It's Obvious Where MF Global's Money Went
Cartoonist Tony Auth shows us the money.
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The Financial Times became the latest news agency to fall prey to the Syrian Electronic Army, the hacking group which has claimed the social media scalps of the AP, The Onion, the BBC, and NPR, perhaps signaling that news outlets should be more like The Onion and come clean about how they're getting hacked.
The Players: Helen Vendler, author and one of the nation's leading critics of American Poetry; Rita Dove, a former U.S. Poet Laureate who's in charge of editing the expansive The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry.
In case you needed more evidence of the BlackBerry plummet from relevancy or that iPhones are winning the smartphone war, a thief has been mugging Columbia's students and has, sadly, been handing back their lame BlackBerrys.
The wife and son of Robert "Bob" Levinson, an ex-FBI agent kidnapped in Iran in 2007, sent out a heart-breaking plea today begging for his captors to allow Levinson to return home.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson makes light of Iran's newly-acquired drone.
President Barack Obama says the Senate Republicans' decision to block today's nomination "absolutely make no sense" and tells GOP critics of his foreign policy to ask Osama bin Laden about "appeasement."
U.S. citizen Lerpong Wichaikhammat has begun a two-and-a-half-year jail term in Thailand for insulting the Thai monarchy in a blog post that linked to an banned biography of the king.
In one of the more bizarre things you'll read about the CIA today, the secret Romanian prison the agency had been suspected of running has been found -- not in a some remote location tucked in the country's mountainside but in a tree-lined suburb of the nation's capital, Bucharest.
Ouch, Newt Gingrich's gay sister, Candace Gingrich-Jones told Rachel Maddow yester-night that she wouldn't be voting for her brother should he snag the nomination--her snag being his anti-gay rights position.
The Players: Angelina Jolie, Hollywood mega-star who making her upcoming directorial debut in the Bosnian war movie In the Land of Blood and Honey; James Braddock, a Croatian journalist accusing Jolie of stealing his story.
Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick has told reporters the two men accusing former Syracuse coach basketball Bernie Fine of sexual abuse are credible, but he can't bring charges because the cases are too old.
Yesterday Mythbusters shot a cannonball into someone's home, and no they weren't trying to bust the myth of "shooting a cannonball into someone's home."
The Pearl Harbor Survivors Association will commemorate their last Pearl Harbor anniversary today, the group sadly lacks the number of able-bodied members to keep on going.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson on the U.S. Postal Service's budget cuts.
The Players: Joe Klein, a Time columnist currently wondering why Republicans don't seem to like Mitt Romney; John McCain, a former presidential candidate who once was a Republican who didn't love Romney
In news to add to your Republican flip-floppiness mental cache, Newt Gingrich kind-of, sort-of, voiced his support of an individual healthcare mandate this morning on Glenn Beck's radio show.
When Jon Corzine placed shaky trades on European sovereign debt and made the bad decisions which sunk MF Global, he did so despite warnings from his chief risk officer.
Cartoonist Tony Auth demystifies Newt Gingrich.
"One time we were having sex, and I was looking up at the ceiling, thinking about, ‘What am I going to buy at the grocery store tomorrow?'" Ginger White tells the Daily Beast, not at all sounding like someone who is exhausted and humiliated by the media circuit.
Following the publicized lack of an Obama apology for the airstrikes which ended in the friendly-fire death of 24 Pakistani soldiers, the U.S. is vacating a drone base in Shamsi base in Pakistan--a move that sounds way more serious than it actually is.
After declining invitations to the Donald Trump-moderated reality television show Newsmax debate, Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman got speared by Trump on the Today show.
Cartoonist Lisa Benson is down on the euro zone.
In a glimmer of good news in an otherwise horrifying story, it turns out that the Afghan woman identified as Gulnaz who was jailed for or being a victim of rape or as Afghan law describes, "adultery by force", has been pardoned without the condition that she marry her rapist.
In exchange for releasing Warren Weinstein, a 70-year-old American aid worker who they may or may not be holding captive, al Qaeda is demanding an end to airstrikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen; the release of Taliban suspects worldwide; and the release of all Guantanamo detainees.
U.S. officials are claiming that Pakistan had given their approval for the American airstrikes that accidentally killed 24 Pakistan soldiers on Saturday, adding to the messy aftermath and political posturing of this friendly-fire tragedy.
Cartoonist Tom Toles on Mitt Romney and his holiday wishes.
Players: Bikram Choudhury, the multi-millionaire creator of the very popular, brand-named, sweat-filled, inferno-facilitated Bikram Yoga practice; Gregory Gumucio, a one-time right hand man to Choudhury who now heads up Yoga to the People, a boho, hippy-ish yoga company determined to make yoga affordable to everyone.
Italy's sexy, new, supposedly efficient," technocratic" government made up of bankers, admirals, professors and experts accidentally named some random professor from Canada to their agricultural committee.
Coca-Cola's white holiday coke can is dead, dead two months before their run-through date, and it's your fault.
If you're looking for ex-Sheriff Patrick J. Sullivan Jr., he's currently an inmate at Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. Detention Facility in Centennial, Colo., after being arrested for trying to trade crystal meth for gay sex.
The White House has decided that President Obama will not apologize to Pakistan for the deaths of two dozen soldiers in NATO airstrikes last week, which means Pakistan will have to settle for a sorry from Hillary Clinton instead.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson explains our trust issues.
The Players: Manhunt, a gay dating site founded in 2001 with over 6.5 million members and their new, racy, gay billboards; Kelly Cole, co-president of the Valley View elementary PTA who thinks those ads are too racy and gay.
Congress has lifted a five-year-old ban on butchering and funding horse meat, proving our love of money, jobs, and, yes, horses are the very reasons they could soon be what's for dinner.
Herman Cain's alleged 13 or 14-year, "on-again, off-again" mistress, Ginger White spoke with George Stephanopoulos this morning.
The latest figure from payroll firm ADP is the largest one-month gain since last December, but as MSNBC notes, "Most of November's gains were from seasonal workers being hired by UPS."
A day after the British Embassy in Tehran was ransacked by Iranian students, Britain has sent all of its staff home, Norway has closed its embassy, and an Iranian Parliament member offered up a non-apology, apology for this state-approved, animosity-filled mess.
The Players: Niall Ferguson, writer, historian, brainy professor at Harvard who isn't afraid of rebutting a bad review with a lawsuit; Pankaj Mishra, writer, essayist, brainy reviewer for the London Review of Books who isn't afraid of unleashing a scathing review.
"In a conference call this morning, Herman Cain told his senior staff that he is 'reassessing' whether to remain in the race," reports National Review's Robert Costa.
In an interview with the usually cheery, softball-question-laden Today show, Barney Frank got irritated with Savannah Guthrie's questions, calling it "gotcha journalism."
In your "Can they actually do that?" moment of the day, the Thai government has issued a warning that anyone who "likes" or "shares" a Facebook comment insulting the Thai Monarchy is committing a crime.
James Murdoch's role as News Corp.'s public face during the phone hacking scandal won't cost him his chairmanship at British broadcaster BSkyB.
Proving that you can't run away from sagging numbers, American Airlines and its parent company AMR are filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a move all other major U.S. airlines have made in the last decade.
Cartoonist Tom Toles sees a similarity between our planet and Humpty Dumpty.
Silicon Valley's favorite guessing game — when will Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg take his company public on Wall Street? — was whipped up into a frenzy by a fresh Wall Street Journal report that targets a mid-2012 initial public offering.
In news that you could kind of see hurtling at you from miles away, Michele Bachmann has already accepted an apology from Jimmy Fallon and she now wants an apology from NBC for her "Lyin' Ass Bitch" intro music.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has officially stepped down, signed over a transfer of power agreement and landed himself a nice deal in the process--possibly avoiding the fate of overthrown Arab dictators before him.
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