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New Jersey Teacher Fired For Peeing In Classroom

Yes, this will get you fired. AP reports that Ron Tuitt, a second-grade teacher in Paterson, N.J., has been fired for peeing. A lot. “The […]

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From Cursing News Anchors to Baseball Players: When It’s OK to Swear on TV

If you ask me, the greatest moment of Julius Genachowski’s soon-to-expire tenure as chairman of the FCC came on Saturday.

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Trenton Fires Official Connected To Philly Cheating Scandal

It’s a rough spring for Lola Marie O’Rourke. In March, the former principal of Locke School in West Philly handed in her teaching credentials rather […]

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10 Celebrity Apologies We Wish Would Happen

Lesson learned: Reese Witherspoon is kind of a diva. When her husband got pulled over for a DUI, she made a big old Hollywood scene […]

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Twitter News, Cont’d: Anthony Weiner Back Online, Living Dangerously

And so he announced his return to Twitter like Anthony Weiner would, with cryptic text messages that don’t seem like he meant to send them: […]

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Watch: The Best (Worst?) Condom Snorting Videos

If you didn’t already think that the end of the world may finally be upon us, the fact that condom snorting videos have become a […]

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What Hate Groups Say About Being Called Hate Groups

The Southern Poverty Law Center maintains a database of organizations it designates as “hate groups.” To make the list, your group must “have beliefs or […]

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Letter To Obama Tests Positive For Ricin

Say, it’s starting to feel like a miniature version of 2001 all over again, isn’t it? Remember that year the 9/11 attacks was followed up […]

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Student Brings Loaded .38 To Samuel S. Fels High School

KYW Newsradio reports that a student brought a .38 handgun to Fels High School in Northeast Philadelphia. The student was taken into custody. “According to […]

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Believe It Or Not, “NJweedman” Has Been Arrested Again

Watch: The video was uploaded Tuesday with this description: “Marijuana activist Ed ‘NJWeedman’ Forchion was arrested in Evesham and charged with possession for have two […]

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Boston Tragedy Deserves More Than a Moment of Silence

Sometimes, I wish we could all just shut up for a little bit. It is one of life’s great ironies that the events that demand […]

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I’m Appalled by Justin Bieber’s Anne Frank Message

Coming soon to a bookstore near you: The Diary of Justin Bieber. Or as I like to call it, Baby, Baby, Baby, Oh: Meet Me […]

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Rutgers’ Mike Rice Still Coaching…12-Year-Old Girls

Since being fired from Rutgers for verbally and physically abusing his players, Mike Rice has kept busy coaching his daughter’s AAU team of 12-year-old girls. […]

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Anthony Weiner Knows What Voters Need After a Sex Scandal

Wednesday, the New York Times Magazine did a favor to the headline writers guild, breaking the news that former Congressman Anthony Weiner is seriously considering […]

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Did Bryz Nod Off or Not? The Flyers Sleepgate Scandal Rages On…

Yesterday, Crossing Broad and 97.5 FM reported that Flyers ‘tender Ilya Bryzgalov was benched during Tuesday’s game for falling asleep during a team meeting. The […]