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11 October 2010
White House political guru David Axelrod says he expects Republicans will be magnanimous and cooperative after they take control of Congress ...
Breast cancer month is overshadowed by "pinkwashing" ...
Gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino (R-New York) doesn't want children to be "brainwashed" into thinking that being gay is as good as being straight ...
Malcolm Gladwell explains why the revolution will not be tweeted (even if the late John Lennon would be tweeting) ...
Christopher Judge learns about furries ...
Guy finds outdated FBI tracking device on his car, posts pics online, and feds show up demanding it back ...
Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Marian P. Opala dies at an Oklahoma City hospital, after suffering a stroke ...
12 October 2010
Brett Favre wept like a weenie as he told teammates he was sorry for the distraction caused by sexual harassment allegations ...
Spy Kids star Alexa Vega marries producer of Napoleon Dynamite, which, by the way, is going to be a cartoon show on teevee ...
Alleged daughter-f*cking millionaire threatens The Village Voice, which ain't generally wise ...
Tea Party Gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino (R-New York) rages against "disgusting" gay pride parades ...
Those endless infomercials promising IRS tax settlements for pennies on the dollar are all horse pucky, of course ...
Former Congressman from Ohio William Harsha, Jr. dies from complications of hip surgery at Southern Ohio Medical Center in Portsmouth, Ohio ...
13 October 2010
Judge orders US Defense Department to stop enforcing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ...
14 October 2010
After directing an episode of CSI: Miami, Rob Zombie critiques the thespian and other limits of David Caruso ...
Fractal mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot dies of pancreatic cancer in Cambridge, Massachusetts ...
British actor Simon MacCorkindale dies in London following a battle with colon cancer ...15 October 2010
Dane Cook's half-brother gets some serious prison time after he's convicted of embezzling millions of dollars ...
Insane Clown Posse in shocking revelation – they've been evangelical Christians all along ...
Harry Whittington, that old guy who was shot by then-Vice President Dick Cheney back in '06, won't say whether Cheney ever apologized ...
Former Communist Party bigwigs call for easing of censorship in totalitarian China, and get censored ...
National Public Radio goes all-out to help All Things Considered host Michele Norris sell her book ...
Mortgage checkers for Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, and Wal-Mart had no training and didn't know the word "affidavit" ...
Actor Johnny Sheffield, who as a child played "Boy" in the Tarzan films, dies from a heart attack at his home in Chula Vista, California ...16 October 2010
TV chef Mario Batali is sued for allegedly withholding wages and tips from wait staff at his restaurants ...
Countrywide's former CEO Angelo R. Mozilo settles lawsuit over mortgage meltdown with promise to pay $67.5M, and, of course, he admits no wrongdoing ...
Sigourney Weaver remembers making Alien: "Everyone was wearing raincoats — we should have been a little suspicious. And, oh God, the smell. They went to a local butcher's or something. It was just awful." ...
C Street Group, backers of National Prayer Breakfast, took funding from an alleged Islamic terrorist
organization ...
When it came out in court that GMAC's foreclosure documents are effectively fraudulent, the company's first response was to try to have the testimony sealed forever ...
New printer from Canon turns you in for printing contraband ...
Famous for playing the mother on Leave It to Beaver, Barbara Billingsley dies after a long illness at her Santa Monica, California home ...17 October 2010
Catfight! Chelsea Handler's lighthearted opening shot incites Nick Cannon to tweet back with a vengeance ...
After Nobel Peace Prize for Liu Xiaobo, totalitarian China targets his friends, colleagues, and anyone who agrees with him ...
Woman has severe asthma attack at CVS drug store, but staff won't let her have an inhaler because it costs $21 and she only has $20 ...
Wikileaks says its funding has been blocked by payment firm as "financial warfare by the US government", as US Defense Department braces for release of 400,000 secret reports from Iraq war ...
Ke$ha puts her money where her mouth is, with a gold tooth ...
Another judge orders nutball Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio to treat county jail prisoners as if they're human ...
Tyra Banks gets sued because, apparently, there's some prudish law that says if you interview a 15-year-old girl on national TV about her sex addiction you should have her parents' permission first ...