Mother Nature is planning an April Fool’s joke on the Northeast: Just as spring was beginning to bloom, a snowstorm is on its way, the AP reports. It’s expected to arrive tonight and continue into the morning, pounding some areas—including New England, eastern New York, and northwestern New Jersey—…
Continue reading …GoDaddy.com’s chief executive is facing viewers’ wrath after he posted a graphic video of himself hunting an elephant. In the clip—see it here at the Huffington Post—CEO Bob Parsons cast the hunt as a “humanitarian” mission. Many Zimbabweans “die each year from starvation,” thanks in part to…
Continue reading …Congressional Republicans are working on a hardline anti-immigration bill that would call for more border fencing, more sensors, more border patrol agents, and aerial drones in an all-out attempt to prevent all illegal entry into the country. The bill is unlikely to pass the Senate, the LA Times observes, so…
Continue reading …The cobra that escaped from its enclosure at the Bronx Zoo has been found and is in quarantine, reports NBC News . The poisonous snake went missing on Friday, leading to the closure of the zoo’s Reptile House, a frenzied search, and celebrity status for the reptile. It even has its…
Continue reading …Heating technology and many major appliances have gotten drastically more efficient since 1978, yet as of 2005, American homes are still using essentially the same amount of power, according to figures from the US Energy Information Administration. Taking a closer look at the numbers it’s easy to see why, according…
Continue reading …Baseball’s Opening Day means “hope and excitement,” but it also means the return of a “blot on our sport”: chewing tobacco on the field, writes Bobby Valentine. “For many of us, it is simply part of the sport,” but the MLB—and those who love it—can no longer afford…
Continue reading …Nicholas Kristof checks in on Egypt weeks after the fall of Hosni Mubarak and pronounces it “a mess.” Protesters are still taking to the streets, the military-backed government is making noises about crackdowns, and army thugs are still beating up critics. “Yet for Americans, what is unfolding is perhaps a…
Continue reading …David Sokol gave a lengthy, defiant interview on CNBC this morning, in which he breezily insisted that he’d done absolutely nothing wrong or unethical by buying 96,000 shares of Lubrizol , and then recommending boss Warren Buffett buy the company. Some had urged Sokol to get a securities lawyer before…
Continue reading …When Yuri Gagarin took the first manned flight into space in 1961, the Soviet Union touted it as a major Cold War triumph for Communist ideology. But the flight wasn’t as perfect as Soviet officials claimed, a new book asserts. In truth, due to two miscalculations by scientists, Gagarin landed…
Continue reading …Juliet Lapidos has spent, by her conservative estimate, five full days of her life watching Woody Allen movies. She’s seen every single one of them: his 40 feature-length films, his shorts, the earlier movies he wrote but didn’t direct, even a TV movie and a short mockumentary that never actually…
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