WMUR is the only local news station in the state of New Hampshire, and if you're wondering how much interesting news NH has on a regular basis (or really ever, except for during election years), then you have yet to experience the pleasure of small-town news, let alone from a place as amazing and odd as the Granite State.
Read MoreLike many black belt TV nerds, I loved Veronica Mars, still tell friends to give it a shot (and feign surprise when they lose a weekend to compulsively watching the entire first season). I share a hope with the show's former star, Kristen Bell and tens of thousands of other nerds on Kickstarter that a Veronica Mars movie is always possible. In the past three hours, they've picked up over half a million dollars in financing.
Read MoreLord knows that every major sports league keeps its athletes on as tight a leash as possible, pushes them to be involved in charity and promotes the shit out of anything resembling an athlete's human interest story (Manti Teo, 'ello!). In the end, however, no matter how much we wish it were so, being great at a sport does not automatically make a pro athlete a great person, and the higher the pedestal we put those winning athletes on (Lance Armstrong, Oscar Pistorius), the harder they fall.
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