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Fun is one tough mother-scratcher. How tough? Just consider the following times it came under assault, only to bounce back like the mother-scratching tough-ass thing it is. Fun is still around. It's not going anywhere, current political climate be...

Our bodies are incredible: No matter what age or size, they can do astounding things, as this Italia's Got Talent contestant proves. When Tomoko was five years old, she saw Carmen on TV. She moved to Italy from Japan 43 years...

Ever look at a platypus and wonder: now how did that happen? A bill for a face, really? Once you start questioning it, you wonder how all animals were created, or at least why evolution stopped there exactly. Thank goodness for...

In Brave New Weed, author Joe Dolce weaves a fascinating tale of the twisted history — and even more twisted pretzel logic — behind marijuana prohibition. It is a tale that, depending on the chapter, will make you laugh,...

Facebook continues to roll out new services to complete its role as primary internet town hall. The latest addition is its Facebook Marketplace function, which the company trickled out this week. As Facebook had discovered, many users were buying...

The fight for legalized marijuana has hit the living rooms up and down the state of California. Ads in support for the state's Proposition 64 — the Adult Use of Marijuana Act — began running on network and cable channels on Tuesday, focusing...

This ain't your grandfather's Woodstock weed. It's not even your great-great-great-great grandfather's weed, either. Archaeologists in northwest China have discovered a tomb of a man with 13 cannabis plants carefully arranged on top of his chest. Radiometric dating suggests the burial site...

Since late August, there have been reports of terrifying clown sightings in at least 32 states. Many—if not most—of those have been exposed as hoaxes, but the rash of clown headlines has still reportedly spurred a huge spike in...

Vice presidential candidates Tim Kaine and Mike Pence had a lot to say last night at the veeps' debate in Farmville, Virginia. (Not to be confused with FarmVille, the Zynga game.) And much of what they said included name-checking...

Congrats must go out to Netflix for coming up with an ingenious way to promote their Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life premier on November 25.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTnU5MG5Edw No need to keep dreaming of moving to Stars Hollow (it's time to come...