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  • UK mum does house chores in her sleep

    A woman from Newport, South Wales, has developed a peculiar condition in which she cleans and tidies the house while she is still sleeping. Claire Bartlett, 50, has an odd habit of doing the dishes, dusting and even shining the windows in a deep slumber, the Sun reported. It started in October 2012, but since she does such a good job of cleaning up, neither she nor husband Crispin, want to ...

  • Guptagate report Highlights and curious details

    "Clearly," the government authors write, "someone is not telling the truth." That is a rather obvious deduction, given the contents of the 30-page report into what went wrong to allow a private plane, ferrying wedding guests, to land at the country's top air ...

  • Phillips strange double lifts Reds over Mets 7-4

    Brandon Phillips bounced a bizarre double over first base to snap a ninth-inning tie, and the Cincinnati Reds completed a three-game sweep of the struggling New York Mets with a 7-4 victory ...

  • Girls tossed from mall over cancer hats

    Three sisters say they were kicked out of a Pennsylvania mall because they refused to remove profanity-laden hats expressing their hatred of ...

  • Weird pirate ant comes with an eye patch

    Scientists have discovered a strangely patterned new insect in the Philippines, dubbing it the "pirate ant" because of a dark stripe over its eyes that makes it look like it's wearing an eye patch. The formal name of the newfound creature is Cardiocondyla pirata, and belongs to a group of species that are found from Thailand across the whole Indonesian-Malaysian region. "On a ...

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Trading Places [DVD]

Trading Places [DVD]

Trading Places is what you might imagine a Frank Capra film would be like if it were reimagined for the Reagan era and starring a couple of stand-out comedians from Saturday Night Live. In true Capraqesue fashion, its all about the underdog rising up and the greedy-wealthy being punished, even though the lesson at the end of the movie is to get as much money as possible at all costs ... ...

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  • Black Moth Super Rainbow Gets Weird with Kickstarter

    It would be overly simplistic to imagine a chasm between the haves and have-nots in today's psych-rock landscape, even between the ones with huge production values and the ones sticking it out with streamers and bubblegum. The reason: All the best bands these days carry some degree of scrappiness, no matter how gigantic their approach. Reigning acid champions The Flaming Lips still hold on ...

  • Senator Carl Levins Entirely Bizarre Thoughts On Apples Cash Taxes Paid

    and the taxes that they do or don't pay which seems to me to be entirely bizarre. Yet it appears that people are taking it entirely seriously. The point is that the committee (or, as I assume was the case, its driving force Senator Carl Levin) noted the difference between Apple's provisions for taxes it would have to pay and the actual amount of cash that it handed over. What makes it ...

  • Beer thief leaves apology note cash

    The elderly Villa Hills residents recently received a confession from the beer thief, along with $140 in cash on their back patio, according to Cinncinati.com. The letter was addressed "Dear Homeowner" and read, "Enclosed is a sum of cash that my friends and I owe you and your family to repay you for all of the times we have stolen from your poolside fridge/bar over the past few ...

  • Cashier sells herself winning lotto ticket

    While Mary Jane Hart didn't win the $600 million jackpot, she did manage to collect a cool $1 million. She used the numbers of her favorite NASCAR drivers to fill out her ticket, which she checked only after getting a call from work, Jonesboro, Ark., TV station KOIT reported. "Someone had called me and told me that there was a winning ticket sold at the store, so I went to the ...

  • Daniel Dennett You can make Aristotle look like a flaming idiot

    Daniel Dennett, a cheerleader for Darwin and atheism, attracts fierce criticism for his views on free will. He talks about his new book and explains why philosophers have to walk a ...

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