Friday, December 16, 2011

Short Takes: Doris Day interviewed; unnecessary chimp research; man stabbed to death in Walmart but store stays open; Sandusky case's missing DA

Jeremy Kinser interviews Doris Day for The Advocate, but doesn't ask her if she's sorry she turned down the role of Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate.

Homophobic pastor Rick Warren tries to turn Christopher Hitchen's death into an ad for Christianity. Twitter spanks him. Meanwhile, Warren's Ugandan buddy, Pastor Martin Ssempa, will have to court to answer charges that he conspired to falsely "defame" a rival pastor by accusing him of sodomy. Ssempa could get five years.

A Verizon network engineer repeatedly used the company's warranty contracts with Cisco to order unneeded replacement parts, then sold them and kept the money — about $4.5 million.

But don't let untrustworthy phone company engineers make you doubt for a moment that Sprint has done anything intrusive with the Carrier IQ spyware that it admits is installed on 26 million of its phones

Negative reaction to Rick Perry's gay bashing ad (650,000 dislikes) may put a stake in the heart of future gratuitous political attacks by candidates.

Cleanup in aisle 3: SC Walmart stays open after man stabs wife to death in in-store bank. But the store DID rope off the blood-splattered scene and close the grocery checkout area to give the POLICE some privacy.

U.S. panel says most research on chimps is unnecessary.

New version of toxic SOPA bill sneaks in a really dangerous ability to kill any website...

Tonight, Dateline NBC asks: Did the Sandusky case have anything to do with the disappearance of Pennsylvania DA Ray Gricar?

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