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2 September 2010
White Sox slugger Manny Ramirez flies his barber cross-country for a haircut ...
Fox News military analyst and retired three-star General Thomas McInerney sides with American soldier who refuses orders, and wants to see the President's birth certificate ...
Harry Shearer goes up against the Army Corps of Engineers ...
BP is evicted from its Louisiana oil spill command center over unpaid rent ...
Electric car maker Tesla Motors fined $275K for skipping emissions certification ...
Swedish prosecutor re-files rape charge against Julian Assange, as we tour the civil defense bunker where Wikileaks hopes to house some of its servers ...
American Chemistry Council disinfo campaign torpedoes California's plan to ban cheap plastic bags ...
Richard S. Fuld, Jr., ex-CEO of the late Lehman Brothers, is still irked that he and his company didn't get a piece of the bailout billions ...
J. K. Rowling donates $15.4M to multiple sclerosis research ...
Kevin Rose steps aside after five months as interim CEO of Digg ...
US Homeland Security Department is sued over secret traveler files ...
AT&T says net rules must allow "paid prioritization" ...
Paris Hilton says she's ignoring "ridiculous, cruel" rumors — but what's the fun in that? ...
Francis Collins, faith, and the fight for stem cell research ...
1 September 2010
You don't want to look too closely at the tap water in New York City ...
Food crisis looms after floods in Pakistan ...
Divine Brown reflects on "the trick that changed my life" ...
The Washington Times is sold by one of Rev Sun Myung Moonbat's subsidiaries to another, for one dollar ...
Sued RV dealer challenges Taylor Lautner to a push-up contest ...
Left-wing groups challenge President Obama's power to order people killed ...
Tiki Barber hires PR firm to repair his image after leaving pregnant wife ...
Samantha Ronson's bulldog noms a Maltese, allegedly ...
Decades later, Rancho Cucamonga landmarks remain where Zappa left them ...
Disgraced former Congressman James Traficant (D-Ohio) is tanned, rested, out of prison, and running for his former seat in Congress ...
Daughter of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani gets a day of community service for shoplifting, and her conviction will be erased if she can go six months without getting arrested again ...
Sex tape star Kim Kardashian praises her sister's vajayjay ...
31 August 2010
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar sues over unauthorized use of UCLA-era photo in bubble gum cards ...
Samson-like footballer Troy Polamalu's luscious hair is insured for $1M ...
Superstar pitcher Roger Clemens pleads not guilty in doping perjury case ...
An excerpt from Roald Dahl's darkest hour ...
US Food and Drug Administration suspects that egg contamination might be related to piles of manure up to eight feet tall, dead maggots, live flies, and rodent infestation at two enormous Iowa factory-farms ...
YouTube wants to start a $5 pay per view on-line movie rental system ...
BP and the Obama administration say the oil has vanished, but it's on Florida's beaches ...
Chicago White Sox pick up 12-time All-Star Manny Ramirez on waivers ...
Beetle Bailey celebrates sixty years of likable laziness ...
TMZ's headline says "Paris Hilton could face years in prison", but c'mon — she's rich, and rich people rarely go to prison. More accurate headline: Paris Hilton faces, maybe, at worst, a lengthy probation. Besides, she thought it was gum ...
Knocked-up 19-year-old Bristol Palin joins Dancing with the Stars ...
30 August 2010
Weeds star Mary-Louise Parker says she's never smoked weed ...
US Drug Enforcement Administration doesn't need a warrant to secretly attach GPS tracking devices to Americans' cars, says US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ...
Entire cast and producers of Jersey Shore are sued over altercation during filming ...
Paris Hilton's lawyer says don't rush to judgment on cocaine charge ...
Is the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai a wholly-owned subsidiary of the US Central Intelligence Agency? ...
French movie star Gerard Depardieu bitches out of the blue about Oscar-winning fellow Frenchie Juliette Binoche ...
British Petroleum spends a million dollars a week advertising its efforts to deal with Gulf of Mexico disaster ...
Assault charge against Lee Ryan is dropped ...
Probation ends early for romantic but allegedly diaperless astronaut Lisa Nowak ...
29 August 2010
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen sues Apple, Google, nine other companies over alleged patent infringement ...
50 Cent banned from TwitPic over Kardashian butt-burger ...
Facebook is sending cease and desist letters to, apparently, every company that starts with Face or ends with Book ...
The National Rifle Association said Obama would ban guns and ammo and self-defense, but two years later the President gets a big fat "F" from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence ...
Paris Hilton's week starts with a knife-wielding stalker, and ends arrested with cocaine ...
Cliff Kincaid takes being a birther to the next level: he wants proof that President Obama has been baptized ...
Maybe former Congressman and former convict James Traficant (D-Ohio) gets to run for Congress again after all (and check out that hella bad toupee) ...
French film director Alain Corneau dies at his home in Paris ...
28 August 2010
Blockbuster Video tells Hollywood studios it's preparing to file bankruptcy ...
Lindsay Lohan's amusingly goofy father says he'll open a God-based drug and alcohol rehabilitation center. "Yes, it's, true, I'll be running it." ...
Legalizing marijuana is on the ballot in California, but media conglomerate Condé Nast refuses paid pro-pot ads — so subsidiary Reddit is running the ads for free ...
Whoopi Goldberg leaves stage production of Sister Act after mother's stroke ...
Obama administration sides with utilities in US Supreme Court case about climate change ...
John Mayer to The Huffington Post: "You’re a stripper wearing reading glasses.” ...
H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness to receive 3-D treatment courtesy Guillermo del Toro and James Cameron ...
Canadian terror suspect covered Avril Lavigne in Idol bid ...
Daughter of US Ambassador to Thailand Eric G. John defenestrates in NYC ...
27 August 2010
"I''m here, I'm queer, get used to it", says Bush campaign chief and former Republican National Committee Chair Ken Mehlman ...
Timbaland says he's baffled by all-points bulletin over his "possible suicide attempt" ...
Social Security is "like a milk cow with 310 million tits!", says former Senator Alan Simpson (R-Wyoming) ...
Hot Russian spy Anna Chapman is now a hot Russian supermodel ...
The X Factor talent show promises to stop using Auto-Tune to enhance contestants' singing voices ...
Former US President Jimmy Carter secures freedom for American imprisoned in North Korea ...
John McEnroe says women's tennis schedule is too demanding for players ...
Google takes another step toward making computers functional (and maybe profitable) as phones ...
Will Forte walks away from Saturday Night Live ...
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