The morning-after pill might need a new name after a study that finds it’s fairly reliable as regular old, non-emergency birth control, reports Time. In a review of previous studies of 8,400 women, only about 5% who took the morning-after pill around the time they had sex over the…
Continue reading …Think New York City will ever name a park after Osama bin Laden or hold a parade in his honor? Before you answer, consider Columbus, New Mexico, which today celebrates “Raid Day,” a festival commemorating the day in 1916 when Pancho Villa raided the town with 500 soldiers, in what…
Continue reading …Early but strong contender for police mugshot of the year: Police say a 21-year-old man in Stamford, Conn., interrupted his own haircut, grabbed the scissors, and slashed another customer. Cops picked up David Davis in a nearby home later, his haircut still unfinished, reports the Stamford Advocate . “Wonder how they…
Continue reading …Until a few weeks ago, the West thought well of Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, a London-educated Davos man who’d spent years advocating greater democracy and freedom in Libya. So when he promised protesters “ rivers of blood ” in the street, it was just a wee bit unexpected. “Seif was known as a…
Continue reading …The fallout from the conservative sting of NPR continues: The departing exec caught on tape calling Tea Party supporters racist is out of the job he was about to take, reports David Weigel at Slate . “Ron Schiller has informed us that, in light of the controversy surrounding his recent statements,…
Continue reading …In between all the shouting about “tiger blood” and “Adonis DNA,” Charlie Sheen has also managed to spout off some “reasonably astute analysis” lately, writes Neal Gabler in the Los Angeles Times . Before you react with a shocked “wha huh?!” consider this: By revealing himself as exactly who he is—…
Continue reading …Longtime Washington Post political columnist David Broder is dead at age 81 from complications of diabetes. The Post offers a lengthy obit for him here and his final column here . Broder covered every presidential election since 1956 and won a Pulitzer in 1973 for his Watergate coverage. The newspaper’s Ben…
Continue reading …More than a third of the total wages and salaries in the US is made up of government payouts, CNBC reports. Social welfare benefits including Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment insurance account for 35% of wages and salaries—a record figure that is up from 21% in 2000 and 10%…
Continue reading …So now we’ll be able to watch movies on Facebook. And play Angry Birds . And pretty much everything else, the way things are going. “Facebook is reaching its tendrils into every single thing we like about the Internet, far, far beyond the actual reasons we rolled up to Zuckerberg’s site…
Continue reading …Discovery returns to Earth today then will continue on to its final resting place … location TBD. The 27-year-old shuttle (along with sister orbiters Endeavour and Atlantis) is one hot property these days, with 21 museums angling for the right to house it—and pay the $28.8 million it will…
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