Amy Winehouse is laid to rest. Blake Fielder-Civil memorializes her from yet another jail cell. Jesse James and Kat Von D broke up. Lauryn Hill's boyfriend left her for a model while she was pregnant with his child. Tuesday gossip is somber.
Speaking of hugely popular chain stores with a liberal reputation which are actually staunch enemies of unions: Starbucks! The Industrial Workers of the World have been trying, with little success, to organize Starbucks workers for years. This week, they're picketing select Starbucks locations in major cities, partly in sympathy with Chilean Starbucks workers who are already on strike. From an IWW press release:
A popular papa from the '90s had a little incident at the happiest place on earth, which, to be honest, is sort of understandable. It's not that happy! Also today: a power couple split, an ungrateful singer, and lady-killing actor.
The Telegraph today reports that beer sales in Britain have dropped 9.8 percent between April and June of this year, and the same time last year. That's the biggest dip in sales in 14 years. So, why are beer sales plummeting? The paper assigns blame to the outrageous taxes imposed on brewers, a 35.4 percent rise in duties since March 2008, but it failed to include another factor — cocaine has never been cheaper!
It's impossible to wrap one's head around the awfulness to befall Norway this week, so one New Zealand newscast turned to a Kiwi expat who was near the site of the Oslo bombing for an eyewitness account. Unfortunately, however, that's all just a pretense for Cameron Leslie to share what's really been on his mind over the past few days: his totally killer workout!
Gay-hating presidential aspirant Michele Bachmann represents a district of Minnesota which public health officials have labeled a "suicide contagion area," according to a deeply disturbing piece in Mother Jones. Here's why: In the space of two years, nine teenagers from the area have taken their own lives—the most recent one in May—while "many more" have attempted suicide unsuccessfully. Most of them were known or perceived to be LGBT youth.
Last night, Cincinnati's Fox affiliate, WXIX, debuted Queen City, a reality show about four boring single women and their boring struggle to balance their boring lives in a boring southern Ohio city. If you've ever wondered whether Bravo was going to expand its Real Housewives franchise to Cinci, check out the show's premiere episode above and you'll see why that won't be happening anytime soon.
Whether you're looking to get a head start on a Halloween costume, planning a neighborhood effigy burning, into weird, ripped-from-the-headlines sex games, or just want to scare the crap out of your delinquent kid, this is the Casey Anthony mask for you. According to the eBay listing, the "Tot Mom" mask is one of only nine in existence — so get to bidding, sickies! (Makes a great companion piece with this equally accurate Nancy Grace mask.) [eBay]
Marijuana is an odd drug! Sometimes when you're stoned you fall asleep in the middle of taking a bite of a cookie. And then sometimes you steal an ambulance from outside a house fire at 4 a.m. and drive across your neighbors' lawns.
The stalemate between congressional Republicans and Democrats over raising the nation's debt ceiling has gotten so bad that President Obama addressed the nation tonight in an attempt to publicly shame them into reaching a deal. And on tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart angrily piled on Obama's message with an anti-Congress rant of his own. Video of the segment is above.
Do you recognize this guy? If so, you should give the Utah County Sheriff's Office a call at a 801-851-4202. They've had him in jail for a month now and he won't tell anyone who he is.
A South African man spent about 24 hours in a morgue this weekend. Not, like, hanging out! No, as a dead body.
Google's social network is on a rampage. It's banning people for using nicknames. It' s banning people for names that are too short. It's banning people for names that are too long. It's even banning people for having the wrong names.
It's been almost a month since Bono and Spider-Man told Glenn Beck to leave Fox News for a career in the lucrative field of "crazy guy with a website." So why don't we check in on him? Today, on his stupid radio show, he compared the Norwegian Labor Party youth camp that was the site of a spree killing that left 76 people, most of them teenagers, dead, to the Hitler Youth:
