superbigcool

AP Top Strange News At 9:27 p.m. EST

Woman delivers surprise baby, picks up other son
HARRODSBURG, Ky. (AP) -- A 32-year-old Kentucky woman who said she didn't know that she was pregnant delivered her newborn son on the floor of her laundry room by herself and even cut the umbilical cord. Kelly Bottom told The Advocate-Messenger that she also picked up her other son from school and stopped in at the baby's grandmother's house to show her the infant before going to the hospital Thursday....

NYC chef creates breast milk cheese
NEW YORK (AP) -- Breast milk cheese, anyone? A Manhattan chef has posted a recipe on his blog for what he calls "My spouse's mommy milk cheese." Daniel Angerer co-owns Klee Brasserie with his wife Lori Mason. A photo on his blog features the cheese encrusted with maple caramelized pumpkin and Concord grapes. They had an overabundance of milk for their newborn, Arabella Caroline. When their small freezer ran out of space, Angerer decided to experiment....

Man allegedly robs pharmacy, puts cash on counter
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) -- Police in northern Idaho arrested a robber accused of demanding a controlled drug from a pharmacy, then throwing cash on the counter before fleeing. Kootenai County Sheriff Lt. Stu Miller said a 39-year-old man was arrested Tuesday....

NYT > Art & Design

Abroad: Caravaggio in Ascendance: An Antihero?s Time to Shine
By one new metric, Michelangelo has been bumped from his perch atop the Italian art charts by Caravaggio, a hyperrealist whose art is instantly accessible.

Architecture Review: A Paris Tribute to an Almost-Sideways View of the World
There?s something both touching and disturbing at the heart of ?Claude Parent: Graphic and Built Works.?

Christie?s Wins Bid to Auction $150 Million Brody Collection
The art collection of the Los Angeles philanthropist Frances Lasker Brody will be sold at Christie?s in New York in May.

White House Watch

White House Watched
Today's column is my last for The Washington Post. And the first thing I want to say is thank you. Thank you to all you readers, e-mailers, commenters, questioners, Facebook friends and Twitterers for spending your time with me and engaging with me over the years. And thank you for the recent outpouring of support. It was extraordinarily uplifting, and I'm deeply grateful. If I ever had any doubt, your words have further inspired me to continue doing accountability journalism. My plan is to take a few weeks off before embarking upon my next endeavor -- but when I do, I hope you'll join me. It's hard to summarize the past five and a half years. But I'll try. I started my column in January 2004, and one dominant theme quickly emerged: That George W. Bush was truly the proverbial emperor with no clothes. In the days and weeks after

Still Fighting
It says a lot about this presidency that there is so much else going on that the public has almost forgotten that our troops are still fighting two wars. And yet, there is big trouble on both fronts. In Iraq, where our troops are at least in the process of withdrawing, a recent spate of bloody attacks indicates things may be about to take an ugly turn. Even more disturbingly, in Afghanistan, where Obama has decided to escalate rather than extricate, there is still not even the glimmer of an exit strategy. Tomorrow will be White House Watch's last day at The Washington Post. One of my many regrets is that I didn't get around to writing more about Obama's Afghanistan policy, its extraordinarily bloody ramifications, how it threatens to sink the nation in a Vietnam-like quagmire -- and, most significantly, how the president has never really made the case

Featured Advertiser

Yahoo! Weather - Washington, DC

Yahoo! Weather - Harare, ZI

The Smoking Gun

69 Busted In South Carolina
While on patrol early Sunday morning at a mall in Orangeburg, South Carolina, a cop noticed a parked Chevy conversion van rocking.

Baby Beer Bottles Nipped In Bud
Claiming that the sale of baby bottles designed to look like Budweiser and Miller Lite bottles infringes on its valuable trademarks, the Anheuser-Busch company yesterday filed a federal lawsuit against a Maryland firm offering products "for your little drinker."

Times Cites Nonexistent Enquirer Ethics
In chronicling the National Enquirer's latest bid for respectability, The New York Times today glowingly details the tabloid's sleuthing on the John Edwards trail (and the publication's related Pulitzer Prize bid).

Crime Over Spilt Milk
A Kentucky woman is facing a felony assault charge for allegedly squirting breast milk into the face of a female jailer.

Mug Shots Of The Week 3/5/2010
The terroristic threats for which the Kentucky gentleman who leads off this week's roundup was arrested likely involved something a bit more menacing than the single finger he is brandishing in his mug shot.