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When her teething infant son would not stop crying, an Arkansas woman called her mother and was told to rub some alcohol on the child’s painful gums.  Instead, cops charge, Lori Sheppard, 28, put bourbon in her 10-month-old son’s bottle, leading to the infant’s hospitalization and her arrest for child endangerment and aggravated assault.  [1] Sheppard’s son Ronald was rushed ...

A New Jersey man has been indicted for wiping his ass with a police summons that he then threw at a cop, according to court records.  Joseph Greenwood, 45, is facing a felony rap for allegedly purposely subjecting a police officer to “contact with a bodily fluid” during a June incident in Readington, a township about 50 miles from New ...

President Barack Obama’s past has been called into question over the six-plus years of his presidency. The odd lack of verifiable records has been the subject of more than one conspiracy theory.  But an old high school friend of Obama from Hawaii, Mia Marie Pope, has dropped a bombshell concerning how our current president identified himself in high school, which ...

Andrew Hawes has had enough of your dog crap! The self described dog shit vigilante is waging war on owners who fail to clear up their pets’ mess. [9] He definitely is a new post-modern type of superhero.  He  may not save the world anytime soon but he is shoveling the shit one turd at the time.  The Leiston, Suffolk, ...

Lebanese security forces are interrogating a Saudi prince on charges of carrying drugs on his private plane after they allegedly retrieved 2 tons of narcotics from the aircraft, local media reported.  [1] Abd al-Muhsen bin Walid bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud was detained on Monday in Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport.  The prince was about to conduct a flight on ...

It’s well known that Americans find Vegemite difficult-to-digest, but this woman’s explanation of why is probably in bad taste. [3] It really is quite a push to accuse white Australians as racist due to their love of the dark spread Vegemite.  But this is the accusation that YouTube vlogger, Cassidy Boon, launched at Aussie Vegemite fans in an expletive-laden rant.  In the ...

The UN may be about to call on the governments of all countries to end the “war on drugs” and decriminalise the use and possession of all illegal substances.  In a post on his Virgin website, titled “Finally—a change in course on drug policy,”  Richard Branson said he had been showed a report by the UN Office on Drugs and ...

Several top television shows returning this fall feature interracial lesbian relationships between major characters, in what’s shaping up to be the new trend of the fall TV season.  Arguably network television’s two biggest hits, Fox’s Empire and ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder, both featured lesbian storylines in their season premiers, reports the Wrap. [2]  In the second-season premiere of ...

Ever since she was a little girl, Jewel Shuping dreamed of being blind. The North Carolina resident was born perfectly healthy, but she became gradually obsessed with losing her sight. [3] That rarity and secrecy has additionally made it difficult for her to find any suitable solution to this intense desire.  Determined to turn her dream into a reality, Ms ...

Popes have long dabbled in music: Pope Benedict XVI’s voice was featured on 2009’s Music From The Vatican: Alma Mater, and Pope John Paul II appeared on albums like 1999’s Abba Pater. Pope Francis, however, may be the first pope to rock.  [3] And with a fan base of millions, a consistently jam-packed tour schedule, and an almost permanent place in the ...

Hundreds of animal rights activists covered themselves in fake blood and took over a public square in Paris to protest against “animal suffering and meat consumption”.  [1] Dubbed an “open air slaughterhouse”, those involved covered themselves in fake blood.  The animal rights activists action is part of the 269 Life campaign group’s events for the World Day for the Abolition ...

Moscow Premiere, Russia’s long running avant-garde charitable film festival and a champion of Russian LGBT and anti-fascist cinema, has been canceled. [1] [2] Moscow Premiere, which had been supported by the Moscow city council for the past 12 years was due to launch its 13th edition on Sept. 2, running a program of free screenings with tickets available via vouchers ...