The AP just sent out a bulletin, but there’s not much information online as of yet. There’s live video on the Denver CBS affiliate’s website, which is claiming that there are “possibly two victims.” We’ll update as necessary. PHOTO: Student evacuate Arapahoe High School in Centennial, CO after reports of shooting pic.twitter.com/51Jstzac6T via @AnnaHewson1— BuzzFeed […]
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“For All You Kids at Home, Santa Just Is White.”
Is this discussion about Santa’s race the dumbest three minutes of television news to air this week? If it isn’t, I don’t think I want to watch the dumbest three minutes of television news to air this week. The climax of this clip sums up Fox News’s advice to minorities everywhere: “Just because it makes […]
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Glenn Beck Names His Man of the Year
Glenn Beck points out that Time magazine once made Hitler man of the year. So why, he asks, don’t they make Ted Cruz man of the year? Because Time is a bunch of fascists, that’s why! That logic totally checks out. Incidentally, Time did choose Ted Cruz as a runner-up to Pope Francis for Man […]
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Canada to Phase Out Door-to-Door Mail Delivery
Jacob Kastrenakes at The Verge says: Canada’s postal service will phase out door-to-door delivery over the next five years. Citing the rise of digital communications and a projected loss of CAD$1 billion by 2020, Canada Post today outlined a series of actions that it would take to streamline its organization and reduce losses. In particular, […]
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Are You a Smartwatch Person or a Smartring Person?
Now that everybody’s talking about—but nobody’s buying—smartwatches, it’s time for the next thing. The smaller thing. The ring thing: Forget smartwatches—smartrings are the new thing now. An Indiegogo campaign for a product called the “Smarty Ring” has hit its funding goal. Smarty Ring is a 13mm-wide stainless steel ring with an LED screen, Bluetooth 4.0, […]
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Wake Me When They Have a “Dislike” Button
Lucy Kinder at the Telegraph says: Facebook is developing a ‘sympathise’ button as an alternative to the ‘like’ button. If a user tags their status with a negative emotion, then his or her friends will be able to ‘sympathise’ with the post rather than press the ‘like’ button. Of course, Facebook will never have a […]
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The Thing About Elizabeth Warren
Alex Pareene explains that the traditional political understanding of presidential politics doesn’t apply to Elizabeth Warren. It’s not about a clash of personalities, and it’s not a recasting of 2008’s Clinton vs. Obama fight. It’s about the party: The point of arguing for more “economic populism” isn’t necessarily to take down Hillary Clinton in 2016, […]
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Poor, Bullied Montana Judge Says He Shouldn’t Have to Lose His Job for Sending Rapist Teacher to Jail for Just One Month
The AP’s Matthew Brown says: A Montana judge says he doesn’t deserve to lose his job for commenting that a 14-year-old rape victim appeared “older than her chronological age” when he sentenced her teacher-rapist to just a month in prison. Let me restate: District Judge G. Todd Baugh, who is 72, thinks that implying a […]
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Healthcare.gov Enrollment Numbers Way Up
I’m betting that a lot of the year-end wrap-ups you’re going to read in the next few weeks are going to focus heavily on the Obamacare website woes. But I bet in three years, nobody will remember or care that for a couple months, a new government-run website didn’t actually work. Especially now that the […]
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For the Bible Tells Me So
Christian Nightmares posted this disturbing video of politicians using the Bible to argue against climate change. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. (Sob!)
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Teabagger Says “Jesus Christ Is Weeping in Heaven” Because Pope Francis Doesn’t Love Capitalism
Raw Story’s Travis Gettys says that prominent Virginia teabagger Jonathon Moseley took issue with Pope Francis’s claims that unfettered capitalism is hurting the world. Moseley wrote an essay titled “Jesus Christ is a capitalist” that tries to take the Pope on using scripture. Moseley, a Virginia business and criminal defense attorney, supports his claim with […]
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I’ve Got Drones in Different Area Codes
The real question: Who filled out the form? I missed an Amazon drone delivery. pic.twitter.com/neJxYANj6p— B to A to the R R Y (@QuantumPirate) December 2, 2013 Related.