Barack Obama faced Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes. Two months in to his presidency, Obama talked about closing Gitmo, deflected recent criticism from Dick Cheney and described sending more troops to Afghanistan as the hardest decision he’s had to make.
Marine biologist Nicholas Hughes committed suicide 46 years after his mother, Sylvia Plath, took her own life.
Floppy-haired Disney sell-outs the Jonas Brothers hosed down willing teenage girls with their white foam cannons. Any act by the Jonas Bros. that causes any person to get wet should be illegal.
Camera Obscura does not stray far from home with its new single “French Navy”. A catchy, repetitive chorus with a retro feel, it is reminiscent of several tracks on the Scottish band’s last album, “Let’s Get Out Of This Country”.
Peter Joseph’s Zeitgeist Movement isn’t going away any time soon. In this latest offering (after the original Zeitgeist movie and its sequel Zeitgeist Addendum) is an orientation for activists/followers. In this video, Joseph again tirades against the monetary system and suggests a new society based on the ideas of futurist Jacque Fresco’s Venus Project. Radical [...]
Obama extended the olive branch to Iran in an appeal aimed at the Iranian people as much as the leadership. Supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was instantly dismissive.
An audio tape that may be from al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was broadcast and translated by Arabic TV network Al Jazeera. In the recording, the speaker condemns weak Arab leaders for complicity with Israel in “Gaza’s holocaust” – the Israeli attack at the end of Bush’s presidency took 1300 Palestinian lives.
Deaf Bunny, the self-described “house of the world’s only deaf entertainment,” have answered the deaf community’s prayer and produced a porn flick featuring deaf people playing strip poker.
Concerts are now sold out and around a million tickets have been sold. Ticket touts are set to make a killing.
Former Phoenix janitor Dale Hausner is the main suspect in a case that ties him to six deaths and a string of attacks on local animals, bicyclists and pedestrians.
Actress Keira Knightley said in an interview with MovieFone that she will not be acting in the latest edition of Disney’s billion dollar-grossing Pirates of the Caribbean series.
The creator of The Office discusses necrophilia and pajamas with Elmo. Surprisingly, these moments didn’t make it passed the Sesame Street censors.
CNBC economic pundit Jim Cramer got a severely slapped wrist on John Stewart’s March 12 Daily Show.
“Right Round” samples lyrics from Dead or Alive’s “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)”, but is nevertheless a modern-day ode to the 1984 hit.
After a combined 11 weeks as #1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart, Taylor Swift might have finally been booted off for good.
A British-born physicist, Stephen Wolfram, has designed a search engine that understands “natural language processing” – effectively “understanding” questions and answering them.
In Disney/Pixar’s Up, Carl Fredricksen decides go on a trip across the globe, something his wife always wanted to do. However, he also doesn’t want to leave his house. His solution is quite ingenious.
Another YouTube interactive. This saucy feature finds Jumanji and The Ice Storm child actor Adam Hann-Byrd paired up with Mahalo VLOGidol runner-up Andrea Rene. The scenario may ring a few bells.
Svetlana Pankratova, the woman with the world’s longest legs, shaved her pins in a charity event.
