Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Not Now Silly is pleased to introduce a brand new rubric to Headlines Du Jour. The Asshole Du Jour will be awarded occasionally to that person who best exemplifies supreme assholishness. Our first winner is perennial asshole, Sister Sarah Palin, who used MLK Day to play the race card. And, that’s why, Sarah Palin, you are the very first to be given this prestigious award. You can pick up your statuette at the Not Now Silly offices during business hours. We don’t ship.

ASSHOLE DU JOUR; SARAH PALIN:

Flaming Racist Sarah Palin Celebrates MLK
Day With a Racial Attack on President Obama

INCOME INEQUALITY:

The World’s 85 Richest Now Worth as Much as 3.5 Billion Poorest

LGBT NEWS:

Twitter Explodes After Trans
Subject of Golf Article Kills Herself

Professor Claims Smoking or Drinking
During Pregnancy Makes Your Babies Gay

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Police Chief Accidentally
Shoots Himself At Gun
Shop, Blames Fleece Jacket

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Watch Fox’s Gretchen Carlson Learn Way TMI About Senior Citizen STDs

IN OUTER SPACE:

Scottish scientists awarded grant to build alien-detecting laser device

Comet-chasing Rosetta wakes up, whispers sweet-nothings to Earth

Milky Way may have formed inside-out

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Cops bloody old man — for jaywalking

FREE THE WEED!!!

Obama Says All the Right Things About Weed in New Interview

Fox News host: Solution to high minority arrest rate is for them to smoke less pot

Drugs In Colorado: New Deadly Strain Of Marijuana Turning Users Gay

As marijuana attitudes shift, this
may be a year of legalization

California and four other states may put
initiatives on the ballot in November. A
recent poll shows a clear majority
of Americans supports legalizing pot.

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

Richard Sherman’s Post-Game Rant Brings
Out Twitter’s Actual Racists and Morons

Federal Judge Sent Hundreds of Bigoted Emails

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Clearing the Smoke: The Science of Cannabis

 

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Calling himself “A liberally progressive, sarcastically cynical, iconoclastic polymath,” Headly Westerfield has been a professional writer all his adult life.