A drug-crazed carjacker wearing only socks took his rightful place as king of Scottsdale, Arizona. First he took a Porsche, and wrecked it. Then, after taking off all his clothes and chanting—even climbing atop an SUV victoriously—he pulled a woman out of a Prius and wrecked that, too.
United Nations peace talks continue over the Syrian revolution, but with a warning: If they fail, diplomats intoned very sternly, the world could wind up watching the fight spread across the Middle East, a conflict of “grave severity.” Aaaaand because Russia is Bashar Assad’s sugar daddy, the chances of failure are high.
For the first time since shedding its monarchy in the 20th century, Egypt officially has a president who didn’t emerge from its military. The military, of course, is still completely in charge.
The Affordable Care Act lives on, but so does the president’s failure to tell Americans why having the thing around is much better than not having the thing around.
It’s two days later, and Chief Justice John Roberts’ healthcare-saving opinion has grown only more confounding for conservatives and liberals trying to declare a victory.
A homespun businessman trotted out by news networks as a Foe Exemplar of health care reform and other liberal ideas has been outed—SHOCK!—as a secret right-wing political operative.
Willard Romney boasts he’s raised infinity dollars after the healthcare ruling. Barack Obama answers by claiming he’s raised infinity plus one. And then sticking out his tongue.
Emails discussing Jerry Sandusky’s shower rape may indicate Penn State knew the former coach was a pedophile long before the law got involved.
Lance Armstrong is in hot shit over new doping allegations by the US Anti-Doping Agency.
A French con artist known as “the Chameleon” conned an American family into thinking he was their long-missing son. It’s a scam he’s pulled many times.
This is the best thing you’ll read all day. What happened when Atlanta vice cops asked their most trusted informer to help them cover up the shooting of a 92-year-old woman during a botched drug-house raid.
WE’RE SO SORRY WE DIVORCED WITHOUT GIVING YOU A SIBLING FIRST.
OK Denis – gotta ask: where is the Mercs version or reporting on the ‘occupy’ squatters that took over a old ladys house as reported in the Oregonian?
So perhaps those idiots ain’t even coming close to the ideals represented by ‘occupy’, but as a leaderless movement they too are a part of this.
The informer piece link gets a 404. Here is the good link http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/magazine…
Oops, sorry. That was page 3 of the article. Here it is from page 1
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/magazine…
@frank
if there’s any truth to that sorry the con artists should be punished. Someone needs to file charges of fraud, burglary, and even a hate crime for targeting an elderly person. most likely these are just your average lowlife squatting hypocrites. to lazy to go to school, get a job, and save money so that someday they could actually own a house legally. “oh we hate gentrification” but they choose to squat in the current gentrifying area, up there in n. pdx off mississippi. of course, they trashed the place: holes in walls. why take care of something that isn’t rightfully yours?
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.s…
your headline about armstrong is inaccurate, the charges are the same old ones that have already been found baseless. This is an ongoing witch hunt, and one of the 3 people on the “panel” is currently awaiting sentencing after pleading no contest to forcing a law school student to touch his penis. In my opinion considering how much the french hated him there is no way that he could have doped without getting caught. For that matter guys like Landis are saying Armstrong taught them how to dope. If Landis actually learned from armstrong then how come he was so easy to catch while Armstrong never tested positive?