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Will the 'World's Worst Signature' Make It Onto New Dollar Bills?
Jack Lew, Obama's current chief of staff and his reported choice to replace Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary, is known for a lot of things – the New York Times says he's a "fiscal progressive"...
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Snake on a Plane: Qantas Passenger Spots Python on Wing During Flight
When a passenger aboard a Qantas flight en route to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, pointed out that a snake was slithering on the wing, she got the same reaction William Shatner did after he spotted...
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Here Are This Year's Affleck-Snubbing, Lincoln-Lauding, MacFarlane-Dreading...
Actress Emma Stone and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane — this year's host — got up nice and early to tell some really atrocious jokes and announce this year's Oscar nominations. If you were smart...
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Pastor Invited to Perform Benediction at Obama Inauguration Withdraws from...
The controversial pastor who was selected to deliver the benediction at President Barack Obama's second inauguration ceremony announced this morning that he has withdrawn his participation over...
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Nicki Minaj Will Be the Judge To Beat on the Next Season of American Idol
Last night, Fox screened about an hour's worth of footage of the first two episodes of the upcoming season of American Idol (premiering Wednesday) to fans and contest winners in movie theaters around...
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Colleges Are Becoming Slightly Less Omnipotent
A new Pew report out today confirms that, yes, having a college degree does have some benefit: young people with college degrees did much better during the recent recession than their peers without...
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Whatever Happened to the Violence Against Women Act?
VAWA died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. America got a telegram from the House: Eric Cantor let the Violence Against Women Act die with many points between it and the Senate bill...
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'Stripes After Jail, So Not a Good Idea!': What We Learned From NYT...
If the upcoming Lindsay Lohan/James Deen vehicle The Canyons is half as entertaining as Stephen Rodrick's New York Times Magazine piece about it, it's going to be fantastic. The 8,000-word article...
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Eight-Year-Old Uses Facebook to Help Neighbor Reunite with Long-Lost Sister...
65 years ago, Betty Billadeau and her kid brother Clifford Boyson were torn apart by fate and sent to two different foster homes. Clifford never gave up hope of finding his big sister, and, this week,...
View ArticleThis Is America: Watch as Yet Another School Shooting (Literally) Interrupts...
Vice President Joe Biden was scheduled to address the nation this afternoon about his meeting with NRA officials to discuss new gun control policies in this country—an initiative that President Obama...
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Owner of New York's Beloved 'Pizza Goat' Arrested on Charges of Sexual Assault
The owner of a goat that was spotted eating pizza around New York City is being charged with sexually assaulting a woman he brought home from a nightclub. 51-year-old Cyrus Fakroddin of Summit, New...
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The World's Freest Economies: America Barely Cracks the Top Ten
The Heritage Foundation has released its annual list of the world's freest economies and, wouldn't you know it, the Asia-Pacific region is number one. Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand...
View ArticleHot Coffee, Warm Hearts: Elderly Singing Troupe Surprises Tim Hortons Patrons...
Every Monday after they finish rehearsing, members of the Barbershop Harmony Society's Oakville Chapter head down to their favorite Tim Hortons and order a cup of coffee and a donut. Danfi Parker also...
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Justin Bieber Has an Uncanny Doppelgänger, and He Isn't Even a Lesbian
Meet Robin Verrecas, an 18-year-old owner/creative designer from Oostkamp, Belgium, who has worked for Coca Cola since birth, or so says his Facebook. This would be amazing in itself, but no matter...
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Carpooling with Machiavelli, Playing 'Chicken' with Strangers, and Other...
Welcome to Thatz Not Okay, a regular column in which I school inquiring readers on what is and is not okay. Please send your questions to caity.weaver@gawker.com with the subject "Thatz Not Okay." I...
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Nebraska Man Crashes Car Into Pizza Shop, Asks If He Can Still Place an Order
Crashing his car into a pizza shop wasn't a good enough reason for one Nebraska man to skip lunch. Employees at a Valentino's To Go in Lincoln say the elderly driver asked them if he could order a...
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They Sold More Luxury Cars Than Ever Last Year, and Congrats on Your New...
How's your 1996 Honda Accord? Good? Still hanging in? Bumper doing alright? Got those wiper blades switched out finally? Good, good. Oh, me? The wealthy global upper crust? Well, I absolutely cannot...
View ArticleNews Anchor's Latest 'Technical Difficulty' Is His Most Embarrassing Yet
Irish news anchor Aengus Mac Grianna is RTE's most beloved presenter, but not so much for his ability to deliver the day's events in a thoughtful yet succinct manner as for his repeated on-air...
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What the Smurf? Australian Police Seek Four Smurf Suspects in Crime Spree
It's a smurf eat smurf world out there, as one Australian man recently discovered. Police in the Australian state of Victoria are looking for Papa Smurf and three of his blue disciples who are accused...
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No, Fox News, the Trillion-Dollar Platinum Coin Won't Weigh As Much As 89...
This infographic speaks for itself, but in case you're Fox News and need it spelled out, the so-called "Trillion-Dollar Platinum Coin" won't weigh 17,774 tons, because, for one thing, there isn't...
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