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Mountain Dew Introduces Breakfast Drink, For Your Extreme Office Commutes
It’s impossible to decide: Is this healthy Mountain Dew? Or unhealthy orange juice? “PepsiCo Inc. is rolling out a new drink called Kickstart this month that has […]
Philadelphia is Ground Zero for New Strain of Whooping Cough
AP: Health officials are looking into whether cases like the dozen found in Philadelphia might be one reason the nation just had its worst year […]
Iran’s Monkey Rockets Will Surely Drive the Jews Into the Sea
What happens when you give one of the world’s most anti-Semitic regimes the power to launch monkeys into space? Actually, nobody really knows, but can […]
Ori Feibush’s Video Helped Solve Center City Slaying
You probably know Ori Feibush best as the developer who cleaned up a city-owned lot last year—and ended up in hot water over it. Maybe […]
VIDEO: Woman Falls on Subway Tracks—And Is Rescued
We’ve seen so many stories of people falling or being pushed onto subway tracks—often to their deaths—that it’s heartening to see one with a happy […]
Let’s Melt Down Every Penny in America For a Rittenhouse Square Sculpture
In today’s Wall Street Journal, D. Wayne Johnson says that pennies cost more to make than they’re worth—so it’s time to take all the pennies […]
Lottery Winner Died of Cyanide Poisoning
We’ve all heard stories about how winning the lottery can actually suck for the winners. But this has to be some kind of record: Back […]
John Boehner Remains House Speaker, Even Though Everybody Hates Him
Who exactly remains in the John Boehner fan club? It can’t be Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, whom Boehner last week told to “go f–k […]
Twinkies Might Be Saved!
Fear not, Twinkie lovers–hope might be on the way. A Florida company has stepped forward, saying it’s interested in buying Hostess, maker of Twinkies, Ding […]
City Hall, Firefighters Are in Fiery Battle Over Contract
Remember July 2009? Barack Obama had been president a few months, a new movement called the “Tea Party” was making Democrats nervous, and Harry Potter […]
First Fungal Meningitis Case Reported in Pennsylvania
It turns out Pennsylvania won’t be spared the fungal meningitis outbreak that has spread across the United States: The Department of Health has reported the […]
Hump Day Headlines
A teen lesbian was brutally beaten by group of men in Kentucky. She says prior to the incident, the men were following her and yelling […]
Hank Williams Jr. Did Not Compare President Obama to Adolf Hitler
Yesterday afternoon, I caught a segment of NPR’s Tell Me More, in which host Michel Martin and guests from ESPN Magazine, USA Today and something called […]
GLAAD Wants Flyer Punished
Wayne Simmonds—one of the new Flyers acquired in this summer’s philosophical realignment made news last week when—during a shootout against the Red Wings—a fan hurled […]