“Rotten Tomatoes” For Books
MentalFloss: Ever finished a mediocre novel, and wished you’d been warned to steer clear of it? To save your time, literary news website Literary Hub created a new criticism aggregator called [Read More]
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Dormant black hole ‘awakens’ to devour star
BP: PARIS – Scientists reported Wednesday that they witnessed in unprecedented detail a star being ripped to shreds and devoured by a dormant supermassive black hole. The celestial feeding frenzy [Read More]
How Lizzie Borden Spent Her Life After Being Acquitted
MentalFloss: Everyone knows that Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks—and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41. That old jump [Read More]
Celebrate National Take Your Dog to Work Day, Friday
KPLR11: ST. LOUIS, MO (KPLR) – National take your dog to work day is this Friday, June 24 and the Humane Society of Missouri encourages you to celebrate the special event with [Read More]
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert reports to prison
HC: Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has surrendered to a Minnesota federal prison hospital, authorities confirmed Wednesday. Hastert began serving his 15-month sentence at the Federal Medical Center in [Read More]
House Dems stage sit-in protest in dispute over gun control
FOX– WASHINGTON – Rebellious Democrats disrupted the House’s legislative work on Wednesday, staging a sit-in on the House floor and refusing to leave until they secured a vote on gun [Read More]
Senate blocks FBI access to online data without warrant
HC: The Senate on Wednesday blocked an expansion of the government’s power to investigate suspected terrorists, a victory for civil libertarians and privacy advocates emboldened after a National Security Agency [Read More]
TX Judge accused of hatching secret deal with red light camera company
FOX: A Texas judge arrested for making a secret deal committing his county to a 10-year contract with a red-light camera company was suspended Tuesday for allegedly blowing right past [Read More]
Canada: Ax-throwing club wants a liquor license
FOX: Organizers of a special ax-throwing league in Canada say they’d like to make the experience even more fun — by getting a license to serve alcohol. As the Toronto [Read More]
Muslim former FBI agent who refused to wiretap fellow Muslims now Homeland Security Adviser
jihadwatch: Back in 2002, Gamal Abdel-Hafiz was in the FBI, and refused to conduct a secret recording of a Muslim suspect. He said: “a Muslim doesn’t record another Muslim.” This [Read More]
Revolt by Security Personnel May Define Hillary as the Weak Candidate
Observer: Good news: America still has federal employees who will risk their careers to express profound disagreement with major policy errors. 51 dissident State Department Foreign Service Officers (FSOs), the [Read More]
Homeland Security employee caught with gun, knife at agency headquarters, officials say
Fox: WASHINGTON – Federal prosecutors are investigating whether a Department of Homeland Security employee with top-secret clearance was planning an attack at the agency’s Washington headquarters when he entered the [Read More]
Tests From Microsoft Show How Chrome Drains Your Battery
MentalFloss: More people surf the web with Google Chrome than any other browser. A recent report showed that nearly 42 percent of desktop users opt for it—more than Internet Explorer [Read More]
A bounce house goes airborne
FOX: NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. – No one was inside an inflatable bounce house when a strong wind gust sent it flying into a western New York electric power transmission tower [Read More]
Actress carried off plane on stretcher after weird outburst
FOX: Selma Blair was reportedly removed from a Delta Airlines flight Monday following a strange outburst. TMZ reports the actress was flying from Cancun, Mexico to LAX with her son Arthur, [Read More]