Former FBI Director Louis Freeh releases his report on the investigation into the coverup at Penn State.

House Republicans vote for the 30th time to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act.

The Las Cruces doctor who wrote more prescriptions than the entire UNM medical school has had his license suspended.

The Bosque will reopen on Friday.

Workers in Trinadad are totally sorry about crushing thousands of endangered leatherback turtle eggs.

Mississippians will still be able to get abortions, for now.

Pantone chart of all human skin colors.

Scientists finally discover a new moon orbiting Pluto.

Netflix is your new babysitter.

Who drinks the most soda? USA! USA! USA!

Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr has been missing since June.

Five classic movies you'll never get to see because they were never made.

If you want to eat french fries at Olympic Park in London head to McDonald's.

Happy Birthday Curly Joe DeRita!!!

Super Tuesday, blah, blah, Ohio, blah, tortoise, blah, blah.

Money approved for the long-awaited Paseo del Norte/I-25 rebuilding project.

Iran agrees to nuclear inspections and talks.

U.S. military sued over rapes.

107% voter turnout in some of Checnya's precincts.

Billionaire Koch brothers trying to take control of the Cato Institute.

College student sues school after roommate has too much sex.

This is how you cite a tweet in an academic paper.

You really should be eating more lentils.

This Australian town covered in spider webs is the stuff on nightmares.

Peyton Manning to become a free agent.

Toddler swallows 37 high powered magnets, somehow survives.

R.I.P. the Miller sisters.

Batman Running Away From Shit is a blog about Batman running away from shit.

Speaking of Batman, why doesn't he just kill the Joker already?

Everyone knows the right way to wash pants, right?

R.I.P. Disney songwriter Robert Sherman.

The apex of human achievements: taco flavored ramen and the McRibster.

The Crazy Cuban Honey Badger doesn't give a shit.

Happy Birthday Wanda Sykes!!!

Kick out the jams, it's Leap Day!

Catholic priest in Washington D.C. denies lesbian communion at her mother's funeral mass, leaves during eulogy.

Romney manages to win in Michigan and Arizona.

Lockdown at 5 APS schools after student found with gun.

Hilarious 9/11 joke.

Was that the dean from "Community" accepting an Oscar on Sunday?

I'm sorry, but this is just jacked.

McDonald's newest/saddest sandwich is the McBaguette.

The Pirate Bay replaces all torrent links with magnet links, nothing really changes.

Women's health experts discuss birth control.

Kickstarter poised to provide more arts funding than the National Endowment of the Arts.

Was Elvis' manager, Colonel Parker a murderer?

New bat species discovered in Vietnam.

After seeing these official LEGO Avengers sets, I'm still not sure who the villains in the movie are going to be.

Trouble in Bronyville.

Nice collection of unproduced Star Wars merchandise.

Is it even possible to fix The Phantom Menace? (YES!)

"The Wire" wind up toys you'll never see in your happy meal.

Say it with me: umami

Happy Birthday Dennis Farina!!!

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Despite the sweater-vests (or maybe because of them?) Rick Santorum wins all three of last night's contests.

Mitt Romney hasn't answered any questions from voters in three weeks.

Federal appeals court rules that California's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.

Chicago vehicle stickers may contain gang signs.

A&E's new western series Longmire to be filmed in northern New Mexico.

Florida public school teacher being investigated after referring to her Haitian students as "chocolate that nobody wanted."

Senators approve a bill allowing unmanned drones access to US airspace.

Shake-and-bake meth.

In the history of Valentine's Day, I've never seen a sexier gift.

Randy Travis was arrested.

Just how do you win that rip-off claw grabber game?

Oldest cave paintings EVER!

1980s karate rap video FTW!

Long article on the man who wouldn't die.

These quotation marks sure are suspicious.

R.I.P. Nello Ferrara, inventor of Lemonheads and Atomic FireBalls.

R.I.P. Zalman King, creator of Red Shoe Diaries.

Happy Birthday Audrey Meadows!!!

Republican presidential candidates debated last night. Mitt Romney couldn't get his name right, Rick Santorum wants to profile muslims, Newt wants to be humane to immigrants, and Michelle Bachmann may or may not have leaked classified information.

Portland Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber announced a hold on all death row inmates.

Rush Limbaugh said Michelle Obama exhibits uppity-ism.

Race war rumors spread at Highland High School.

Florida school finds two 12-year-olds kissing and calls the cops.

Was a Illinois water utility cyber-attacked?

South Korean lawmaker fires tear gas in parliament before vote on US trade pact.

A Bronx groom kills himself by jumping into the Harlem River hours after his wedding.

Aw, Crap! I totally forgot yesterday was Max Headroom Signal Intrusion Day.

Christmas quality, Hanukkah pricing.

The 25 most popular passwords of 2011.

Spend some time this morning reading about the mystery of the five wounds.

A new study shows that people who watch Fox News are less informed than people who watch no news at all.

Another reason not to take vitamins.

Best mug shot of I've seen in ages.

Your one stop source for cute animal pictures is The Fluffington Post.

Black Friday creep.

The tire pile you can see from spaaaaaaace.

R.I.P. Anne McCaffrey.

How to deal with your multi-level marketing friends.

Sarah Silverman lands a sitcom on NBC.

Yoda is shilling ramen.

Happy Birthday Harpo Marx!!!

Thanks to Constance for the links.

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Republican presidential candidates debated in Las Vegas last night. Hey Sarah Palin, who do you think won?

Turkish troops enter Iraq after Kurdish attacks kill 26 Turkish soldiers.

Tea Party leaders asks small businesses to stop hiring people until Obama stops his war against business.

Prisoner exchange in Israel.

Lions, tigers and bears on the loose in Ohio after zookeeper commits suicide.

Officer-involved shooting in Grants.

Doctors say you should never use bumper pads in infant cribs.

Strip search called for at the World Scrabble Championship after a letter goes missing.

Bill Gates to testify in Windows 95 antitrust case. Wait, what?

America's angriest cities.

In 2013 we mine the moon!

For fretful parents only: how to diagnose your toddler with ADHD.

Ten things debt collectors won't tell you.

New Zealand Mom spreads STD rumor to sabotage daughter's rival.

This day in history: wind power edition.

Eighteen years after his death, River Phoenix's final movie will be released.

How Barnes & Noble is wrecking comics.

The Stone Roses set to reunite after 15 years.

Movember is almost upon us.

Horror nerds are the worst type of nerds, right?

Harry Belafonte falls asleep during interview.

Screw you puppies!

True Blood adds new blood characters.

Happy Birthday Robert Reed!!!

Two years after accidentally hiking into Iran, Josh Fattal and Shan Bauer have been freed.

Is Troy Davis's scheduled execution America's worst miscarriages of justice?

Masked gunmen dump 35 dead bodies in the middle of a busy Boca Del Rio street.

Gary Johnson gets a spot in tomorrow's presidential debate.

Federal prosecutors call online poker site a global Ponzi scheme.

Republican leaders sent a letter to the Federal Reserve Chairman asking him to “resist further extraordinary intervention in the U.S. economy.”

A mother abducted her eight children in New York.

Personnel board votes to lay-off 27 state workers.

New questions in the deadly Reno air show crash.

Once again, I was not named a MacArthur Genius.

Here's a video flyover of the asteroid Vesta.

Facebook changed again last night.

Nobody wants a ginger baby.

Steven Colbert really really wants to broaden the tax base.

Most epic post-car accident interview ever.

This roller coaster is the future of suicide.

23 rejected covers of famous books.

I know you're lazy, but are you lazy enough for Forever Lazy?

I think this may be exciting news for fans of Magic: The Gathering.

If you're interested in getting some Venture Bros. action figures you should read this.

Game of Thrones cupcakes!

Gordon Ramsay gets another TV show.

This is awesome. And weird. But still awesome.

R.I.P. Tom Wilson, creator of Ziggy.

Fox is considering creating a 24-hour Simpsons channel.

Mike Tyson broke Steve-O's nose at the Charlie Sheen roast.

There have been some pretty terrible Star Wars video games, but was this one the worst?

This one is for fans of The Wire only.

Happy Birthday Cheryl Hines!!!

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Taliban leader Mullah Omar may be dead.

House Republicans pass a crazy Tea Party debt plan.

Albuquerque judge arrested and charged with rape.

Michelle Bachmann gives gets migraines.

Former Santa Fe county sheriff faces 250 counts of embezzlement.

Check out this fake Chinese Apple Store.

Leopard mauls 11 people in India.

Photos from a ghost town in Cyprus, untouched by humans for almost 40 years.

McDonald's will open a 10,000 square foot, double-decker restaurant in London, for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Your crazy wife will love these crazy milk ads.

Game of Thrones adds two new cast members.

What was the coxoplectoptera?

75 ex-football players sue the NFL for concealing brain injury risks.

The Hubble Space Telescope discovers a new moon around Pluto.

The Tea Party vs. manatees.

South Park will continue for at least two more seasons.

Loch Ness-type cryptid sighted in Alaska.

Here's the new Spike Jonze directed Beastie Boys video!

Happy Birthday Dean Winters!!!

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Republicans gave away the debt ceiling fight.

The House fails to pass the Bulb Act.

Americans are having fewer children.

The Westboro Baptist Church chickens out of protesting Betty Ford's funeral.

Bronze letters stolen from buildings in Belen.

Recall elections begin in Wisconsin.

OUTRAGE after Michelle Obama eats a hamburger.

Ron Paul is retiring from Congress to focus on losing his presidential election.

Why the dollar store is a ripoff.

Bring your protractors to Pittsburgh.

The National League wins the All-Star Game.

Some dog hates Morrissey almost as much as I do.

L.A. is preparing for Carmageddon.

I've been a Netflix member since 2000, and in that time they've never raised my rates, but what the hell Netflix?

Greatest headline ever.

RIP Sherwood Schwartz.

Best ever cover of They Might Be Giants' Istanbul (Not Constantinople).

The last know surviving dinosaur was the triceratops.

What is a derecho?

Front row on world's steepest roller coaster.

Five million 4chan posts visualized.

Richard Simmons discovers planking, but when will he master flanking?

Happy Birthday Bob Crane!!!

Mayor Berry close portions of the Bosque.

Rio Rancho police are cracking down on tailgaters.

Police arrest La Familia cartel boss.

UNM scientists prove that men are funnier than women.

Stephen Colbert finds the one Republican candidate who can beat Obama.

Sarah Palin quits her bus tour halfway through.

Watch out for the TSA Mobile Groping Squads.

The Supreme Court will review the patentability of medical diagnostic tests.

Man arrested after IRS accidently deposits $110,000 into his bank account.

Wimbledon officials wants female tennis players to stop grunting so loudly.

Iran wants to send a monkey into space.

Bronies are real, and they're in Albuquerque.

Top 10 brands that will disappear next year.

Coming soon to a restaurant near you: horse-semen shots.

Your dishwasher is slowly killing you.

This giant chicken-deboning machine is terrifying, awesome.

Man ships himself across country in a crate equipped to play a MMO as part of an art project.

The earliest American artwork discovered is …

Oh yeah, they remade Footloose.

New iPhone rumor #32.

Pray for a Destiny's Child reunion.

The seven types of friends everyone needs.

Happy Birthday John Dillinger!!!

We may finally have someone to blame for starting the Wallow Fire.

Meanwhile, firefighters in Rio Rancho are penalized for harrasing a rookie and his "private part."

After 33 years of foot-dragging, the FDA will start regulating sunscreen like it should have been all along. The Alibi's Miss Diagnosis rejoices.

The ever-resourceful yakuza and their crime syndicate overlords are capitalizing on Japan's tsunami disaster.

Chaos in Greece.

For my July 1 birthday, L.A. schools are banning flavored milk.

Meanwhile, two landmark court rulings favor students' free speech when they're online at home.

Here are five things to keep an eye on as Republican presidential challengers start lining up.

The 2011 E3 booth babes [NSFW ads] and the lonely dudes who photograph them.

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Scott Owens found not guilty on all charges.

A 13-year-old APS student brings a loaded gun to school.

Banks can't freeze Moammar Gadafi's funds because they don't know how to spell his name.

First Lady Michelle Obama was almost killed yesterday.

Happy 4/20 Day marijuana smokers/losers.

Police car torched in Four Hills neighborhood.

Car slams into crowd at McDonald's job fair.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signs law giving Tea Party flag the same status as the American flag.

After almost 100 years the CIA declassifies the secret recipe for the Kaiser's invisible ink.

Drugs don't work in space.

Meet the Republican governors who attack federal spending while accepting federal dollars.

One porn company owns nearly a quarter of all 1-800 numbers.

This is why you nerds can't have nice things.

Florida job center fights unemployment by spending $14,000 on superhero capes.

Why do so many smart people deny science?

Walmart listens to customer requests, loses $1.85 billion in sales.

Attempt at setting Q*bert world record aborted after someone unplugs the game.

Pluto has a poisonous carbon monoxide atmosphere.

Read about Superman's 1942 crossover with Flash Gordon and Dick Tracy.

GAAAAHHHH!!!

That culinary institute the Olive Garden sends is chefs to is not what you think it is. Actually, it's exactly what you think it is.

Is it safe to eat roadkill?

Newly released FBI documents show J. Edgar Hoover's interest in UFOs.

Largest ever spider fossil found in China.

The cast of Happy Days is suing CBS and Paramount for unpaid royalties.

Seven often-debated movie questions that have already been answered.

New Chicken McBites coming to a McDonald's soon.

Happy Birthday George Takei!!!

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Bill O'Reilly says the media is hyping the the nuclear situation in Japan, meanwhile Japanese workers evacuate the troubled nuclear plant. In an unrelated matter, it's being reported that radioactive snow is falling in Japan.

Not a single Republican on the House Energy committee will admit that climate change is real.

N.M. House rejects the Senate's immigrant license bill.

New census data shows Rio Rancho and Los Lunas are New Mexico's fastest growing cities.

Democrats are trying to force Republicans who oppose Obama's health care overhual to publicly declare whether they accept taxpayer-subsidized health care from the Federal Employee Health Benefit Program.

Missouri lawmakers are repealing voter-approved anti-puppy-mill lows.

House committee has nothing better to do than vote to defund NPR and PBS.

Is this what conservatives really want? Georgia governor raises taxes on Girl Scout Cookies, and cuts taxes on multinational corporations. While Michigan's governor cuts corporate tax rate by 86% and raises taxes for the working poor.

A terrible mother filed a lawsuit against her daughter's preschool for inadequately preparing the 4-year-old to pursue an Ivy League education.

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is urging his citizens to say no to boob jobs.

Chicago bookstore forced to cancel mafia book signing after threats.

Some of the best walk off moments from 60 Minutes.

Life publishes some never-before seen photos of Hitler.

A tour of the worlds greatest holes.

The Wire's Snoop arrested, charged with conspiracy to sell heroin.

TV's Buffy The Vampire Slayer premiered 14 years ago this week.

Lean Cuisine meals are being recalled.

Were you a Hee Haw fan or did your parents prefer Soul Train? You can only choose one!

Hey nerds! Read Stan Lee's deposition on the creation of the Marvel universe. Seriously, it's good.

The Gap want's you to haggle for your next pair of pants.

Nickelodeon is bringing back some it's big hits from the 90s. Come on Pete & Pete!

Charlie Sheen's porn star loser girlfriend tweets her suicide attempt.

R.I.P. Nate Dogg.

Stephen King is writing another Dark Tower book.

Happy birthday Jerry Lewis!

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