Jim Beam Goes Japan: 7 Things Bourbon Drinkers May Not Know About Suntory
Japanese beverage giant Suntory made a bold move into Kentucky this week when it announced plans to acquire fabled bourbon maker Jim Beam for $16 billion. Given Suntory’s reputation for quality back...
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Today in Tabs: The Power of the Idea
Glenn Beck's man inside Buzzfeed Benny Johnson picked up an HHS report about Medicare overpaying for penis pumps, ostensibly as an excuse to make a lot of bad erection puns. But while Reuters ran the...
View ArticleDon’t Be so Quick to Bury Those Who Mourn Online
For years, Lisa Bonchek Adams has been documenting her experience living with incurable, stage 4 breast cancer. She shared very publicly, first on Facebook, then on her personal blog, and ultimately,...
View Article"Gravity,""American Hustle," and "12 Years a Slave" lead in Oscar nominations
Oscar nominations are in and hold few surprises for movie critics. Three movies, American Hustle, Gravity, and 12 Years a Slave, lead the nominations with 10 each. There were a few snubs. Lee Daniel’s...
View ArticleCartel Censorship Reaches Mexico City
Like an unstoppable tsunami, the wave of drug-related censorship that has enveloped thousands of journalists in Mexico has reached the capital city, long a bastion of relatively open crime reporting,...
View ArticleAtlantic City's Last 'Low-Roller' Casino Busts
A few miles outside Atlantic City, signs along the highway greet gamblers by talking about the people who will scrub their toilets, serve them cocktails and, more often than not, deal them losing...
View ArticleAtlantic City's Last 'Low-Roller' Casino Busts
A few miles outside Atlantic City, signs along the highway greet gamblers by talking about the people who will scrub their toilets, serve them cocktails and, more often than not, deal them losing...
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Today in Tabs: Ourotaboros
Welcome to Tabs, coming to you today from deep inside my lower intestine, as I have at this point climbed completely up my own ass and disappeared.Gif star Andrew Simone, everybodySo what the hell...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor: Ecuador Ambassador Responds
Earlier this month, Newsweek published a story on a tribal dispute in Ecuador. What follows is a letter to the editor from Nathalie Cely, Ecuador’s ambassador in the United States, and a response from...
View ArticleWildfire Near the Edge of L.A. Burns 2 Homes
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A fast-moving California wildfire started accidentally by three campers roared out of control in foothills east of Los Angeles on Thursday, destroying at least two homes and...
View ArticleThe Abortion Case the Supreme Court May Find Hard to Refuse
From the Rio Grande Valley in Texas it is around 150 miles to Corpus Christi and the nearest operating abortion clinic. "You know how long that takes in Texas at 75 miles per hour?” Judge Edith Jones...
View ArticleAmerica Hates Its Gifted Kids
It’s no secret that when it comes to education, America gets a D-minus. In the most recent global tests– scored on a 1,000-point scale – the U.S. scored a 481 in math, 497 in science, and 498 in...
View ArticleBaseball’s $215 Million Man Holds His Own, Even Against a Legend
On Friday the Los Angeles Dodgers are expected to formally announce that they have signed southpaw pitcher Clayton Kershaw to a seven-year contract extension worth $215 million. Kershaw’s deal eclipses...
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Why Adam Lanza Did It
Everyone is talking this week about the creepy audio recording of Newtown, CT shooter Adam Lanza sharing his views on Travis, a chimpanzee who became famous after tearing the face off of a woman in...
View ArticleObama Bans Spying On Leaders Of U.S. Allies, Scales Back NSA Program
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama announced a ban on U.S. eavesdropping on the leaders of close friends and allies on Friday, and rein in the vast collection of Americans' phone data in a...
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Today in Tabs: The Tab Less Opened
Today in Dumb Media: Buzzfeed's embarrassingly visible social disease Benny Johnson posted an article last night consisting entirely of anonymous death threats against Edward Snowden. Citing between 0...
View ArticleObama Brings Snoopers to Heel but Approves Spying on Americans
To spy on his own citizens or not to spy on them? That was the simple choice civil liberties campaigners thought President Obama faced when considering the future of the mass telephone data collection...
View ArticleChampionship Sunday Legacy Quest
The AFC and NFC Championship games take place on Sunday, with the winners of each contest earning an all-expenses-paid trip to the state that ranks dead last in fiscal condition, according to a recent...
View ArticleA Buffalo Wing and a Prayer
Call it the Desire of Wings: Over Super Bowl weekend, Americans will polish off around 1.2 billion chicken wings, capping an annual peak in sales that swells every January, according to the National...
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The Day the FBI Knocked on Adam Lanza’s Door
In 2004, officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation knocked on the door at 36 Yogananda Street, in Newtown, Connecticut, wanting information on a 12-year-old boy named Adam Lanza, according to...
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