The family of shooter Jared Loughner have barricaded themselves into their home.

A man’s severed head is found behind a New Jersey church.

Watching too much TV can damage your heart.

A mysterious green blob is photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope.

South Korean director Park Chan-Wook shoots a movie in its entirety on an iPhone.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to increase efforts and release more documents.

Chicago joins the creepy world’s-end deal with a massive fish die-off of their own.

Apparently, this newly released document proves OJ Simpson’s innocence?

Real life Terminator; an Italian man is shot in the head, sneezes out the bullet, and lives.

Auburn defeats Oregon 22-19 to win the BCS National Championship.

Latest on Gabrielle Giffords' shooting.

Giffords talks about rhetoric of violence during 2010 political campaign and the Palin crosshairs map

Palin crosshairs map with Giffords' district in sights.

New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez isn't really a giant,she's just making her presence known.

Check out Colorado's eccentric incoming governor.

Everyone must visit Mootopia and tickle the cow.

Wikileaks Twitter account info has been subpoenaed by the Justice Dept. There's a subpoena joke in there somewhere.

Meet Blue Andy Rooney

Meet the Queen of Amphetamines, making a personal appearance in the U.S.

Meet Toronto's $400,000 automated public pay toilet!

Damien Hirst's latest sculpture is a jewel encrusted baby skull.

N.Z. Farmer dies trying to rescue lamb from sewage pond.

Cameron's house in Ferris Bueller's Day Off is for sale

Seattle Seahawks player runs 67 yards for game upset touchdown vs. New Orleans Saints on Saturday.

Richard Nixon was born on this day in 1913. What a dick. Read this excerpt from the "Preview of Nixon's Memoirs" by Paul Krassner.

Sgt. Torry Chambers arrested and accused of raping female inmates at MDC.

Guv-elect pulls a secretary of education from Florida.

President Obama signs the Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal.

Toys that cause lasting psychological problems.

A nuclear treaty between the United States and Russia may pass today.

World's ugliest cat?

CIA launches WikiLeaks Task Force (WTF).

There's not an ap for WikiLeaks.

9/11 first responders pissed at Republicans.

What happened to the Lakers?

Teens not having as many babies these days.

Is America the sick kid?

50 rad things from 2010

Don't ask don't tell is repealed in the Senate. Will Obama sign the bill? Probably, but top brass are still worried about "distractions".

DREAM Act fails to pass in Grinch-like Senate.

Party like it's 1989: APD shuts down "illegal rave" this weekend. Those Journal links are a PIA, but it's worth it. High humidity in the building and bikinis were factors, apparently.

Bank of America joins others in suspending Wikileaks accounts.

Meanwhile, in a tit-for-tat scene the Swedish police report on the Assange accusations has leaked.

Only six more shopping days before ... synthetic cannabis is banned in the U.S. AGAIN with the Grinch.

Sonic booms turn crocodiles on.

Bangladeshi stock market has collapsed. Right now you're asking yourself, "Bangladesh has a stock market?" Yup, and so does Mongolia.

Check out this ridiculously tiny lighter.

Fun fact for journalists: on this day in 1918 Lenin made it illegal for the Bolshevik press to criticize in any way the original Soviet secret police, the Cheka--which had been formed exactly one year earlier. Lenin had originally intended the secret police to be a temporary institution. Oh well.

• The culprit who was on the wrong side of history (AlbGuy) [ Sun Dec 19 2010 3:18 PM ]
  
• $35 to get into a rave! (snagglepuss) [ Sun Dec 19 2010 5:47 PM ]
  

It’s raining, it’s snowing. The old man is … growing?

A decade of the U.S. in Afghanistan and conditions have never been worse.

The Senate has enough votes to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

WikiLeaks dude released on bail as the U.S. scrambles to build a conspiracy case against him.

Year-end lists! The top “Daily Show” segments and “fashion moments” of 2010.

Richardson arrives in Pyongyang, pulls the plug on a N.M. wild horse haven.

The FDA finally tells us how much antibiotic is sprinkled into our meat. (This week’s Miss Diagnosis health column is on antibiotics, while we’re on the subject.)

New York Times online will revert back to a pay-site model sometime next month.

2011's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees include Neil Diamond, but not Mike Diamond.

Winona Ryder emerges from her protective cocoon.

Vandals cut down England’s 2,000-year-old Glastonbury Holy Thorn Tree.

Watch the Metrodome collapse.

Al Queda claims responsibility for Saturday’s Stockholm attacks.

The Mona Lisa has tiny numbers and letters in her eyes.

Iranian courts sentence a man to be blinded with acid. Ooo, heaven is a place on earth.

Ron Paul may run for president again.

Our bats are dying.

Hobbits battled giant storks.

How to take part in a massive web attack.

Wikileaks documents indicate Texas-based DynCorp provided young boys as sex slaves in Afghanistan.

Meet the Paranoid Parrot.

The Louisiana Swamp Monster photo looks like a stupid cartoon.

The Subway at 98th and Central was robbed and two people were shot.

APD has identified one of the women in the mysterious photographs as Christina Leyba.

Happy birthday, Steve Buscemi.

• Paranoid Parrot is freakin hilarious (RuthPlum) [ Mon Dec 13 2010 11:44 AM ]
  

The Senate fails on a possible repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

The U.S. is planning to hit Wikileaks founder Julian Assange with spying charges under the 1984-esque Espionage Act.

Student protesters in London attack a car containing Prince Charles and his wife Camilla.

A new musical satiring Scientology opens in St. Petersburg, Fla.

A suitcase is seized in Washington Dulles International Airport containing elephant tails, dried hedgehogs and chicken blood.

A Burger King employee punches a 67-year-old customer, eventually killing him.

Baltimore Orioles outfielder Luke Scott questions Obama’s birthplace and presidency. When your team becomes relevant, then you can talk, buddy.

This new Barbie doll could be recording child porn!

Bea Arthur used to be a truck-driving Marine. No surprise there.

“The Hasselhoffs” is pulled off the air after just two episodes.

The only IMAX theater in the state will be open in 2012 at the abandoned and desolate Winrock Center.

• BEA ARTHUR - Last Interview (stephenmiles) [ Sun Dec 12 2010 11:10 AM ]
  

The Dream Act passed the House last night and got tabled in the Senate today. Dems are stalling to try and gather the votes.

Gov. Richardson’s going to North Korea.

10 weirdest new animals of 2010.

Hackers threaten amazon.com in defense of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Slim Thug on a plane diverted to Albuquerque because another passenger tried to jump out. Slim Thug Tweets need for sympathy sex due to the ordeal.

$10,000 gasoline heist in Bernalillo caught on tape.

Investigators tell a strange and sad story of ritualized sexual abuse in the East Mountains.

The worst bathroom in N.Y.C.

London tuition protests grow violent.

House Dems reject tax cut deal struck by President Obama.

Some chaplains may resign if Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is repealed.

Another case of parking tickets on a car with a dead body inside.

Howard Stren goes on and on and on. For at least five more years on Sirius.

Oprah’s not even a little bit lesbian.

Tipping has little to do with quality of service.

Elizabeth Edwards dies after a six-year battle with cancer.

Obama is defending his agreement to extend the Bush-Era Tax Cuts.

4chan splinter group Anonymous is attacking enemies of Wikileaks.

Wounded Army vet accused of stalking member of the Westboro Baptist Church (yea, those guys).

After 7 months in space, the secret X-37B robot space plane returns.

Bonding-out of Albuquerque jails is getting more expensive.

Prison fire in Chile kills 83.

Attempted kidnapping in Santa Fe thwarted.

Republican Congressman tries to crowdsource an attack on science.

GOOGLE'S CHROME LAPTOP WON'T HAVE A CAPSLOCK KEY.

The FBI thinks the new Video Barbie Doll could be used for child porn.

Old Navy sells sweaters with swastika buttons.

Are you a rich jerk who wants to watch first-run movies at home? That'll be $20,000.

Where in America is the perfect place to commit a crime?

Japanese satellite Akatsuki fails to enter Venus' orbit, won't get another chance for seven years.

McDonald's in the Czech Republic is introducing five New York-themed hamburgers.

F/X cancels Terriers. I'll never love again.

Is $3 wine any good?

John Lennon's final interview is released on the 30th anniversary of his murder.

Happy birthday Sam Kinison.

• WHAT? (faun lebowitz) [ Wed Dec 8 2010 11:40 AM ]
  
• Is $3 wine any good? (cheerful) [ Thu Dec 9 2010 10:40 AM ]
  
• I use two buck chuck for cooking (krillin29) [ Thu Dec 9 2010 3:45 PM ]
  

The first pivately owned spaceship will launch tomorrow.

Fishermen have found the bodies of balloonists Richard Abruzzo and Carol Rymer-Davis.

Wikileaks is set to release a Doomsday Machine cache of encrypted documents held hostage against state interference.

Deals in the Senate will most likely extend tax cuts and unemployment benefits.

A deadly baseball struck and killed the catcher.

Meet Edgar Jimenez, the 14-year-old hitman.

The coffee cherry dung of the palm civet produces a remarkably smooth and earthy cup of coffee.

The “Throat of Fire” volcano in Ecuador has erupted. Help. It’s an erupting…volcano.

The sharks are attacking at an Egyptian resort.

Try the pee injection diet.

Michael Cera’s hipster bullshit makes me want to vomit.

Ponder with the Philosorapter.

Can brain damage create false memories?

Don Meredith died in Santa Fe at 72.

“Get out of your truck or the SWAT team will make you get out of your truck.”

Destiny Baca, 18, is accused of selling four marijuana cigarettes to some teenagers. Schocking.

Happy birthday, Agnes Moorhead!

In light of the Christmas spirit, the Smithsonian displays, among other things, an ant-covered Jesus.

You can no longer sit or lie on sidewalks in San Francisco.

An innocent snowball fight turns into a 500 person brawl in Germany.

China and North Korea are having a lover’s quarrel, according to the controversial WikiLeaks docs.

8 million people have stopped using their credit cards over the past year.

News Corp doesn’t know what the hell to do with struggling MySpace.

A casting agent for The Hobbit is fired for only looking at prospects with “light skin tones.”

A robber in Deming gets foiled when a package of empanadas is thrown at his head.

The new Ford Focus uses recycled jeans in its sound-deadening and carpet backing.

Fiji Water is no longer from Fiji.

This man, arrested 127 times, claims he is a victim of Albuquerque police.

A Love Parade turned into a Death Parade.

Wikileaks founder explains the leaking of thousands of military documents.

The Taliban have captured a U.S. sailor.

Everyone’s a critic: birdshit halted a Kings of Leon concert.

See the face of the face transplant.

Tiny houses are fun.

Learn to draw a yeti. So life-like.

I sure do hope they find the yeti.

Body modification has a long and profitable history for carnival staff.

A Comic-Con pen stabbing hints at over-crowding and poor self control.

See the longest tongue in the country.

Louisiana is the laziest state in the union. I say fine, let them have their title.

Police captured the “Wiggy, Fake-Boobed, Clown Pants Robber.” As he came to be known.

It’s been raining in Albuquerque.

We’re sure killing a lot of bears around here

Police say Rhonda Estrada ran over her boyfriend’s leg then fled.

Here’s another New Mexico meltdown story.

Bernalillo County Jim Goff is an atheist.

It’s Dorothy Hamill’s birthday.

• Louisiana (nozlkoff) [ Mon Jul 26 2010 11:51 AM ]
  
• I also hear (Nick Brown) [ Mon Jul 26 2010 3:29 PM ]
  
• Thibodaux (nozlkoff) [ Mon Jul 26 2010 3:51 PM ]