Why Does MLB Player Hate America?

Gil Meche is really rich. The 32-year-old earned more than $40 million pitching for the Kansas City Royals since 2007 and just did the unthinkable by announcing that he was retiring instead of sitting on the bench injured for another year and earning $12 million. He’s defying the American spirit as a way to cope with the guilt of being paid way too much, explaining: “Once I started to realize I wasn’t earning my money, I felt bad. I was making a crazy amount of money for not even pitching.” Hero or villain?

Attempted Mass Suicide at a Russian Prison

Over the weekend, 65 prisoners in Russia’s Southern Irkutsk Region prison simultaneously slit their wrists and gored their stomachs in protest after being threatened with a group transfer to СИЗО-1, a type of central isolator alike to the one Voina artist Oleg Vorotnikov is awaiting trial for a protest action. Read more »

Upgrading Local Airports Will Cost Billions

$15 billi. That’s what it would cost to expand Kennedy and Newark airports according to a new report funded by Port Authority. The study also claimed it is expected to piss off environmentalists at the local, state and national level as the expansion plan would involve “dumping fill” into Jamaica Bay, which as the New York Times notes, is “federally protected.”

Snow Gives NYC Students Some Mental Relief

It’s not often that the NYC school system declares a snow day, its only happened seven times since 1978, but after last night’s dumping of up to 19 inches, Chancellor Cathleen Black did just that. Tens of thousands of students were given the day off and won’t have to attend classes or more importantly, take the Regents Exam… until June. Lucky them.

Glenn Beck Fires Coded Shots at Co-Op City

The TV host who belongs in Bellevue, but Fox News employs instead, equated Co-Op City in the Bronx with the failures of socialism reports the Daily News. “Once you say there’s a place where everyone’s life is interchangeable, everyone then has exactly the same stuff, which sounds like these beautiful complexes,” said Glenn Beck during his show on Tuesday. Read more »

Rand Paul Gets Creative With Budgeting

U.S. Senator Rand Paul (TP-KY) made a budget that’s kind of like a not-budget, because it doesn’t set aside any money for a lot of things that the government usually does, and also shuts down much of the government, actually.
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