When Bolivian President Evo Morales' plane was rerouted last night on the suspicion that it was carrying NSA leaker Edward Snowden out of Russia, outraged, frantic South American leaders spent the evening on the phone in an attempt to seek justice.
The State Department runs its social media operation like a shady online herbal supplement dealer. From 2011-2013, the State Department spent $630,000 on a ham-fisted social media ad campaign to increase its Facebook fans, according to a new Inspector General. It worked, technically, increasing the number of likes on State Department pages from 100,000 to 2 million. But now they just have hundreds of thousands of random teenage Facebook fans: Good if John Kerry wants to launch a new career as a heartthrob pop singer, but not so useful for international diplomacy
You'd think that if you worked more than 80 hours a week and somebody came to you and said, "Hey buddy, I only want you to work 70 hours a week now," you'd be happy as a clam. Unless you were a long-haul trucker. Never satisfied, these guys.
Accused murderer George Zimmerman's college criminal justice professor was testifying in his trial over Skype today, providing a nice object lesson in why Skype testimony for nationally televised trials is probably not a good idea.
In Gore Verbinski’s two-and-a-half-hour period-blockbuster take on The Lone Ranger, a layer of dust covers everything. The seconds trickle by slowly like sweat on a brow beaten by the deluding sun. Everything is ugly and uncomfortable. The main antagonist, with grime caked on his fuzzy face, appears and reappears during one of multiple runaway train scenes and start shooting and beating and heisting. I never catch his name.
The highly paid money managers of Wall Street often point out that they're not just making money for themselves; they're helping to enrich the retirement funds of millions of state workers, just like you. False! A new study points out that the more Wall Street makes, the less your pension fund makes.
When a six-year-old boy in Alaska climbed onto the roof of his parents' van as it sat in their driveway, he probably wasn't expecting to take a ride along a highway while still atop the van. Unfortunately, for the boy and his parents, that's just what happened, and the boy fell from the van's roof after three miles.
In a nearly three-hour address run on state television this evening, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi responded to millions of protesters in his country who are demanding he resign. Morsi, who was elected one year ago last Sunday, said unequivocally that he will not step down.
Go back to your seat, climate change; according to the FBI, there's a new force to blame for the rapid disappearance of Earth's ice: former Tiffany & Co. executive Ingrid Lederhaas-Okun, who was arrested Tuesday morning at her home in Darien, Connecticut for allegedly stealing more than 165 pieces of Tiffany jewelry before leaving the company in February.
