Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker claims he voted for Reagan, math shows he was only 17 (via Raw Story )
In an interview with the website RightWingNews.com, Wisconsin’s Gov. Scott Walker (R) claimed that as a young Republican, he voted for former President Ronald Reagan. Walker was promoting his new book, Unintimidated: A Governor’s Story and a Nation…
Recently deciphered Viking rune hints at a ‘queer’ playfulness to violent Norse culture (via Raw Story )
A runologist doing doctoral work at the University of Oslo has deciphered one of the runic codes used by Vikings and discovered a message, sent between two men, that reads “Kiss me.” Vikings often wrote in “runic” code on wooden sticks for what…
The Economist explains: Why American elections cost so much (via The Economist)
WITH nearly every American election cycle new spending records are broken. This autumn’s midterm elections are nearly nine months away, but already candidates in Kentucky’s Senate race have raised $19.4m and spent $7.3m. In the 2012 cycle candidates…
And the Oscar nominations go to … (via PBS News Hour)
This year will be Ellen Degeneres second time as host of the Academy Awards. Photo by Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images The announcements are in! This year’s Oscar nominations were released Thursday morning by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences…
By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee on January 11, 2014 At least 22 veterans commit suicide every day and young male veterans under the age of 30 are three times more likely to commit suicide when compared to civilian males in the same age bracket, according to a new briefing released Thursday by the Department of Veteran Affairs. The number of veteran suicides largely remained unchanged between 2009 to 2011, but the number of male veteran between the ages of 18 to 24 who […]
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By Ian Millhiser – Kim Nguyen, a pharmacist from Los Angeles, was out drinking with two male friends last March when she was arrested for being intoxicated and placed in the back of a police car . Six days later she woke up in a hospital with her jaw wired shut and bruises all over her body . What happened in the interim is unclear, although surveillance video suggests that Nguyen either leaped from or fell […]
Click here to view original article Woman Apparently Injured Falling Out Of Cop Car Was Allegedly Sexually Assaulted By Cop