A Mr. Richard Feder, famously from Fort Lee, N.J., has a question about the rather infamous closings of lanes to the George Washington Bridge. “What were they thinking?” he asked on Friday. “What the hell were they thinking?” More than 30 years ago, Mr. Feder, 64, was perhaps Fort Lee’s best-known resident, celebrated by a recurring character played by Gilda Radner on “Saturday Night Live.” The character, Roseanne Roseannadanna, would begin her segment on “Weekend Update” by saying , “A Mr. Richard Feder from Fort Lee, N.J., writes in and says …” Mr. Feder did not write any letters. […]

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After the Omaha Police Association posted this video of a toddler cursing and getting cursed at in order to train other officers in “the terrible cycle of violence and thuggery” Omaha police decided to take the child into custody.

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 I remember reading a news report a few years ago about a woman who was in love with a rollercoaster. ‘Objectum sexuality’ is what she called it, and it caused her to drive hundreds of miles just to secure herself beneath her lover’s burly safety bar. It was actually a rather sweet tale of forbidden love, a Brideshead Revisited for those with a Season Pass to Six Flags as opposed to a place at Oxford University. Unfortunately, some guy had to go and ruin innocent dalliances with inanimate […]

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 Insane Clown Posse , along with four fans, are suing the Department of Justice and the FBI, demanding that the agencies purge the fan name “Juggalos” from their list of gang members. “Organized crime is by no means part of the Juggalo culture,” reads the complaint, filed this morning in federal court in Detroit.  Check out photos from the 2013 Gathering of the Juggalos The suit stems from the FBI’s National Gang Intelligence Center classification of Juggalos as “a loosely-organized hybrid gang,” one with multiple affiliations. Lawyers for ICP and the ACLU claim that the

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Today is the 50th anniversary of LBJ’s war on poverty, so we’ll be getting a lot of retrospectives. CBPP has a whole series of charts here, and they’re worth a look. Child poverty is way down wince 1963, which is a big win, and elderly poverty is down too, which is a big win for Social Security. But at the risk of being a buzzkill, I want to reprint a chart I put up last month. It answers a simple question: if you count income from all the welfare programs we’ve put in place over the past half century, […]

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By Katie Valentine on January 6, 2014 NY Liquefied Natural Gas Complaints of water contamination in two states have been tied to oil or gas drilling, according to an Associated Press investigation. The AP looked at well water contamination complaints in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Texas and found that two states — West Virginia and Pennsylvania — had linked some complaints to fracking. In Pennsylvania, since 2005, more than 100 well-water contamination complaints have been confirmed, meaning that the well water in […]

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