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Georgia Teens Raise Money to Hold High School's First Integrated Prom Ever:...
Ironically, it was just after the high school in Wilcox County, Georgia, became integrated thirty years ago that the school held its first segregated proms. "It's embarrassing to know that I'm from...
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The Only Halfway Normal Character on Girls Just Quit Girls
Christopher Abbott, better (and forever) known as Charlie on Girls, has just announced his abrupt departure from the HBO series, which follows a group of youths with undiagnosed personality disorders...
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America, Let's Get Comfortable With Calling Murderous White Racist Bros...
When Colorado's prisons chief was shot in the face last month and a Texas prosecutor was gunned down with his wife in their house last weekend—the second such assassination of a Lone Star DA since...
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Sleep Tight: Venomous Tarantula the Size of a Human Face Found in Sri Lanka
Just when you thought spiders couldn't possibly get any worse, along comes Poecilotheria rajaei. The newly discovered tarantula is described as being the size of a human face, with "beautiful, ornate...
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Parisian Sheep are Landscaping City Fields Between Naps and Malaise
While farm animals wandering amok in city parks are often associated with agrarian cities of yesteryear, and also Texas, some Parisian officials have decided that woolly mouton are the latest chic,...
View ArticleFight Over Woman Ends in Death After Man Shoves a Foot Up His Friend's Ass
A Russian man was arrested late last month and charged with homicide after killing his friend by shoving a foot up his ass. Literally. According to local reports, Vladimir Krasnov, 28, of Nizhny...
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No, McDonald's Is Not Requiring Potential Cashiers to Have a Bachelor's...
A spit-take-inducing story about a McDonald's restaurant in Massachusetts requiring applicants for a cashier job to hold at least a bachelor's degree along with 1-2 years of experience went viral...
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Hold Onto Your Butts (and Dying Triceratops): Jurassic Park Is Back in Theaters
Dinosaurs! The first rule of Jurassic Park is: Dinosaurs are awesome. The second rule of Jurassic Park is: Birds are dinosaurs. This movie really, really wants to you to know that the birds that fly...
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Bronx Assemblyman Arrested for Corruption; Another Resigns and Admits to...
Eric Stevenson, an Assemblyman in the Bronx, was charged with embezzling nearly $20,000 in bribes associated with the launch of an adult day care center. Stevenson was sold out by one of his fellow...
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'All Cops Are Bastards': Montreal Woman Arrested for Posting Anti-Police...
Cops have always quietly hassled kids for photographing freshly adorned graffiti and street art, the unfair presumption being that they might be the vandal returning to preserve their work. But even...
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NRA's School Security Plan Includes a Bogus School Shooting as Evidence
The National Rifle Association produced its 225-page plan for securing schools from gun violence on Tuesday—and the report cited fake evidence and incorrect facts from school shootings. The NRA's...
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Woman Gets Back at Homophobic Dad for Making Her Girlfriend Cry by Secretly...
A deeply homophobic man is unwittingly sending out rainbow vibes via his work truck's bumper, if one gay Redditor's tale of passive-aggressive retribution is to be believed. "I came out at 14," said...
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Everything You Need to Know (So Far) About the Largest Leak of Offshore...
The Twitterati (and presumably a bevy of bankers) went astir today after a small DC watchdog began systematically leaking millions of financial secrets about offshore companies. Here's why you should...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Wants to Tap Your Face and Throw it Away
Today Facebook announced their new "not a Facebook phone"-Facebook-phone "Facebook Home" which is basically a phone where all you can do is look at Facebook. "This is a phone," announced a sweaty,...
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Outrage Over Saudi Court's Decision to Have Man Surgically Paralyzed for...
A man who has spent the past ten years in prison for stabbing his friend in the back and paralyzing him will be surgically paralyzed himself in accordance with a ruling reportedly handed down by a...
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Roger Ebert, Legendary Critic, Dead at 70
Roger Ebert, the celebrated film critic, has passed away at age 70. Though active as a critic and pundit to the very end, Ebert had battled thyroid cancer since 2002, and lost his voice in 2006...
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Man Who Spent Over Four Decades in Prison on Bogus Conviction Does Exactly...
For his entire adult life — 42 years to be exact — Louis Taylor has been behind bars. The Tucson man, now 58, was convicted in 1970 of starting a hotel fire in which 29 people perished. But all these...
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Anonymous Hacks North Korea's Twitter, Prepares for Post-Nuclear Apocalyptic...
North Korea's overseers are getting all huffy again, but like for real this time: longwindedly declaring war on South Korea (even though the first one never technically ended), moving missile...
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Pennsylvania Cop Accepts Blowjob from Suspected Prostitute Before Busting Her...
The attorney for a Pennsylvania woman who has been charged with prostitution is wondering if it was right for the undercover cop who busted her to have accepted a blowjob from his client prior to...
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Silencing a Whistling Coworker, Giving the Worst Gift of All (Your Time), and...
Welcome to Thatz Not Okay, a regular column in which I school inquiring readers on what is and is not okay. Please send your questions to caity.weaver@gawker.com with the subject "Thatz Not Okay." I...
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