So Andrew Breitbart's belated death-rattle made its debut last night, and here's what it is: Barack Obama, in 1990, gave a speech saying nice things about a bad man named Derrick Bell. He also hugged the bad man, Derrick Bell. Ipso facto reduction ad absurdum habeas corpus hocus pocus, Barack Obama is a bad man as well. Airtight.
A 6-year-old boy was walking down the street with his father and sister in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, when the father allegedly asked the boy to bite his penis. The boy refused. All three people were naked, the Shanghai Daily reports, and upon the boy's refusal to bite his father's penis, the father bit off his son's:
Coca-Cola has hit back at claims from a consumer watchdog group that the food additive used to give its products their familiar brown color causes cancer.
Patricia and Joan Miller, identical twins who sang and danced their way through the 1950s for the likes of Bing Crosby, were found dead in their Lake Tahoe home last week, the Associated Press reported today.
The London Olympics organizing committee has come under fire for "obsessive secrecy" and "a chronic lack of transparency" over its refusal to give local politicians a breakdown of Olympics ticket pricing until the Games are over.
Famed slut and Missouri native Rush Limbaugh is set to be honored with a bronze statue at the Missouri state Capitol, House Speaker Steven Tilley confirmed yesterday.
When a blogger writes a blog post about something, that blogger will often put a "link" in the blog post that "links" to a related page on the internet. This is just part of blogging. Works pretty well. Until a massive corporation decides to actively get involved. Then, it becomes amusing.
Get ready for the most adorable true crime story you'll hear all day. In Texas, a troop of Girl Scouts selling cookies outside a Wal-Mart were robbed by thieves who took the girls' cash box. (But weirdly enough, no cookies.) It's actually kind of a sad story — they never got the money back. But the no-nonsense way the victims went after the robbers is pretty cute.
Yesterday — in the wake of losing several sponsors — Rush Limbaugh apologized for calling law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute." Fluke had the audacity to argue in front of Congress that her employer's health care coverage should cover her birth control. Since Limbaugh made his apology, notable Republicans have stepped forward to agree that Limbaugh's comments were out of line, and that the conservative talk show host does not speak for the Republican party as a whole.
There have been several recent reports on rising gas prices, mostly focused on the fact that we're kind of doomed. Obama has admitted that he can't simply make the prices go down, and that none of the "easy solutions" many people are clamoring for would have any effect, now or in the longrun. We may — brace yourselves — have to start thinking in a different way entirely.
Campaigning in Ohio, Rick Santorum has kept his focus firmly on family values as opponent Mitt Romney concentrates on the economy. Santorum's biggest concern: families without one father and one mother. (He didn't actually adress gay families in his speech, but you can probably guess how he feels about that.)
A series of violent storms and tornadoes have wreaked havoc on several states, including Indiana (14 dead so far) and Kentucky (19 dead so far). The numbers keep rising as rescue workers continue to find more victims — and that's not counting the staggering numbers of people injured and property destroyed.
BuzzFeed points to an unsettling (and totally passive-aggressive) card made before Whitney Houston's death. The text inside reads — in dramatic, lowercase-letters only fashion — "next time you think of dating the bad boy, consider whitney houston ... that's all i'm going to say." The card remained on Target shelves two weeks after Houston's death, until someone finally had the good sense to remove it.
Researcher and ex-Mormon Helen Radkey raised some eyebrows when she reported that a Mormon temple in Idaho had baptized deceased Jewish reporter Daniel Pearl. But it doesn't stop there. Radkey also discovered posthumous baptisms of Anne Frank and Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal's family. Needless to say, the Jewish community isn't thrilled, and the Mormon higher-ups have been forced to take action. (Read: they sent out a letter.)
