Maybe he won’t need that Larry Flynt job after all: Anthony Weiner may be out of work, but his ultra-generous congressional pension alone will make him a millionaire, writes Jack Hough at SmartMoney . And that’s after only 12 years of service, something that most workers in the private sector couldn’t…
Continue reading …That didn’t take long: The couple kissing in what is fast becoming an iconic photo from the Vancouver riots has been identified as Scott Jones, a 29-year-old Australia native, and his Canadian girlfriend, Alexandra Thomas. Jones’ father explains to the Toronto Star what happened: “She had actually been injured,” he…
Continue reading …The latest hacking attack wasn’t against a government agency or huge tech company, it was against … Kelsey Grammer. An email was sent from one of the actor’s personal email accounts with a mean, yet simultaneously hilarious, subject line referring to his ex-wife : “Camille smells like beef jerkey [sic].” Grammer quickly…
Continue reading …Mexico’s federal police have arrested the alleged leader of the armed wing of the Juarez Cartel—one Marco Antonio Guzman, also known as “El Brad Pitt.” Guzman was nabbed on Wednesday in Chihuahua, the northern Mexican state that’s home to Ciudad Juarez, site of an estimated 3,100 killings last…
Continue reading …One emotion running high at this year’s annual meeting of liberal bloggers: disappointment in the president. One popular panel at the Netroots Nation Convention was even titled, “What to Do When the President’s Just Not That Into You,” and featured an editor at Daily Kos noting, “It’s like the president’s…
Continue reading …An explosive argument ? A mutual decision ? What really spelled the end of Hugh Hefner’s relationship with Crystal Harris? A teary Harris spilled the story to Entertainment Tonight , claiming that she just couldn’t live with Hef’s playboy lifestyle, the Daily Mail reports. “I wasn’t the only woman in Hef’s…
Continue reading …Who better to take over Anthony Weiner’s congressional seat than the wife he betrayed? As a top aide to Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin is a political force, writes Ann Friedman for Good : Time last year called her a “rising star of American politics.” What’s more, she’s seen a parallel situation…
Continue reading …Roads around the Pentagon were closed today after police detained a man in Arlington National Cemetery and found his car in bushes near the Pentagon. Park police stopped the man overnight because the cemetery was closed, and found that he was carrying what was believed at the time to be…
Continue reading …Syria’s most powerful, and possibly most hated, tycoon announced yesterday that he was retiring from business, in what’s seen as a major concession from President Bashar al-Assad to the protests raging through the country. Rami Makhlouf is Assad’s cousin and is seen as “a symbol of the corruption in the…
Continue reading …Vancouver police trying to track down the people who trashed their city have a powerful tool on their side that wasn’t around during the 1994 Stanley Cup riot. A Facebook group set up within minutes of the trouble beginning encourages people to help police by posting their pictures of Wednesday…
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