A spokesperson for the Parks Department would like to assure everyone that snowboarding in the city’s parks is not illegal, the rangers were just being stupid. |Gothamist|
Hey, are you looking for a way to make your relationship implode? Do you have an iPhone? Do you have 99 cents to spare for an app download called iTrust? Well, guess what? You’re in business! Read more »
For all the selfless do-gooding we’ve seen from our country’s response to the earthquake tragedy, there is one American poised to become the Tila Tequila of Haiti courtesy of his shameless Twitter updates. Let’s see what Luke Renner aka @FireSideInt has been up to in the past few days. Read more »
Five health care facilities accused of flushing perfectly good prescription pills and potentially contaminating New York City’s water supply with other drug waste, will stop the practice under a settlement reached with Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Depending on your vice, this is either good or bad news. |Legislative Gazette|
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An investigation by the Washington Post revealed that from 2002 to 2006, the FBI wrongly invoked terrorism to obtain the phone records of thousands of U.S. citizens. When questioned by the paper, FBI general counsel Valerie Caproni admitted that the agency violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act when agents invoked nonexistent emergencies to collect records. I hope they didn’t notice all those calls I made to chat lines after a bad break-up in ’03! |Washington Post|
It is my job, as this copyranter character, to try my hardest to type caustic hatred about every ad ever produced by anybody. Usually, it’s easy. Occasionally, I have to fake it. But sometimes, rarely, I can’t muster much real or synthetic bile. Like with this new French AIDS awareness video
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Last night, outgoing governor Jon Corzine signed a medical weed bill into law, officially making New Jersey the 14th state in the nation to legalize cannabis for medicinal use. It will take about six months to get things rolling (get it?) and there’s at least ten conditions that will qualify patients for a prescription. Do you have what it takes? Read more »
Just when you think the seemingly never-ending late night talk show wars were winding down, along comes Monday night to flare them back up again. So what happened last night? Letterman admitted that he’s “really enjoying” making relentless fun of Leno, Leno said all of this is the network’s fault and Jeff Zucker praised himself. Read more »
After Conan put the Tonight Show up for sale on Craigslist last week, the soon-to-be-fired late night host kicked things off this week with a barrage of insults for NBC and a personal ad on the “Casual Encounters” section. He listed himself as a “Tall, slender redhead available for nighttime recreation.” Email your offers here.
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