Headlines - 07/02/2009
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All-Gay Army Division Planned by Secretary Gates
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who is conducting a full-scale review of government policy on homosexuals in the military, says he is finalizing plans to form an all-gay division in the U.S. Army...
Dailyfortnight
Real Madrid Fail to Get Refund on Ronaldo After Losing Receipt
After changing his mind over the purchase of Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo for a record breaking �80m, Real Madrid's President, Florentino Perez, was thwarted in an attempt to get a full refund for the player after losing the receipt.
Dotpenn
Struggling Newspapers Offer Premium Truth Content
With advertising rates down and subscription revenue plummeting, several newspapers are pondering a move to offer content that is actually true, free of bias, and fair. The plans would require readers to pay for the extra truth.
The New York Times is leading the way with its new "Pay Per Truth" (PPT) program.
Under the program, readers can read current content that is slanted and distorted. For extra money, these same readers can access an article that offers facts and presents points-of-view from both sides.
Glossy News
Let’s Take This Relationship to the Next Level
Jan, these past few months have been incredible. You are an amazing woman, and I feel like the luckiest man in the world to have someone like you in my life. I know that in the beginning I said we should move slowly, but I am ready to throw all caution to the wind and take the next logical step... I want to Skype with you.
Smooth Operator
Palin Does Interview without Sounding like a Wacko
Unlike her usual buzzword-laced, rambling, nonsensical tirade, Sarah Palin recently completed an interview with Runner's World magazine in which she came across as a completely competent human being.
Headlines - 07/01/2009
Glossy News
Pub Drunkards Encouraged to Form Orderly Line
A troop of monkeys working around the clock at the prestigious Smegmadale Institute of Advanced Numptynomics for the UK’s moronic Oldham Council have come up with their most stupid idea since the last stupid idea. Inspired by the latest EU guidelines on sheeple control and how to make the common or garden landless peasants sit up and beg – and say ‘Woof’...
Headlines - 06/30/2009
The World's Voice of Reason
Answer To Last Week's Wimbledon Spot The Ball Competition
Thousands of you got the right answer so we put each correct name on a tennis ball and tried to serve them over the net and then took all the balls that went in the net and selected one ball at random. The winner was Jack and Amy Stonehouse of Harare, Zimbabwe who win a rare picture of Andy Murray smiling.
Dailyfortnight
Report: Drugs May Have Caused Michael Jackson's Career
An investigation into what exactly caused Michael Jackson, a once adorable 5-year-old child from Gary, Indiana, to embark on a sudden and fatal career has found that his entire life's work may have been caused by prescription and recreational drugs...
Dotpenn
Satirists Mourn Passing Of Easiest Target: Michael Jackson
Satirists gathered outside the gates of Neverland to mourn the passing of one of their favorite targets--Michael Jackson.
Jackson, a singer, songwriter, dancer, and train wreck, moon-walked his way into the hearts of hundreds of comics and then into their punchlines. His fascination with young children, monkeys, isolation chambers, Boris Karloff, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Pan, Disney-Europe, middle eastern countries that ironically have harsher penalties for pederasty, and non-sexual reproduction turned into some of the funniest satire headlines of the late 20th century.
"I got through the 1990s with Wacko Jacko stories," said a sobbing Kurt Van Pelt, an Onion writer. "I don't know how I'll get on without him."
Glossy News
UK Budget Reveals Economic Wet-Nightmare
The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, is due to issue a Budget statement from his Number 11 Downing Street bunker revealing that the severity of the economic downturn and ensuing recession is likely to be as severe as the one caused by the last Ice Age.