15 Percent Would Miss their Baby’s Birth for the Super Bowl

Some thoughts on the whale shark trend and why other weird things trend too.

All day the story of the whale shark has been trending, creeping its way up to the #1 spot on Google Trends, exciting the imagination of aimless internet junkies and regular people around the world. If you’re like…

Prop 8. which took away the right of same-sex couples to marry, is overturned in California, because it is unjust. Also because the phrase ‘domestic partnership’ is too dang wordy for the judges.

A judge ruled today that Prop 8 – the California referendum that took away the right of same-sex…

Karen Handel has just announced her resignation as senior vice president from Komen, following the organization’s unofficial retraction of their decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer and cervical cancer screenings.

In her resignation letter, obtained by the Atlanta…

I once saw an episode of The Steve Wilkos Show in which a guy was accused of (among other things) stealing a tv from his lady friend.  He maintained his innocence in a rather bold fashion.  “I didn’t steal anything,” he said.  “Actually, I was in a different city committing another crime.” …

While government officials held a lavish gala inside Budapest’s Hungarian State Opera House celebrating the new, Fidesz drafted constitution known as The Basic Law, tens of thousands of citizens poured onto glitzy Andrassy Street in protest.

The new “majoritarian” constitution, which…

It’s never too late to end a marriage. Just ask this couple in Rome. Experts will tell you that, once a marriage nears that 80-year mark, it will typically terminate–though not, usually, by way of divorce. But for this man and wife in Rome, aged 99 and 96 respectively, it’s never too late…

Police were called to a McDonald’s in Galesburg, Illinois to arrest a 19-year-old man from El Paso and 21-year-old woman from Galesburg on public indecency charges. The two, who were just released from Knox County Jail, pulled up to the drive-thru window to give in their order completely…