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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, February 3, 2014

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The Super Bowl is over, which means ‘Merkins can now turn their collective attention to things that are really important, like the latest Coca-Cola commercial that the Reich Wing is so upset about. Which brings us right to today’s Headlines Du Jour.

ASSHOLES DU JOUR:

Coca Cola Super Bowl Ad Inspires Racist Twitter Backlash

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

John Elway to Fox News: I’m Republican because ‘I don’t
believe in safety nets’


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

Why America Is Still a
Deeply Racist Country

Labor pains: The racist
policies that set workplace equality back decades

TODAY IN RAPE CULTURE:

Protestors outraged by “Date Grape” drink at Wash. bar


CHRIS CHRISTIE PUSHES BACK — AGAINST HIS OLD FRIEND:

Chris Christie Mounts Defense, Rips Into Former Ally David Wildstein

The Loneliest Man on Super Bowl Sunday Is Chris Christie

Christina Genovese Renna, Chris Christie Staffer, Resigns Amid Probe

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Sorry, Rob Ford: Pedestrian safety is important in Coquitlam
Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart
speaks out after the Toronto mayor
was ticketed for jaywalking

FOX IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

The Fox Nation Statement of Purpose. Just like
almost everything else from Fox “News,” it’s a lie.

FOX NATION IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

President Obama Takes No Guff From O’Reilly In Superbowl Interview

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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, February 1, 2014

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It’s the start of a new month here at Not Now Silly, the shortest month of the year. Today is the 10th anniversary of Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction, which made headlines all around the world. Today’s Headlines Du Jour isn’t nearly as exciting as Janet Jackson’s nipple, but we do try harder.

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

FREE THE WEED!!!

Pool was swimming in pot, police say

First medical marijuana dispensary licenses awarded in Massachusetts

Pot shops face obstacles to serve
young medical marijuana patients

Obama on the problem of
criminalizing marijuana use

THE ART OF DYING:

Ohio biker, 82, is buried on his Harley

TAKING THE FACE OUT OF FACEBOOK:

Facebook Is About to Let You Go
Anonymous for the First Time

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Bill O’Reilly and psychological warfare

SEAN HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Hannity Selectively Edits Daily Show Video To Make Himself Look Better

WHEN GIRL SCOUT COOKIES ARE OUTLAWED, ONLY OUTLAWS WILL BUY GIRL SCOUT COOKIES:

Anti-Choice Groups
Launch National Boycott
Of Girl Scout Cookies For ‘Endorsing’ Wendy Davis

GET YOUR ROCKS OFF:

Dave Hall and Glenn Taylor charged in Goblin Valley rock topple

IN RUSSIA, LIFE HAS YOU!

Twenty-five percent of Russian men die before the age of 55

IN OUTER SPACE:

How circumbinary
planets form revealed

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, January 30, 2014

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While the Right Wing clutches its collective pearls over King Obama vowing to go around the obstreperous House of Representatives, Not Now Silly continues to bring you the best in news. Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour.

LGBT NEWS:

New Study: Anti-Homophobic School Policy
Reduces Suicide Risk—For All Students

FREE THE WEED!!!

Florida Will Be the Next
Medical Marijuana State

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Cop Arrested For Demanding
Sex At A Traffic Stop

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

Lindsey Graham: World
‘Literally About to Blow Up’

Senator Floats Idea To
Penalize Low-Income
Women Who Have Children

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

Rare photo of slave children found in North Carolina attic


CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Brother-in-law beaten in jail to keep quiet about Rob Ford’s drug use, lawsuit alleges

Rob Ford hit with lawsuit alleging link to jailhouse assault


MR. CHRISTIE? YOU MAKE GOOD COOKIES:

Chris Christie update: Questions arise over
Christie brother’s real estate dealings


GLENN BECK IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Beck: Obama Became ‘America’s First Dictator’ During State of the Union


From the Not Now Silly Archives
The Day I Shook Hands
With Glenn Beck

MARTHA MACCALLUM IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox News host: Women don’t want equal pay,
they already get ‘exactly what they’re worth’

Cyber-bully Mark Koldys

BULLY CORNER:

Texas Parents Sue Six Bullies And
Their Parents For Cyberbullying Page

From the Not Now Silly Archives
The Mark Koldys-Johnny Dollar
Cyber-Bully Comments of the Day

BOYCOTT THE OLYMPICS, COCA-COLA, & MCDONALD’S

Olympic Sponsors Were Warned
About Sochi; Now McDonald’s and
Coca-Cola Are Having a PR Nightmare

AND THAT INCLUDES SANTA CLAUS:

Early Europeans had dark skin and blue eyes

ORANGE ALERT:

John Boehner Threatens President Obama With Impeachment Over Use
Of Executive Orders

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Virginia pastor: Women are
sinners if clothes ‘outline’
body ‘to make it noticed’

Arizona pastor offering tax-deductible exorcisms over Skype for $295 each

AMNESIA ON THE BRAIN:

Amnesiac Henry Molaison’s brain undergoes digital post-mortem

BEATLES CORNER:

Ringo Starr Talks Paul, Meditation
and Why He Loves L.A.

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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, January 29, 2014

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STATE OF THE UNION


President Obama delivers his
fifth State of the Union address


State of the Union: Obama
tinkers around the edges


Analysis: A narrow path
for Obama’s ambitions


State of the Union: What Obama
didn’t say about energy, environment


Six things we learned from the State of the Union


5 takeaways from President
Obama’s State of the Union address


Obama hits the road to push
State of the Union message


Americans react to Obama’s address to nation

Collecting today’s headlines, Not Now Silly couldn’t help but find hundreds of headlines concerning President Obama’s State of the Union address. Some of the highlights are collected at left, with today’s Headlines Du Jour running down the rest of the page.

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

KKK Member Indicted
For Trying To Build Anti-Muslim X-Ray Cannon


TODAY IN RELIGION:

Map: Publicly Funded
Schools That Are Allowed
to Teach Creationism

Thousands of schools in states across the country can use taxpayer money to cast doubt on basic science.


FREE THE WEED!!!

Poll: Majority of Americans support efforts to legalize marijuana

Marijuana contests to join county fair in Colorado


THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

Every GOP Member of Congress Wants a SOTU Photo with Duck Dynasty’s Willie Robertson


FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox Bends Over For Pepsi and Coca-Cola And Forces SodaStream To Edit Super Bowl Ad


SNOW IN MIAMI BEACH:

$37 Million Worth of Seized Cocaine Offloaded in Miami Beach by Coast Guard (Video)


THINGS GO BETTER WITH KOCH:

Rachel Maddow fends off Koch brothers’ complaints with new proof of their meddling


WHAT’S FOR DINNER?

Celebrity chef Mario Batali ordered to pay $5.25 million for skimming tips from his restaurant help

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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, January 26, 2014

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TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

The Human Cost of Income
Inequality in America


What you need to know about
income inequality before
Tuesday’s State of the Union address


Low pay hurts the economy


How do we deal with income inequality?


Income Inequality:
The Defining Issue of Our Time


Economic Costs of Income Inequality


Wealth and Income Inequality: Result
of “political capture”, Not the
Invisible Hand of the Market


Muckraking Journalists Needed Now More
Than Ever As Inequality Gap Grows


Venture Capitalist Compares Anger Over
Income Inequality to Nazi Germany


Poll: Most Americans believe
income gap has grown


Krugman: Income Inequality and
Unemployment Are Linked


Researchers: Income inequality
hurts economic growth


Editorial: Income inequality poses
global risk of riots and revolution


Millionaire TV Host Calls Growing
Income Inequality ‘Fantastic’


Making progress on inequality


Larry Di Rita On ‘The Ultimate
Antidote To Income Inequality’


How your income compares
to others in US


Davos finds inequality a major concern

In anticipation of President Obama’s State of the Union address, Now Now Silly will be highlighting articles on income inequality this week, along with all the other Headlines Du Jour you’ve come to know and love. Let’s get right to it:

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

Iowa GOP posts
flowchart to ID racism

John McCain Censured by Arizona GOP for Being Too ‘Liberal’

Five Important Sex Ed Lessons
For Republican Lawmakers


FREE THE WEED!!!

Medical Marijuana Bill
Introduced In West Virginia


TODAY IN SOILGATE:

Price for Miami parks cleanup
may end up in the millions

From the Not Now Silly Archives
A Century of Coconut Grove Racism ► Soilgate Is
Trolleygate Writ Large


FOLLOW THE MONEY:

We May Finally Find Out Who Is Funding One Of The Nation’s Shadiest Dark Money Groups


RELIGION CORNER:

Buddhist Student Told to Change his Religion if he Doesn’t Want to be Taught Creationism in School

Noah’s Ark revealed to be
filled with cannibal rats,
drifting toward British coast


CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

‘Jeopardy,’ comedians make hay out of continued Rob Ford scandal


A SPAWN OF PALIN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:


BOYCOTT THE BERLIN OLYMPICS:

Himmler’s love letters reveal him to be insecure romantic
fantasist who kept the Holocaust secret from his wife


BOYCOTT THE SOCHI OLYMPICS:

Broadway Responds to Russia’s Anti-LGBT Persecution

VIDEO DU JOUR:

HOMOPHOBIA!!!
IT’S THE REAL THING!!!
BOYCOTT COCA-COLA & THE SOCHI OLYMPICS!!!

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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, January 25, 2014

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As the work week ends, the weekend begins. Saturday’s Headlines Du Jour is the culmination of 24 hours of headline-collecting and Not Now Silly’s keen eye for news.

HEADLINE DU JOUR:

John Boehner: Sometimes I’m ‘Gestapo’

YOUNG AT HEART:

Debunked: The Top 10 Stupid Arguments in Neil Young Debate

INCOME INEQUALITY:

The obscene lifestyles of
the new global super-rich

On eve of the State of the
Union address, a look
at income inequality

EDITORIAL DU JOUR:

There’s no shame in politics, and that’s the problem

IN LGBT NEWS:

The Truth About Outing
And why it’s the best thing that
ever happened to Aaron Schock

THEY GET THE COALMINE AND THE PEOPLE OF WEST VIRGINIA GET THE SHAFT:

How the Coal Industry Impoverishes West Virginia
The recent chemical spill is the latest chapter in a very old story: total capitulation to industry by state officials.

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

Karl Rove’s “behemoth” targeted: How
his plan to skirt the law could backfire

SCIENCE FICTION OR SCIENCE FACT? OR MOVIE OF THE WEEK?

Abandoned Cruise Ship Full of Starving Rats Headed For Land

I’D LIKE TO TEACH THE WORLD TO SING IN PERFECT HARMONY:

Coke defends arrest of gay Russian human rights advocate

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

$700M rescue bid
fuels fallout fears
Many fret saving DIA, city pensions
by private foundations, state may
hurt other nonprofits, set precedents

MEGYN KELLY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Megyn Kelly Bursts Out Laughing While Talking About Bursting Toilets

ABLOW JOB IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Colbert Mocks Fox News’ Keith
Ablow Over Ridiculous Theory

HUCKLEBERRY HOUND IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Huckabee: Hey, Fox News Viewers
Didn’t Mind My Libido Talk

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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, January 22, 2014

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It’s another day, which means another series of interviews to hire some brand new headline-collecting interns. It’s hard doing all this headline-collecting all by myself. Meanwhile, here’s today’s Headlines Du Jour.


THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

Republican House Candidate Calls
For President Obama To Be
Executed for War Crimes


WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE:


TODAY’S EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

BREAKING: Homeland Security Agents Rip Prescription Google Glasses Off Moviegoer’s Face


NEWS YOU CAN USE:

The 10 strangest musical instruments

DRUNKEN STUPOUR CORNER:

Rob Ford admits to drinking as
rambling video appears on YouTube

23 things to know from 5,005
pages of Rob Ford aides’ emails


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

North Carolina school rewards Black student with a confederate hat

Arizona State Frat Suspended For Throwing ‘MLK Black Party’

Don Lemon, Marc Lamont
Hill Clash with GOP
Strategist over Whether
Obama ‘Played the Race Card’

King Ended the Reign of Terror So Now It’s Time For the Truth About White Privilege

WaPo Columnist Rips Racist Reaction to Richard
Sherman: ‘Plantation Politics’ ‘Permeates’ Society

County GOP Explains MLK Gun Raffle: We’re All ‘Slaves,’ Really


FREE THE WEED!!!

Bill To Legalize Marijuana Introduced In Oklahoma

Reefer Madness: Chris Matthews Joins Chorus of Beltway Blowhards Scared of Weed


FREE THE BRIDGE WEED!!!

NJ Governor Christie: We Will End the Failed War on Drugs


BATS NO LONGER IN THE BELFREY:

Why 100,000 Dead Bats Fell From The Sky In Australia


GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

South Carolina Senate Candidate
Suggests Teachers Should Be Able
To Carry Machine Guns In School


MEGYN KELLY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Megyn Kelly Confronts Weiner: How
Could You ‘Be That Cocky’ on TV
When You Were… You Know…

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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, January 11, 2014

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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

Walker, Kasich, Snyder: These big-name governors embraced dark
money to push their agendas. They could pay for it in 2014.

Is Scott Walker next?

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:

And, introducing Maureen O’Hara:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, January 10, 2014

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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

TODAY IN HEALTH CARE:

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 ► Tuesday, January 7, 2014

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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:

Eurythmics reunite for Grammys tribute to the Beatles that will also include John Mayer and Keith Urban

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