Stop Concern Trolling Victims
With a plodding inevitability, the thread below a post I wrote about the mentality of abusers turned into an ugly fight debating the mentality of victims. Asking sexist, domineering men to fuck off is...
View ArticleRotten smell in southern California traced to dead fish in Salton Sea
It smelled like rotten eggs, but the source of what California officials called a “very large and unusual odour event” has been traced to rotten fish. The stench, which began on Sunday and spread...
View ArticleFacebook vigilantes name alleged pedophiles in Northern Ireland
Online vigilantes are using Facebook to name alleged paedophiles in a County Derry town. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has confirmed it is monitoring a Facebook page that prints the...
View ArticleFantasy author writes her novel ‘live’ with the Internet reading over her...
Fantasy author Silvia Hartmann is opening herself up to the kind of scrutiny most writers would pay to avoid: this morning, she started writing her new novel on Google Docs, and you can see it taking...
View ArticleCampaign fights back against ’2016′ anti-Obama film
Barack Obama‘s campaign team has published an extensive critique of a documentary which accuses the US president of being an anti-colonialist who will work to reduce his country’s influence on world...
View ArticleMaddow: New voter ID laws ensure only the famous have the right to vote
“What exactly does ‘legally entitled to vote’ mean in Pennsylvania now, anyway?” Rachel Maddow wondered on her show Tuesday night. For one thing, she said, it can mean being well-known enough to gain...
View ArticleChuck Todd: Romney ‘outrageous’ and ‘irresponsible’ for politicizing U.S....
MSNBC hosts Chuck Todd and Lawrence O’Donnell say that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney miscalculated badly when he decided to attack President Barack Obama for “sympathizing” with the...
View ArticleWatch live: Secretary Clinton speaks on deaths in Libya
NBC special report on the death of U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, including a press conference with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Watch live, broadcast on NBC News on Sept. 12. Visit...
View ArticlePalin: Obama needs to ‘grow’ a ‘big stick’ after Libya attack
Failed Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is ripping President Barack Obama in the wake of protests that resulted in the deaths of U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other...
View ArticleWatch live: Romney speaks in Jacksonville, Florida
Republican candidate Mitt Romney addresses a crowd of supporters in Jacksonville, Florida. Watch live, broadcast on NBC News on Sept. 12. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about...
View ArticleMinnesota cop caught punching drunk 50-year-old man on wheelchair
A Duluth, Minnesota police officer faces assault charges from his own department after the release of surveillance video showing him hitting a drunk 50-year-old man and allegedly splitting his head...
View ArticlePhiladelphia cop sucker punches woman celebrating Latino heritage
A Philadelphia police officer has been caught on video allegedly punching a woman in the face after she appeared to throw water on him during the city’s Puerto Rican Day Parade over the weekend. Video...
View ArticleOfficial: Hack on White House Military Office yielded no information
An Obama administration official said Monday that the White House Military Office (WHMO) was targeted last month by unknown hackers using Chinese servers who gained access to a system on the...
View ArticleU.S. military aircraft land safely on Japanese island despite protests over...
A small fleet of US military aircraft have arrived in the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, amid protests by local residents who claim they are unsafe. Six MV-22 Osprey flew from Iwakuni base on...
View ArticleEx-Florida Republican official saw ‘presumed’ prostitutes at fundraiser
The former executive director of the Florida Republican Party recently testified that he saw women and “presumed they were prostitutes” at a official fundraiser in the Bahamas in 2008, according to an...
View ArticleChristian TV networks prepare for live coverage of Jesus Christ’s return
Should the body of the Christian deity figure’s son somehow drop down from outer space and suddenly appear hovering in the sky over Jerusalem, America’s two leading Christian television networks are...
View ArticleZuckerberg travels to Moscow to promote Facebook in Russia
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was Monday in Moscow on a visit the government believes should stimulate innovation in Russia and the social network hopes will boost its position in the Russian...
View ArticleGreece faces sixth straight year of recession
A draft budget presented to Greece’s parliament on Monday forecasts a sixth straight year of recession in 2013 with a 3.8-percent contraction and a public deficit target of 4.2 percent of GDP, the...
View ArticleDutch ‘abortion boat’ sails to provide services to Moroccan women
A Dutch “abortion boat” has set sail for Morocco, its first trip to a Muslim country, to provide abortions to women who are exposed to grave health risks if treated domestically, its organiser said on...
View ArticleSupreme Court denies anti-marriage equality group’s appeal on disclosure law
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal Monday by an anti-marriage equality group fighting to keep its list of donors secret. According to Buzzfeed, the court denied a petition by the...
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