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The Air Force Tossed Remains of Unknown Soldiers in a Garbage Dump
John Cook · 11/10/11 12:45PMDay two of bad news for the Air Force's vaunted mortuary affairs operation at Dover, Delaware, where our nation's war dead are lovingly and respectfully welcomed home. Yesterday we learned that the Air Force is known to lose a body part or two on occasion. Today we come to find that for most of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars it disposed of loose unidentified body parts by burning them and throwing them in a landfill.
We'll All Get Another Season of Anderson Cooper's Half-Assed Talk Show
Brian Moylan · 11/10/11 12:22PMDreamy closet case and CNN's chief hurricane correspondent Anderson Cooper's life isn't going to get any less busy, because his daytime talk show Anderson just got renewed for a second season. That means we'll get even more reasons to get shirtless, gun shows, scary bugs, and all sorts of other wooden interactions with the audience.
Madonna on Boytoys: 'More Than Just Sexual, Um, Appendages'
Maureen O'Connor · 11/10/11 11:28AMFacebook for the Famous
Fast Company · 11/10/11 03:34AMAndy Rooney's College Roommate (Almost) Drops Dead at His Memorial Service
Brian Moylan · 11/09/11 05:38PMAndy Rooney's college roommate, Bob Ruthman, died of a heart attack today while attending the 60 Minutes staple's memorial luncheon at the Century Club in Manhattan. They lived together at Colgate University in the '40s. When you have a bunch of 90 year-olds hanging out together, this is probably a statistical inevitability. And with that, the last two remaining members of the Colgate Class of '43 went out in style.
There's Nothing Wrong With the Ridiculous Title of R. Kelly's New Memoir
James Apsimon · 11/09/11 04:30PMSmoking Cigarettes in Rehab Is Pure Hell
Brian Moylan · 11/09/11 03:43PMMatch the Quote with the Political Sex Scandal
Jim Newell · 11/09/11 03:17PMIt's time to play Match the Quote with the Political Sex Scandal! Why? Well, why not? The rules are complex, but surely you all can figure it out: You match the name of a political figure involved in a sex(ual harassment) scandal with one of his quotes from the time! See? I knew you could figure it out.
Sarah Jessica Parker Cannot Stop Touching Her Hair
Maureen O'Connor · 11/09/11 01:59PMLet's Rewrite Securities Law for Facebook
Ryan Tate · 11/08/11 10:21PMTwo senators introduced legislation to help Facebook further evade a 47-year-old SEC disclosure rule and take on a slew of new investors. Because that's the problem in America lately, you see: Corporations are too well regulated, and we know too much about the inner workings of large, heavily capitalized institutions.
Occupy Wall Street Is Marching From New York to DC
Adrian Chen · 11/08/11 06:15PMSupreme Court Justices Aghast at Notion That Laws Apply to Them
John Cook · 11/08/11 05:19PMThe Supreme Court heard arguments today in a case about whether the police have the right to track your every movement electronically without a search warrant. Things got awkward when an attorney for the government conceded that, under the government's view, even Supreme Court justices could be tracked.
The Air Force Is Having Trouble Keeping Track of Dead Body Parts
John Cook · 11/08/11 04:22PMApple Prepares to Crush Apple Store Unions
Adrian Chen · 11/08/11 01:26PMH.L. Mencken Not New Yorker Material, Says Unbearable Little Man
Hamilton Nolan · 11/08/11 11:44AMIn Slate today, Adam Gopnik, the "Adam Gopnik's kids" correspondent for The New Yorker, explains the fine distinctions of New Yorkerania: "compare Mencken and Liebling, often mistaken as twin stylists, and you see the difference between heavy-handed Teutonic mockery and the ideal ironic, stinging, New Yorker tone."