“For one moment, the moderates will be the news.”
—TRACIE LEWIS KINARD, who is spending about $750 on airline tickets and hotel rooms to attend the “Rally to Restore Sanity” this weekend in Washington, D.C. (via the New York Times)
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Conan O’Brien says he plans to bring some of the staple characters and segments from his NBC show over to TBS – whether the peacock likes it or not. (via Huffington Post)
The English-born Paul the Octopus died earlier this week. Now a French-born successor has been chosen, and assigned the same name. Meet Paul II: Soccer psychic junior. (via AP)
Last week, the news was that the military was going to accept openly gay recruits. But late Wednesday, a federal appeals court slammed on the brakes, granting a temporary freeze on last week’s orders. For at least the next five …
I was in Chicago back in 2007, not as a runner but as a spectator (watching my wife fight through the burn) when the marathon was called off mid-race as temperatures soared. It was utter chaos; from the sidelines, it looked like …
We couldn’t believe it either. Until we read the whole mind-blowing story. Sure, the video’s a little old, but it turns out this kind of thing is a big 2010 headline. (via Curious Capitalist)
Saturday night marked Comedy Central’s “Night Of Too Many Stars” at New York City’s Beacon Theater, featuring one Jon Stewart, who got more than a little revenge against the CNN anchor who labeled him a “bigot” last …
Facebook, for a time, crashed Thursday. Commerce, as we knew it, ground to a halt. Children cried. Workers were forced to, you know, work. Meanwhile NewsFeed spent this morning watching the Facebook movie – where all this was foretold.
A fairly contrite and squeamish Joaquin Phoenix showed up on David Letterman last night, hinting at the fact that he’s not sure about what career he has left, after the whole I’m Still Here stunt.
Some are calling it the next big insect epidemic: Stink bugs, native to China, now trying to make their way into East Coast homes before winter. (via WSET)
Add this to your laundry list of do’s and don’ts: Better not leave a TV out in the sun. (via AP)
It was the weather event Thursday that had the whole nation talking – the tornado-like storm front that hit Brooklyn and New York City. Now behold the video.