And the twist … The Twitter account Manti Te’o’s reported fake girlfriend tweeted last night promising a full explanation, which means that a weird story just got weirder.
EDIT: Context to the “Reagan and Troy” bit:
The tweet refers to Arizona Cardinals fullback Reagan Mauia who told ESPN that he and Pittsburgh Steelers star Troy Polamalu actually met the girl. Mauia told ESPN that before Te’o’s relationship with Kekua, they became “good friends” and talked on and off.
“I can’t believe my ‘dead girlfriend’ was fake.” Deadspin’s doozy of a story on Notre Dame star Manti Te’o and the girlfriend that wasn’t has been read more than 2 million times this evening, which actually seems like a low number. Today we learned that the name Manti Te’o can now be spoken in the same sentence as Balloon Boy, and plot devices from terrible movies translate to real life sometimes.
Former Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich has signed on as a regular contributor to Fox News Channel.
The former Ohio congressman unsuccessfully ran for president in 2004 and 2008, and recently ended his congressional career. Fox said Wednesday that Kucinich will make his debut in his new role on “The O’Reilly Factor” on Thursday night.
We don’t know about you guys, but we definitely didn’t see this coming. Think adding Kucinich as a regulator contributor will do anything to change Fox News’ pro-Republican reputation?
If you joyride a train, you’ll prob crash into a house.
A derailed train on Tuesday crashed into the side of a house in Saltsjöbaden, a town of about 10,000 outside Stockholm. A woman, reportedly a twenty-something cleaner for the train company, somehow snagged the keys to the train and drove it away before it crashed into the building. (Lisbeth Salander, is that you?) The cleaner was injured in the incident, but amazingly, there are no reports of injuries of people in the residence.
Reblogging because I’ve done this before.
That guy there, with the face tattoo … he could be the next president of the Czech Republic. Seriously. Do yourself a favor, read this.
Moving to Eastern Europe just so I can vote for this guy.
FYI, platinum coin critics: They do not need to actually make the coin out of $1 trillion in platinum; they just need to value it at $1 trillion. (ht @dceiver)
Meet Charles, the Norfolk, Va.-based “Lab-a-lion” whose owner-cut mane (in honor of Old Dominion University’s mascot) was so convincing, that people called 911, freaked out that it might be an actual lion. (In case you need some spelling out, it’s a dog.) Try topping that, other weird news stories today.
That loop scrawl is what President Obama’s new Chief of Staff Jacob “Jack” Lew calls a signature. A handwriting expert told us that it’s ”among the most uniquely weird we have seen in a quarter century of graphology.”
I need to work on a fancy signature.
That’s not a signature, that’s a scribble.
Reblogging this because it’s newly relevant due to Obama’s decision to nominate Jack Lew his treasury secretary. For lovers of weird signatures that don’t really tax autopens that much.
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Wrote a thing.
Hat tip to this headline writer.
Important News of the Day: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has apparently hired crackheads to take out InfoWars founder (and newest rival of Piers Morgan) Alex Jones. Watch the video for more on this startling announcement, straight from the mouth of the man being hunted down by Mayor Bloomberg’s crackhead army. source
The arrangement was simply FreedomWorks paid Glenn Beck money and Glenn Beck said nice things about FreedomWorks on the air. I saw that a million dollars went to Beck this past year, that was the annual expenditure.Former Freedomworks head Dick Armey • Discussing, in an interview with Media Matters for America, the financial relationship his group had with Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, two men the organization paid millions of dollars simply to say good things about Freedomworks and the Tea Party. Armey calls the spending “ineffective,” stating, “If Limbaugh and Beck, if we were using those resources to recruit activists and inform activists and to encourage and enthuse activists, that’s one thing. If we are using these things to raise money; one, it’s a damned expensive way to raise money; and two, it makes raising money an end on to itself not an instrumental activity to support the foundation work that our organization does.” So basically, Freedomworks pays a ton of money to the people that would be most likely to support the Tea Party anyway.
When the weather outside is frightful, and the driving’s not delightful, and you need to get your butt home, “Let is snow, let is snow, let is snow”!
When you’re trying to copy edit, but your editor’s like, “forget it,” and you work at a tiny hole, ”Let is snow, let is snow, let is snow”!
Washington (CNN) — A law enforcement official confirms members of the Westboro Baptist Church, known for its controversial practice of picketing military funerals, participated in training for law enforcement officials at Quantico Marine Base in Virginia.
The sessions were discontinued this spring after Tom Browne, assistant director for the FBI, voiced strong opposition to bringing the group to a military facility. [more]
This is one of those times where you wince and shake your head. (EDIT: Worth noting this story is a year and a half old. Still wince-worthy.)
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