When Fox “News” is outlawed, only outlaws will watch Fox “News.” While I don’t believe my headline-collecting robot drones planned it, there seems to be an awful lot of headlines about Fox “News” today. Let’s get right to today’s Healines Du Jour.
BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST RACIAL SOCIETY:
Study Finds White Americans Believe They
Experience More Racism Than African Americans
BE ON THE LOOKOUT:
Black Man Suspected of Suspicious Stuff, West Virginia Paper Reports
FREE THE WEED!!!
Study: Marijuana Doesn’t
Affect Driving Performance
Marijuana advocates
lay groundwork for
legalization in Mass.
Colo., Wash. votes bring push for a
2016 ballot item on legalization
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Fox in Freefall as Rachel Maddow Beats Fox
News For an Entire Week In the Ratings
LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
O’Reilly and Hume Still Blame ‘Feminized Atmosphere’ for Making Christie a ‘Bully’
‘I Just Freaking Answered It!’ Mary Katharine Ham Clashes with O’Reilly Again over Pot
MEGYN KELLY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Megyn Kelly advises McConnell: Stop fighting
Obama in court and ‘try to impeach him!’
DR. KEITH ABLOW IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Fox psychiatrist invents ‘data rage’ after theater shooting to blame phones instead of guns
ROGER AILES IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Inside The Laughable Cable News Blog Roger Ailes Reportedly Created
“The Cable Game” Fawned Over Fox
Talent, Smeared Network Enemies
“I Can’t See Her Legs!”: Roger Ailes’ Rampant Sexism
RUPERT MURDOCH IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Phone Hacking Trial Shown Footage Of Alleged Cover-Up By Rebekah Brooks’ Husband
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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, January 14, 2014
G’morning, Headliners!!!
It’s Tuesday. Tuesday is no different than Monday — or any other day of the week — because every day my robot drones and I bring you the news you didn’t even know you needed.
That’s right!!! It’s time for today’s Headlines Du Jour.
AN AUTHORITY ON PORTS:
How patronage politics
ate the Port Authority
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
Ohio politician not sorry for incredibly racist email
LGBT NEWS:
Jared Leto and Michael Douglas’s
homophobic Golden Globes speeches
show the worst of Hollywood
THE SORRY STATE OF JOURNALISM TODAY:
Major Parts of the World Ignored by US TV News in 2013
PASS THE POPCORN:
Tea party group mobilizes
to oust House Speaker
John Boehner
FREE THE WEED!!!
NFL might legalize medical
marijuana for players
Marijuana advocates
lay groundwork for
legalization in Mass.
ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:
Deal could come as early as today to protect DIA art, Detroit pensioners
RELIGION CORNER:
Pastor accused of paying
homeless to fire-bomb
ex professes innocence:
‘I never did pay them’
EVOLUTION IS COMPLICATED:
Fossils show how fish
evolved into land animals
HISTORY IS COMPLICATED:
UO adds Native American Studies minor to ethnic studies curriculum
QUANTUM CIRCUTS ARE COMPLICATED:
Integrated quantum circuit
is most complex ever
FROM OUTER SPACE:
HD 4203c: New Giant Exoplanet Discovered
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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, January 13, 2014
As another work week begins here at Not Now Silly, all is calm. The headline-collecting robot drones have been collecting headlines for several weeks now and they seemed to have lost all interest in having sex with the toaster. Which is why I can concentrate fully on today’s Headlines Du Jour.
BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:
Auto Show Media Will See ‘How Vibrant A Bankrupt City Can Be’
THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IS COMPLICATED:
Why Are US Special Operations Forces Deployed in Over 100 Countries?
That’s over 60 percent of the nations on the planet.
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
America is still a deeply racist country
LGBT NEWS:
Indiana Church Fires Gay Choir Leader and EIGHTY PERCENT of the Congregation QUITS!
GLOBAL WARMING? WHAT GLOBAL WARMING?
FOLLOW THE MONEY:
Not Just the Koch Brothers: New
Drexel Study Reveals Funders Behind
the Climate Change Denial Effort
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:
Fox’s Brit Hume
shocks female panelist: ‘Feminized atmosphere’
made Christie a ‘bully’
Roger Ailes Book Creates Dilemma for Dueling CNN, Fox News Media Shows
ROGER AILES IN THE NEWS:
Gabriel Sherman in Wide-Ranging Interview:
Ailes ‘More Extreme
Than Glenn Beck’
New Book Reveals The Real Roger Ailes
Fox News Was Right To Be Scared Of Gabriel
Sherman’s The Loudest Voice in the Room
Roger Ailes Is Not That Powerful
We know more than ever about how vile Roger
Ailes is. But he still can’t elect a president.
How Fox News Chief Roger Ailes Tried
To Win Republicans The White House
LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS:
Bill O’Reilly Terrorized Another Female Fox News Staffer
MORE DISPATCHES FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:
Detroit Three offer hope, lessons to bankrupt Detroit as world media descend on auto show
Free Press Will Blow Whistle On Bankruptcy ‘Distortions’ By Visiting Writers
VIP Auto Show Guest: Packard Buyer Will Pitch His Vision To Car Execs
10 things you didn’t know about Vernors
THE SORRY STATE OF JOURNALISM TODAY:
The Biggest Loser in Bridgegate:
Jay Carney’s Beard
TODAY IN THE CLASS WARS:
FREE THE WEED!!!
FOR THOSE WHO DIG ARCHEOLOGY?
Lost Remains of Slain
Ancient Queen Unearthed
HACKER CORNER:
Anonymous Hacker Who Exposed the Steubenville
Rapists Gets More Prison Time Than Rapists
MIT website hacked by Anonymous on anniversary of Aaron Swartz suicide
WHAT’S THE SCOTUS UP TO?
Supreme Court to decide the future of Internet TV
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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, January 12, 2014
When Headlines Du Jour is outlawed, only outlaws will read Headlines Du Jour. Let’s get right to it, shall we?
BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:
Pimp Suing Nike for $100 Million After He Stomped Man Nearly
to Death with Jordans
LGBT NEWS:
U.S. Government Issues LGBT Travel Alert For Olympics
ROGER AILES IN THE NEWS:
Biography Of Fox’s Roger Ailes Alleges Sexism, Anti-Semitism
Roger and me: How I got berated by Fox News
Channel’s boss
ANOTHER HACK ATTACK:
Neiman Marcus is latest victim of security breach
Customers’ card information stolen and unauthorized charges made
TODAY’S EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:
Los Angeles woman who fell from moving police car says she was sexually assaulted by cop
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
The racism at the heart of
the Reagan presidency
White professors still dominate Bay Area
colleges as student bodies grow more diverse
Franklin McCain — of ‘Greensboro Four,’
who defied whites-only barrier — dies
FREE THE WEED!!!
Faces of Pot: The Vapour Lounge
Marijuana case filings plummet in
Colorado following legalization
STOP THE PRESSES!!!
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio lambasted for eating pizza with a fork
IN THE ART WORLD:
Renoir found at flea market returned to museum by Virginia court
OUT OF THIS WORLD:
Planetology comes of age
Those who study planets orbiting other
stars now have plenty of data to play with
Rare, Eclipsing Binary Asteroids Discovered by Undergraduate Astronomy Class
Scientists spot hypervelocity stars escaping clutches of galaxy
TODAY IN BEATLES’ NEWS:
Paul McCartney And Ringo Starr May Stage Beatles
Reunion On ‘Late Show With David Letterman’
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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, January 11, 2014
People have been curious about the process of curating Headlines Du Jour, which surprises me because I didn’t think people would be that interested. However, since you asked:
When my headline-collecting robot drones return from a night of headline collecting, they are loaded down with headlines from every genre. Then the culling begins. The first thing I do is throw out all the sports headlines. Then older headlines are discarded. Next, I toss out any headline you can find elsewhere. My readers don’t come here to find what they can get elsewhere; they come here for the headlines they won’t get anywhere else. Which brings us to today’s Headlines Du Jour.
THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:
GOP’s poverty scam: Why does it suddenly “care” about the poor?
‘No free lunch’ Republican bills taxpayers for
his food but tells poor kids to work for theirs
CRACK MAYOR CORNER:
Formal complaint filed about
Mayor Rob Ford’s use of staff
POLITICS IS AS POLITICS DOES:
Dirty Tricks, Traffic Studies, And Why Sociopaths Flourish In Politics
All the Governors’ Dark-Money Funds
money to push their agendas. They could pay for it in 2014.
ROGER AILES IN THE NEWS:
CNNers: Ailes Book Likely Won’t Change Anyone’s Mind About Fox News
Ailes book: Fox chief to blame for
Fox’s election night meltdown
Past Book Sales Show Apathy Rules When It Comes to Roger Ailes
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:
Fox’s Scott Blames “Overly-Vindictive
Women” For Arrest Of Man Who
Violated Restraining Order
Fox: Where The Chris Christie Scandal
Is Really Just About Benghazi
FREE THE WEED!!!
Kentucky Republican offers to ‘fill this committee room’ with people affected by pot deaths
Senator Ted Cruz attacks Obama for not
locking up marijuana users in Colorado
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
Interracial Couple Upset Over
‘Jungle Fever’ Note Left by Valet
WEATHER, OR NOT?
Scientists: Americans are becoming weather wimps
MOSTLY HARMLESS???
What if the rest of the
alien universe was
terrified of humans?
WHISTLE-BLOWERS BEWARE:
Australian Teen Reported To Police After
Exposing Security Hole In Website
MOVIE CORNER:
Unseen Alfred Hitchcock Holocaust documentary
‘Memory of the Camps’ to be released
VIDEO DU JOUR:
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Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, January 10, 2014
As Fox “News” lionizes New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as a shining example of leadership, the robot drones have returned with today’s Headlines Du Jour. Let’s get right to it . . . before they close the bridge again.
BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:
Police Find Entire Jewelry Store Inside Teen’s Rectum
New Data Show How Hospitals Rip You Off
EXAMPLES OF THE COLOUR LINE:
#BlackTwitter Gives Politico’s Dylan Byers Hell For Melissa Harris-Perry ‘Intellectual’ Comments
Where The Sidewalk Ends, Racism Begins
WAR IS HELL:
Gatesgate: Why Obama was right to Distrust his Generals on Afghanistan
Top Ten Things Bob Gates was Wrong about, Some Criminal
FOX NEWS IN THE NEWS:
Megyn Kelly Renews Her Racial Attacks On Eric Holder
Megyn Kelly Race Baits? Teaching Black Toddler To Swear Is Child Abuse!
Fox host on Christie: ‘Bridge thing’ ruining
coverage of Bob Gates’ Obama-bashing
Fox News Downplayed Chris Christie Scandal All Day
FREE THE WEED!!!
The One Crucial Detail That
Could Sink Legal Pot in Colorado
THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:
HISTORY IS COMPLICATED:
Skeleton of 2,000-year-old woman unearthed in Davie
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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, January 9, 2014
Good morning, Headliners. It’s time once again to take the pulse of the world and see what your neighbours will be talking about later today. So grab a cup of java, put your cell phone on vibrate only, and settle in with today’s Headlines Du Jour.
BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:
Oklahoma man killed
stepfather with ‘atomic
wedgie,’ authorities say
LGBT NEWS:
Breaking: Utah Gov. Tells 1360 Legally Married
Same-Sex Couples Their Unions Are Invalid
FROM OUTER SPACE:
UFO Causes German Airport To Divert Flights
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:
Fox Guest: Minimum Wage Is Just ‘Black Teenage Unemployment Act’
‘Gates of Hell’: Fox News
Pairs Ann Coulter with
Unfortunate Chyron
Colbert Calls Out Fox’s Hollow Climate Change Attack
TODAY’S COLD CASE:
Burglars Who Took On F.B.I. Abandon Shadows
GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:
Lawmaker fires handgun in Kentucky Capitol: ‘I am a gun owner… It happens’
I NEVER META-DATA I DIDN’T LIKE:
Graphs by MIT Students Show the Enormously Intrusive Nature of Metadata
MORE DISPATCHES FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:
16 Reasons to Go to Detroit Right Now
Detroit’s historic Brush Park may finally see a revival
Rebuilding Detroit’s first and last neighborhood
WHEN DO WE ADMIT THAT CAPITALISM HAS NOT WORKED?
Why we should give free money to everyone
TODAY IN FLORI-DUH NEWS:
Florida man bites neighbor’s
ear off over a cigarette
Toxic Tush Doc Oneal Morris to Begin
Prison Sentence (in the Male Population)
CLIMATE CHANGE, GLOBAL WARMING, & CHARLETANS
Linking Weather Extremes to Global Warming
Yes, It’s Cold — and Yes, Global
Warming Is Still Happening
RELIGION CORNER:
Pat Robertson: Global warming is a scam because there are no SUVs on Jupiter
America’s First ‘Pastafarian’
Official Sworn into Office
Pastafarian minister sworn into office
FREE THE WEED!!!
Fox News contributor Ben Carson: Marijuana causes flashbacks years after use
Chris Hayes: Bill O’Reilly Wrong On Pot Arrests
Jon Stewart blasts cable anchors panicking over legal pot: ‘You’re a f*cking idiot’
O’Reilly Fires Back at Jon Stewart, ‘Can’t Imagine’ Chinese Kids Being Addicted to Texting
Kevin Hart and Ice Cube Aggressively
Mock Nancy Grace’s Anti-Weed Comments
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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Guess what day it is? That’s right! It’s the anniversary of when the last person was executed for blasphemy in Britain. Meanwhile, I’ve grown suspicious of my headline collecting robot drones. They may be executed for exactly the very same reason. However, let’s not dwell on the unpleasant because it’s time for today’s Headlines Du Jour.
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST RACIAL SOCIETY:
Omaha police association labels video of
diapered black toddler ‘The Thug Cycle’
THE SORRY STATE OF TEE VEE NEWS:
“60 Minutes” gets it wrong again:
Cleantech hit job doesn’t check out
TODAY IN FOX “NEWS”
‘You’re Invisible, But I’ll Eat You Anyway.’ Secrets Of Snow-Diving Foxes
TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:
Climate Change Deniers
Using Cold Weather as
Proof Exposed as Idiots
By Jon Stewart
FREE THE WEED!!!
Stephen Colbert shreds
‘buzzkill’ David Brooks’s
argument against legal weed
RELIGION CORNER:
Man who thinks he’s Jesus… along with hundreds of young women who follow him across the world
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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Since I began suspecting the headline-collecting robot drones of conspiring, they’ve been surprisingly silent. I know they’re just wait for me to slip up, so I won’t look directly at them. You shouldn’t either. Meanwhile, here’s today’s Headlines Du Jour.
BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:
Tennessee man runs for governor in GOP primary for right to shower with his raccoon
TODAY’S EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:
Cop shoots dead a tased, restrained, 100lb
teen: “we don’t have time for this”
LGBT CORNER:
Supreme Court halts Utah gay marriage
2014’s Gayest Cities in America
CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS:
Climate Change Might Just Be
Driving the Historic Cold Snap
FREE THE WEED!!!
Disagree with Nancy Grace’s Anti-Pot Crusade?
Well, You’re Just ‘Fat and Lazy’ Stoners
TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT REGULATION?
Swaziland Bans Witches From Flying Above 150 Meters
THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:
White House To GOP: If You Want
Troops In Iraq, You ‘Should Say So’
Family Values Republican Congressman Hid
His Out-of-Wedlock Child and First Family
TAKE MONEY OUT OF POLITICS:
Koch-backed political coalition, designed to shield donors, raised $400 million in 2012
FRANK LUNTZ IN THE NEWS:
GOP Pollster Frank Luntz Became ‘Depressed’ After 2012 Election
Frank Luntz Can’t Figure Out Why Nobody In Hollywood Is Returning His Calls
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
Three Ways to Fight
Racism in 2014
THE COLOUR LINE IS COMPLICATED:
TWERK: Booty-dancing, gender
politics & white privilege
HISTORY IS COMPLICATED. MUSICAL HISTORY EVEN MORE SO:
Sting, Puff Daddy, Andy Summers, and the case of the misplaced bajillion dollars
OH! OH!! CANADA?!?!?!
Canada’s former defense minister says space aliens live among us, but hate our nukes
FUCK CANADA!!!
They fought for your right to hear the F word
Local ‘Toilet Rockers’ MacLean & MacLean at centre of landmark Supreme Court decision
Couple feel ‘robbed’ by 25% interest TD car loan
Dealership promised relief after a year but didn’t deliver, customers say
[FULL DISCLOSURE: TD is my bank. It advertises as ‘Merka’s most convenient bank.]
RELIGION CORNER:
Alabama preacher arrested for his wife’s murder as he boarded overseas flight
Satanic Temple unveils 7-foot goat-headed Baphomet statue for Oklahoma Capitol
TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:
Miami Named 4th Worst-Run
City in America, Hialeah 9th
TRUE OBAMA DERANGEMENT SYNDROME:
Armed Minnesota man burns down his own house, then blames Obama
MOVIE CORNER:
Male Fans Made Bettie Page
a Star, but Female Fans
Made Her an Icon
Her risqué pinup photos made
her famous in the 1950s, but as a
new documentary reminds us,
Page’s liberated sexuality and
unflinching body positivity
are what still resonate today.
TODAY IN BEATLES’ NEWS:
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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, January 6, 2014
The Not Now Silly headline-collecting robot drones have been behaving oddly lately. While they have no heads, it sure seems like they are putting them together. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say they were talking about me.
Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour.
HISTORY IS COMPLICATED:
How two archaeologists’ hunch led to
stunning claim about Buddha’s birth date
LGBT NEWS:
Gay Marriage Opponents Call For Uprising In Utah
TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:
“Dark Money” Funds Climate Change Denial Effort
A Drexel University study finds that a large slice of donations to
organizations that deny global warming are funneled through third-
party pass-through organizations that conceal the original funder
FREE THE WEED!!!
The People of Florida
Demand Medical Marijuana
And they’re forcing a ballot measure
to legalize it in November.
will the president continue the government’s war on weed?
Bummer: Colorado pot shops will run out of marijuana within days
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:
Fox News Sunday Guest: God Doesn’t
Want Nuns To Sign ObamaCare Waiver
Things Go Horribly Wrong For Fox News When
They Try to Use Mitt Romney to Smear MSNBC
THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:
A more progressive America is emerging, but Republicans won’t go down without a fight
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker doesn’t know
how to make Republicans more appealing
GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:
Fate of Fired Guns & Ammo Editor Shows
‘Little Room for Nuance’ in ‘Gun Journalism’
OH, CANADA!!!
ANOTHER HOAX THAT’S GONE VIRAL:
Was a Local Fox Reporter Really Fired For
Saying On-Air He’d ‘F*ck’ Missing Woman?
WHAT IF THEY BECOME SELF-AWARE?
AI vs. AI:
Two chatbots talking to each other
TODAY IN RELIGION:
Christian Pastor Calls For Atheists And Gays To Be Put To Death
10 Worst Sex and Relationship Tips From the Christian Right
These holy tips on love, dating and marriage
will allow you to please yourself (not
that way), your mate and your Lord.
IS JUSTICE BLIND?
Trial by Twitter
After high-school football stars were accused of rape,
online vigilantes demanded that justice be served. Was it?
TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:
Miami Named One of America’s Ten Best Cities for 2013
IN OUTER SPACE:
Small Asteroid 2014 AA Hits Earth
Discovered on New Year’s Eve by a telescope in Arizona, a small asteroid struck Earth somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean — apparently unnoticed — about 25 hours later.
MEET THE BEATLES:
50 Years Later: The Greatest Beatles Performance of All Time
Months before the The Ed Sullivan Show, the band played a seven-song set for Swedish radio that settles any doubt about their electrifying live presence.
VIDEO DU JOUR:
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