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Young newlyweds celebrate at strip club after fulfilling dream of ‘killing...
Police in Sunbury, Pennsylvania arrested a pair of newlyweds who used Craigslist to lure a man to his death “because they wanted to kill someone together.” Elytte Barbour told the officers who arrested...
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Texas campus cop empties gun on unarmed student: ‘Oh, you’re gonna shoot me?’
A campus police officer in San Antonio, Texas is under investigation after shooting and killing an unarmed student at an off-campus traffic stop. At a press conference on Friday, Lt. Cindy Pruitt of...
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Creator of ‘The Wire’ says ‘There are now two Americas. My country is a...
America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one, on one block in Baltimore that is part of the...
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Atheist group considers filing human rights complaint after billboard rejected
An atheist group in Canada is considering filing a human rights complaint after the country’s largest billboard company, Pattison Outdoor, rejected this advertisement: The Centre for Inquiry Canada...
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Ken Blackwell: GOP doesn’t ‘have a problem talking to women’ because our...
Former Republican Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell (R) said on Sunday that “improving the art of communication” with women was not a bad idea for his party if it didn’t mean changing policies...
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Christian school suspends teacher after photo appears on ‘revenge porn’ website
A female teacher at Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy in Ohio has been placed on administrative leave after school officials found a nude photograph of her on a “revenge porn” site. “Revenge porn”...
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Michael Eric Dyson rips Mary Matalin for ‘amnesia’ after Cheney branded...
Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson lashed out at conservative strategist Mary Matalin, a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, after she defended her one-time boss for branding...
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How U.S. conservatives viewed Nelson Mandela then and now
Nelson Mandela: How US conservatives viewed him then – and now (via The Christian Science Monitor) Mourners celebrate the life of Nelson Mandela in the street outside his old house in Soweto,...
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U.S. Court secretly allows government to share Megaupload evidence with...
US Court Secretly Lets Government Share Megaupload Evidence With Copyright Industry (via Techdirt) In the latest in a long list of travesties carried out by the US government in the Megaupload case,...
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The 10 most toxic ingredients used by fossil fuel industries
Top 10 Toxic Ingredients Used In The Fossil Fuel Industries (via Planetsave) There are many reasons to reject fossil fuels now, after 200 years of their reign as society’s primary energy source....
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Amazon’s drone army welcomed by civil libertarians
The Everywhere Store: Civil libertarians welcome Amazon’s drone army (via Pando Daily) By Yasha Levine On December 7, 2013After 60 Minutes broke Amazon’s ambitious plan for a drone-based delivery...
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Fox News guest tells female host to quit, get married, have babies and ‘thank...
Fox News host Anna Kooiman was advised by anti-feminist crusader Suzanne Venker to quit her job and get married because women should spend more time “thanking men” for the ability to stay home and take...
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The 7 greenest vehicles on the planet
7 Greenest Vehicles On Earth (via Clean Technica) Originally published on Shrink That Footprint. According to Wikipedia, a ‘vehicle’ is a: mobile machine that transports passengers or cargo. Most often...
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‘Flipped’ classrooms challenge the very definition of ‘homework’
How one school turned homework on its head with ‘flipped’ instruction (via PBS News Hour) By: Mike Fritz Teachers at Clintondale High School send students home with lectures on video. The next day they...
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‘March of a Million’ protestors pull down Lenin statues in Kiev
The almost seven-decade life of Russian revolution leader Vladimir Lenin’s statue in Kiev ended in spectacular fashion, with a half backwards somersault and dive head-first into the ground. As hundreds...
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Were Pinochet’s own soldiers also victims of Chile’s ‘Dirty War’?
Chile’s Pinochet-era dictatorship: Were soldiers victims, too? (via The Christian Science Monitor) Anastasio Palma and his wife Monica Mandiola play with their son, Santi, outside their home near...
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Mirrors in Giant Magellan Telescope ready to capture light from dawn of universe
Mirrors for giant space telescope take shape (via The Christian Science Monitor) Artist rendition of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), destined for a mountaintop in Chile’s Atacama Desert.(GMTO...
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London medical school makes library of ancient bones digitally available for...
Maev Kennedy, theguardian.com The bones of a young woman who died of syphilis more than 500 years ago, the reassembled jaw of a man whose corpse was sold to surgeons at the London hospital in the 19th...
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Porn industry faces third shutdown this year after another actor’s positive...
GUARDIAN NEWS SERVICE The pornographic film industry in Los Angeles is facing its third production shutdown in a year, after another performer tested positive for HIV. The news rounds off a difficult...
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Catholic high school teacher fired after applying for same-sex wedding license
A teacher at a Catholic high school in suburban Philadelphia needs a new job after being fired Friday for applying for a marriage license with his same-sex partner in New Jersey. teacher Michael...
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