Local Spanish government teaching children to "take pleasure into their own hands" [Turning Japanese oh yes I'm turning Japanese I really think so] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
WTF is going on in our hospitals?!? ["Fifteen-year-old has sex with 16-yr-old while on every-15-minute observation schedule."] http://www.courant.com/health...
Also this one: "Imposter claiming to be a registered nurse dons scrubs and performs a fingerstick blood sugar procedure."
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Geeks in the Slammer - Madoff's programmers get cuffed for their role in scam [Wonder what their Facebook statuses say] http://www.reuters.com/article...
How our stupid government doesn't learn from past mistakes - the FHA is about to blow up due to giving crappy mortgages to deadbeats [Dept of Didn't we see this movie once before?] http://online.wsj.com/article...
Annals of child custody: Custody rights traded away in exchange for cash and a $35 million piece of artwork [But it's a Damien Hirst! (snicker) ] http://www.bloomberg.com/apps...
And they call it "News" - the AP not only reports on the marriage of the star of Office Space, but considers it an important "BREAKING NEWS UPDATE" as well ["I don't like my job, and, uh, I don't think I'm gonna go anymore"] http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic...
And then local newspapers [not in Hollywood] actually assign reporters to write up that marriage story, because it's two celebrities who are getting married. http://www.nj.com/enterta...
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How dumb a celebrity do you have to be to not know that Larry King takes call-in questions on his show? [Carrie Prejean, the Mensa Queen] http://www.nj.com/enterta...
And Larry is the biggest teddy bear of an on-air host there is. If she had gone on with Anderson Cooper she would have gotten nailed [figuratively of course] big-time!
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China builds an empty city in the middle of nowhere [And you thought our stimulus money was wasted!] http://www.youtube.com/v...
Video proof that Kara Swisher is an idiot [This is only newsworthy because she works for the WSJ - watch the video for yourself] http://news.cnet.com/8301-10...
We feel for Ken Auletta for having to put up with this nonsense...no wonder the "dead trees" journalists look down on new media, bloggers, etc.
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Who knew? The Army has an "Agribusiness Development Team" in Afghanistan [Do they also count the number of flush toilets?] http://www.motherjones.com/mojo...
British Woman claims that attempts to make her shut up during sex are an attack on her "human rights" [If she wants to make a few extra quid, we know some websites who are hiring...] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009...
Wingnutter "American Family Association" demanding that Muslims be tossed out of the military [Will they advocate setting up concentration camps also?] http://action.afa.net/Blogs...
Best quote from these morons: "Islam is a religion of war and violence, founded by a man who routinely chopped the heads off his enemies, had sex with nine-year old girls..."
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Druggies turning to gum thefts to support their habits [What would you do for a Kit Kat?] http://www.courant.com/news...
Clean Coal: Sure it's clean, as long as you dump the ash in someone else's country [The globalization of hazardous waste] http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226...
Wacky music website owner claims he owns all the Beatles songs due to his "psycho-acoustic simulation device" [The long and winding road] http://paidcontent.org/article...
Lou Dobbs is Shocked, Shocked, that people are running around his neighborhood with firearms [It's a little thing called the Second Amendment, Lou, you've heard of it before?] http://www.foxnews.com/story...
The GOP gets spanked for setting up fake Twitter accounts in the name of their political opponents [Ethics are for the little people] http://www.inquisitr.com/45034...