Comments: 7 Score: [-] 566 [+].
Bailed-Out AIG Forcing Poor to Choose Between Running Water and Food Posted: 6 days ago by jLoSsDh
People who have been ripped off by bailed-out banks' schemes to trick late fees out of their customers will recognize what Utilities Inc. did to the people of Middlesboro and Clinton. In the summer of 2008, as AIG was teetering and desperate for funds, it "upgraded" its billing system, and suddenly a slew of late fee charges hit the struggling locals.
Thanks to AIG, some of the poorest residents of rural Kentucky learned you can always be made poorer by corporate villains.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 203 [+].
The Shining II Posted: 6 days ago by pocksucket
Son of Shining. No. Not really. However, Stephen King has let slip that he's considering a sequel to The Shining, first published in 1977.
Comments: 10 Score: [-] 545 [+].
Doctor in trouble for being "Blunt" Posted: 1 week ago by hoosker
He told his patient she was irresponsible for being unemployed, on Medicaid, and relying on taxpayers to cover another pregnancy after giving birth less than a year earlier.
But what really made her mad, was when he poked her thigh and told her she was fat.
Comments: 37 Score: [-] 919 [+].
Police: Census worker staged death to conceal suicide Posted: 1 week ago by hoosker
Authorities are saying a Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with "fed" scrawled on his chest committed suicide and staged his death to look like a homicide.
Update to this
Comments: 3 Score: [-] 522 [+].
No "Full-Frontal Hugging" until AFTER marriage! Posted: 1 week ago by icepigs
If we have a full-frontal hug, it could lead us into temptation. So, please just give me the Christian "Side-Hug" until we are married.
<---not going to hell
Comments: 25 Score: [-] 545 [+].
Peaceful Vegetarian Turns Out to be Son of Charles Manson Posted: 1 week ago by choco
In this case, the apple fell far, far from the tree.
Comments: 13 Score: [-] 638 [+].
Best Product (Reviews) EVAH Posted: 1 week ago by meggysue
This laptop steering wheel desk is the most amazing product ever. Product reviews make it extra special!
Comments: 4 Score: [-] 528 [+].
Breast regeneration after mastectomy Posted: 1 week ago by meggysue
Currently in human clinical trials, the experimental stem cell breast-growing technique - called Neopec - could replace breast reconstructions and implants within three years, and could regrow removed breasts within 6 months.
Comments: 7 Score: [-] 332 [+].
In Trying to Prevent Gay Marriage, Texas May Have Accidently Abolished it for Everyone Posted: 2 weeks ago by Bornbad
It's rare a story about banning gay marriage actually has a silver lining.
Comments: 4 Score: [-] 405 [+].
How grandmas may play favorites Posted: 2 weeks ago by ThirDeye
Paternal grandmothers share an X chromosome with their granddaughters but not with their grandsons. Not very surprisingly the data cited in the paper suggests that having a paternal grandmother nearby improves the survival of granddaughters compared to grandsons. Boys seem to have a greater chance of survival if they live with their maternal grandmothers.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 173 [+].
Man had a nightmare about a burglar and woke to find he had strangled wife Posted: 2 weeks ago by tigertony
He “dreamed that an intruder had broken into their motor home”. He tackled the 'intruder' but instead strangled his childhood sweetheart and wife of 39 years.
A very strange story
Comments: 15 Score: [-] 681 [+].
Caught on Dashcam: Cop vs Kitten Posted: 2 weeks ago by TraumaMamma
Get your daily cute right here, folks!!
Comments: 15 Score: [-] 797 [+].
96 Year-Old Photographer Throws His Own Wake Posted: 2 weeks ago by DaftGretel
"Well, why not?" he said. "Why bother when (I'm) dead?"
Comments: 3 Score: [-] 458 [+].
Would-be Ninja Impales Self on Fence Posted: 2 weeks ago by DaftGretel
Seattle police say a man who thought he was ninja was impaled on a metal fence when he tried to leap over it.
Comments: 10 Score: [-] 636 [+].
Conjoined Twins Operation Success Posted: 2 weeks ago by Ankabout
For 25 hours a team of 16 physicians operated on Bangladeshi twins Trishna and Krishna, who were joined at the head. The operation was apparently successful, even the delicate operation of separating the girls' brain tissue.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 402 [+].