Monday night on CNN, former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura called for political parties in the United States to be abolished. “We need to abolish the political parties,” he told Piers Morgan. “Make them political action committees.” Ventura compared the Democrats and Republicans to the Bloods and Crips, two notorious Los…
A woman in Boynton Beach, Florida was set on fire early Monday morning by a man at a local 7-Eleven gas station, according to WPTV-TV. Police say 59-year-old Roosevelt Monesir set the 40-year-old unidentified woman ablaze after dosing her with gasoline. It was not clear why Monesir was motivated to…
RELATED: Hospital denies woman’s kidney transplant due to medical marijuana —— “Cheech & Chong” actor Tommy Chong on Sunday revealed that he had prostate cancer, but he says “cannabis is a cure” instead of the cause. “I was diagnosed with prostate cancer about a month ago, and I’m going to…
Researchers shed light on cockroaches’ vanishing act (via The Bay Citizen) Insects swing like a pendulum to hide under cracks and ledges. You’ve seen it and begrudgingly admired it: the speed and swiftness with which a cockroach vanishes when you turn on a light while entering a dark room. Now,…
Controversial Atlanta megachurch pastor Creflo Dollar Jr. has been arrested for allegedly assaulting his 15-year-old daughter, according to the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. The “prosperity gospel” adherent has been charged with simple battery, family violence and cruelty to children after an altercation in which he reportedly grabbed his daughter by…
A Canadian robber got a face full of bear spray and then a spanking on his naked butt on Tuesday after he tried to rob a convenience store in Gatineau, Quebec. Zhen Yang was closing up shop around 10:30 p.m. when two men entered the store carrying knives and demanding…
Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod on Thursday said he wasn’t surprised that his campaign hadn’t raised as much money as Mitt Romney’s campaign. “You pick up all the money that you couldn’t raise in the primary from Republicans who were supporting other candidates,” Axelrod told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “So we…
The parents of a 13-year-old boy in Virginia Beach who was suspended for touching the American flag say that their son was unfairly treated because he is black. Virginia Beach Public Schools Spokesperson Eileen Cox claimed the suspension was ordered after a teacher at Plaza Middle School observed Moses Hinton…
An 18-year-old Philadelphia boy is not expected to live after he accidentally shot himself in the head because someone questioned his “manhood” during an online video chat. East Detectives Capt. John Gallagher said that the teen was engaged in a webcam chat on either Skype or ooVoo when the person…
(UPDATED BELOW) Shell executives and shareholders probably heartily wish today that their send-off party of two new Arctic oil drilling rigs — the “Kulluk” and the “Noble Discovery” — hadn’t included a tiny model oil rig intended for serving drinks. As the bearded, tuxedo-clad master of ceremonies welcomed a party-goer…