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If Chris Christie is done for and Marco Rubio isn’t ready (plus the water thing), could Mike Pence 2016 become an actual thing?

Breathless 2016 discussion time! Chris Christie: goose may be cooked. Marco Rubio: possibly his time? Mike Huckabee: lurking. Bobby Jindal: always lurking. All of them: would wake up on Election Day already in a huge hole to whoever the Democratic nominee is. And all of… Continue Reading

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The Heather Elvis case is kind of a hot mess, but focus on the names Sidney Moorer and Jeremy Fleming

Heather Elvis has been missing for about six-seven weeks now; she was a 20 year-old restaurant hostess in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Basic story is here: she went on a date (a first date), the guy apparently taught her to drive… Continue Reading

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Facebook turns 10 today, and 57 percent of all adults are using it. But the company has issues, to be sure.

If Facebook were a person — wrap your head around that for a second — it would now be in fourth grade. It debuted on February 4, 2004, so, by simple math, it turns 10 today. Weird. I’ve written about… Continue Reading

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Could Miles Teller become the next Leonardo DiCaprio?

First off, if you don’t know who “Miles Teller” is, here’s his IMDB. (Cue Troy McClure voice) You probably know him from movies like The Spectacular Now (trailer embedded above), 21 and Over, Project X, and That Awkward Moment (out right now with Zac Efron and Michael… Continue Reading

Could Jose Salvador Alvarenga really have survived 13 months or so floating at sea?

I used to read all those Alive books as a kid, because I thought there was a chance I’d be in an avalanche (I’ve never been skiing, in all honesty) or have to save my family from a fire (a small kitchen… Continue Reading

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24.9 million tweets were sent during Super Bowl 48 — and the scrollable refresh trigger is lining Twitter’s pockets

There’s a chart of the peak moments on Twitter during last night’s Super Bowl, via Twitter’s official blog. Overall 24.9 million tweets were sent — last year’s Super Bowl, which was a much closer game, had about 24.1 million tweets sent… Continue Reading

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Super Bowl post-mortem: What can we learn from Pete Carroll, Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer about winning as a college coach in the NFL?

Here’s a list of every Super Bowl winning coach. After last night, four total titles have been won by three men who share a similar distinction — winning a Super Bowl and a college national championship. Those three men? Jimmy Johnson,… Continue Reading

What Philip Seymour Hoffman, as Lester Bangs in Almost Famous, taught us about the world (and the true currency of being uncool)

The death of Philip Seymour Hoffman is certainly tragic, but it shouldn’t necessarily be called shocking — he was in rehab fairly recently. Clearly this was a struggle for him, and the struggle defeated him; it’s happened to many others who excelled at their… Continue Reading