Ella Mae may only be 21 months old and not really versed in American history or fluent in the English language, but that hardly stops her from singing adorably along to Elvis Presley's popular take on Mickey Newbury's "An American Trilogy."
Leah Remini, the King of Queens star who noisily and publicly left Scientology after three decades of membership over disagreements with church leader David Miscavige, filed a missing person report for his wife Shelly who supposedly hasn't been seen in public in six years. The LAPD has taken the report and "ruled as unfounded." The missing person case is closed.
If you get lost in the woods while making meth in the the middle of the night, it's probably not the best idea to call the police for help. And if you do call the cops, you probably shouldn't tell them that you, along with your two friends, were out hunting for ghosts. Alas, this is just what a man in North Carolina decided to do earlier this week, a decision that landed him and his two meth-making/ghost-hunting partners in jail.
You'd think an undercover police officer embedded in the protest scene in Washington DC would know enough not to have an active presence on social media. Fortunately for DC-area protesters, veteran police officer Nicole Rizzi, who allegedly worked undercover for at least three years in the city's protest scene, was the author of a (now-deleted) Twitter account as well as two popular blogs, all of which discussed her police work.
Karen Black, the actress best known for her work in films like Easy Rider, Nashville, and Five Easy Pieces, for which she received an Oscar nod, died today after a long battle with cancer. In March it was reported that Black had resorted to crowdfunding in order to pay for her final treatments. She was 74.
Slide away the protective cover and gaze straight into the writhing hive mind with this real-time visualizer/audio-whateverer of Wikipedia edits. Soft synthesized chimes (for additions) and strings (for deletions) soothe the ear while the names of the subjects flicker in and out to agitate the eye: List of 2 Broke Girls episodes ... Estonia National Football Team ... Pamela Geller ... Marine (Military) ... Pamela Geller ... Wormole ... Lithium ... Pamela Geller ... Timeline of Baltimore history ... It's like a Snapchat session with the entirety of human knowledge.
Everybody loves The Conjuring.
Up until the Reagan years, workers in the finance sector of the economy were paid, on average, pretty close to what workers in most other industries were paid. That's all changed over the past 30 years. Do employees of the financial sector deserve to be paid so much more than most other workers? No.
Lavabit, an extra-secure email service reportedly used by Edward Snowden, has suspended operations today via an accusatory memo on its homepage: "I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit."
Today the Times got a quick look at the tax returns of Eliot Spitzer, the rich, disgraced former governor of New York who is now running for comptroller of New York City. Following pressure from his main opponent, the Lena Dunham-endorsed Scott Stringer, Spitzer invited a Times reporter to inspect the last two years of his and his wife's tax returns.
It looks like the careers of several unknown stand-up comedians are about to really take off. Get it?
