Confederation, along with unions in...
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Prince Charles’ Pricey Organic Produce Shop Shutters
It looks like the Prince of Wales isn’t immune to Britain’s weak economy. Prince Charles was forced to close his organic vegetable store, citing falling trade and rising prices, according to Reuters....
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Report: Locks of Love Can’t Account For $6.6 Million Worth of Donated Hair
Locks of Love is tangled in scandal. According to a new report from watchdog group Nonprofit Investor (NPI), the West Palm Beach-based charity–which collects human hair to make custom-fitted hair...
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San Francisco Bacon Restaurant Closes after Neighbors Complain of Smell
While some people may firmly believe that there’s no such thing as too much bacon, a neighborhood in San Francisco begs to differ. A bacon restaurant — aptly named Bacon Bacon — was forced to close its...
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