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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, December 23, 2013

No sooner does Not Now Silly fire one set of interns over labour unrest, than this new cabal shows its true colours. Inexplicably, despite the letters of recommendation which is sole the reward of all unpaid interns, they’re now demanding the holidays off. They’re starting with Christmas, but before they’re done they’ll be wanting to take Bahá’u’lláh’s Birthday off. It has to stop somewhere. I am now interviewing interns. Apply within.

FREE THE WEED!!!

The Media Should Stop Pretending Marijuana’s
Risks Are a Mystery — The Science Is Clear

FREE THE VEGETABLE!!!

In Florida, A Turf War Blooms Over
Front-Yard Vegetable Gardening

MUSICAL DISPATCHES FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

Derrick May: ‘I stick around in Detroit because it’s my home No 1’

Music is missing link in Detroit recovery

A triumphant Aretha Franklin rocks MotorCity Sound Board

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

In Toronto, aid to flow even without emergency declaration

Rob Ford is Canada’s Newsmaker of the Year
Astronaut Chris Hadfield is distant No. 2

CRACKER CORNER:

Lt Gov: Duck Dynasty
important to La. tourism

Mike Huckabee Drags Obama Into Duck Dynasty Controversy

Juan Williams: Right Wanted Bashir, Maher
Fired, But ‘Cry Foul’ Over Duck Dynasty Star?

ALASKAN CRACKER CORNER:

Good Grief and Great Tits
Dan Savage: Sitting Down to Read Sarah
Palin’s Christmas Book While I Bake
Christmas Cookies for My Family

IN FLORI-DUH NEWS:

A Blue Florida? State Supreme Court Slaps Down Rick Scott’s Gerrymandering

GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS:

Emotional moment guitar legend Carlos Santana is reunited with his old drummer after discovering he had been living as a BEGGAR on the streets for 40 years

I GOTCHER WAR ON CHRISTMAS RIGHT HERE:

Pastor Joel Osteen Smacks Down Fox News ‘War On Christmas’ Victimology

IN THE COURTS:

Apartheid-Era Doctor Who Made
Germs To Kill Africans Found
Guilty Of Unprofessional Conduct

Brooklyn Convict Gets $560,000 In Damages For False Arrest

VIDEO DU JOUR:

 

[NB: NSFW OR WHILE DRINKING COFFEE]

New Wearable Computer Also Sucks Your Dick

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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, December 16, 2013

Not Now Silly has been publishing Headlines Du Jour since October 29th. The NNS news team has learned a few things in that time. The biggest problem? The headlines simply won’t wait. They’re ready when they’re ready and not a moment before. And worse yet, they’re only stale when they’ve gone stale and not a moment too soon. The dilemma? The line between the two is so narrow, that one can’t always tell the difference. Which is why Not Now Silly will hire only the most discerning and intelligent interns and then pay them nothing. So, let’s see which intern didn’t hold up their end and needs retooling.

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

White supremacy’s long shadow: Why the myth of “race” still haunts America

POLITCAL CORNER:

CONSTITUTIONALLY YOURS:

Federal judge declares Utah polygamy law unconstitutional
District court ruling finds key parts of Utah polygamy laws unconstitutional.

MAKE WAR, NOT PEACE:

Female protester pictured kissing policeman accused of sexual assault

FREE THE WEED:

Here’s How Many Pot Shops Will
Open In Denver After Weed Is Legal

Fort Lauderdale stockbroker ‘living
proof’ medical marijuana works

A NEW FOX “NEWS” LIE IN THE NEWS:

 
Krauthammer Tells PBS Viewers:
If You Want the Whole Story, ‘Try Fox’

MEGYN KELLY IN THE NEWS:

Slate Writer Who Questioned ‘White Santa’ on
Megyn Kelly’s Response: She ‘Played the Victim’

Black Marxist Jesus? Ask Megyn Kelly about this.

RELIGION CORNER:

Pope Francis Addresses ‘Ultraconservatives’ (and Limbaugh?) Calling Him a Marxist

TRUE STORY: THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR “OLD”:

John Boehner’s Budget Outburst
Shows Right-Wing Groups
Have Jumped The Shark

FLORIDUH’S NEXT SHOW TRIAL:

Another Stand Your Ground showdown?

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE:

Poverty nation: How America created a low-wage work swamp
For decades, both parties supplanted a push for higher
wages with well-intended public aid. The result: calamity

ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

When Detroit paved over paradise: The story of I-375

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, December 15, 2013

Set loose throughout the internet, the Not Now Silly interns have been collecting headlines nightly for the better part of two months now. They are provisioned with wicker baskets and told not to return until they’re full. It’s only then they are allowed any food and water. Which brings us to today’s Headlines Du Jour.

CONSTITUTIONALLY YOURS:

Judge says giant cross must be removed from San Diego mountain

HELLO, NSA? ARE YOU THERE? GOOGLE? HELLO? IS THIS THING ON?

Who’s Watching You Watch Porn?
Privacy experts warn that advertisers, even the
NSA, could be following your visits to adult sites.

I GOTCHER MEGYN KELLY CHRISTMAS RIGHT HERE:

Operation White Christmas targets white
supremacist gangs, authorities say

FREE THE WEED:

Uruguay’s Prez Rips Into U.N. Official Over Marijuana Law: ‘Stop Lying’

MORE DISPATCHES FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

Federal Judge Describes, Then Supports Plot to Rob Detroit Pensioners

Red Wings arena deal with Ilitch family wins approval from Detroit downtown authority

SCIENCE IS COMPLICATED:

Previously unknown DNA code could help humanity defy aging and death

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Hannity, Atheist Go Head-to-Head
in Heated Battle Over the War to
End All Wars on Christmas™

Bolling Battles Atheist over Christmas
Display: ‘Wow, How Mean Can You Be?’

Andrew Sullivan Calls Fox ‘One of the
Most Powerful Forces Against Christianity’

NO-LONGER PREGGY LEGGY MEGGY BACK IN THE NEWS:

What Megyn Kelly Did — And Didn’t — Learn
From The Reaction To Her White Santa Segment

Megyn Kelly Defends White Santa “Jest”: “Fox News,
And Yours Truly, Are Big Targets For Many People”

Megyn Kelly Is A Small Slender Liar!!!

Megyn Kelly Defends Her Santa Comments,
Attacks Critics For ‘Race Baiting’

Megyn Kelly doubles down on ‘white Santa’: I did it for the kids

FROM OUTER SPACE:

Warning: the universe could be about ready to collapse on us

A Rare Glimpse of the Moon Orbiting the Earth From Afar

China safely soft-lands rover on the moon

VIDEO DU JOUR

 

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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, December 2, 2013

Welcome to another thrill-packed edition of Headlines Du Jour. Today I am adding to the format slightly. When appropriate I will be printing quotes from the articles cited to give more context and/or irony. Today there happens to be two such headlines that deserved more context. So, let’s get right to the news while it’s still fresh.

TODAY IN LGBT NEWS:

Florida Tea Party Leader Bashes Gay GOP Group

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?


Santorum: Denying women birth control
coverage is a First Amendment right

OH! OH!! CANADA!!!

Canada to file Arctic seafloor claim this week

TODAY’S VOLLEY IN THE PHONY WAR ON CHRISTMAS:

Target Canada will not be playing Christmas music

FREE THE WEED:

3 More Michigan Cities Free Up Marijuana

Why Canada banned pot (science had nothing to do with it)

These days some think a total repeal of Canada’s drug laws is inevitable.
We look at how the drug laws put in 90 years ago were based on panic
and racism as opposed to science or medicine

Doob??? Really???

QUOTE: “One has to ask in these circumstances what the benefit to society is,” says University of Toronto criminologist Anthony Doob. Forty years ago, the Le Dain report also questioned the notion that overly harsh laws were harmless if not strictly enforced. Aside from the occasional outlandishly severe sentence, rational people lose respect for laws that are irrational, corroding the faith that citizens — especially young people — ought to place in institutions.

Prohibition Then and Now
A Not Now Silly investigative report

FREE THE CRACK:

Mayor Ford draws a crowd at Bills game

Rob Ford to start YouTube show: Why it won’t work

NATURE IS COMPLICATED:

Tool use in crocodylians: crocodiles and alligators
use sticks as lures to attract waterbirds

10 Mysteries we’ve solved in the past year…

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Tucker Carlson Backs Lara Logan on Benghazi:
‘Sometimes the Best Stories Have Flaky Sources’

IRONY ALERT!!!

QUOTE: “Yeah, well, you know as well as I, some of the best stories have flaky sources unfortunately,” Carlson concluded.

Before Kurtz was hired by Fox News earlier this year, he had blasted Carlson’s the Daily Caller website after a Dominican law enforcement official claimed that the publication had offered to pay prostitutes to make false claims about Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ).

Kurtz, a CNN host at the time, insisted that the Daily Caller “owes the senators and its readers an apology.”

MORE DISPATCHES FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

Social media are a tool for Detroit Police
to answer critics, expand investigations

Enjoy Detroit TV Nostalgia? Catch ‘Remember When’ On WTVS Monday

BULLY CORNER:

Father Of Girl Who Committed Suicide Speaks
Out Against Ginger Bullying, ‘Kick A Ginger Day’

Science Reporter Emily Graslie Reads
Her Mail — And It’s Not So Nice

The Mark Koldys-Johnny Dollar Cyber-Bully Comments of the Day
Another Not Now Silly investagative report

IN SOUTH FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

Miami readies its new front porch: the $131 million Perez Art Museum

Sweetwater mayor’s corruption conviction pops lid on a sewer of scandal

SCIENCE CORNER:

Chinese Train that Never Stops

VIDEO DU JOUR:


Memories of You is my favourite song and Eubie Blake among my favourite artists
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Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, November 29, 2013

While you were lolling around in your tryptophan-induced stupour the Not Now Silly news team was busy — as busy as it has ever been. They were busy creeping and crawling through the innertubes with just one task: Bring back only the most scrumptious Headlines Du Jour.

TODAY IN LGBT NEWS:

Dinesh Bhugra: Psychiatry needs a broader focus
The
first gay president of the World Psychiatric Association wants a
radical rethink of mental
illness and for the profession to apologise
for the harm it has inflicted on gay people and women

World’s top psychiatrist comes out, promises stand on ‘gay cures’
New
head of World Psychiatric Association has come out as gay, demanded

action in countries where homosexuality is treated as an illness


FOX NEWS IN THE NEWS:

This Fox News interview with Richard Simmons
is the greatest thing to ever happen on cable TV

WRITERS CORNER:

Unpublished J.D. Salinger stories ‘leaked’ online
‘The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls,’ ‘Paula’ and
‘Birthday Boy’ surface against the late author’s wishes.

Unpacking the Writer – Continued

Farce Au Pain ► The Soft Launch

Farce au Pain © 2013, Headly Westerfield

YOU DON’T NEED A WEATHERMAN TO KNOW WHICH WAY THE WIND BLOWS:

Cape Breton amateur weather man is a viral video star

FREE THE WEED:

Pot-smoking Mountie can’t smoke in uniform, RCMP says
Cpl. Ron Francis legally smokes marijuana daily
while on duty to treat post-traumatic stress disorder

CRACK CORNER:

‘Merka’s greatest documentarian, Ken Burns, tackles the Rob Ford Story

FROM OUTER SPACE:

Did comet ISON flame out on its trip around the sun?

Comet ISON leaves a mystery behind as it goes around the sun

A Timeline Of Comet ISON’s Dangerous Journey

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thanksgiving Day!!! ► Thursday, November 28, 2013

On this very special day the entire Not Now Silly News Team is grateful for all the headlines out there and for all our readers in here. We couldn’t — wouldn’t — do it without you. Here’s is today’s exciting holiday edition of Headlines Du Jour.

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

Residents shocked that DeKalb County,
Georgia, juror form lists ‘slave’ as occupation

Manitoba restaurant owner says she’s closing because of racism

ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

Stephen Henderson: Rally around Kevyn Orr to hold off Detroit’s financial buzzards

Tom Walsh: Warren Buffett gets it – Detroit is still alive and kicking

AND IN WORLD NEWS:

Israel heads for a terrifying split

FREE THE WEED:

Members Of Congress To California U.S.
Attorney: Back Off Marijuana Prosecutions

MANNA FROM HEAVEN:

Pot Falls From the Sky in San Diego

SPEAKING OF RELIGION:

The Unfair Tax Exemption for Politically Active Churches Must End

No, Obama Is Not Closing The Vatican Embassy

VOTER RESTRICTION NEWS:

Some Florida Election Supervisors Stunned By New Voter Restrictions

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Fox Business host Stuart Varney lectures Pope Francis about capitalism and religion

Greta Van Susteren Hypes Phony Postal Service War On Christmas

Fox Nation vs. Reality: The U.S. Closes Imaginary Vatican City Embassy

10 Headlines Fox News Might Have Written Had
They Existed During Key Points in U.S. History

CRACK CORNER:

Rob Ford investigation: Judge orders release of censored parts of police document
Remaining blacked-out information about the mayor and his associates could be made public Dec. 6, under a ruling by Superior Court Justice Ian Nordheimer.

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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