San Diego Man Facing 13 Years in Prison for Using Chalk on Sidewalk
A San Diego man could be found guilty of a series of misdemeanor charges that would land him in jail for as many as 13 years, all for writing down his opinions on a public sidewalk in children's chalk....
View ArticleYoung Imbeciles Destroy Largest Lego Helicopter Ever
Yesterday a group of idiotic teens destroyed the largest Lego helicopter in the world, the 100,000-piece Erickson Air-Crane. Built by Ryan McNaught over the course of six weeks, the pieces alone are...
View ArticleEdward Snowden's Father Proposes His Son's Voluntary Return
The father of Edward Snowden sent a letter to the Justice Department on Thursday, laying out a series of arrangements that he believes would convince his son to give himself up to the United States...
View ArticleSay goodbye to walking around all day showing off how you're far more...
Say goodbye to walking around all day showing off how you're far more cultured than everyone around you: The Metropolitan Museum of Art is getting rid of their many-colored tin-plate admission buttons...
View ArticleJennifer Lopez to Perform at Lavish Birthday Party for Brutal Dictator
Jenny from "the block" will perform tonight at the birthday celebration of Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, leader of Turkmenistan, which Human Rights Watch has called "one of the world's most repressive...
View ArticleVictims Of The Boston Marathon Bombing Begin Divvying $61 Million
America, on occasion you really take care of your own. After the Boston Marathon bombing, people and companies pulled together more than $60 million that's now being disbursed to 232 people who were...
View ArticleIt Starts With a Nosebleed and Ends With a Dead Guy
It starts with a nosebleed and ends with a dead guy. Three dead guys, actually, and one of them is Ed Koch. Something remarkable happened after Koch’s death: the New York Times rewrote his obituary. In...
View ArticleJustin Bieber's Monkey Adjusts to New Life in Germany
Justin Bieber's monkey, OG Mally, whose rejection by the pop singer and virtual exile to the depraved nation of Germany has captivated fans of both popular music and lesser primates, has begun to...
View ArticleTemperatures hit 117 in Las Vegas yesterday, and it might reach 120 in...
Temperatures hit 117 in Las Vegas yesterday, and it might reach 120 in Phoenix by the end of this hot, hot weekend.
View ArticleBeloved Golf Ball Scavenger Stabbed 16 Times
Just a few days late for inclusion into John McPhee's legendarily boring New Yorker piece about how to find golf balls, comes news that a beloved golf ball scavenger at Cortlandt Park in the Bronx was...
View ArticleNostalgia Done Right: The Family Ties Creator Who Gave Me A Shot
In the summer of 1991, I was sitting next to my sister in the back seat of my parents' Toyota Previa, reading a book about Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World." We were driving across country...
View ArticleSorority Girl Buying Bottled Water Ends Up Spending Night in Jail
A University of Virginia student had just bought some bottled water, cookie dough and ice cream for a sorority fundraiser when a group of people in plainclothes approached her car. One person jumped on...
View ArticleLost Words in the Chamber is a blog that runs the revealing, desperate, and...
Lost Words in the Chamber is a blog that runs the revealing, desperate, and sometimes beautiful last words of prisoners being executed in the United States. [via NYT]
View ArticleEurope Furious After New Documents Show U.S. Spied on European Union
The European Union reached out to the United States to respond to claims over the weekend that the U.S. bugged E.U. offices in the Unites States and accessed the internal computer networks of their...
View Article"I Feel Like Poop": Here Are Highlights from Lifetime's Anna Nicole
Lifetime's Anna Nicole movie (directed by American Psycho's Mary Harron) was an upgrade from the 2007 biopic starring Willa Ford and also called Anna Nicole, but that's not saying a whole lot. While...
View ArticleA private helicopter made an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly...
A private helicopter made an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after noon today. All five passengers were rescued, unharmed, after the helicopter lost all engine power.
View ArticleMassive Demonstrations in Egypt as Protesters Flood Streets
A year after the inauguration of President Mohamed Morsi, Egyptians deeply frustrated with his leadership have flooded the streets of Cairo, massing outside of the presidential palace and marching on...
View ArticleCheck Out These Gorgeous Color Photos From World War II
As the generation that fought World War II passes on, it can be difficult for younger people to remember that it was a war fought not by the elderly in black and white, but by millions of Americans in...
View ArticleJennifer Lopez has apologized for singing "Happy Birthday" to the repressive...
Jennifer Lopez has apologized for singing "Happy Birthday" to the repressive dictator of Turkmenistan, saying she was unaware of the human rights abuses. She has not disclosed her performance fee.
View ArticleGiant Pink Dog Missing in West Hollywood
A fluorescent pink, 200-pound dog has gone missing from the streets of West Hollywood, and authorities are mystified as to how it was stolen, or where it could possibly be. The statue, which is wearing...
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