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Today in Russian Oligarchs: Berthing in America and Buying an Island
Russian oligarchs have had a pretty crazy week (as opposed to their standard weeks, which range from the "insane" to "delightfully sinister") — Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov watched as Jay-Z...
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Plane Crashes in Bali and Breaks in Half, Everyone Survives
A Lion Air jetliner crashed on landing in Bali this morning, missing the runway and cracking in half in shallow waters. Amazingly, no one was killed in the accident. The Boeing 737 was a domestic...
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The Only Thing That Remains
Photographs, he likes to say, are the only things that remain. On their road trip from Tacoma to Alaska, Dad takes too many of salmon: muscly gray things swarming in shallow water. It's the end of...
View ArticleMan Beaten and Dragged Off Bus By Driver
A man in Lincoln, Nebraska was brutally beaten by a bus driver after asking the driver a question about the route of the bus. The video of the attack, which was released by the City of Lincoln, shows...
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Impatient Austinite Wants to Bomb North Korea Now, Now, Now!
In his New York Times op-ed yesterday, University of Texas professor Jeremi Suri writes that the United States's best course of action during this whole North Korean affair would be to bomb North Korea...
View ArticleOhio Police Chief Accidentally Eats Daughter's Weed-Cake, Goes Insane
An Ohio police chief woke up very hungry a few weeks ago. So he went to the kitchen and ate all of his daughter's cake. "I got up in the morning and I ate it. The entire thing," he told reporters. He...
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Man Arrested in Connection with Death of Texas Prosecutors
A former justice of the peace was arrested Friday and his house was searched, in connection with the two shooting deaths of North Texas prosecutors, who were each killed a few weeks apart. Eric...
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La Toya, the Most Relevant Living Jackson Family Member, Has a Reality Show
If you told me 10 years ago that La Toya Jackson's media presence in 2013 would eclipse that of all of her siblings except for her dead brother Michael, I would have laughed at you harder than I ever...
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One Year Later, Ted Nugent's Presidential Threat Is Still Bullshit
One year ago today, draft-dodging, venison-fueled gun nut Ted Nugent pledged at a Missouri NRA conference that he would be "either be dead or in jail by this time next year" if President Obama were...
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"Hopefully Anne Frank Would've Been a Belieber," Writes Justin Bieber
Last night, Justin Bieber, along with a few friends and guards, paid an after-hours visit to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. The Anne Frank House is the house where Anne Frank, along with several...
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Sex Workers are Using Square for Tech Clients and Business is Soaring
Sex workers in Silicon Valley have begun catering to their tech-savvy, incredibly wealthy clients by accepting payments through "Square" (those little boxes that attach to iPads that your favorite...
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BBC Uses Unknowing Students as Cover to Gain Access to North Korea
The BBC gained access to North Korea last month by using a London School of Economics student group as cover and posing as professors, while risking the unknowing students the ire of the North Korean...
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French Super-Criminal Escapes from Jail Using Explosives
Charismatic criminal Redoine Faid escaped from prison on Saturday, after a "brazen" breakout from a French penitentiary that including holding four guards at gunpoint, and then detonating a series of...
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Hugh Jackman Attacked by Sobbing Stalker Throwing Pubic Hairs at Him
Hugh Jackman, walking muscle of joy, was attacked on Saturday morning by a fan while doing his morning workout in Manhattan. Stalker Kathleen Thurston burst into Gotham Gym around 8 a.m.. Thurston, who...
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Bitcoin "Mining" Somehow Found a Way to Be Environmentally Destructive
Bitcoins, the currency of the future (the future dominated by the dickhead Winklevoss twins), while an annoying Libertarian fantasy, would at least not end up destroying the environment, right? How...
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Man Shoots Himself in Head at NRA-Sponsored NASCAR Event
Three months after Gun Appreciation Day resulted in several accidental shootings, another gun-advocating event has been marred by gun violence. On Saturday, it was reported that a man died from gun...
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Dennis Rodman Is Going Back to North Korea This Summer
The situation in North Korea has gone from bad to worse since Dennis Rodman's VICE-sponsored trip to the country. There's been declarations of entering a "state of war," veiled threats to diplomats,...
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Hundreds of Thousands of Rat-Sized, House-Eating Snails Invade Florida
Florida has a new problem: Giant African land snails. The snails, which can grow as large as rats, were first discovered in South Florida by a homeowner in 2011, according to the Florida Department of...
View ArticleHere's the First Trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The trailer for Catching Fire, the sequel to The Hunger Games, was unveiled late Sunday night during the MTV Movie Awards. It looks...exciting for fans of the franchise. Jennifer Lawrence is back in...
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The Gut-Wrenching Times Op-Ed a Gitmo Prisoner Dictated Over the Phone
There's a first-time op-ed writer on today's New York Times Opinion Pages. His name is Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel, and this is his first published op-ed because he's a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, and...
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