Lion Tacos Pulled from Menu at Florida Restaurant; Shark, Bear Remain
A newly opened Florida taquería specializing in "exotic tacos" containing meats from carcasses of sharks, kangaroos, beavers, and other non-traditional fillers has been forced to remove its latest...
View ArticleThe Yids Are Alright: 10 Days of Spiritual Decadence on Birthright
“I hope you’ve all been doing the hanky panky,” Sheldon Adelson said to us, over the microphone. The superannuated gambling-industry billionaire, financier of right-wing vanity candidates and causes,...
View ArticleBuzzFeed may have pulled the greatest semantic LOL the world has ever seen.
BuzzFeed may have pulled the greatest semantic LOL the world has ever seen. It is now issuing badges to ad agencies to become "authorized" in making Buzzfeed-style sponsored content. The name of the...
View ArticleIt's been a bad day for New York's print tabloids.
It's been a bad day for New York's print tabloids. Following the Village Voice's staff shakeup, the Daily News continued with a round of layoffs that has so far claimed about 20 jobs.
View ArticleYoung People Are Growing Up Together and TIME Cannot Believe It
On Thursday, TIME magazine was shocked once again to discover that humans who were born around the same time are suddenly becoming adults around the same time. In the millennial-centric cover story of...
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Deadspin Infographic: Is Your State's Highest-Paid Employee A Coach? (Probably) | io9 Struggling to understand depression? Read this. | Gawker The Yids Are Alright: 10 Days of Spiritual Decadence on...
View ArticleCanada's Opposition Leader Uses Arrested Development Quote to Burn PM
With the fourth season premiere only days away, it seems Arrested Development is on everyone's lips — even Canada's opposition leader Thomas Mulcair. Mulcair, head of the New Democratic Party, was...
View ArticleNorth Korea Gives Details On Imprisoned American Kenneth Bae's Crime
When North Korea announced it had sentenced imprisoned American tour operator Kenneth Bae to 15 years hard labor earlier this month, it gave no details about his crime other than he had attempted to...
View ArticleAustralia No Longer a Safe Place for Women, Sandwiches, Teens
On Wednesday, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was visiting a high school in Brisbane when someone threw a sandwich at her. And then, for a second, the world stopped. School authorities soon...
View ArticleFlorida Man Escapes Police Only to Be Mauled by Alligator
Florida resident Bryan Zuniga had just successfully fled from a sheriff's deputy when the 20-year-old encountered a foe he couldn't outrun: an alligator. The alligator run-in occurred as Zuniga was...
View ArticleCleveland Home Reminds Us Some Police Don't Rush to Poor Neighborhoods
People from the Cleveland neighborhood in which three kidnapped women were recovered on Monday said that they'd been calling the cops on the suspected abductor for years, only to have police ignore...
View ArticleHigh Schooler Suspended for Posting Principal's Mug Shot to Instagram
If you work at a high school as a teacher or principal and have a mug shot floating around somewhere online, it's probably safe to assume it will surface at some point. In keeping with basic rules of...
View ArticleWhole Foods Accidentally Tricked Vegans Into Eating Chicken This Week
Bad news for vegans and chicken-eaters alike: On Thursday, Whole Foods announced it had accidentally switched the labels for its chicken salad and "chick'n" salad in stores in the Northeast. The...
View ArticleThe death toll for the collapsed garment factory in Bangladesh has passed...
The death toll for the collapsed garment factory in Bangladesh has passed 1,000 and is still rising.
View ArticleTwo People Missing After Falling Overboard From Carnival Cruise Ship
The cursed year for cruise ships continues: early Thursday morning, authorities aboard the Carnival Spirit in Australia realized two passengers had fallen overboard. Over one day later, neither has...
View ArticleEveryone On Facebook Knows If You're Down to Bang
The best things going for Bang with Friends, the app that lets you find folks that are down to bone, is that it's populated solely by people you know on Facebook (less risk than a sketchy rando) and...
View ArticleHero Student Who Stood Up for Education Gets Support from School
Jeff Bliss, the Duncanville High School student who became an overnight legend after he told off a teacher for doing her job poorly, spoke with local news outlets for the first time since his rant...
View ArticleTea Party Furious Over IRS Thinking Tea Party Sounds Political
Tea Party conservatives are furious over the IRS admission that self-declared non-profit groups with the words "Tea Party" or "Patriots" in their names were checked for political activity not allowed...
View ArticleChristian Finds Grave for Boston Bomber: "Jesus Says Love Our Enemies"
For days and days Tamerlan Tsarnaev's corpse sat in the Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Home in Worcester, Massachusetts, not so far away from where police killed the Boston bombing suspect on...
View ArticleThe Great and Powerless Gatsby
We didn’t need another film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, but if someone had to do it, it had to be Baz Luhrmann. The kind of large-scale opulence that the book...
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