A Florida man suspected of assault told sheriff’s deputies he was half-orangutan and had to telephone the “Fusion Center” about his monkey blood, the Naples Daily News reports. The deputies had responded to a call that Mark Loescher, 51, brandished a gun after a woman told him a car he…
Continue reading …Mitt Romney’s opposition to the Detroit bailout plan may come back to haunt him in the Michigan primary , the New York Times reports. Not only did Bain Capital, the equity firm he founded, refuse to pump money into a flailing General Motors—Romney himself wrote an op-ed for the Times…
Continue reading …You cell phone is … where again? If that question fills you with panic, you may be a nomophobe—someone who fears being without a cell phone, the Los Angeles Times reports. Odd as it may seem, two thirds of 1,000 people polled in a British survey say they feared…
Continue reading …Occupy Atlanta, the Communications Workers of America, the Teamsters and Jobs With Justice held a rallies last week to prevent AT&T from laying off hundreds of workers at a time when they are making record profits and paying their CEO $27 million. The company plans to lay off 740 workers in Atlanta. The company says they have offered the workers other jobs with the company, but they all appear to be lower-paying jobs with no benefits. The organizations rallying against AT&T demand that the current jobs be kept. Michael Dawson, a service representative, was laid off last year, but got another job with the company. Dawson said worrying about losing his job again is draining. “I may be axed with no opportunity for a job,” Dawson said. “We’re scared because the company will flip a switch and decide ‘we no longer need you.’” Kim Ball, a maintenance administrator, knows what it’s like to face the layoff guillotine. Ball has been part of a downsizing effort before. She doesn’t want to go through that again. “AT&T is making enough money to keep people on the payroll. Stop the layoffs. We want them to stop the layoffs,” Ball said. 12 protesters were arrested at a related rally earlier in the week.
Continue reading …Waffle House is home to more than wacky crime and weird behavior . It also has an equally weird Twitter feed—that is, if you consider it strange for corporate entities to solicit our opinions on current events, Jon Bershad writes on Mediaite . Waffle House’s recent tweets about Whitney Houston and…
Continue reading …(CNN) – Rick Santorum is sounding more fire and brimstone than a play-it-safe front-runner for the Republican nomination. In the span of 48 hours, Santorum interrupted a slow holiday weekend news cycle with a series of thunderous claims that included his belief that the president's value system constitutes a “phony theology.” CNN LIVE: Tune in
Continue reading …The Virginia House of Delegates delayed a hotly contested anti-abortion bill today after hundreds of women protested silently outside, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports. On the verge of passing, the bill would mandate an ultrasound for every woman planning an abortion and give her the choice of viewing the fetus. But…
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When it comes to weight gain, fructose should not be singled out for blame, a new review of the scientific literature suggests.
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Move over fat, salt, and sugar. There’s a new dietary villain in town and its name is gluten.
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