Hip-hop/spoken word artist Shannon Leigh was in a cave-diving accident two weeks ago in Florida. She is in a coma in a Florida hospital. NRA goes on a spree. Republican party "much more open to strong women." Questionable election results not just an American phenomenon. Desperately seeking real news. Fox News losing lead. Some Anglicans ask the question, "Who would Jesus disenfranchise?" Read this headline twice....

Guess what! We're pulling out of Iraq today! Not. Kenyan politician, voice for peace is shot to death in his driveway. New York State archivist sells important documents from American history on Ebay. Those archivists - you just can't trust 'em. As if FEMA's reputation could get any worse... FOX News struggles with the plural form of "Kennedy". Is your HD DVD player totally lame now? Tom Brady attended practice yesterday, bootlessly. He's back...possibly.......

And you thought you couldn't look any stupider on a tandem bike? It now costs two cents to make one cent. Does that make sense? A man upset with his property tax hike pays his $12,000 bill in change. Fox News is accused of altering Wikipedia articles. Raising a baby until the age of 17 will cost you $290,000 if you make around $75,000 a year. $198,000 if you make $45,000 a year. A......

Whether you like Michael Moore or think he's an anti-American nutjob, the guy's coming out with a new movie. Sicko is a study of America's (failing) health care system. Moore talks to victims (like a man who had to choose which of his two severed fingers to reattach, because he couldn't afford both) and perpetrators (oft-repentant health insurance agents) of the U.S. health care system, then trots (okay, maybe plods) around the globe in search......

We're OK when television networks choose to curb the amount of gratuitous "adult" content in prime-time programming, but we've always figured that such stuff, within reason, was fair game on cable networks. After all, Comedy Central has a sketch comedy show starring a naked trucker, FX's Nip/Tuck once had one of its stars engaging in gross raunchy sex with a mother-daughter duo, and Fox News regularly gets away with putting Bill O'Reilly on the......

It appears that city council members are choosing to pursue a bike safety study rather than moving forward with an law requiring cyclists to wear a helmet. The five redrawn congressional districts are now open and ready for political mayhem with multiple candidates running for office in each district. Democratic goobernatorial candidate Chris Bell thinks that Rick Perry is catering to "polluters who write big campaign checks." In other completely unrelated news, a campaign......

New York Senator and 2008 Democratic “It Girl” Hillary Rodham Clinton has recently introduced a bill into the U.S. Senate that would link Congressional wages to minimum wages. After cryptic political legalese, the “Standing with Minimum Wage Earners Act” (S. 2725) attempts to make Congress think twice before upping their pay. Co-sponsored by liberal all-stars Obama, Kennedy and Kerry, the act would raise minimum wage to $5.85/hour 60 days after the bill is enacted......

Bush thoroughly shocks us by first easing clean air rules to help produce more gasoline, and then choosing FOX News guy Tony Snow to be his Press Secretary. (/sarcasm) APD is using MySpace and blogs to help solve cases. It seems people can't help but post about their troubles. Caldwell Prejean of Austin has been named Volunteer of the Year by Catholic Charities. Prejean helped start Seeds of Hope, a nonprofit that works with......

Earlier this week kissy couples were wading through roses and red tissue paper deeper than an east coast snow dump and singles shook a tiny, lonely fist (no ring!) at it all. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - Valentine's season is in the can, finally. Austinist is already pulsing with SX energy and posting on the People's Choice Award nominees and the short films that will be playing while the......