August 28, 2013 Archive August 2013

Detroit has a major sewage problem

8 juicy allegations from the new Bachmann "tell-all" book

Sen. Coburn calls himself "a man of science" and "a climate change denier"

Pat Robertson: "Vicious" gay people use "special rings" to give people HIV/AIDS

Howard Kurtz uses Fox News column to tell you about a picture he just saw on Facebook

Robin Thicke's mom loved Robin Thicke at VMAs, hated Miley Cyrus

New Tumblr uses power of Miley twerking to report real news

Silicon Valley: No dogs or thick accents allowed?

Police seize painting of Putin in women's lingerie

Dangers of traveling while female

Lady Gaga's early days: "The sexual energy was palpable. You could smell it"

Will California criminalize revenge porn?

Help, I'm a lost millennial!

Fox News has its own civil rights struggle

The right doesn't trust the average American

Wall Street's greatest enemy: The man who knows too much

Peru dethrones Colombia as cocaine king

Study: Messy work space sparks creativity

Low-income college students don't have a prayer

Syria's agony, Washington's quandary

6 horrifying facts about the rich

Republicans push new plan to damage each other's health

NYT editorial board: Chelsea Manning and all trans inmates deserve medical care

Swiss government to open drive-in sex booths

The other NRA: How the National Restaurant Association ensures poverty wages

Lena Dunham really is the voice of my generation -- for better or worse

Nutrition labels are misleading us

Gay military couples are still being denied veterans' benefits

Must-see morning clip: Anderson Cooper briefs David Letterman on Syria

Aims of US attack on Syria remain undefined

The 5 factors fueling the Rim Fire

Oxford adds "twerk," "derp" and "vom" to dictionary

The right's outrageous MLK ignorance

Cory Booker is tired of "cynics" and "bloggers"

NYPD secretly labeled mosques as terror groups

Fukushima's operator may have lied about the leak's severity

Why movies can't handle terrorism

No, Obama isn't botching the debt negotiations again

Facebook is not blowing it

Iran might sue US over involvement in '53 coup

The best thing about superhero movies

Richest CEOs led taxpayer-subsidized companies

Cory Booker's gay rumor declaration: Is he Democrats' James Franco?

Over half requests for Facebook user data came from U.S. government

"Pretty in Pink" brings my family together

Patrick Stewart performs the quadruple take

"Simpsons" co-creator Sam Simon: Death doesn't scare me

A rational explanation for the apparent "pause" in global warming

Zimmerman's wife guilty of perjury

Kitchen spices found to be a major source of salmonella

"The Real World" for geeks

Nastiest responses to today's March on Washington

Fort Hood shooter sentenced to death

No, a 14-year-old was not "as much in control" as her rapist

GOP's gross and false new talking point: Feces