What makes a headline good enough for Headlines Du Jour? The biggest criteria is that it has to be interesting to me. I figure it’ll also interest at least one of my readers. Being funny, or absurd doesn’t hurt, either. However, more than anything else it has to be attractive to my robot drones, which do all my headline picking now. Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour.
RELIGION CORNER:
Mayor declares 2014 the ‘year
of the Bible’ in Texas city
SCIENCE IS COMPLICATED:
Dogs align themselves with Earth’s magnetic field when it comes time to poop
El Nino may be behind melting of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier
ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:
It’s Official: A Peruvian Man Owns the Crumbling Packard Plant
UAW Trust: Fiat’s $4.35 billion deal for
Chrysler is ‘best possible outcome’ for retirees
Detroit Murders Drop, But City Recorded Same Number as NY
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:
Young Viewers Avoid Fox
News Like the Plague
as Ratings Drop 30%
Fox Business host Stuart Varney: Ice in Antarctica
proves ‘global cooling’
TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH:
Florida expected to surpass NY in population,
Sunshine State embodies 21st century America
Miami’s got new city commission leaders
THE “P” IN GOP STANDS FOR PARTY:
Defying GOP Leaders, Rep. Trey Radel Won’t Resign After Rehab
Cocaine Congressman Trey
Radel Draws $1 Million
Super PAC Challenge
Partisan Evolution Gap? Politically Insignificant, GOP Says
TODAY IN OUTER SPACE:
New studies give strong boost to binary-star formation theory
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