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Conservatives in Rome freak out over ‘gay’ Christmas lights
The gay rainbow-flag theme for the Christmas lights on Rome’s main shopping street that were switched on Friday have sparked an unholy row in the Eternal City. City assemblywoman Imma Battaglia said...
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Teen and young man hospitalized in Mexico with radiation symptoms
A teenager and a young man have been hospitalized with radiation symptoms in a central Mexican state where stolen radioactive material was recovered, authorities said Friday. The 16-year-old boy and a...
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Florida cop arrested for wearing ‘Anonymous’ mask warns ‘there’s a war coming’
The police officer arrested for refusing to remove his “Anonymous” mask at an anti-Obamacare rally gave an interview to Red Pill Philosophy and WeAreChange in which he said that “there’s a war coming”...
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Bob Dylan’s electric guitar auctioned off for nearly $1 million
An electric guitar on which Bob Dylan performed a legendary set at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 sold for a record $965,000 at an auction in New York on Friday, Christie’s announced. The price for...
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Did you hear the one about the orchestra that walked into a bar?
A chamber orchestra in … a bar? (via The Christian Science Monitor) The chamber orchestra, A Far Cry, is pictured. (Yoon S. Byun/A Far Cry) Imagine you’re walking past a bar one evening as a young...
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Elton John keeps promise to call out Russia’s anti-LGBT laws
British pop icon Elton John at his Moscow concert on Friday called on Russia to end discrimination against gays and lesbians, the Interfax news agency reported. The openly gay singer said he was “sad...
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Southeast Asia keeps a wary eye on China’s air zone expansion
Southeast Asia eyes Chinese air zone expansion (+video) (via The Christian Science Monitor) Filipino fishermen waved from a boat bound for the Scarborough Shoal in May. China now bars access. (Erik De...
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‘He was not an AMERICAN!!!’: South Carolina sheriff will not honor Nelson...
A South Carolina sheriff has gone public with his vow to refuse to honor President Barack Obama’s order to fly the U.S. flag at half-staff in honor of South African human rights champion Nelson...
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U.S. deadline looms over negotiations on Trans-Pacific Partnership
Trade ministers from the United States and 11 other countries will open talks in Singapore on Saturday in an attempt to meet a US deadline to forge a trans-Pacific trade pact before the end of the...
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Jobs report buoys strong U.S. stock showing
US stocks ended sharply higher Friday after a strong jobs report fueled expectations that the Federal Reserve will begin to reduce its huge stimulus soon. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained a...
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Israeli and Palestinian engineers team up to address Jerusalem’s sewage problem
How sewage is bridging the Israeli-Palestinian divide in Jerusalem (via The Christian Science Monitor) Sewage from Jerusalem and Bethlehem runs together under the Bethlehem-Ramallah road in Ubeidiyeh,...
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Live ‘Sound of Music’ TV revival woos viewers and disappoints critics
US television network NBC’s one-night live revival of the venerable Broadway musical The Sound of Music pulled a respectable 18.5 million viewers, but it failed to thrill the critics. Country-pop diva...
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Louisiana GOP candidate compares FRC’s Tony Perkins to Klan member David Duke
A Republican Louisiana lawmaker criticized the prospect of Family Research Council head Tony Perkins being one of his opponents in an upcoming congressional primary, reportedly comparing Perkins to...
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Nobel Prize winner behind Higgs-Boson says he couldn’t get an academic job today
By Decca Aitkenhead, The Guardian Physicist doubts work like Higgs boson identification achievable now as academics are expected to ‘keep churning out papers’ Peter Higgs, the British physicist who...
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Uruguay warns residents about drug addiction before legalizing pot
The Uruguayan government Friday launched a campaign warning that “all drug use has risks,” days before the South American nation becomes the first country in the world to legalize marijuana. Uruguayan...
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Yasser Arafat’s widow will challenge French forensic findings
The widow of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat pledged Friday to challenge a French inquiry which found his death to have been from natural causes, rather than poison as Palestinians suspect. “A request...
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Online storage start-up firm raises $100 million to go global
Cloud storage startup Box, launched from a college dorm in 2005, has raised $100 million in new capital to help fund a global expansion. The latest funding gives Box, which competes with firms like...
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TSA: Travelers stranded more than $500,000 at security checkpoints in 2012
Travelers left behind a record $531,395.22 in loose change at security checkpoints in US airports in fiscal 2012, the Transportation Security Administration says. In a report to Congress, seen by the...
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Ed Schultz and Michael Eric Dyson rip Rand Paul’s idea for a Detroit...
MSNBC host Ed Schultz and frequent guest-host Michael Eric Dyson panned Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) recent outreach trip to Detroit, Michigan, and his pitch for a plan Paul says will help the city “bail...
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Friday music thing
It is Friday, isn’t it? Because Stephen Colbert was making fun of Phish and Trey Anastasio last night I thought I would put this up: If you’re into this kind of thing. Also, too, I’m looking forward to...
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