TIME: It is also an issue that requires bravery — bravery of the sort Obama demonstrated when he pressed on with health care, even after Scott Brown’s victory. As he put it last night, “Time and again, the path forward [to energy innovation] has been blocked — not only by oil-industry lobbyists but also by a lack of political courage and candor.” Still, Obama himself didn’t show much of either. He never mentioned the phrases climate change or global warming. While he praised the House of Representatives for passing an “energy and climate bill” last year, he made no mention […]
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: With A.P. Ticker
A.P. reports on dope in Delaware and everywhere, the on-camera meltdown of a NC senator, the death of his buddy Jimmy Dean, World Cup fever, and Pete Rose’s corked bat.
Perez Hilton Running Scared Over Miley Beaver Shot
SALON: Perez Hilton has built a thriving career out of offensive behavior: He’s called countless female celebrities bitches, hos, whores and sluts, and covered their faces in jizz using Microsoft Paint. But these things merely violate good taste — not federal child porn law that carries a mandatory sentence of 15 years. The same cannot be said for his latest shocker: tweeting a link to an alleged upskirt photo of a pantyless 17-year-old Miley Cyrus. The facts as we know them: On Sunday, Hilton’s Twitter account sent out the following message: “If you are easily offended, do NOT click here […]
BREAKING: New Jersey To Delay Medical Mary Jane
BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY New Jersey has hit a speed bump on the road to medical marijuana. The Christie administration has been asking for more time to implement the law and PW has learned that the bill’s chief sponsor, State Senator Nicholas Scutari, is going to give it to them. As you may recall, back in January New Jersey became the 14th state in the union to pass medical marijuana legislation. A last minute amendment to the legislation — part of a trade-off that made the law more restrictive in terms of who qualifies to receive medical marijuana […]
SUBSTANTIATED RUMOR: Philly Mag To Publish Juicy Story About Rendell’s Extramarital Affairs
[Photo by TED ADAMS] We have been hearing talk that the July issue of Philadelphia Magazine, which hits newsstands next Friday, will feature a story about the extramarital affairs of Governor Ed Rendell. We called up Philly Mag Editor Larry Platt and asked him to confirm or deny and he said the following: “We do have a story on the governor in the July issue, but beyond that I don’t discuss the content of stories before they are published.” Hmmm. We will let you, dear reader, decide how much to read between the lines, but as a wise man once […]
THE PEACE CORPS DIARIES: Letter From Paraguay
BY ST. JOHN BARNED-SMITH One of the cool things about living in Paraguay is that there aren’t any neat packages of chicken thighs in aisle six. There is just clucking, feathered creatures running around, and if you want to eat one, you have to catch, kill, pluck, clean and him first. In my community, people mostly eat beef. However, about once a week, families here will slaughter one of their chickens and prepare a dish called tallarin (noodles) or mbori mbori (balls of corn meal) in broth, or some other kind of soup. And in Potrero Pucu, we use the […]
Sausage King & Country Singer Jimmy Dean Dead At 81
NEW YORK TIMES: Mr. Dean followed two separate paths to celebrity. For the generations that came to television consciousness after 1970, Mr. Dean, who grew up on a farm in West Texas, was the face and the voice of an eponymous brand of breakfast sausage, a product of the Jimmy Dean Meat Company, which he started in 1969. In dozens of commercials that were broadcast for more than 30 years — Sara Lee bought the company in 1984 but kept Mr. Dean as a spokesman until 2003 — he represented the product as a wholesome family food, nutritious and delicious, […]
DOCUMENT DUMP: FBI Releases Ted Kennedy’s File
NEW YORK TIMES: Senator Kennedy once wrote to the Los Angeles district attorney, asking him not to seek the death penalty for Sirhan B. Sirhan, who assassinated his brother, Robert F. Kennedy. One F.B.I. file suggests that the feeling was not mutual. It recounts the unsubstantiated claims of an inmate who served prison time with Mr. Sirhan, and who said that Mr. Sirhan tried to hire him to kill Senator Kennedy. “He advised during this time subject offered him one million dollars and a car in exchange for killing Senator Kennedy,” according to the file. Another file dealt with character […]
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: Life Lessons
With your life coach, A.P. Ticker.
WORTH REPEATING: Confessions Of A Hoarder
WASHINGTON POST: My parents recall that my teenage room was such a disaster, the piles of clothes and old newspapers so high, that our dog Ozzie considered it equivalent to the back yard and used it accordingly. Ozzie was clever enough to open closed doors, so my parents installed a chain lock on the outside. The chain naturally prompted questions from visitors, the most tactful being: “Why are you locking your son away?” Nearly 20 years later, my high school girlfriend cannot shake the memory of being surrounded by my piles. “I remember your room smelling so bad I would […]
Prescription Heroin Even Better Than The Real Thing?
BY JEFF DEENEY FOR THE DAILY BEAST Why can’t America seem to kick its heroin habit? According to a new study, it might be because we’re not giving addicts exactly what they want: heroin, in pure, prescription form. Reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, the study provided either methadone or prescription heroin to a group of addicts who used heroin daily. Six months later, more than two-thirds of the participants who had been given prescription heroin were staying off the street version of the drug. Less than a third of the methadone group had the same success. The […]