It's one of those mundane little daily mysteries: why are there fractions on gas station prices? It's the sort of thing you mean to look up, but then forget before you get home. But now, QZ has cracked the quotidian case, and the culprit is, as usual, greed. — Read the rest
Robert Plympton, 60, was found guilty last week of murdering student Barbara Tucker in 1980 after sexually assaulting her. They caught him by using genetic tests on DNA from the crime scene, narrowing down suspects based on presumed traits ("there was extremely high likelihood that the person who murdered and raped Barbara had red hair") and getting DNA samples from them. — Read the rest
"Hollywood's 33 Most Spoiled Brats!" dominate this week's cover.
Only 33?
It's an egregiously invasive and callous attack on the defenseless children of stars including Beyoncé, Will Smith, Elton John, Gwen Stefani, Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie, David & Victoria Beckham, and many more celebrities whose fame and wealth makes them a target. — Read the rest
The Super PAC "American Values 2024" spent $7 million dollars on a Super Bowl ad supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential bid. Brian Schwartz, Political Finance Reporter for CNBC, reports that the Super PAC spent $7 million for the 30-second spot. — Read the rest
The closing arguments of Donald Trump's defamation case in New York exploded in fireworks today — the grand finale, if you will. The fiery morning started with a bang when Judge Lewis Kaplan threatening to send foolish Trump lawyer Alina Habba to jail. — Read the rest
"JonBenet Killer Caught!" screams the cover story.
But no – no killer has been caught.
Some self-appointed private investigators have allegedly gathered DNA from suspects with a dubious chain of custody that seems unlikely to pass muster in any court of law, and claim that it matches DNA found at the crime scene. — Read the rest
"Tragic Britney Going Broke!" declares the cover story.
Ms. Spears has allegedly "burned through her whopping $60 million fortune" in the past two years – but it's not entirely her fault, claims the tender-hearted and patiently understanding 'Enquirer.'
The "former pop princess has been bled dry after being used as a cash cow" by her estranged parents, ex-husband and the father of her sons, it explains. — Read the rest
Phoneco, a mom-and-pop seller of analog technology, has tens of thousands of classic rotary phones in stock and they aren't shifting.
— Read the restTheir inventory exploded in 1991, when the Knappens purchased 13 semi-trailer loads of phones from the Turtle Lake business after the owner died.
Today marks the 45th anniversary of "the only band that matters'" second album, Give 'Em Enough Rope. Released on November 19, 1978, it was the Clash's first album in the United States (the eponymously titled first album, The Clash, hit American record store shelves on July 24, 1979, with 100,000 copies as an import in the interim). — Read the rest
Lol Tolhurst, founding drummer of The Cure, has just published Goth: A History and is about to release a new album with Siouxsie and the Banshees drummer Budgie and music producer Jacknife Lee. In celebration of this creative burst, The Quietus asked Tolhurst to share his favorite records that inspired him. — Read the rest
Once upon a time, there were two boys named Junior – Donny Junior and Bobby Junior. Both of them had fathers who were very famous. Donny's dad was the leader of a church called MAGA, known for telling exaggerated stories and cheating people he did business with. — Read the rest
Thirty-two years ago this week, one of the best albums of all time dropped. Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend has been called "fuzzy power pop perfection" by Paste Magazine, and I wholeheartedly agree. I fell deeply down the Matthew Sweet hole when I first heard Girlfriend, and was lucky enough to see him several times in various clubs in Albuquerque and New Mexico in the early 1990s. — Read the rest
"Iran Ignites World War III" screams the cover story, blaring: "Apocalypse Over Israel!"
The 'Enquirer' seems to forget that it declared the start of WWIII a year ago – in Ukraine.
With its trademark iron-clad grasp of global geopolitics, the rag rages: "Blundering Joe Biden helped trigger World War III by agreeing to swap American hostages held in Iran for $6 billion, which inspired Tehran's mullahs to green-light terror attacks on Israel". — Read the rest
On the great comedy/theme park podcast "Podcast the Ride" this week, the featured subject is Holidomes. In the 1970's, some U-shaped Holiday Inn motels covered the center swimming pool courtyard with a roof and made indoor recreational spaces with such amenities as putting greens, tiki bars, shuffleboard courts, and pool tables. — Read the rest
The national tragedy that never ends yields yet another cover story for the 'Enquirer' this week, revealing – not for the first time – that "Two Shooters Killed Kennedy!"
That's John F, not Robert F, just to be clear. — Read the rest
Bill Griffith (Zippy the Pinhead) won the National Cartoonists Society's highest honor, the Reuben Award in Jersey City, NJ, Thursday night. Even though it's officially for the "Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year," it's really kind of a general achievement award. — Read the rest
A man from Trumbull, Connecticut, doesn't think it's fair to be branded a thief simply for taking a bag of cash sitting in a bank parking lot.
"I've never had a criminal record in my whole life," Robert Withington, 57, told CT Post. — Read the rest
A 64-year-old UK woman was suffering from weeks of abdominal pain, diarrhea, fever and eventually forgetfulness and depression. She was admitted to a Canberra, England hospital where an MRI revealed a mysterious physical abnormality in her brain requiring urgent neurosurgery. Turns out, there was an 8 cm-long roundworm wriggling around in her head. — Read the rest
Aubrey "Warrior Poet" Marcus recently dropped a new video featuring his spoken word poetry and boy, is it a doozy. It's titled "Breasts" and is, well, all about breasts. Before getting into his latest poetic offering, though, let's learn a little about Marcus, a wellness influencer and rising star in Austin's anti-vax, anti-mask, New Age spiritual movement. — Read the rest
RFK Jr's tall tale about Bill Gates' plans to control the populace with implanted chips sounds like something a middle-school student would write in 1985 after reading Neuromancer. Here's what he had to say in a recent interview (video below posted by PatriotTakes):
— Read the restMicrosoft has patented a chip system that is a biometric sub-dermal sensor system.
