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Paris and Nicky Hilton’s little brother Barron Hilton has returned to LA to hire a top lawyer — and to see if plastic surgeons can fix his face after he…

via http://pagesix.com/2013/12/10/barron-hilton-seeks-out-lawyer-surgeons-after-brawl/

Richard Dawkins at the RDFRS website: I have been asked to respond to an article by David Dobbs called ‘Die, selfish gene, die’. It’s a fluent piece of writing featuring some interesting biological observations, but it’s fatally marred: infected by…

via 3quarksdaily http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2013/12/richard-dawkins-adversarial-journalism-and-the-selfish-gene.html

LONDON — George Clooney has delivered a message of support to the pro-Western demonstrators in Ukraine in a video message sent to heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, who has become one of the leaders of the opposition movement in Ukraine. In the video, posted on YouTube, Clooney said: “I wanted to send a message to… Read more »

via Variety http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/george-clooney-sends-video-message-in-support-of-demonstrators-in-ukraine-1200940263/

Ben Stiller’s $90 Million ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," which opens Dec. 25, took great pains to film in real-life extreme conditions, for a plot that’s in large part about fantasy.

via WSJ.com: Media & Marketing http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303330204579246350213245222.html?mod=rss_media_marketing

28 year old Chauncey Wright, brain damaged, with an IQ in the 50s, had trouble holding a job. Seeing some men handing out flyers at a Walmart parking lot, Wright asked if they needed a helper. Soon, Wright found himself handing out flyers on his bike, eventually procuring drugs and firearms for his employers. And inidicted on several drug and gun charges after finding out his employers were undercover ATF officers running a sting operation in a curious Milwaukee storefront. During which the storefront was burgled, damaged, the owner stiffed on repair costs, and several guns stolen from ATF vehicles, including a machine gun that has yet to be recovered. This wasn’t an isolated incident.

From Portland to Pensacola, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel finds that the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives repeated several sting operations across the country with very similar tactics: recruit suggestible, mentally disabled people in the pursuit of their law enforcement mission, opening dodgy storefronts in safe zones near churches and schools, lure underage kids with video games, alcohol and marijuana, letting felons walk away with firearms, dealing in stolen goods, shoddy law enforcement, and overall ethically questionable behavior.

via MetaFilter http://www.metafilter.com/134582/And-I-require-the-ATF-to-pay-for-the-removal

NEW YORK (AP) — The High Line, a park that turned a dilapidated stretch of elevated railway on Manhattan’s West Side into one of New York’s newest tourist attractions, may have brought a different kind of visitor: a cockroach that can withstand harsh winter cold and never seen before in the U.S.

via Yahoo! News – Latest News & Headlines http://news.yahoo.com/invasive-cockroach-found-nyc-cold-044732867.html

“I want to warn every mother and every daughter: do not use the product that killed my child,” one woman tells V.F.

via VF Daily http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2013/12/nuvaring-birth-control-investigation

Art dealer and artist Tony Shafrazi publicly went “ballistic” on Barbara Gladstone Gallery director Max Falkenstein at nightclub LIV in Miami over the estate of Keith Haring, multiple sources told…

via http://pagesix.com/2013/12/09/dealer-goes-ballistic-at-art-basel/

The one-armed outdoorsman who inspired the movie “127 Hours” has been arrested on domestic violence charges in Colorado. Aron Ralston, 38, who cut off his forearm to free himself from a boulder in 2003, was busted Saturday night in Denver at the home of a 38-year-old woman, police said.

via NYDN Rss Article only http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/127-hours-hero-arrested-domestic-violence-charges-article-1.1541895

The city will pay out an $82,500 settlement to an Occupy Wall Street activist who claims police beat him up and arrested him three times – the last instance booking him on a years-old public urination warrant for someone else, the Daily News has learned.

via NYDN Rss Article only http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ows-beating-suit-cost-city-82-000-article-1.1541903