A ridiculous person named Vincent Peters sued Kanye West in 2010, alleging West had stolen a song Peters had sent the rapper in 2006. The overlap in question came in the chorus of Kanye West's "Stronger," which starts, "N-n-now that that don't kill me / Can only make me stronger."
A deaf preschooler in Grand Island, Nebraska, has been prohibited from signing his own name because school administrators believe the gesture he uses looks too much like a gun.
You know how every once in a while you hear your phone's voicemail greeting and think, "That's weird that someone with a dumb voice that I hate hacked into my phone and re-recorded my voicemail greeting," before realizing that's how you sound to the world?
Robert Wayne Gladden, Jr., a Baltimore-area 15-year-old who allegedly shot a classmate in the back before being tackled by school staff, was charged with attempted murder and assault this morning. But while journalists were working to confirm the shooter's identity yesterday, internet sleuths had already found his Facebook profile — and his eerie last status update, which has been shared over 950 times.
Whatever ugliness might later emanate from the Tampa Bay Times Forum, there's no escaping that, for now, its interior is stunning. The much-mocked array of LED screens, bordered in hardwoods meant meant to evoke America's living room, create a captivating depth of field behind the podium. Textured images split amongst them feel like looking at panels of an American tapestry, which is precisely the intended effect.
REPORTING FROM THE TAMPA CONVENTION CENTER LOBBY—Chaotic jostling is the order of the day here in south central Florida, where veteran Hollywood actor Jon Voight, known for his supporting role in the 1997 Ice Cube vehicle Anaconda, addressed the media in an extemporaneous manner just moments ago, while standing outside of Ballroom "C" in the moderately crowded Tampa Convention Center lobby.
In a masterful bit of Orwellian dissonance, Wisconsin's recall-surviving Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch (R) last week called Rep. Todd Akin's attempt to categorize rape "abhorrent, insulting" and "disgusting," before immediately reversing course and approving of VP nominee Paul Ryan's efforts to do the same.
All of the news on CNN this morning was about Hurricane Isaac. On NBC, too. And Fox News, for the most part. Yes, the storm has already screwed the Republican convention in so very many ways. But here today, in (sunny!) Tampa, as journalists stream into our media holding pen like so many wayward Katrina refugees, comes the final indignity: this pseudoevent threatens to be completely upstaged by a real event.
Magazine de Fuera de Serie, a Spanish periodical, has caused quite a stir with its decision to feature artwork depicting Michelle Obama as semi-nude African slave on the cover of its latest issue.
Though storms may come and mouths may run, rest assured, America: there is enough Ranch dressing in place, in easily accessed pump dispensers, to serve all of this great nation's delegates at the 2012 Republican National Convention.
Perpetual badass Samuel L. Jackson ruffled a few Twitter feathers yesterday when he took to the social networking site to vent his frustration about Tropical Storm Isaac's New Orleans-bound track.
Regular use of marijuana during adolescence can lead to irreversible IQ loss, findings from a long-range study suggest.
