Earlier this week, when I introduced robot drones to collect the daily headlines, little did I know how smoothly things would run in the Not Now Silly news room. Now when I wake up, the robots have already returned and the headlines are waiting on my desk. If I could only find a robot with news sense to cull the bad headlines — and then post this to the blog — I could sleep in.
I’m also going to need a never-ending supply of AAA batteries; these suckers use a lot of power. No matter, let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour.
WHERE WILL FUTURE HEADLINES DU JOUR COME FROM?
As fewer people read newspapers, more share their front pages
IN LGBT NEWS:
Texas bar bans gay men over ‘safety risk’ for
dancing to country music instead of hip-hop
GET THE DUCK OUTTA HERE:
FREE THE WEED!!!
Advocates in Florida Gather Enough Signatures to Put Medical Cannabis Legalization to a Vote
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:
Mike Huckabee is either a clueless fool or a brazen liar
Fox News’ 5 worst moments of 2013
Fox News Spent 2013 Worrying About “Wussification”
YOU DESERVE A BREAK TODAY:
McDonald’s shuts down
heavily-criticized employee
resources site
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
Racist Ohio Teacher Suspended After Telling Student ‘We Don’t Need Another Black President’
New Mexico Tea Party Patriots Leader: Blacks
Should Stop ‘Bitching And Moaning’ About Slavery
The Most Clueless Racists of 2013
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| Detroit has seen an uptick in history buffs and photographers visiting its ruins since its bankruptcy filing. |
THE RUIN PORN OF DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:
Detroit’s abandoned buildings draw tourists instead of developers
After a century, Michigan Central
train station’s last
stop in limbo
HISTORY IS COMPLICATED:
8 very old sites in the New World
MUSIC IS LIFE:
30 Songs That Changed the Course Of Musical History
GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:
No charges after family member’s gun fatally shoots 2-month-old on Christmas Eve
Florida man shot and killed by stray bullet from neighbor’s backyard gun range
VIDEO DU JOUR:
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