Forget about hangover remedies like raw eggs, hair of the dog, or yoga —simple caffeine and a painkiller are best for easing an alcohol-induced sore head, according to a new study. Neurologist Michael Oshinsky and colleagues used ethanol to induce hangover-like headaches in rats. They found that the caffeine in…
Continue reading …Michele Bachmann, passed over by the GOP for both House leadership roles and its response to President Obama’s State of the Union address, is, well, going to go ahead and give her own response to the SOTU anyway, reports Ben Smith on Politico. The move, announced by the Tea Party…
Continue reading …A mere day after talks began between Iran and six world powers, they have collapsed over Iran’s insistence that the UN lift sanctions and that it be allowed to continue its nuclear program, reports the AP. “We had hoped to have a detailed and constructive discussion,” says a top EU…
Continue reading …Oprah Winfrey knows a thing or two about staging reunions, but she’s taking the one on Monday to a personal level: The talk-show diva says she’ll unveil “the miracle of miracles,” a family secret she’d discovered only recently. “I was given some news that literally shook me to my core….
Continue reading …MSNBC host Keith Olbermann announced today that he is leaving the network and has taped his last Countdown show. MSNBC issued a statement that it had ended its contract with the controversial host, with no further explanation. Olbermann, who hosted the network’s top-rated show, gave no explanation as to why…
Continue reading …First things first: The MTV teen drama Skins doesn’t dabble in child pornography, writes Jace Lacob in the Daily Beast. The scene in question featuring a teen boy’s naked butt isn’t even “remotely sexually suggestive,” he writes, and thus doesn’t meet the criteria for breaking indecency rules. (See for yourself—…
Continue reading …A bizarre, litigious story from the Vegas sex industry: A weekend tourist from New York is suing Las Vegas Exclusive Personals because the stripper it sent to his hotel room did something that exposed him to arrest, the Las Vegas Sun reports. From the beginning: College student Hubert Blackman paid…
Continue reading …Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank has a promise sure to please many: “I hereby pledge that, beginning on Feb 1, 2011, I will not mention Sarah Palin—in print, online or on television—for one month,” he writes in today’s column . What’s more, he wants everyone else in the media…
Continue reading …Unlike the other big-name Republicans in the conversation for 2012, Mitt Romney is keeping a careful distance from the Tea Party, writes Matt Viser in the Boston Globe . There’s still plenty of time for things to change, of course, but for now he’s essentially freezing out representatives of the movement…
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