Here Is a Fox News Reporter Who Doesn't Belong In Jail
Jana Winter, a dogged and capable reporter who writes for Fox News' web site, is being threatened with jail time by an overzealous Colorado judge who wants her to reveal her sources. Not as many people...
View ArticleCheap Toy Poodles Purchased in Argentinian Bazaar Turn Out to Be 'Ferrets on...
A man in Argentina was either ripped off or not depending on your view of paying for a toy poodle and getting a giant ferret instead. According to a news story that aired locally last year but only...
View ArticleWe Are All Margaret Thatcher Now: Twitter Mourns the Iron Lady
The lives of great figures often resonate with the lives of the ordinary multitudes who admire them. Here's a roundup of some people who found Margaret Thatcher inspirational, and even sympathetic....
View ArticleThe Evil Dead Remake Is Not the Most Terrifying Film You Will Ever...
Fede Alvarez's remake/reboot/reimagining of Sam Raimi's Evil Dead and Evil Dead II respects its source material in a manner that feels perfunctory at times. It flashes to references like it's ticking...
View ArticleYeah Yeah Yeahs Post Sadly Necessary Sign Asking Fans Not to Watch Their Show...
As one might expect, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to fans ruining the show for other fans by insisting on watching the entire performance in the glowing light of...
View ArticleREAD: The Ten Most Amazing Sentences in New York's Big Buzzfeed Story (PHOTOS)
Last night, during the Mad Men season premiere, New York magazine published the definitive account of internet animal-photography-distribution platform Buzzfeed. Here are some of the coolest things we...
View Article'Accidental Racist' Is a Real, Horrible Song by Brad Paisley and LL Cool J
Here's Brad Paisley's new song "Accidental Racist," with a guest verse by LL Cool J. You can read the lyrics here. It appears to be... some kind of 11th-grade AP U.S. History project? (Please note...
View ArticleRedditor Confesses to Murder with Meme, Gets Doxed by Other Redditors,...
The image macro meme Confession Bear is mostly used to bare one's soul concerning trivial matters such as loving the smell of one's own balls. But one Redditor who goes by — or, rather, went by —...
View ArticleAmerican Hero Arrested After Stealing Free Cakes
When most of us want to double down on free samples, we resort to trickery out of cowardice. We accept one mini hot dog, duck down another aisle, swap coats with a friend, put our hair in a ponytail,...
View ArticleLilly Pulitzer Dies; WASP Housewives Everywhere Run to Hoard Floral-Pattern...
The grand matriarch of monied, blonde WASP summertime, Lilly Pulitzer, has died at 81. The vivid-print fashion designer and Standard Oil fortune descendant shuffled off to a wine-and-cheese croquet...
View ArticlePorn Superstar James Deen Confirms 'Sex Tape' with Teen Mom Farrah Abraham
Asked about her participation in a recently shot "sex tape," MTV reality show personality Farrah Abraham pretended to know nothing about it. "I don't ... exist ... anything about that," she told TMZ....
View Article'Most Elaborate Hoax' Convinces Internet that Megachurch Leader Joel Osteen...
It may take a leap of faith to fall for a news article claiming that powerful megachurch pastor Joel Osteen has resigned his post citing a "lack of faith," but more than a few True Believers were...
View ArticleChild Shoots and Kills Deputy’s Wife at Weekend BBQ
Guns don't kill people—no, they do. One did this past Saturday, in the 26,000-person town of Lebanon, Tennessee, when it was left loaded on a bed, within grabbing distance of a toddler. Wilson County...
View ArticleMarried Man Pawns Wedding Ring to Pay for Prostitute
A married South Carolina man who was arrested for solicitation of prostitution told police he went looking for sex because he was having trouble at home. His troubles may multiply after his wife...
View ArticleScience Proves Women Love a Big Ol' D
A new study published Monday in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has proven, finally, that women really do want it all. Assuming by "it all," you mean "a big ol'...
View ArticleCookie Monster Arrested for Allegedly Shoving 2-Year-Old Boy in Times Square
It's been a rough year for people who make their living masquerading as beloved children's characters in New York City. Last summer, there was the sad case of Central Park's Jew-hating Elmo (who, by...
View ArticleIndiana Man Loses Dart Game, Punches Wall, Crashes Car, Calls 911 to Report...
A man from Logansport, Indiana was arrested for a DUI early Monday morning. Standard enough. Everyone makes mistakes. But what makes this case unusual is the fact that the man, 24-year-old Matthew...
View ArticleFrog-Phobic Man Awarded $1.6 Million After Property Floods, Fills With Frogs
When Paul Marinaccio was a child living in Italy, he had a terrifying encounter with a neighbor. He remembers wandering from the vineyard where his parents worked to a nearby farm to pick figs. While...
View ArticleSenator Demands Probe into Beyoncé and Jay-Z's Cuban Anniversary
Excuse me, miss: did you really engage in cultural exchange with the Cuban people? Florida Senator Marco Rubio is ringing the alarm over Beyoncé and Jay-Z's fifth-anniversary trip to Cuba last week,...
View ArticleShooter Kills 13 of His Neighbors in a Quiet Serbian Village
A 60-year-old gunman engaged in a shooting rampage in his Serbian village early this morning, killing 13 people before killing himself. His son, his wife, and a two-year-old child were among those...
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