He never mentions the name Sarah Palin, and he certainly goes nowhere near the phrase “blood libel,” but John McCain comes to the defense of his former running mate in the Washington Post . “Imagine how it must feel to have watched one week ago the incomprehensible massacre of innocents committed…
Continue reading …After four years, about a billion bucks, and lots of yelling on both sides (“Complete the danged fence,” anyone?), the White House is officially canning the US-Mexico border fence, reports the AP. Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano made the long-expected announcement yesterday, saying that there’s no “one-size-fits-all” fix for border security,…
Continue reading …You probably memorized many of these drinking tips before you could legally drink. Thing is, a number of them are false. In an article excerpted from New Scientist, the Washington Post busts a few myths … and confirms a few others. Things that just aren’t true: Coffee sobers you up: Caffeine…
Continue reading …The community college in Tucson that suspended Jared Lee Loughner for creepy behavior has a released a video he made calling it a “genocide school” that “tortured students.” When officials at Pima Community College saw the four-minute rant on YouTube, it was the last straw—see other misdeeds here —and…
Continue reading …Cool find from archeologists poking around Blackbeard’s sunken ship off the coast of North Carolina: They’ve found a gilded hilt that may have belonged to the bad man himself, reports Time . There’s no way to know for sure, of course, but it’s ornamental and probably of French design, seemingly well-suited…
Continue reading …Remember, oh, way back on Monday, when Owen Wilson announced he and his girlfriend were preggers ? Well, they’re not anymore: Us reports that Wilson and Jade Duell welcomed a son yesterday at his property in Hawaii, which apparently allowed him to keep the baby bump a secret. No name…
Continue reading …People have speculated about how far Ronald Reagan’s Alzheimer’s went back since his diagnosis in 1994, but his own son now says that the former president began showing signs of the degenerative disease while in the Oval Office. In My Father at 100, Ron Reagan writes that while watching his…
Continue reading …Christina Taylor Green gave one last time, in the form of some of her organs, which were donated to a little girl in Boston. “It was very poignant to find out. That’s what Christina was all about,” father John Green tells CNN. “It’s a blessing.” Green said he and his…
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