The NTSB has confirmed that a plane in Alaska crashed during takeoff, killing all 10 people on board. The accident took place one day after Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashed in San Francisco, killing two and injuring 180.

Late-night violence at the site of a sit-in held by supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi left at least 42 dead—nearly all protesters—and over 300 wounded, and led the right-wing Salafist party Al Nour to suspend its participation in the army's "roadmap" for transition.

In what the Muslim Brotherhood is calling a "massacre" and a "bloodbath," the Egyptian army and police apparently opened fire on protesters around 3:30 a.m. at the Republican Guard barracks where Morsi is thought to be held. "Every police force in the world understands how to disperse a sit-in," Brotherhood spokesman Gehad Haddad told Al Jazeera. "This is just a criminal activity targeting protesters."

The army says it was responding to a raid by a "terrorist group." Two officers were killed in the violence.

In response, the ultraconservative Al Nour party—a rival to the Muslim Brotherhood, and the group that had given the army's roadmap credibility among a broader grouping of Islamists—suspended its participation in talks. On Saturday, Nour, which has said it would prefer a prime minister with no party affiliation, had torpedoed diplomat Mohamed ElBaradei's chance at the premiership.

The National Salvation Front, the alliance of liberal, left and secular parties that organized the Tahrir Square demonstrations that led to the Army's removal of Morsi from power, has called for an "urgent and just" investigation.

A popular Brazilian musician was shot and killed by an unknown assailant in the middle of a performance Saturday night in the Brazilian city of Campinas.

20-year-old Daniel Pellegrine, an up-and-coming funk artist known to fans as MC Daleste, sustained a single bullet wound to the chest and was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

The incident, which took place inside a government building, was caught on camera by a fan.

Police would not release any information about the alleged shooter, including whether or not he or she were caught.

Other Brazilian funk artists were horrified by the news that one of their own was gunned down mid-show, and took to social networks to express their outrage.

"What nonsense," wrote MC Buru on his Facebook page. "Soon MCs will have to sing with a microphone in one hand and an automatic weapon in the other."

The death of MC Daleste is the latest incident to draw worldwide attention to violence in Brazil ahead of next year's World Cup.

Last week a referee was beheaded by enraged soccer fans after he stabbed a player to death.

[image via Facebook]

Golden Corral cook Brandon Huber actually likes his job at the national buffet chain's Port Orange, Florida, location.

That's why he tried going directly to Golden Corral management first before reaching out to the media about his restaurant's ironic efforts to avoid receiving poor health inspection marks.

But after being turned down by a number of news outlets, Huber decided to speak directly to the Internet about his branch's practice of storing both raw and cooked foods near the dumpster ahead of the health inspector's visit.

"I'm an employee, I've been working here for a long time, and I don't think this is right," Huber informed his viewers in the fast-rising video.

The young man is being compared to whistleblower Edward Snowden, albeit with tongue planted firmly in cheek, but the blowback Golden Corral is likely to receive from this bad practice is no joke.

UPDATE: Golden Corral has just responded to Huber's claims in the video's comments section (thanks Lamont!):

Police have begun a criminal investigation into the train derailment explosion that took five lives in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec on Sunday. Forty people are still unaccounted for.

The driverless train exploded in the small town 150 miles from Montreal, forcing 1000 people to evacuate after extensive fires overtook the town. Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited the community on Sunday and called it a “war zone.”

The burned out site is currently cordoned off as a "crime scene," and the conditions of the train explosion seem to indicate foul play.

The chairman of the Montral, Maine & Atlantic Railway, Ed Burkhardt, reported on Sunday night that the train's only engineer shut down four of the five locomotive units on the train before heading to Lac-Mégantic. This is standard procedure. The engineer then went to sleep. Burkhardt said that the next engineer was due to arrive at dawn.

Burkhardt reports that someone managed to shut down the fifth locomotive unit. This final unit maintains brake pressure needed to keep the train steady. Burkhardt says the two ways to shut down this unit—an emergency lever outside of the train as well as a combination of levers and buttons inside the unlocked cabin—were both employed.

"We've had a very good safety record for these 10 years," he told USA Today, "Well, I think we've blown it here." After this explosion, Burkhardt said they would "consider" changes to their safety policies.

The "black box" has been recovered and will be examined for evidence.

More than one hundred firefighters are searching for the missing parties. Sargeant Benoit Richard reported that "There is still a big part of the scene that is too dangerous to examine." A secondary school transformed into a emergency shelter where town residents are seeking information about their relatives.

[image via Getty]

If the school bell has finally sounded for the final time and the kids are gleefully preparing for several long, hot months of family road trips and spilled frozen dairy dessert substances, it can only mean one thing: time to start your back-to-school shopping now. Now. There is no respite in this world of gloom.

American retailers demand it! Wal-Mart and its evil brethren are very anxious to get Halloween shopping season underway, but first they need to get back-to-school shopping season out of the way. So why wait? The height of the summer seems as good a time as any to start haranguing parents about the financial burdens of our laughable public education system, and to start reminding kids that any pleasure they may be experiencing now will be coming to a bitter end all too soon. Ad Age reports that the back-to-school shopping season has now been pushed back thisclose to the end of the previous school year:

"In seven and a half years, I've never once seen so much emphasis put on back-to-school before July 4," said National Retail Federation spokeswoman Kathy Grannis. Historically, most consumers begin shopping for back-to-school supplies three to four weeks before school starts. And retailers have typically followed their lead, beginning promotions in mid-to-late July. This year, however, they're trying to get a jump on people's spending.

Stop wasting your time enjoying a brief happy interlude that will inevitably end at some point. "Get a jump," right off a bridge.

[Ad Age. Photo: AP]

A new study found that college men who are not in fraternities are actually more likely to have "hypermasculine attitudes and hostility toward women," because frat bros are major pussies.

Actor Chris Pratt, better known to fans of slow-witted, well-meaning, beardface schlubs as Andy Dwyer on NBC's Parks & Rec, has broken out of his typecasting cocoon and emerged an unrecognizably jacked butterfly.

Following the February announcement that he would lead Marvel Studio's big screen adaptation of Guardians of the Galaxy as interplanetary police chief Star-Lord, Pratt quit beer cold turkey, and started and intensive training program that turned him into what Andy probably imagines Bert Macklin, FBI looks like.

Proving his sense of humor wasn't stored in his fat cells, Pratt captioned the photo: "Kinda douchey to post this but my brother made me."

[photos via Twitter]

Terabytes-worth of commentary have been written on the NSA surveillance scandal, all of which now eternally reside on a hard disk silently spinning in a nuke-proof supercooled datacenter Utah. But few writers have captured the unsettling sense of alienation that characterizes the modern surveillance state better than American Pie star Jason Biggs.

Biggs has been flying so low under the radar lately the only people who know what he's been up to are probably the NSA analysts sorting through his metadata. Now he surfaces with a surprisingly maudlin personal essay for fashion magazine Bullett about his post-American Pie quasi-fame. It's no "The Crack-Up." But Biggs' description of the dread he feels when walking around in public is a spot-on encapsulation of the problem with the kind of pervasive surveillance exposed by Ed Snowden.

Biggs writes:

Naturally, places with larger crowds will provide the most opportunities for recognition, and therefore are the most anxiety-inducing. But even in places where there are fewer people, recognition is always a possibility. It is this potential for being recognized that is often more stressful than actually being recognized. It’s like smuggling a joint on an airplane, or sneaking your toy poodle into a grocery store, or driving without proper vehicle registration: you are very much aware of it, even if others aren’t, and there’s that voice in your head telling you you’re gonna get caught. I know when people do double-takes walking by me on a city street, or when people are whispering about me at a nearby table at a restaurant. I can even tell, based on a quick locking of eyes, if they have clocked who I am or not. At any moment your movements may be watched and analyzed. This is a constant. And despite having had a few years to adjust, it is a very weird and trippy feeling. I imagine it’s something I will never truly get used to. Simply put, it’s an unnatural thing. It’s not normal, by any definition of the word.

Biggs pretty well captures the unique horror of the modern surveillance state, which is characterized less by crude Orwellian social control than a quiet, Kafkaesque alienation. What we do or don't do is beside the point: It's that everything we do is so heavily monitored and catalogued that there's enough data there so that even the most innocuous of details can be used against us when we least expect it. Biggs feels like he's "smuggling a joint on a plane" even if he's just walking around the mall.

Law professor Jack Balkin stresses a similar point about the surveillance state in his paper The Constitution in the National Surveillance State:

Government's most important technique of control is no longer watching or threatening to watch. It is analyzing and drawing connections between data. Much public and private surveillance occurs without any knowledge that one is watched. More to the point, data mining technologies allow the state and business enterprises to record perfectly innocent behavior that no one is particularly ashamed of and draw surprisingly powerful inferences about people's behavior, beliefs, and attitudes.

We are all Jason Biggs now: d-list celebrities in the NSA's paparazzi glare.

Looks like the royal baby will have zero time to recover from its swim through the English Channel of amniotic fluid before doing battle with its first foe: a giant Loch Ness monster version of Colin Firth that has just been plunked down in Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park, London.

The monster, forged of fiberglass by Satan as part of a summer sculpture course he's been taking at a local university, is twelve feet high and features visible, dusky nipples that could choke a cow. The Guardian reports that it is intended to recreate, on a titanic scale, a scene from the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, in which Mr. Darcy (played by Colin Firth) goes for a swim at his grand estate. A recent survey of British audiences declared the so-called "Lake Scene (Colin Firth Strips Off)" the most memorable moment in British TV drama.

However, while the scene has become iconic, it was invented purely for broadcast and does not exist in Austen's novel. So, while the statue may represent a sexed up version of Mr. Darcy, there can be no arguing that it actually depicts a giant, slightly distraught-looking Colin Firth.

The Guardian reports that Loch Ness Firth will tour the UK, lumbering through the nightmares of school children, giving geese the heebie-jeebies, and chomping on the gristly afterbirth of Kate Middleton while a horrified nation watches, paralyzed, before coming to rest in Lyme Park, Cheshire where the scene was filmed.

It was commissioned to commemorate the launch of a new TV channel.

[Image via flickr/TaylorHerring]

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Earlier today, Kanye West posted the official video for the Yeezus single "Black Skinhead" on his official site. It features a CGI Kanye dancing to song's Gary Glitter-esque shuffle. It's bad. Really bad. It looks kind of like The Sims or maybe an interstitial from Tekken 2. It's definitely not polished enough for Just Dance. "This is that goon shit / Fuck up your whole afternoon shit," snarls Kanye, but this video wouldn't even fuck up your brunch.

Currently, the video is not longer accessible through West's site. Perhaps he heard the Internet laughing at him immediately after he posted it.

Just before his album's release, West announced that the marketing strategy for Yeezus was, in fact, "no strategy." Indeed, there is nothing strategic about this half-assed clip. "Black Skinhead" deserves better.

One highlight, though, is the computer-rendered schlong on West's computer-rendered ripped-up body. It gets bigger and bigger the closer CGI Kanye gets to the camera so that in its last featured shot, it appears to reach his knees.

On Graduation's "Breathe In, Breathe Out," West claimed, "I always had a Ph.D.: a Pretty Huge Dick." He's had a flair for grandeur all along.

(Also see his leaked dick pic, of which he later bemoaned, "You cannot imagine how disappointed I was...that I got cut off!")

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The Keystone Fire Department were called to the White Water Park in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, yesterday to help extract a man found peeping on women from inside a public restroom septic tank.

52-year-old Kenneth Webster Enlow of Tulsa was reportedly caught after a woman and her 7-year-old daughter spotted him peering up at them from inside the toilet.

"He went in there, climbed down in the septic and was looking up at the people utilizing that facility," Tulsa County Sheriff’s Maj. Shannon Clark said in a statement.

Firefighters had to hose down Enlow, who was "covered in human waste," before transporting him to a local hospital for evaluation.

According to the arrest report, Enlow told deputies his girlfriend struck his head with a tire iron, and then dumped him in the toilet while he was unconscious.

However, the evaluation did not reveal injuries consist with his alibi.

While booking Enlow on Peeping Tom charges, deputies learned that the suspect had a felony warrant stemming from a 1998 embezzlement case as well as two prior convictions for public intoxication.

He remained in jail as of Monday afternoon. An arraignment date has been set for July 15.

[screengrab via KJRH]

Trayvon Martin's father, Tracy, testified today that he had not denied it was his son's voice screaming for help on a 911 call recorded the night Trayvon was shot, which goes against police testimony. Tracy said that he only told officers he couldn't tell if it was his son's voice. He now says he's definite it is.

Everyone knows that beer is God's drink of choice, but not everyone knows that God's beer of choice is a Boston lager named after puritanical founding father Samuel Adams. The Boston Beer Company, which owns Sam Adams, was recently forced to address a glaring error in their Fourth of July-themed advertisement: the ad omits any mention to God (or rather "their Creator").

The ad drew from the Declaration of Independence, stating:

All men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable rights: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

God forbid the "Creator" get a shout out from his favorite beer on national television in His best country. Here's the original text:

…that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Devout Christians facebook users from all over the country caught the error and took it upon themselves to inform the heathen beer company. When asked, a spokesperson for the Boston Beer Company said that there were certain codes and regulations disallowing them to make any religious references. Specifically, "beer advertising and marketing materials should not include religion or religious themes."

Great. Glad that's cleared up. Now if we could get back to the far greater issue: Sam Adams sucks.

[ABC News]

The death toll from Saturday's train crash in Quebec now stands at 13, with 50 people still missing.

A Roman Catholic nun is going to jail for stealing almost $130,000 from a pair of New York parishes in order to feed her gambling habit.

From 2006 to 2011, Sister Mary Anne Rapp took a total of $128,000 from St. Mary's Church in Holley and St. Mark's Church in Kendall. The 68-year-old then gambled away all that pilfered money at a bunch of grubby casinos in Western New York.

Rapp pleaded guilty to grand larceny in April. Besides 90 days in jail, her sentence includes 100 hours community service and an order to pay back the money she took. Plus a lot of Hail Marys and Our Fathers, probably.

The five Indonesian men trapped in a tree for five days by Sumatran tigers have been rescued.

A fight between a father and son in the parking lot of an Orlando Dave and Buster's ended with the father in critical condition and the son in jail. The cause of the fight? A mid-dinner revelation that the father had been having an affair with a woman who, reportedly, was sending him texts throughout the meal.

Upon realizing that his father was cheating on his mother, who was also at the dinner, 21-year-old Taylor Harris stormed out to the restaurant's parking lot, shouting, “You better not come out here” at his father, Leonard Harris, 52, according to the sheriff's report.

Harris's mother, Mary Harris, said that her husband followed their son outside to ask why he was so upset. However, according to the sheriff's report, the son said that, as he was leaving the table to calm down, his father “got in his face and would not leave him alone, so an argument ensued.”

From the Orlando Sentinel:

The father followed but appeared to be walking away when the son swore, pushed his dad and hit him once in the face. A witness later told deputies, "When the victim fell and hit the concrete … she could hear the victim's head hit the concrete three car lengths away," the report stated.

A medic and his EMT-registered wife happened upon the scene on their way inside the restaurant and performed CPR on the father, who wasn't breathing and was without a pulse. The father was eventually resuscitated and taken to a nearby hospital, where he remains in the neurological intensive care unit in critical condition.

The son was arrested and held without bail on charges of aggravated battery with great bodily harm and domestic violence.

[via Daily Mail]

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Last week, the London-based accounting firm Ernst & Young rebranded itself as EY in an attempt to "to strengthen and modernize" its image. Great idea! But, as the Los Angeles Times notes, there's one small problem with the new name: EY is also a limited-edition magazine featuring young male models in various levels of undress.

According to the LA Times, the magazine, called EY! Magateen, considers itself a more risque version of Tiger Beat and has put out seven issues since 2008. From the LA Times:

In 2009, Miley Cyrus' ex-boyfriend Justin Gaston was featured on EY! Magateen's cover wearing red briefs. The text on that issue's cover read: "Living the American teen! Loads of photos! Sexy boys!"

The magazine has also collaborated with the soft-core porn advertisers at American Apparel for a t-shirt with the logo, "Teenagers do it better."

As you can see above, the Google image search for EY turns up the old Ernst & Young logo surrounded by pictures of mostly naked young men. While this is probably not what Ernst & Young had in mind when it announced its big name change, it's certainly gives the company a more "modernized" image.

[LA Times]

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