Let’s talk miracle drugs on a Saturday morning, friends. You like fatty red meats and fried starches. You love being sedentary. But that pesky heart disease is always coming around to ruin everybody’s good time! Maybe not for long?! The Swiss have a hotshot new drug that drastically reduces the chance of heart failure. People […]
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VLADIMIR PUTIN IS LAUGHING AT YOU. The Russian leader is deflecting from the obviousness of his technical invasion of Ukraine by comparing the Ukrainian government soldiers to Nazis, insisting that no one can tell the difference between Russians and Ukrainians anyway, and also, for good measure, threatening to spread his war with the West into […]
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Super-duper first things first!!! Maybe you thought Hello Kitty was a kitty, who also had, oddly enough, a smaller pet kitty of her own. YOU WERE WRONG. The company that produces the insipidly cute icon says “she is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat.” Nothing is as it […]
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GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! Someone, someone’s done you wrong. You thought that your love was strong. Now you’re feelin’ like such a fool. LET’S GO TO PRESS. The tenuous cease fire in Gaza continues to hold steady today, though Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is taking serious flack for the Palestinian death toll. While Obama has […]
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“Everything was a lie. There were no drills here.” Russia’s been admirably on message regarding its involvement in Ukraine for months. The gist: It’s not involved. Just training extensively near the border—certainly not launching covert attacks in hopes of aiding pro-Russian rebels increasingly beset by Ukraine’s military. Except now, as the presidents of the countries […]
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Top two worst things in the news these days: ISIS and Ebola, right? Not a single redeeming quality to either. But the Islamic State might not be the threat that military officials and news media have painted, says the NYT. And NPR says Ebola’s not that scary. And yet? ISIS’ latest execrable actions mean we […]
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The National Guard, ordered into Ferguson, Missouri, at the height of clashes between protesters and tear-gas-lobbing local police officers, has been ordered to stand down now that things have stayed quiet for another night in the St. Louis suburb, almost two weeks after a police officer shot and killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown. Just seven […]
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This is what a quiet night looks like in Ferguson. The clashes between protesters and military-outfitted police that had defined much of the past week seemed to subside for the night, following a day that saw Attorney General Eric Holder blow into town, sit down with community members, and talk about his own very personal […]
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GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! I know what you think, and what’s in your mind. So darling, why pretend? LET’S GO TO PRESS. A 20 hour standoff in Chicago comes to an end, after police free the final four hostages being held in a house by suspected burglars. Islamic State militants posted a video yesterday apparently showing […]
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Do we even have to say it at this point? More of the same over in Ferguson, Mo., last night: tear gas, shots fired in the crowd (with two people hit), thrown bottles, fires, armored vehicles, and arrests. About the only thing changing are the government forces trying to tamp down this anger (it was […]
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Six bullets, we now know, crumpled Michael Brown in the middle of a Ferguson, Mo., street. All of them struck Brown in the front of his body, contradicting reports he was shot in the back as he fled, though one hit the top of his head. Expect that bullet—along with another head shot—to get outsize […]
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What am I up to this morning? I just ate what’s going to my last food for the next six hours, because everyone is a jerk, and come 4 pm I’ll be shoving hot dogs down my unamused gullet at the annual Zach’s Shack Hot Dog Eating Contest. (At least, I think I will—the press […]