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MP Apologizes for ‘Ginger Rodent’ Slur

A comment by U.K. Labour Party Deputy Leader Harriet Harman has caused a stir within the international red-haired community. Harman, under criticism, has apologized to a parliamentary colleague, Liberal Democrat Danny Alexander (above), for calling him a “ginger rodent,” referring malignly to Alexander’s, dare I say, quite exquisite hair color and skin pigmentation.

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Celebrated Groundhog Sees Shadow, Human Handlers Claim

It’s a tad goofy, this Groundhog Day tradition—and PETA, campaigning for an animatronic Punxsutawney Phil, would even say it’s inhumane—but if weather forecasts by clairvoyant rodents are your thing, we, who just spent part of the morning researching the origins of Groundhog Day, certainly aren’t going to judge.