http://thecannonblog.com For News You Didn't Know Was News Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:29:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Health Officials Disagree with Campaign Assertions By Donald McFarland Staff Writer BATON ROUGE, LA - Louisiana is taking the glass-half-full approach, even if the glass is half full of crude oil. "We've had some bad luck over the past few years, so it's time to be optimistic and turn tragedy into something that might ... http://thecannonblog.com/?p=744 By Donald McFarland Staff Writer LONDON - British Petroleum, which for weeks has been attempting to stop the oil gush that is polluting the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. coasts, revealed today that Robert Green, the goalie for England's World Cup soccer team, has been in charge of stopping the leak. "We now ... http://thecannonblog.com/?p=733 Explosion, Oil slick follow By Donald McFarland Staff Writer Jed Clampett, the famous Beverly Hills millionaire, has shot a hole in the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, releasing a gush of oil that is creating a massive oil slick on the surface. Workers on the nearby British Petroleum oil rig Deep Horizon reported ... http://thecannonblog.com/?p=739 Detectives Say Culprit Would Have to Be 'Inhumanly Powerful' By Charles Parachute Sports Editor MORGANTOWN, W.VA. - Police are looking for the person - or thing - who threw a coin at University of Pittsburgh assistant basketball coach Tom Herrion during the team's loss to West Virginia University. According to reports, the area beneath Herrion's ... http://thecannonblog.com/?p=727 Rapper Cites Misuse of Name By Tina Roundhouse Staff Writer [caption id="attachment_720" align="alignleft" width="210" caption="Jay-Z"][/caption] NEW YORK CITY - According to four sources, hip hop mogul Jay-Z earlier this month purchased music and television star Miley Cyrus and then sold her to Chinese businessman Zhou Rongkun. One source said Jay-Z did not appreciate Cyrus using ... http://thecannonblog.com/?p=717 By Donald McFarland Staff Writer Fox News radio and television show host Glenn Beck has won the Cannon Newsletter's first ever Douche Bucket of the Year Award. It was a narrow victory, but Beck received a few more first-place votes than the other nominees, which included Rush Limbaugh, South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson and ... http://thecannonblog.com/?p=710 Temp Refs Had Little Time to Learn Rules By Charles Parachute Sports Editor [caption id="attachment_701" align="alignright" width="300" caption="WVU Head Coach Bill Stewart yells at a coal miner whom he believed to be a referee."][/caption] MORGANTOWN, W.VA. - Organizers of the Friends of Coal Bowl - the annual football matchup between West Virginia University and ... http://thecannonblog.com/?p=700 Column Candy is boring. Kids know what to expect when they treat-or-treat - chocolate bars, suckers, gummies, etc. They grow uninterested in and apathetic toward the routine, resorting to other methods of fun, such as egging my car and mummifying me with toilet paper. So I was left with a choice for this ... http://thecannonblog.com/?p=657 Racing Could Be More Receptive to Bigot Than NFL By Charlest Parachute Sports Editor [caption id="attachment_696" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Limbaugh"][/caption] DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. - Two days after a group hoping to purchase the NFL's St. Louis Rams dropped Rush Limbaugh, the controversial radio personality announced he plans to buy a NASCAR team. He didn't specify ... http://thecannonblog.com/?p=695 By Corky McRoberts Wine Columnist Around this time every year, you'll start reading wine columns from pretentious pinheads about how autumn is perfect for reds or how autumn is perfect for whites. Chardonnay this, Cabernet that. Boring! As frequent readers of my column know, I know more than they do. What they might not ... http://thecannonblog.com/?p=688