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Fla. Cop Sent for More Training After Accidentally Using Taser on 10-Year-Old During Gun-Safety Lesson
A Plantation, Fla., police officer will be sent for additional training after accidentally deploying her Taser on a 10-year-old boy right after telling the child and his brother that the weapon wasn’t a toy. According to the Sun-Sentinel, the boy suffered only minor injuries, but investigators noted that if the probes had penetrated deeper into…
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2nd Woman Accuses ‘David Cop-a-Feel,’ aka George H.W. Bush, of Groping Her
Updated Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017, 1:36 a.m. EDT: A second woman has come forward and accused former President George H.W. Bush of groping her. Deadspin reports that New York actress Jordana Grolnick said Wednesday, “I got sent the Heather Lind story by many people this morning, and I’m afraid that mine is entirely similar.” From…
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Ben Carson Says He Doesn’t Have to Know Anything About Housing Policy, He Just Has to Be Able to Boss Around the People Who Do
For someone who went to school for as many years as Ben Carson did to become a neurosurgeon, he sure is an idiot. He says a lot of incredibly dumb things, and this latest is no exception. Carson said Wednesday that it doesn’t matter if he doesn’t have any experience in housing policy, and that…
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NYC Cops Accused of Raping Teen Resort to Victim-Blaming in Attempt to Avoid Indictment
What’s worse than cops who abuse their position to force a teenager to have sex and perform fellatio on them? That would be having those same two cops resort to victim-blaming in order to avoid an indictment as a result of their heinous acts. Disgraced New York City cops Eddie Martins and Richard Hall have…
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Why Is the Only Brown Corn Pop the Janitor? Kellogg’s Called Out for Racist Cereal Box
First it was Shea Moisture. Then Pepsi. Then Dove. And now my son’s beloved Corn Pops have shit the proverbial race bed. Bad ads! Kellogg’s, which makes the tasty cereal, says it will make over its cereal boxes after an astute consumer pointed out that of all the cartoon corn pops populating a retail mall…
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124 Dead in Outbreak of the Bubonic Plague in Madagascar (We Kid You Not)
Being geography deficient, the only thing that I, like most Americans, knew about Madagascar was that it was Africa-adjacent (it is an island off the coast of Mozambique) and that it had an animated movie named for it. Unfortunately, the nation of 24 million has a point of infamy these days: The island nation is…
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Texas Father Who Reported His 3-Year-Old Daughter Missing Believed to Have Dumped Her Body: Report
Sometimes the sum of the story is just this: Jesus Effing Christ. A missing toddler in suburban Dallas apparently did not wander off, but died in front of her father by choking, and he then dumped the 3-year-old’s body in a culvert, authorities say. Wesley Mathews reported his daughter, Sherin Mathews, missing on Oct. 7.…
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Why Is Virginia Tech Silent About a White Supremacist Instructor Threatening and Harassing an Undergrad?
Under the guise of protecting “free speech,” a top university has allowed one of its instructors to teach students and work at the college, even though the school has received substantial evidence that the employee is an active white supremacist who has engaged in a campaign to threaten and harass an undergraduate student enrolled at…
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Report: Brother of Las Vegas Shooter Stephen Paddock Detained on Child-Pornography Charges
The brother of the man who opened fire on concertgoers at a Las Vegas country music concert has been detained by authorities on charges related to child pornography, according to an anonymous source. The Los Angeles Times reports that a source “who was not authorized to speak publicly about the case” says that Bruce Paddock,…