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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, January 21, 2014

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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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Headlines Du Jour ► The Martin Luther King Edition

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“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal …

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”


MLK adviser: Students need to push for change

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Urban streets named for MLK still struggle


“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

Is This Any Way to Remember MLK?
Racism is alive and well in America. So why is the new voting rights act so weak?

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

Guam Residents celebrate legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”

Martin Luther King Jr. on Dreams, Love, and Perseverance

“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”

 


On Faith: Martin Luther King Jr.’s struggles can lead way for Obama as he faces difficulties

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

‘No shots fired’ day urged to honor Martin Luther King Jr.

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.”

Four ways Martin Luther King Jr. wanted to battle inequality

“The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.”

Editorial: King preached unconditional tolerance

“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”

Railey: What if Dr. King had been white?

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

Letter: Martin Luther King Day sales disgraceful

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, January 18, 2014

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In yesterday’s exciting episode of Headlines Du Jour, I lamented that my headline-collecting robot drones had not shown up. Now I know why. They’ve become supreme overlord to your home appliances. The first two headlines describe the latest adventures of my former-headline-collecting robot drones. In the meantime, I’m taking applications for interns all over again.

Refrigerator Used By Hackers In Cyber Attack
Internet-connected home appliances are infected by a large “botnet” over a two-week period.

Hackers Use Refrigerator, Other Devices to Send 750,000 Spam Emails


SCIENCE IS COMPLICATED:

New study shows chimpanzees capable of communicating
through gestures and pointing to achieve a common goal


FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Fox’s Elisabeth Hasselbeck: Are male-wussifying feminists a national security problem?

Ann Coulter: Fox & Friends Won’t ‘Put on Conservatives Who Can Put Two Sentences Together’

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

 

Houston cops cuff and detain man for an
hour for giving change to homeless person


FREE THE WEED!!!

Harry Reid signals support for
medical marijuana use


FREE THE WEED HYSTERIA!!!

Nancy Grace: People on pot shoot
each other, strangle each other,
and kill whole families


FROM OUTER SPACE:

On Mars, A Rock Appears
Where There Wasn’t One Before


THE COMPANY HE KEEPS:

‘Hannity’ regular Erik Rush calls for military coup against Obama


OSCAR WORTHY!!!

’20 Feet From Stardom’ Gets Its Turn in Oscars’ Spotlight
How legendary record man Gil Friesen’s documentary about backup singers wowed the film world


OSCAR WORTHY???

‘MITT’: Five Big Revelations About Romney In The New Documentary

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, January 17, 2014

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Chris Christie in the headlines long
before he was NJ Governor.

Uh oh! My headline-collecting robot drones did not show up for the start of their shift. With no time left to hire interns, I had to go back to collecting the headlines by hand. While you read today’s Headlines Du Jour, I’ll ponder what this means.

NATURE IS COMPLICATED:

13-year-old inventor cracks
the secret of trees to
revolutionize solar energy


SCIENCE IS COMPLICATED:

Google developing smart contact lens


RELIGION CORNER:

Texas Public Schools Are Teaching Creationism
 


FREE THE WEED!!!

Florida Medical Marijuana
Supporters Claim Victory
Backers of medical marijuana constitutional amendment
have collected more than 1.1 million signatures

New Hampshire governor promises to
kill ‘historic’ marijuana legalization bill

‘I like weed, and I’m a good person’: Pot smokers fight stereotypes


TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

Tea Party Candidate’s Ad Touts His
‘Sexy’ Wife And Large Testicles


WHEN YOU GOT TO GO, YOU GOT TO GO:

Final Exit: Group That Helps Suffering People Commit Suicide Is Active in Florida


STILL WORST SHOW SINCE MY MOTHER THE CAR:

Howard Stern: Fox’s The Five
Is ‘My Favorite TV Show’

◄ ◄ ◄ From the Not Now Silly Archives ► ► ►
The Five Is Simply Bad Tee Vee
— An Aunty Em Review —


ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

D.C. officer charged with prostituting teens
had been investigated as early as 2011, police


THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH:

Walt Disney’s Grandniece
Agrees With Meryl Streep:
He Was ‘Racist’


FOX NEWS IN THE NEWS:

Fox News host says Americans don’t know their history, flubs history of Boston Tea Party


IN OUTER SPACE:

Spanish researchers discover the first
black hole orbiting a “spinning” star

Pluto Has a Fifth Moon,
Hubble Telescope Reveals

VIDEO DU JOUR:


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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, January 16, 2014

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January is half done. So far the headline-collecting robot drones have been collecting headlines without incident. There have been no problems and, more importantly, they’ve stopped plotting against me. I think. No matter, it’s time to read today’s Headlines Du Jour.

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Target: Me
I spent the last 37 years writing about guns.
Then my career as a firearms journalist came to an abrupt end.

WHEN BLOGGERS ARE OUTLAWED, ONLY
OUTLAWS WILL PUBLISH NOT NOW SILLY:

Jailing of an Alabama blogger:
It’s worse than we thought


CLIMATE CHANGE IS COMPLICATED:

Key species of algae reveals effects
of climate change over time


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

Ex-KKK grand wizard says ‘Hollywood-style Nazis’ ruined his white supremacist enclave


ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Surveillance video shows Dallas senior corporal shooting teen


FOR THOSE WHO DIG ARCHEOLOGY:

New fossils shed light
on the origins of lions,
and tigers, and bears


EARTH IS COMPLICATED:

Massive Hole Discovered Under Antarctica, Bigger Than The Grand Canyon


FREE THE WEED!!!

After Lengthy Floor Debate,
New Hampshire General Assembly
Approves Marijuana Legalization
The historic vote makes the New Hampshire
House the first state legislative chamber to
ever vote in favor of regulating cannabis.

Pharmacists ask to be allowed
to run pot dispensaries


NEWS FROM OUTER SPACE:

Astrophysics: The heart of darkness
The supermassive black holes that lie at the
centre of every large galaxy are full of mysteries.
But astronomers are finally getting a clear look.


VIDEO DU JOUR:


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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, January 15, 2014

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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


VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, January 14, 2014

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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


VIDEO DU JOUR:


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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, January 13, 2014

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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?

Australia goes off the scale: Meteorologists create new colour
chart for record 54°C heatwave as wildfires blaze across bush

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’

In new biography, Roger Ailes dumps on conservative darlings Gov. Chris Christie, Mitt Romney, Sean Hannity and more

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:

Why Conservatives’ Old Divide-and-Conquer Strategy — Setting Working Class Against the Poor — Is Backfiring

FREE THE WEED!!!

2014 poised to go to pot

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

VIDEO DU JOUR:


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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, January 12, 2014

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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

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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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