OAPs raid children's piggy banks

Source: Daily Express

In a reversal of the tradition of the Bank of Mum and Dad, where parents pay off student loans or help their children with deposits for houses, more than a third of retirees admit to being forced to ask for handouts to ...
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Tweet it and weep? Why we grieve online over celebs

Source: Stuff.co.nz

ROBIN GIBB: 'Stayin' alive' in the hearts of fans and on Twitter, at least briefly. Minutes after Robin Gibb's death, it began — the tweets of misery, the hashtagged mourning, the maudlin aphorisms streaming up and down Facebook walls and ac ...
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Open thread for night owls: Gas prices lose their edge as attack weapon

Source: Daily Kos

Remember when in the darkest hours following 9-11, Bush hid in the cornfields of Nebraska? Well, as our fearless leader now admits, "I was trying to get out of harm's way." How's that Republican attack on gasoline prices working out? (gasbuddy.com) Um. ...
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Next Up: Ozzy's Tribute To Cole Porter

Source: Wall Street Journal

By Joe Queenan Eagles co-founder Glenn Frey is now touring better concert halls and casinos everywhere in support of his new album "After Hours," on which he performs such chestnuts as "The Shadow of Your Smile" and "For Sentimental Reasons." ...
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Jon Huntsman Jr. named one of AARP's 21 sexiest men in magazine

Source: Deseret News

Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman rides a motorcycle at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Aug. 7, 2006, in Sturgis, S.D. Huntsman has been named one of the "21 Sexiest Men Over 50," according to the AARP. “The 28-years married fa ...
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Av Young Blaze – “Feeding My Flame” Video

Source: The Smoking Section

In case there was any question about it, thugs can be as emo as any hipster, or whoever else is supposed to be stereotypically consumed by sad emotions. All the gangbanging, guns, and lean in the world does not make a trapper like Av Y ...
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In defence of Courtney Love

Source: Winnipeg Sun

If anyone in this world has learned to be careful about what they wish for, it's Courtney Love. "I cannot remember not wanting to be famous," the controversial icon admitted to me a couple of years ago. "My earliest memory is driving through the Rainbo ...
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Review: Killer Mike, DIIV Shine at Brooklyn Bowl

Source: NBC New York

Stardom is a funny thing. It’s ineffable, indescribable, like the famed phrase U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once used to describe pornography: "I know it when I see it." Thursday night’s show at ...
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In Which We Profess Various Apologies

Source: This Recording

At the age of eleven, Kurt Cobain was the subject of a description to be published in his school's newspaper, the Puppy Press, under the headline, "Meatball of the Month": Kurt is a seventh grader at our s ...
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