Jeff Conaway, who starred in the sitcom Taxi , played swaggering Kenickie in the movie musical Grease , and publicly battled drug and alcohol addiction on Celebrity Rehab , died today. He was 60. The actor was taken off life support yesterday and died this morning at Encino Tarzana Medical Center, according to…
Continue reading …Casey Anthony’s murder trial went into day four today. Some highlights from the Orlando Sentinel : The manager of the tow yard where Anthony’s car went said it stunk of human decomposition. “It’s a very, very unique and distinctive smell,” he said. The vehicle had been there for several days when…
Continue reading …Women across the professional badminton community are outraged over a decree that female players must wear a skirt or dress to play. The Badminton World Federation wants to create a more “attractive presentation”—which critics interpret to mean it wants women to look sexier to boost a waning fan base,…
Continue reading …Paul Ryan’s Medicare proposal is taking its lumps of late (see here and here ), and the GOP budget wonk is deflecting criticism by accusing “demagogue” Democrats of lying about what his plan would do. Paul Krugman begs to differ: “The reality is that the Ryan plan is turning into…
Continue reading …Jon Huntsman is quite the candidate; he’s a moderate, cerebral, urbane internationalist with tons of experience. “In other words, he is ‘toast’ in today’s Republican Party, and he has very little chance to be the 2012 nominee,” writes ex-Reagan and Bush staffer Ed Rogers in the Washington Post . To win,…
Continue reading …Raising your “good” HDL cholesterol might not be such a good idea. A federally funded study into the effectiveness of the HDL booster niacin has been abruptly cut off, after it became clear that the drug did nothing to reduce the risk of heart attack or stroke—and in the…
Continue reading …Barbara Boxer rounds up some facts and figures related to the Afghanistan war: Osama bin Laden is dead, al-Qaeda looks to be crippled in the country, more than 1,500 Americans have been killed, and we’re spending $10 billion a month on a seemingly never-ending war effort. Easy to see…
Continue reading …The Onion bills itself as “America’s Finest News Source,” and lots of Facebook users agree. But we’re referring here to those who don’t quite get the whole satire thing: The Literally Unbelievable blog is devoted to people who take Onion stories as gospel (Planned Parenthood is building an $8 billion…
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