August 20, 2013 Archive August 2013
No, "The Butler" is not "Forrest Gump"
Ohio EPA head says he was forced out by Big Coal
Conservative media won't stop trolling transgender people
J.J. Abrams releases trailer for mystery project
Sequester leads to massive cuts for Head Start
Study: The more sex you have, the more money you make
Your Netflix habit uses more energy than your fridge
"Bob's Burgers" is the most sex-positive show on TV
5 strangely newsy moments on fictional TV
Confessions of a Harlem gentrifier
"Indescribably insane”: A public school system from hell
The right gets confused by its own lie
Beloit College is trolling us all
Memo to police: No, you're not making us feel safe!
"I'm not a terrorist: I'm eight years old, and that's my science project"
Starving artist sells Detroit, one statue at a time
Conservative death panels? The right's bad healthcare idea
State lawmaker launches investigation into "crisis pregnancy centers"
Latest wave of draconian anti-choice laws are dying off in court
Massive SWAT team raid destroys organic farm
Gulf fisheries may have been more contaminated than was thought
Obama makes a push to revive Dodd-Frank
Federal judge OKs force-feeding of California prisoners
Cruz renounces Canadian citizenship
Oklahoma teens kill baseball player because they "were bored"
The Fukushima leak is officially out of control
Bob Filner in talks to settle sexual harassment suit
Ted Cruz open to impeaching Obama: It's a "good question"
Scalia: "It's not up to the courts to invent new minorities"
Law used to detain David Miranda frequently targets Muslims
States jockey to host domestic drones
GOP prepares to self-destruct over nonsense
Writer Elmore Leonard dead at 87
GOP racism of 2009: Still alive and well
Fracking blamed for over 100 earthquakes in Ohio
Maria Sharapova to change name to Sugarpova
Miranda threatens legal action over detention, confiscation
Grunwald vs. Greenwald: Who's the "activist" journalist, now?
$75 for ice cubes. And other absurd things rich people are blowing their cash on
The Guardian receives shadowy threats from the U.K. Government
Fox Nation Twitter feed is basically a repository for images of celebrity cleavage
Disney is trying to win over gamers
Rio plans to permanently shame litterers
DeMint: Replace GOPers who won't defund Obamacare
The Six-Day War led to Egypt's bloody predicament
How Olivia Wilde reinvented herself
Meet the cops who give Doritos to potheads!
Lily Tomlin's very long engagement
The Tesla Model S literally couldn't be safer
A cruel letter brings out the trolls
Carried interest reform is a no-brainer
When being lost in translation kills
Freelance nation: When good jobs turn to bad
Immigration reform just got punched in the gut
Oil Exec: Oklahoma is "haunted" by wind turbines