Thanks to the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act, incandescent lightbulbs have been “effectively banned” by the Democrats come 2012, complained Stephen Colbert last night —and he is not happy about their replacements, the girly-looking compact fluorescent lights that some conservatives have described as looking like pigtails or curlicues. “Pigtail…
Continue reading …Avast there, Massachusetts voters! A’fore ye register f’r some lilly-livered party like the “Democrats” or “Republicans,” ye might want to consider signin’ on with the state’s newest crew: the Massachusetts Pirate Party. That’s right, the Massachusetts Election Division has officially approved the swashbuckling party as a political designation, meaning voters…
Continue reading …A suicide bomber struck a funeral attended by anti-Taliban militiamen in northwestern Pakistan today, killing at least 36 mourners and wounding more than 100 in the deadliest militant attack in the country this year. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility. Police said about 300 people were attending the funeral for the…
Continue reading …When Harriet Elinor Smith was recognized by a fellow BART passenger who had seen her on TV, she was shocked, to say the least. After all, Smith spends the majority of her time not rocking the airwaves, but holed up in a UC Berkeley office, surrounded by centuries-old documents. She’s…
Continue reading …A fire roared through a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse last night, taking with it the lives of seven of the family’s eight children, ages nine months to 11, reports the Patriot-News . As mother Janelle Clouse milked cows in the barn around 10pm and father Ted drove a milk truck, 3-year-old Leah…
Continue reading …You knew it was coming, considering she’s been singing basically everywhere lately: Gwyneth Paltrow has snagged a record deal. A whopping $900,000 record deal at that, PopEater reports. Paltrow, who first teased the idea of a record deal while on the Oscars red carpet, will release her first full-length…
Continue reading …Rod Blagojevich has asked a judge to cancel his retrial and instead sentence him immediately on the lone count of lying to a federal agent he was convicted of , arguing that he doesn’t have the money to mount another defense. The government is supposed to pick up the tab for…
Continue reading …Following yesterday’s news that an NPR fundraiser was taped calling the Tea Party “seriously racist,” NPR President and CEO Vivian Schiller has resigned. Schiller was quick to condemn the comments, which were recorded as part of a sting by James O’Keefe , and the fundraiser in question resigned immediately. But, notes…
Continue reading …Jamie Lee Curtis eulogized her father Tony at his funeral last year—but just five months before his death , Curtis had disinherited Jamie Lee and his other four children. Inside Edition has a copy of the will, which lists his children by name … then says, “I acknowledge the existence…
Continue reading …Newt Gingrich cheated on his first two wives , maybe because he loves America so much. That’s what the ex-speaker told the Christian Broadcast Network last night, in a repentant interview seemingly designed to address one of the bigger blotches on his presidential resume, Politico reports. “There’s no question at times…
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