Mollie Hemingway is still annoyed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s claim that he doesn’t need anyone to tell him what to do.

"I'm accountable to no one, including the entity that created and funds my agency. When they ask for information as part of their oversight responsibilities, I claim that they're trying to extort me." (Yes, as an American, I'm still annoyed by this…

They say you should never meet your heroes. They’re probably right. We all have ways we like to imagine the people we admire, especially the famous ones. We create personalities for them in our minds, no matter how little we know about them. We even get attached to them—and then get upset when we find […]
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Earlier we told you about NBC News issuing a BIG correction to an original story that the feds had wiretapped Trump attorney Michael Cohen:

whoa: NBC is correcting its wiretap story on MSNBC right now, saying it was not a wiretap on Cohen phone. Says it was instead a log of phone calls known as a "pen register," so couldn't listen in
— Justin Sink (@justinsink) May 3, 2018

@ComfortablySmug gave NBC News some free spin advice, and that was to seek inspiration from one of their own:

NBC, just say you were hacked by a time traveler…

The perpetrator known as the Golden State Killer, East Area Rapist, Original Night Stalker, and now also the Visalia Ransacker was arrested on April 24, 2018. Joseph DeAngelo Jr. is alleged to be the man who burglarized 120 homes, raped nearly four dozen victims, and murdered 12 people during a more than decade-long crime spree […]
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Keeping up with the news is hard. So hard, in fact, that we’ve decided to save you the hassle by rounding up the most significant, unusual, or just plain old mind-blowing stories each week. While much of the world was enjoying the May Day holiday, the gigantic story spinning wheel that is modern-day Washington, DC, […]
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When we talk about species extinction, it’s usually in the context of trying to prevent it from happening. In fact, around the world , many national and international organizations grant legal protections to species on the brink of dying out. Many scientists also warn that we may be in a period of mass extinction caused […]
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People who work out even once a week or for as little as 10 minutes a day tend to be more cheerful than those who never exercise.

West Virginia GOP Senate candidate Don Blankenship would like you to know that he approves this message. And he might be the only one.
Take a gander at his electoral pitch:

What in the world did I just watch pic.twitter.com/4eudpGAxp0
— Liam Donovan (@LPDonovan) May 3, 2018

Well …

This is just racism, pure and simple. https://t.co/z3TSY8hjw3
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) May 3, 2018

You know what? It really is…

Eating rice and pasta was tied to an earlier onset of menopause.

Though no injection sites exist yet in the United States, the endorsement of the strategy by New York may give the movement behind it special impetus.