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Slate Magazine's Seth Stevenson discusses the most hated television ads, as submitted by regular readers of his feature, Ad Report Card.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 12/10/2007 by SecondFloor | (2)
Slate iconoclast Christopher Hitchens makes the case for scrapping the CIA and starting from scratch.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 12/11/2007 by SecondFloor | (1)
Bill Clinton plus Robots plus Sister Souljah equals FUN!
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 12/11/2007 by SecondFloor | (0)
Imprisoned star's teammates show their support during game Monday
He knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you're awake -- but who's watching HIM? Turns out that the North American Aerospace Defense Command has had a bead on the jolly old elf for more than 50 years. This year, Google has joined the hunt.
For these team owners, it’s more than a game
The oddsmakers have a pretty good track record at calling elections, and, although it's early, the bookmakers are currently making book on Hillary Clinton at 2/1. Giuliani follows, at 5/2 ... nobody else is even close.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 2/17/2008 by davepl | (7)
Pro football legend Mike Ditka has announced that he's dissolving his charity, the Hall of Fame Assistance Trust. Turns out that running a charity is a little bit harder than fielding a football team.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 12/12/2007 by SecondFloor | (1)
What do you get when you mix a Speak'n'Spell, a talking Elmo doll, and a nerd with too much time on his hands. This, that's what!
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 12/12/2007 by SecondFloor | (2)
A sculpture by French artist Paul Gauguin which has drawn crowds to a Chicago museum for the past decade is a fake.
Clemens, Pettitte, Bonds, Tejada in 'roid report: Mitchell probe implicates several stars; Selig vows action.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 12/13/2007 by SecondFloor | (1)
Archbishop Chaput says new film is not only anti-religious, but a bad movie, to-boot.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 12/13/2007 by jjmckay | (2)
This is the full, original report by George Mitchell, in pdf format.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 12/14/2007 by SecondFloor | (1)
Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman lists his top Bigfoot-related stories from the past year.
A law professor says that a new Facebook and Blockbuster feature showing movie rental preferences likely violates a 1998 privacy law.
NFL star QB and convicted dogfighter Michael Vick has penned a handwritten apology to the judge in his case, which has just shown up on The Smoking Gun. Also of interest: a letter of support from George Foreman.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 1/5/2008 by allenn | (1)
Time Magazine's Michael Kinsley says that if we're to have a useful discussion about illegal immigration, we need to be honest with ourselves: the debate isn't about illegals -- it's about immigration.
If you were wondering just how bad the flooding was in Western Washington was earlier this month, just check out these pictures!
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 12/14/2007 by LorenS | (2)
USA Today's Tom Krattenmaker says write that Christmas "is rooted in grand and inspiring purposes that have little to do with culture wars or a red-nosed reindeer — and even less with crass commercialism."
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 12/17/2007 by SecondFloor | (1)
In a recent episodes of The Simpsons, Homer is pushed off of a bridge, and sees his life pass before his eyes in a most artful way.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 12/18/2007 by SecondFloor | (2)
After sending soldiers about 1.5 miles into the north of the the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, Turkey has withdrawn troops for now.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 12/18/2007 by SecondFloor | (1)
A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to appear in court Friday to answer allegations that it defied his demand to preserve evidence by destroying interrogation videos.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 12/18/2007 by jeffdav | (2)
... Vladimir Putin? Time names the Russian president as the most important newsmaker of 2007.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 12/19/2007 by SecondFloor | (5)
No news hook here -- it's just that with "Jersey Boys" out on tour right now, you might enjoy this strange mashup of The Four Season's "Beggin'".
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 3/11/2008 by LorenS | (2)
Who knew these types of businesses could go broke?
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 1/4/2008 by SecondFloor | (0)
Jack Welch is the retired chairman and CEO of General Electric who took the company during his 23-year tenure from being worth about $14 billion to about $410 billion by really MANAGING the business and concentrating on creative use of capital.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 10/9/2008 by glendam | (3)
Congress has passed, and President Bush has signed, a historic and expensive bailout of Wall Street financial firms.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 10/4/2008 by ademers1980 | (4)
Despite what the Bloomberg news service might have been reporting, Steve Jobs is still very much among us.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 8/28/2008 by glendam | (2)
Interesting!
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 7/22/2008 by ademers1980 | (2)
No trip to Sammamish would be complete without a visit to the Pine Lake Ale House.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 6/27/2008 by mattb | (2)
It can do everything your Garmin can do ... plus take a call.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 6/10/2008 by SecondFloor | (0)
Trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. still blames Kent Desormeaux for Big Brown's stunning last-place finish in the Belmont Stakes, but he wouldn't object to the jockey riding the horse in his next race.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 6/10/2008 by SecondFloor | (1)
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, lists 23 specific incidents of alleged sexual harassment and 34 specific incidents of alleged racial and gender discrimination
An overwhelming favorite to win the series, the Western Conference champions haven't shown up yet.
The recent gay marriage ruling could give a big, sudden boost to California's sputtering economy.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 6/11/2008 by bobby | (2)
Barack Obama is considering former top military leaders among his possible running mates, according to senators who met Tuesday with the Democratic presidential candidate's vice presidential vetting team.
Saved by Senate Republicans, big oil companies dodged an attempt Tuesday to slap them with a windfall profits tax and take away billions of dollars in tax breaks in response to the record gasoline prices that have the nation fuming.
A Sudanese jetliner landed in a thunderstorm and veered off the runway late Tuesday, bursting into flames and killing dozens of people, Sudanese officials said.
A new study found that seat belt use declines as body size increases.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 2/11/2008 by SecondFloor | (1)
Nintendo's Wii video game system, whose popularity already extends beyond the teen gaming set, is fast becoming a craze in rehab therapy for patients recovering from strokes, broken bones, surgery and even combat injuries.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 2/12/2008 by obiman | (2)
Surprising new research suggests that even people who develop heart disease or diabetes late in life have a decent shot at reaching the century mark.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 2/12/2008 by LorenS | (1)
Starbucks Corp. and AT&T Inc. will start offering a mix of free and paid wireless Internet service in most of the international coffee retailer's U.S. shops, beginning this spring.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 2/12/2008 by Grizz | (2)
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 2/11/2008 by SecondFloor | (0)
Paul McCartney and Heather Mills returned to court Monday in an attempt to agree on terms for their divorce.
The estate of "Lord of the Rings" creator J.R.R. Tolkien is suing the film studio that released the trilogy based on his books, claiming the company hasn't paid it a penny from the estimated $6 billion the films have grossed worldwide.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 2/13/2008 by allenn | (3)
A back problem has forced Dolly Parton to postpone a concert tour she planned in support of her new CD.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 2/11/2008 by rossv | (2)
A lawyer for John Ritter's family told a jury Monday that he would show doctors caused the actor's death by an improper diagnosis and substandard treatment.
Michael Jackson appeared in a video to thank fans for the success of "Thriller," the landmark record the reclusive singer is marking with a 25th anniversary edition.
Amy Winehouse's successful performance at the Grammys shows the troubled young singer is on the road to recovery, her mother said in an interview to be broadcast Tuesday.
By: SecondFloor | Updated: 2/11/2008 by rossv | (1)
A handful of chip makers showed Monday how a mobile device running Google Inc.'s Android operating system might look.