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Even the Top of Corporate America Has a Glass Ceiling

For the most part, corporate America is still a boy's club. The vast majority of top corporate executives are men. Oh, they let in some women, of course. They just don't pay them as much as everyone else.

Alex Pareene urges Democratic voters in New Jersey to cast their ballots against "an avatar of the wealthy elite, a camera-hog, and a political cipher" in today's special Senate primary: "Cory Booker became a millionaire because this is how the economy works for people of his class: Rich people give other rich people money to do nothing, simply because they 'deserve' it. He is the worst sort of Democrat, and Democrats should be doing everything in their power to wrest control of the party away from people like him."

Stop Trying To Let Stupid Computers Pick Our Outfits TechCrunch has great news for anyone hoping to piggyback on an old company's success: the "Pandora for e-commerce" just raised $750,000 in funding (atop a million a year ago). StyleSeek says it can perfectly grok your taste in clothes in 30 seconds, and then sell you more—but it can't, and everyone needs to give up.

Neighbors Harass Family with Handicap Ramp Over Property Value Concern

A Colorado family says it is being hounded by neighbors to remove a handicap ramp outside their Fountain home because of concerns that it could negatively impact property value.

"Like anyone I'm afraid of being arrested but also I'm not afraid of being arrested... If it takes me getting arrested for people to pay attention and for people to lobby against this law then I'm willing to take it." — Bad-ass figure skater Johnny Weir on competing in the Sochi Olympics in anti-gay Russia

Big Yogurt Just Can't Do Greek Yogurt Right

The War in Afghanistan has lost the War for America's Imagination to the War for Greek Yogurt Supremacy. Though the latest dispatches from Kabul bore us to tears, we can't get enough news of the latest yogurt flavor combinations. Have you heard this Yoplait bullshit?

A new study says that reports on "hook-up culture" have been exaggerated. Although college-aged people aren't having more sex than their predecessors, they're more likely to do so with a casual partner, and the phrase "hook up" is more likely to be used to describe it. Hook-up culture is dead, long live hook-up culture.

Here is an upcoming New America Foundation panel about America's very serious mass-incarceration problem—which imprisons blacks at six times the rate of whites—starring, of course, all white people.

In the latest installment of the ongoing Swiss Handbag Saga, Oprah Winfrey has issued a formal apology to Switzerland for having to apologize on behalf of a store in Zurich for an isolated incident.

Two Saturdays ago, terminally ill two-year-old Logan Stevenson was the best man in his parents' wedding. This past Saturday was his funeral.

Dying Man Denied Health Coverage Over Missing 26 Cents

When Sergio Branco was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia earlier this year, his family knew the resulting medical expenses would rack up quickly.

Some of the world's greatest scientific minds are feverishly arguing over what would happen if you jumped into a black hole. All they can agree on: don't jump into a black hole.

U.S. Military Will Stop Cyber-Terrorists From Figuring Out You’re Gay

The Department of Defense recently posted a call for proposals—due by September 25—to combat “the national security threat posed by public data available either for purchase or through open sources.” For its only example, the DoD pointed to a 2009 lawsuit against Netflix for allegedly outing a lesbian after programmers reverse-engineered the site’s famously robust recommendation engine:

Bill Simmons writes 9,000 words about a documentary about the Eagles. Grantland has achieved peak whiteness. [Grantland]

Someone Broke Into Famke Janssen's Home and Left a Weird Doll Book AAH

AAAAAAAAAAAH! A crazy person appears to have broken into X-Men actress Famke Janssen's apartment on Saturday and left a creepy old old doll book on a shelf next to her bed OH MY GODDDDDDDD! Or maybe her apartment is haunted by a lonely doll that loves reading books about itself WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Or maybe her carpet has begun spontaneously vomiting up copies of obscure children's books EEEEEEEEEEEEEP!

The First Look at Facebook's Enormous New NYC Office

It'll be quite some time before the social network's Manhattan vanguard moves to its sprawling, 100,000 square foot Frank Gehry-designed space. But even a peek at this model shows that it's going to be a desk palace fit for tech royalty.

The Six Times Terrence Howard Has Been Accused of Beating Up a Woman

Days after his ex-wife Michelle Ghent filed a second restraining order against actor Terrence Howard, alleging that a recent conciliatory trip to Costa Rica went violently awry, a woman in Philadelphia has come forward with allegations that Howard assaulted both her and her fiance at a diner back in 2005. Not that it's shocking: The Chris Brown apologist already has a long history of violent outbursts, dating back more than a decade.

Attention Wall Street Journal: "Swiss" Is Not a Language

Wall Street Journal editorial board member James Taranto helpfully explains this whole "Swiss racism" thing to Oprah Winfrey and her fans: "Winfrey probably doesn't speak Swiss." Well, no.

Scores of Cairo Protestors Killed as Army Brutally Clears Sit-In

More than 40 people were killed in Cairo on Wednesday in a violent Egyptian Army operation to clear two sit-ins for supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and its ousted president, Mohamed Morsi.

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