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Week of 15 June 2009
15 June 2009
Eli Lilly sold drug for dementia knowing it didn't help ...
Nia Vardalos fires off at 'fat-ist' Hollywood ...
Tehran, Iran erupts in riots over disputed election ...
Obama administration puts medical marijuana supplier in prison ...
Richard Branson sends radio station $70 and some financial advice ...
Spamford Wallace could face criminal charges in Facebook case ...
It's re-rehab time for Congressman Patrick Joseph Kennedy (D-Rhode Island) ...
Internet mouth Hal Turner surrenders to police in Hartford, CT ...
16 June 2009
David Letterman apologizes again for 'bad' Sarah Palin joke ...
Lindsay Lohan "happy to cooperate" as jewelry goes missing after photo shoot ...
CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney is almost wishing that this country would be attacked again ...
Katie Holmes will show legwork on So You Think You Can Dance ...
Tehran, Iran still rocked by protests over stolen election ...
Nicklas Lidström had "nearly catastrophic" testicle injury ...
Jessica Alba is off the hook for shark attack ...
Michael Moore takes donations to save our CEOs ...
Brooke Shields' 6-year-old daughter wins $6K at the Kentucky Derby ...
Heidi Montag explains why good Christians pose nude for Playboy ...
Sacha Baron Cohen's nude campfire dance not appreciated by gun-toting hunters ...
Six Flags goes bankrupt ...
17 June 2009
Morgan Freeman says his passenger in wreck was "comparatively negligent" ...
El Pollo Loco taunts KFC over beef-marinated chicken ...
Senator John Ensign (R-Nevada) admits extramarital affair ...
Novartis says epidemic or no epidemic, its swine flu vaccine won't be free for poor countries ...
Sarah Palin accepts the surrender of David Letterman ...
Mia Farrow's brother found dead; cops say it's "suspicious" ...
Just like the Bush-Cheney years, Obama administration blocks public access to logs of White House visitors ...
Iran bans foreign journalists as unrest continues over stolen election ...
Atlanta Falcons release Michael Vick ...
AIG is accused of screwing over Flight 1549 passengers ...
White Supremacists are worried about their movement's image ...
Brett Favre is doing his "Hamlet with a football" routine again ...
Exxon Mobil is ordered to pay interest on 1989 Exxon Valdez damages ...
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed — the terrorist that ex-Veep Dick Cheney says "produced vast quantities of invaluable information about al Qaeda" — says he lied to interrogators to stop torture ...
18 June 2009
Eddie Van Halen sues Nike over guitar’s signature color scheme on shoes ...
John Edwards isn't sure it was a mistake to run for President after cheating on his cancer-stricken wife ...
Tens of thousands protest in Tehran as Ashton Kutcher Twitters his support ...
Rhode Island legalizes marijuana for medicinal purposes ...
Beth Ditto says fat people shouldn't do drugs ...
Rep Michelle Bachmann (R-Minnesota) says she won't cooperate with next year's US census ...
Can the late Roy Rogers ride again in the movies? ...
Pat Boone says "the end of our religious freedom in America could be at hand" ...
Obama to California: Drop dead. ...
19 June 2009
Pixar grants a dying girl's last wish ...
David Cross explains how Jim Belushi is "a full-on 100% d-bag" ...
US Supreme Court says there's no right to challenge wrongful convictions with DNA evidence ...
Husband of Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan) admits hiring $150 hooker ...
Orlando Bloom's mother sells off his belongings ...
Execs from Assurant, UnitedHealth Group, and Wellpoint Health Networks promise to continue canceling health policies when customers get expensive diseases ...
Rep Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) proposes pot decriminalization ...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fractures her elbow ...
Chrysler to restart seven assembly plants ...
Rani Mukherjee shifting back to her lucky house ...
PETA wishes President Obama hadn't swatted that fly ...
H. A. Boucher, Lt. Governor of Alaska from 1970 to 1974, dies at his home in Anchorage, Alaska ...
20 June 2009
Morgan Freeman allegedly had affair with step-granddaughter ...
Nestlé cookie dough now comes with free E. coli ...
Accused swindler R. Allen Stanford surrenders to feds in Virginia ...
United States plans to bomb the moon ...
Two small-town police chiefs accused of burglary at home of Sarah Jessica Parker's surrogate ...
Mia Farrow's brother shot himself in the head, coroner says ...
Why is US Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald trying to suppress a book about links between the Mafia and al Qaeda? ...
Bret Michaels says he won't sue over Tony accident ...
Senator Roland W. Burris (D-Illinois) won't face charges of perjury ...
Sean Penn backs out of Three Stooges movie ...
We're shocked, shocked to find that another baseball slugger was on steroids ...
Frank Lloyd Wright's Blade Runner house is for sale ...
John Turturro says he wants a sequel to The Big Lebowski ...
Richard O. Ristine, Lt. Governor of Indiana from 1961-65, dies after a brief illness at his home in Leland, Michigan ...
21 June 2009
United States beefs up defense of Hawaii over fears that North Korea could launch a missile attack ...
Steve Wozniak asks to cut in line at Apple Store ...
Sen John Ensign's mistress, her husband, and her son received curious payments ...
Pirate Bay and Google help protesters get their message out of Iran ...
Security expert Bruce Schneier has problems selling stuff on eBay ...
Obama administration argues that ex-Veep Dick Cheney's role in outing CIA agent Valerie Plame must be kept secret, to avoid jokes from Jon Stewart ...