It looks like there are still many Mazzy Star fans out there. Mazzy Star is trending right now. The Californian alternative rock band will release a new album on September 24. It has been 17 years…
Continue reading …Online producer Slav Kornik tells us what's trending on the web, including social media reaction to the controversial “Don't be that girl” posters that have been posted around Edmonton.
Continue reading …President Obama hammered Republican presidential hopefuls today for their “casual” talk of the possibility of war with Iran. “What is said on the campaign trail—those folks don’t have a lot of responsibilities,” Obama said in his first White House press conference since October. “They are not commander in chief….
Continue reading …A Dutch town has a guardian angel—and her cell phone gets 30 calls a day. The Little Angel, a sculpture outside the ancient St. John the Evangelist Cathedral in ‘S Hertogenbosch, was born out of a 1997 design contest to replace the church’s worn-down figures. In addition to the…
Continue reading …You may want to examine your next Happy Meal more closely. A Chicken McNugget bearing a resemblance to our first president has sold on eBay for $8,100, the Sioux City Journal reports. An Iowa mom observed the similarity in a McDonald’s while picking up after her kids. She popped…
Continue reading …Someday, the US may fight wars with an army of creepy robotic cheetahs. That’s right, a Pentagon-funded robo-cheetah has been successfully tested, setting a new land-speed record for a machine with legs, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency has announced. The cheetah hit a speed of 18mph, which makes it…
Continue reading …Gone are the days of visiting the kiddie dentist as a tot to get a cavity or two filled: These days, an increasing number of preschoolers are getting knocked out with general anesthesia so dentists can fix extensive problems, in procedures that cost parents anywhere from $2,000 to $5,…
Continue reading …Jamaica Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller didn’t mince words when asked yesterday about her country’s history with Britain—just as Prince Harry arrived in the country for a visit. “No race should have been subjected to what our ancestors were subjected to,” Miller said, according to the Telegraph . “It was…
Continue reading …Rush Limbaugh’s “slut” attack on law student Sandra Fluke has no “place in public discourse,” says President Obama. At his news conference today, Obama explained that he called Fluke after the incident because he wants people to be able to speak their minds about policy, noting that he wouldn’t want…
Continue reading …After paying almost three times the drugstore price for a Coke and candy, a Michigan man has had it: He’s suing his local AMC cinema in an attempt to lower snack prices statewide. “He got tired of being taken advantage of,” Joshua Thompson’s lawyer tells the Detroit Free Press . “It’s…
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