Some of Barack Obama’s top operatives have embarked on a cross-country “listening tour,” pumping top donors for big 2012 donations, Politico reports. They’re asking donors who maxed out on donations to Obama and Hillary Clinton in 2008 to join a new “National Finance Council,” for the low-low price of a…
Continue reading …In the 1980s, Pigeon O’Brien was friends with a girl named Lisa Druck, and “Lisa Druck was trouble,” writes O’Brien on the Huffington Post . She told seedy stories about “strip poker and non-monogamy,” but O’Brien and other pals liked her nonetheless. Then Lisa Druck vanished for years, reappearing in 2004…
Continue reading …Yemen’s military fired rockets at rebel protesters in the northern city of Harf Sufyan today, killing two, and wounding 13, the demonstrators said in a statement. The AP reports that witnesses say soldiers in an army post opened fire with heavy machine guns, believing the protesters were trying to attack…
Continue reading …Zsa Zsa Gabor already lost one leg , and now doctors say they must amputate the remaining one. But the 94-year-old actress is refusing the surgery, her publicist says, and she will be released from the hospital today. She was admitted Wednesday after blood stopped flowing to her left leg; most…
Continue reading …Feeling tired? You’re not alone. Some 35% of Americans average less than seven hours of sleep a night, according to a survey of nearly 75,000 adults in 12 states by the CDC. And the stats don’t get rosier from there: 38% said they had fallen asleep by accident during…
Continue reading …The White House has proposed another $6.5 billion in spending cuts, its latest offer in an effort to avoid a government shutdown as another deadline looms. Vice President Biden brought the proposal to talks with congressional leaders yesterday. While it’s far less than the House’s proposed $61 billion in…
Continue reading …Ice in Antarctica is supposed to form from the top down, the result of falling snow. But researchers who scanned an Antarctic mountain range with lasers and radar have discovered new ice developing at the bottom of miles-thick ice sheets … and altering the surface. The earth’s heat melted the glaciers…
Continue reading …A campaign to allow the body of Frank Buckles, the last US veteran of World War, I to lie with honor in the Capitol Rotunda—a rare privilege usually reserved for presidents and high-ranking politicians, but sometimes extended to extraordinary citizens—has reportedly been derailed by House Majority Leader John…
Continue reading …If Texas authorities don’t free polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs from jail, the world will soon end in an apocalypse of earthquakes and storms … or so warns Warren Jeffs. In a bizarre nine-page letter titled “A Warning to the Nation—A Petition to the President of the United States of…
Continue reading …Northwestern University initially backed the professor whose idea of an extracurricular activity was allowing his students to watch a naked woman orgasm onstage —but after the incident received national attention, officials now say they are investigating. In a statement, the university president said the demonstration “represented extremely poor judgment on…
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