The US Postal Service is cancelling its 55-year-old programme to answer letters addressed to “Santa Claus, North Pole” after it was infiltrated last year by a sex offender. A post office spokesman said that the children’s letters, which are piling up in Alaska, might be recycled as waste instead. picked by cmgoings 1 week ago

The House of Representatives on Saturday night passed a sweeping health care bill by a vote of 220-215.

Next, on to the Senate. picked by cmgoings 3 weeks ago

Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs has put together a site for people to get more information on "the business of hard work". Not a PR site for Dirty Jobs, but a site to help change people's perspective on hard work and skilled labor, get them interested in tradesmen jobs and maybe help, in a small way, to fix the national infrastructure. picked by cmgoings 1 month ago

Gunfire at the entrance of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum wounded at least two people Wednesday, emergency officers said. picked by cmgoings 6 months ago

Kill Bill and Kung Fu star David Carradine has been found dead in a Bangkok hotel room, BBC correspondent Jonathan Head has reported. picked by cmgoings 6 months ago

*Enter snakes on a plane joke here* picked by cmgoings 8 months ago

A famed paleontologist who discovered the world's best preserved dinosaur pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing dinosaur fossils from federal land in Montana.

*What a bonehead thing to do* picked by cmgoings 8 months ago

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Rod Blagojevich, recently removed from office as governor of Illinois, has made a deal to star in NBC's upcoming summer reality show "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here," the network confirmed Tuesday. picked by cmgoings 8 months ago

Deputies and EMS were unable to determine what had caused the burns, but investigators later learned the boy’s burns were the result of a bath and that the incident had happened two hours before the boy’s male caregiver alerted EMS. picked by cmgoings 8 months ago

Amazon removed the sales ranking from several books about gay dating and homosexual lifestyle for being "adult" material, but kept the ranking on things like vibrators and anal plugs.

*Amazon fail* picked by cmgoings 8 months ago

She ran out of patience when he knocked down and rebuilt a wall at their home when it got dirty, Christian Kropp, court judge in the central town of Sondershausen, said Thursday. picked by cmgoings 8 months ago

A big explosion, in the name of science, scared a lot of people in a small town.

Mythbusters went to Yolo County and ended up with a bigger bang than expected. picked by cmgoings 8 months ago

Brains, brains, brains, brains, brains
Brains, brains, brains, brains, brains, brains, brains
Artificial hip?

*Read this book a little bit ago, it was...different* picked by cmgoings 9 months ago

At "Big Eropolis," an erotic fair that opened on Friday near Paris and bills itself as the biggest of its kind in the world, attendance was healthy but stall owners said customers were not spending as much as in previous years. picked by cmgoings 9 months ago

*I know, I know, we are all sick of hearing about this women, but this may be for the best*

Nadya Suleman apparently has bigger worries than taking care of her 14 children. Now she may have to prove she can handle the load, or else have hospital officials withhold her newborn octuplets. picked by cmgoings 9 months ago

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted at his impeachment trial and thrown out of office Thursday, ending a nearly two-month crisis that erupted with his arrest on charges he tried to sell Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat. Blagojevich becomes the first U.S. governor in more than 20 years to be removed by impeachment. picked by cmgoings 10 months ago

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House Republicans managed Wednesday to defeat the so-called "DTV delay" bill—and that means that the planned Feb. 17 date for the digital TV transition is still on. picked by cmgoings 10 months ago

To offset the cost increases of cookie ingredients, Girl Scouts of the USA made the decision to shrink its cookie boxes by a centimeter, package fewer cookies into boxes of Thin Mints, Do-si-dos, and Tagalongs, and reduce the size of its Lemon Chalet Crèmes.

*There are hardly any Tagalongs in a box to start with.* picked by cmgoings 10 months ago

Ten interesting stories and trivial bits about the stories from one of the world's favorite authors. picked by cmgoings 10 months ago

First there was thefart silencer

Now D-flat Innovations has made charcoal pads for the smell. picked by cmgoings 11 months ago

The contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part responsible for male infertility, a report in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said Saturday. picked by cmgoings 11 months ago

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and solicitation of bribery on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said in a statement. The 51-year-old Democrat was charged along with John Harris, his chief of staff, on the charges related to Blagojevich's role in picking a U.S. Senate successor for President-elect Barack Obama and obtaining campaign ... read full post picked by cmgoings 12 months ago

A mother has given birth to a rare set of quadruplets in which three of the four boys are identical. The boys were born 11 weeks premature in January at Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson. The parents plan to introduce themselves and their boys at a news conference Friday.

(pic not related, my upload didn't want to work.) picked by cmgoings 2 years ago