Today’s hot rumor from Libya: Moammar Gadhafi is wounded and has fled Tripoli for a safer part of Libya, reports Reuters . It’s not some anonymous tweet, though: It comes from Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, who himself got it from the Catholic bishop in the Libyan capital. “I tend to…
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She is the biggest pop star in the world, who doesn’t have fans so much as disciples. But has Lady Gaga’s Jesus complex gone too far? It’s not the vertiginous heels that I can’t keep my eyes off, nor the super-mafioso shades, not even the see-through catsuit. It’s that little growth from her forehead. There’s only one on show today. It could be a horn, a cancer, an embryonic phallus. It could be, as she likes us to think, a
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She is the biggest pop star in the world, who doesn’t have fans so much as disciples. But has Lady Gaga’s Jesus complex gone too far? It’s not the vertiginous heels that I can’t keep my eyes off, nor the super-mafioso shades, not even the see-through catsuit. It’s that little growth from her forehead. There’s only one on show today. It could be a horn, a cancer, an embryonic phallus. It could be, as she likes us to think, a
Continue reading …This should eventually clear up the conflicting stories of exactly what happened during the Osama bin Laden raid: CBS News and CNN report that the entire 40-minute operation was indeed captured on cameras mounted on the helmets of Navy SEALs. US military officials are still reviewing the footage, which they…
Continue reading …Ruth Marcus would very much like Mitch Daniels to not only run for president but to win the GOP nomination. Not because she wants him in the White House—she doesn’t—but because he would make President Obama a stronger candidate. The Indiana governor would force Obama “to sharpen his…
Continue reading …Superman made headlines last month with his decision to drop his US citizenship —but he’s still American at heart. That’s made clear in a new issue of Superman , which features the superhero reaffirming his love for the country, Bleeding Cool reports. “That’s the American way. Life, liberty, the pursuit of…
Continue reading …Critics are swooning over Bridesmaids , which stars co-writer Kristen Wiig as an inept maid of honor in a delightfully crude film that’s earned 91% at Rotten Tomatoes . “Hallelujah and praise the Lord for Paul Feig’s Bridesmaids ,” writes Dana Stevens in Slate . “At long last, we have a smart comedy with…
Continue reading …Facebook’s recent “smear campaign” against Google may have been bad PR, but the social media giant had a good point—Google’s “social search” function can be problematically thorough, even when users takes steps to protect their privacy, writes Lauren Indvik at Mashable . “I have always been vaguely aware that Google…
Continue reading …Global warming is very real and needs to be addressed now, says a report issued yesterday by the National Academy of Sciences. “The risks associated with doing business as usual are a much greater concern than the risks associated with engaging in ambitious but measured response efforts,” says the report,…
Continue reading …A Japanese mountaineer has died tragically close to Mount Everest’s peak. While attempt to reach the 29,035-foot summit, Takashi Ozaki, 59, became ill; he was headed down the slopes when he collapsed at a height of 28,200 feet, the AP reports. Ozaki, who’d been scaling the mountain with…
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