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One of the School Reform Movement's Shining Stars Cheated
Former Atlanta schools chief, Beverly L. Hall, was indicted yesterday on charges of cheating to make under-performing schools look better on state testing, allowing herself and other school...
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What Is the So-Called 'Monsanto Protection Act'? Is It Eeeeeevil?
If your Facebook feed wasn't busy being filled with some rant or another on either side of the gay marriage argument this week, your liberal friends might have been steaming about the so-called...
View ArticleWest Virginia Judge Suspended After 24 Violations of State’s Judicial Ethics...
Family Court Judge William Watkins III has got a pretty bad temper. He's been known to yell at litigants in his courtroom, as well as on one occasion, calling a woman seeking a protective order...
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Now Jews Are Getting in Boxes for Art
First Tilda, and now the Jews of Germany: getting in a box is simply the thing to do in art this year. A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Berlin features a box where a Jew will sit for two hours...
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Tar Sands Pipeline Ruptures, Spreading Oil Across Arkansas Town
A pipeline carrying crude oil from tar sands in Canada ruptured Friday in the small Arkansas town of Mayflower, forcing the evacuation of 22 homes. The Pegasus pipeline, owned by Exxon, spilled almost...
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Texas District Attorney and Wife Shot Dead Only Weeks After Death of Prosecutor
A district attorney in north Texas was shot along with his wife Saturday, their deaths coming only a few weeks after a prosecutor in the same district attorney's office was shot and killed outside the...
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For Sale: Wounded Knee
In the market for 40-acres of prairie in South Dakota? You're in luck: James Czywczynski is looking to sell you some for the low cost of $3.9 million. Of course, the land is also the site of one of the...
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Man Breaks into Museum and Tries to Steal Elephant Tusk with Chainsaw
Even long-dead elephants can't catch a break from the ivory trade. Early yesterday morning, a man broke into Paris's Museum of Natural History and used a chainsaw to cut off the tusk of a 325-year-old...
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Ex-Boyfriend Uses Craigslist to Send Horny Middle-Aged Men to Former...
Sometimes restraining orders just aren't enough to get ex-boyfriends to stop sending horny middle-aged men to your house. A 61-year-old employee of the Library of Congress posed as his ex-girlfriend on...
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Here's the Horrific Injury Sustained by Louisville Player Kevin Ware...
Moments ago Louisville Sophomore Kevin Ware suffered a highly disturbing injury during a game against Duke in the NCAA tournament. The injury, an unusual one for basketball, happened when he was...
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Motorcycle-Driving Easter Bunny Pulled Over, Lectured for Driving Without Helmet
In what was surely a bizarre scene for the patrolman who made the bust, a man wearing a full Easter Bunny costume, including a view-obstructing rabbit head, was stopped by the California Highway...
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New Strain of Bird Flu Breaks Out in China, Killing at Least 2
As we've noted before, it's possible we'll all die from the bird flu. That established, here's some cheery news — At least two people have died in China after contracting a strain of the bird flu that...
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Man Sues Woman Who Is Probably His Wife for $100,000 After He's Attacked by...
When a man cat-sitting for a friend was attacked while attempting to feed his houseguest (the cat), he took it well. And by took it well, I mean he decided to sue the cat's owner for the entirely...
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It's April Fool's Day: Trust No One
Today is April Fool's Day, a magical 24-hour spell during which companies spend lots of money to make stupid changes to their websites as a joke instead of as a business decision. In the spirit of...
View ArticleWatch a Train-Riding Musician Take on Busker in a Subway Sax Battle over...
This video of one saxophonist encountering another on the New York City subway is, maybe (probably?), some kind of fake set-up thing, but it's nice to imagine a world where subway buskers are...
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Glee Star Cory Monteith Checks In to Rehab
Glee star Cory Monteith, 30, has admitted himself to rehab for substance addiction, according to a statement from his representative. In a surprisingly candid 2011 interview for Parade magazine,...
View ArticleCardinal Dolan: Gays Are 'Entitled to Friendship'
Supporting an institution (such as marriage) over actual human lives isn't a very Christian thing to do, but it is a very Catholic thing to do, and so Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan upheld the...
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Shanghai's Hipster Smoking Baby Demands Smokes, Not Eggs, This Easter
Today is April Fool's Day, so when it comes to pictures of toddlers crushing cigarrettes, we tread carefully. Still, here are several pictures of a chill ass toddler smoking a cigarette lit for him by...
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CORRECTION: Facebook Mogul Sean Parker Insists His Costume Wedding Will Be...
Earlier today, some media outlets published a wackadoo rumor that Facebook co-founder and real life Justin Timberlake Sean Parker was planning to marry his fiancée in a medieval, Game of...
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Arianna Huffington Sued for Allegedly Trashing $27,000-a-Month Apartment,...
According to a new lawsuit, Arianna Huffington left quite the mess behind when she moved out of a rented loft in Chelsea. The 4,400 square foot, $27,000-a-month apartment was left in such bad shape...
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