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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, January 19, 2014

Sadly, it happened. As I explained in yesterday’s Headlines Du Jour, my headline-collecting robot drones have become self-aware and are now controlling your refridgerator. That’s why I’ve gone back to collecting all headlines by hand. It’s safer. Having said that, let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour.

FOLLOW THE MONEY:

Va. consultant Boyd Marcus’s case shows how money trumps principles in politics today

A BRIDGE/FLOOD TOO FAR:

Hoboken residents blast Christie
administration amid mayor’s
allegations of strong-arming

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Cops Get So Rough with
Straight A Student That
They Rupture His Testicle

SCIENCE IS COMPLICATED:

‘Bio-Bot’ That Swims Like Sperm Is An ‘Exciting Advance’ In Self-Propelled Biological Robots

MORE ON TROLLEYGATE:

How fed dollars for trolleys in Miami-Dade, local cities spurred civil rights investigation

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

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE:

Wal-Mart Wrote An Entire Guidebook On How To Silence Its Workers

THE EVER-PUZZLING STANDARDS AT FACEBOOK:

Facebook Claims Support For Black Films ‘Violates Community Standards’

THE LATEST NAZI ANALOGY:

WATCH: Senate Candidate Claims IRS is Training “Brown Shirts” to Enforce Obamacare Using Assault Weapons

LGBT NEWS:

Trans Woman Dares Bible-Quoting Councilman to Stone Her to Death

FREE THE WEED:

In Which Nancy Grace Debates Nancy Grace About Marijuana

Harry Reid, ‘We waste a lot of time and law enforcement going after guys smoking marijuana.’

Bill Murray Delivers Incredibly Persuasive Argument in Favor of Recreational Marijuana

Medical marijuana in Oregon: Post-prohibition liquor store in Portland now will deal in a new product

FROM OUTER SPACE:

Why are we fascinated by astronomy?

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Brownback To Rally Christian
‘Freedom Fighters’ To ‘Cause A
Revolution’ And Take Back America

 HYPOCRITE DU JOUR:

Rand Paul: ‘That’s what gave us Jim Crow’

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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, January 18, 2014

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

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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 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

Nod to 1300 Lafayette

WHEN DO WE ADMIT THAT CAPITALISM HAS NOT WORKED?

Bring Back the WPA

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 ► 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:

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

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