N.C. Voting Machines Changed Democratic Votes to Republican Ones

Adam Weinstein · 11/03/14 12:47PM

At least two electronic voting machines in a North Carolina county have been taken out of service after early voters reported that the machines repeatedly registered their Democratic choices as Republican votes in Sen. Kay Hagan's contentious reelection bid.

U.S.-Supported Rebels in Syria Just Got Their Asses Kicked by Jihadis

Adam Weinstein · 11/03/14 10:18AM

The Free Syrian Army, a moderate militia being trained and equipped by the Obama administration in hopes that it could defeat both ISIS and Syria's secular dictator, was routed by Al Qaeda allies over the weekend, with many of its men and weapons being taken over for the jihadi cause.

Satanists Made a Coloring Book for Public Schoolkids, and It's Not Bad

Adam Weinstein · 10/31/14 11:40AM

Just in time for Halloween, the Satanic Temple is pushing Orlando-area public schools to distribute a Beelzebub-oriented coloring book to the kiddies, who already get Bibles from a local megachurch and conservative lobby group. The crazy thing is, the Satanists have made a pretty decent coloring book.

GOP Rallies Florida Voters by Calling Campus Rape Culture a "Lie"

Adam Weinstein · 10/30/14 10:30AM

Florida Republicans organized a get-out-the-vote rally in Sarasota Tuesday night to help tip a tight governor's race in conservative Rick Scott's favor. First, the 700 ralliers heard from Bobby Jindal. Then, they applauded a right-wing radio host who called rape culture "nonsense" from "the feminist left."

These Ice Cubes Are Too Big

Adam Weinstein · 10/29/14 03:56PM

America is stricken with persistent malaise, if not terminal decline. Wages and savings are flat, seas and temperatures are rising, and political acrimony is choking humanity like a splinter of chicken bone wedged in a pound mutt's bronchi. And these "hipster ice cubes" are just too goddamned big.

Dog Comes Home Chewing on a Human Bone

Adam Weinstein · 10/29/14 10:10AM

Investigators in Atlanta are trying to determine the identity of a person whose remains were discovered in a neighborhood after a resident's dog came back to his house gnawing on a bone from a human body.

Packers Fan Tries Repeatedly to Shoot Dog, Hits Jeep and House Instead

Adam Weinstein · 10/28/14 02:38PM

A Green Bay man with an AR-15 was arraigned on a felony charge in his Packers jersey after he tried to "defend his property" from a dog, missing it with eight close-range shots from the highly accurate rifle in broad daylight and instead peppering his neighbors' property with hot rounds.

Is Giovanni Ribisi's Family Quitting Scientology?

Adam Weinstein · 10/28/14 01:40PM

Scientology is like Saudi Arabia: a bizarrely cloistered theocracy with hundreds of celebrity royals who mention the faith in passing while flitting between gauche resorts and showing off crazy bling. But what does it mean when royals start ditching said bling in a trash heap on L.A.'s Wilshire Boulevard?

Christie Hopes Healthy Nurse He Quarantined Finds "Time to Reflect"

Adam Weinstein · 10/27/14 03:50PM

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, whose health officials held an Ebola-free nurse from Maine in quarantine against her will after she arrived from Africa on Friday, told media at a campaign stop in Florida that "when she has time to reflect, she'll understand" why she was deprived of her freedom in the Garden State.

Vets' PTSD Counseling Was Canceled for "Mental Illness Awareness Week"

Adam Weinstein · 10/27/14 01:15PM

A former Gitmo military policewoman who headed into her local VA clinic earlier this month for a regular appointment to cope with her PTSD learned that her and other vets' sessions been canceled, because the staff was attending an inspirational speech for Mental Illness Awareness Week.

Ebola Vaccine Finally Getting Tested Because Americans Freaked Out

Adam Weinstein · 10/24/14 10:18AM

There is an Ebola vaccine that is 100 percent effective on monkeys. It has sat on a shelf, untested and unavailable to humans, for nearly a decade, while thousands of Africans died of the virus, because drug research is expensive and who's gonna pay Big Pharma for all that risk? Dying Africans? It's market economics, people.