Local news site tells amazing story of man redeeming a voucher.

Customers that purchased a ticket through Ticketmaster between late 1999 and early 2013 could be eligible for free tickets to a number of events.

An email sent to eligible Ticketmaster customers includes instructions on how to get vouchers for free tickets to selected events as well as discounts on Ticketmaster purchases. Those who bought a ticket through the company between Oct. 21, 1999, and Feb. 27, 2013, are eligible. The vouchers expire in four years.

The clock is ticking!

Frank Manginaro, of Chatham County, is one of about 57 million people who recently received a voucher.

Meet our lonely hero, Frank.

He said he was thrilled until the site started giving him an error message when he attempted to use the voucher code.

"All of a sudden they are giving me excuses saying it doesn't work, you can't buy tickets, try again later," he said. "I was upset about it, and so were my friends because they couldn't even get through."

Technical difficulties have beset our brave hero! What will he do?

After trying for two days, Manginaro tried again and found a way to get tickets. He said he ignored the voucher link on the Ticketmaster website and went straight to the band's page.

"I just skipped over it and went straight to the Counting Crows and ordered it through there. It went through with no problem," he said.

Cunning has saved the day! The enemy is defeated!

We can thank WRAL.com for this thrilling story of triumph over adversity.

I am sick and tired of watching folks like Boris Johnson, Marine Le Pen, Donald Trump, and others appeal to the worst racial instincts of our species, only to be shushed by folks telling me that it's not really racism driving their popularity. It's economic angst. It's regular folks tired of being spurned by out-of-touch elites. It's a natural anxiety over rapid cultural change.

Maybe it's all those things. But at its core, it's the last stand of old people who have been frightened to death by cynical right-wing media empires and the demagogues who enable them—all of whom have based their appeals on racism as overt as anything we've seen in decades. It's loathsome beyond belief, and not something I thought I'd ever see in my lifetime. But that's where we are

Brexit Wins

Pad Kee Mao is a versatile dish. It can be made with noodles, spaghetti, without noodles and served on rice, with seafood… you name it. Essentially you can make anything ‘kee mao’ by including a lot of chilies, fresh peppercorns & holy basil. In Thai, ‘pad’ means to stir-fry, and ‘kee mao’ means someone who likes to drink too much. ‘Kee’ literally means ‘shit’, and adding ‘kee’ in front of any verb means it’s a bad habit. ‘Mao’ means drunk. So, a ‘Kee Mao’ (shit drunk) is someone who has a bad habit of drinking! What this has to do with this dish, I’m not 100% sure. I’ve heard that this is a common drinking food, and also that it’s a good cure for a hangover. Your guess is as good as mine.

Authentic Thai recipes from Thailand

No matter what the cuisine, I'm all about the wide noodle: pad kee mao, chow fun, pappardelle, big ol egg noodles and gravy, etc.. Wide and flat and rubbery and chewy - that's my kinda noodle.

Republican Sen. John McCain said Thursday that President Barack Obama is "directly responsible" for the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida

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If states can drug test low-income residents seeking welfare assistance, why can’t they do the same for members of the one percent asking for hefty federal tax deductions?

So goes the thinking of Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), who spoke to the Guardian on Wednesday about her new Top 1% Accountability Act. The bill would force taxpayers reporting itemized deductions of over $150,000 to either submit a clear drug test to the IRS or accept the much lower standard deduction when filing their tax returns.

A Kenyan court ruled Thursday that law enforcement can force men accused of homosexuality to undergo anal exams

BuzzFeed

The story this article uncovers is actually more interesting than the question its title poses. It's crazy.

After much study, I've come to the conclusion that the Prince songs I remember are better than the Prince songs he actually recorded.

In Sacramento, Pastor Roger Jimenez of Verity Baptist Church said the killer succeeded in making Orlando safer.

“Are you sad that 50 pedophiles were killed today?” Jimenez said in a sermon originally posted on YouTube. “Um no, I think that’s great! I think that helps society. I think Orlando, Florida is a little safer tonight.”

“I wish the government would round them all up, put them up against a wall, put a firing squad in front of them and blow their brains out.”

"How can the American People and military stand by and do nothing while this piece of sh-- puts everyone of us in danger,”

Asked the gun dealer who sold the Orlando shooter his guns. Except this guy was talking about Obama, not himself.