HS Principal Threatens to Destroy Student for Speaking Out Against School's...
After raising a voice to her high school's damaging abstinence-only policies, one West Virginia senior says she was threatened with future-imperiling punishment by her principal. George Washington...
View ArticleThe Post's 'Person of Interest' Is a Local High-School Track Runner
"BAG MEN," the New York Post's front cover brays this morning, underneath a photo of two Boston Marathon spectators. "Feds seek these two pictured at Boston Marathon." After its embarrassing...
View ArticleScientists Worry Deadly New Flu Could Be Passed Between Humans
There is growing evidence that the H7N9 virus could be transmitted person-to-person, rather than just from bird-to-person. The virus has claimed 17 lives and infected 82 people so far. Yesterday, the...
View ArticleJon Stewart's Masterful Takedown of CNN's Sloppy Boston Bombing Coverage...
CNN's reporting of an arrest having been made in connection with Monday's Boston Marathon bombing turned out to be stupendously wrong, but at least it allowed Jon Stewart to do what he does best: Tear...
View ArticleAmerican Pie Actor Has Knife Pulled on Him by One-Night Stand
Like something out of an American Pie movie — and about as funny — actor Eddie Kaye Thomas, best remembered as Paul "Shit Break" Finch from the long-running film franchise, had to call a SWAT team on...
View ArticleCrazy Cat People Have Nothing on Crazy Squirrel People
Kelly Foxton estimates that she has spent over half a million dollars taking care of and, most importantly, dressing her squirrel Sugar Bush in various insane outfits that include gowns and faux furs....
View ArticleEnergized Conspiracy Theorists, Here Is Your Definitive List of Jewish...
Forbes Israel has published a list of the the world's richest Jews—every Hebraic member of the global billionaires club, 165 in all. The release coincides with a feverish rising market in crazy...
View ArticleOklahoma House Majority Leader Casually Uses Antisemitic Slur During Bill...
The Republican Co-Majority Leader of the Oklahoma House of Representatives casually apologized yesterday for casually using an antisemitic slur during a debate on a bill to repeal an old law...
View ArticleThe Most Deranged Sorority Girl Email You Will Ever Read
There are two things the Delta Gamma sorority's University of Maryland chapter refuses to tolerate. The first is Delta Gammas who are "LITERALLY being so fucking AWKWARD." The second is young ladies...
View ArticleWhy Am I Crying Laughing at This Cat Playing With a Vacuum?
What a week, huh? What a week. This is a cat playing with a vacuum. I think it's Russian? The video is called "Кот и пылесос," or, "The Cat and the Vacuum Cleaner." I don't know. The top comment is...
View ArticleReddit, Facebook Help Son of Boston Marathon Bombing Victims Locate His...
In a pleasant twist to recent stories about social networks being used to prematurely accuse certain Boston Marathon attendees of potential involvement in the bombings, Richard Whalley says he was...
View ArticleCop Becomes Impatient While Waiting in McDonald's Drive-Thru Lane, Pulls Gun...
A police officer in Georgia had what is being described as a "severe break in judgment" after he apparently drew his gun on a McDonald's customer who was taking too long to receive his order. Scott...
View ArticleHere Is Alleged Ricin Guy Singing "Little Red Corvette" to Mortified Teens
Remember in high school, when your laziest teachers would invite in terribly ineffectual special guests to entertain the class, usually on Fridays right before vacation week? And while you'd be happy...
View ArticleFrequent Texting and Tweeting Make You a Shallow Money-Obsessed Racist, Says...
Psychologists at the University of Winnipeg recently completed a three year study whose results indicate that—and I'm paraphrasing slightly here—heavy texters and tweeters are just horrible, shitty...
View ArticleIs the New York Post Edited by a Bigoted Drunk Who Fucks Pigs?
This morning, the New York Post published on its front page a photo of two spectators near the Boston Marathon finish line, one wearing a backpack and one with a duffel bag slung at his side, under the...
View ArticleHere Are the FBI Suspects in the Boston Marathon Bombing
The FBI released photo and video this afternoon of two suspects in Monday's Boston Marathon bombing, and is asking the public's help in identifying them. They're calling them "Suspect One" (dark hat)...
View ArticleSteve Emerson Bungles It Again: Saudi National Not Being Deported
The anatomy of a rumor: Last night, a man named Steve Emerson, "terrorism expert," was called upon to talk about the Boston bombing on jumped-up carnival barker Sean Hannity's Fox News program. Citing...
View ArticlePrince Avalanche's Joyous Destruction of Paul Rudd
In New York magazine's review of Admission, David Edelstein says of Paul Rudd, "Everybody doesn't like somebody, but nobody doesn't like Paul Rudd." In Prince Avalanche, Rudd attempts to cast off his...
View ArticleFreedom of Information Act Does Not Apply to Beyoncé; Beyoncé Is Her Own...
Remember this past January when America was gripped by the saga of Did-Beyoncé-Lip-Synch-at-the-Presidential-Inauguration? Beyoncé sang live. Actually, she lip-synched. Actually, it was live and she...
View ArticleDetroit Police Picking Up Homeless and Dumping Them Outside of City
In a complaint filed with the U.S. Justice Department, the Michigan ACLU says that Detroit police have been picking up homeless people from the popular Greektown neighborhood and dropping them off...
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