POPE BENEDICT XVI RESIGNS
The 86-year-old head of the Roman Catholic Church has announced he will retire effective Feb. 28, citing poor health. UPDATE: In a statement, Pope Benedict writes: “After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate […]
LIVE AT FIVE: 02.11.13
— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS LAPD: Fugitive Ex-Cop A “Domestic Terrorist” Three dead, LAPD spooked as search enters fifth day Tornado Rips Through Hattiesburg, Mississippi Heavy damage but no deaths reported so far Snowstorm Wallops Long Island, National Guard Activated Blizzard Hammers New England; Five Dead, 700,000 Without Power Mother Nature being a stone […]
Matthew Hoffman: The Ohio Man Who Loved Trees … and Also, Murder and Rape
Matthew Hoffman, a ‘real weirdo’ Lately, I’ve been watching a lot of Investigation Discovery (ID) or, as my wife calls it, The Murder Channel. True-crime stories have always fascinated me, and ID is wall-to-wall true crime 24/7. Most of it is domestic murder — wife kills husband or vice-versa — where the major element of […]
Rule 5 Sunday: “Who Gives A F*** About A G*ddamn Grammy?”
— compiled by Wombat-socho Seriously, what passes for popular music these days is so annoying, it’s no wonder radio stations’ audiences are imploding right along with broadcast TV, and the music company dinosaurs are running around in panic as their margins vanish like snow on a warm spring day. That’s why, instead of watching the […]
Finally: Washington Post Covers Death of Woman at Maryland Abortion Clinic
quintonreport.com/2013/02/10/was… Damn it, @jeffquinton, you forgot the hashtag. #WarOnWomen — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) February 10, 2013 Friday, I described a complete blackout by the mainstream media in regard to reports that a 29-year-old woman died after a late-term abortion at the clinic of the notorious Dr. LeRoy Carhart. In particular, I called out the Washington Post […]
The Brooks/Parker Cage Match
by Smitty I don’t run around wishing mayhem on people, but I bet a cage match between Star Parker and David Brooks would sell some tickets. Brooks begins an interesting exchange beginning around 9:00: (emphasis mine): There’s been a lot of calls for Republicans to change. And we have seen that from everybody to Paul […]
America’s Sex-Crazed Colleges
William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection calls attention to a rather disturbing trend on our nation’s campuses: Brown University Will Cover Sex Change Operations for Students NC Gov speaks truth to Gender Studies power Swarthmore’s new “Masturbatory Theater” club Big college concern — how to fix the ‘Orgasm Gap’ The Fun, New Campus Activity: Racy Facebook […]
CNN Anchor Deb Feyerick Apparently Thinks Global Warming Causes Asteroids
As previously noted here, a large asteroid will pass within 17,000 miles of Earth — a near-miss, astronomy-wise — next week. And this provides a network airhead the chance to demonstrate he utter ignorance in an interview with scientist Bill Nye: “Talk about something else that’s falling from the sky and that is an asteroid. What’s […]
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