Man Who Set Fire to Ohio Mosque Claims He Got 'Riled Up' Watching Fox News
After setting fire to the prayer room of a mosque in Ohio on September 30th, Randolph Linn of Indiana today pleaded guilty to the crime. Under the terms of his plea deal, Linn will cut his 40-year...
View Article'Can anyone c me': The 19 Most Mystifying Cher Tweets of 2012
At the intersection of celebrity and "weird twitter," there is the personal twitter account of singer Cher. Her tweets read alternately, like horse_ebooks source material, /aLL CAPS EMAIL FORWARDS...
View ArticleA 15-Year-Old Hacker is Reportedly Violating His Probation in Order to Fuck...
We all despise Westboro Baptist Church — the GOD HATES FIGS (it's "figs" right?) people that drum up publicity by threatening to protest at the sites of America's worst tragedies — but 15-year-old...
View ArticleThe "What is the Sexiest Thing Someone Has Ever Said to You?" Reddit Thread...
So, there's a Reddit thread today titled, "What is the sexiest thing someone has ever said to you?" and it's exactly as hilarious as you would expect. It's also, predictably, a perfect encapsulation...
View ArticlePolice Raid Gun Store Where Nancy Lanza Purchased Rifle After Owner Was...
One way in which to keep guns out of the hands of people that shouldn't have them is to make sure that gun stores stop thieves, especially ones that brazenly walk into a store, take a gun off the rack...
View ArticleJohn Boehner is so Powerless That He Prayed on the House Floor Tonight
Tonight, House speaker John Boehner wanted to force the hand of Barack Obama and the Democratic leadership by bringing his bill to solve the fiscal cliff — titled Plan B — to a vote. There was only...
View ArticleThe World May Not Have Ended But This Man Isn't Doing Trust Falls Ever Again...
On the one hand, you might say Dan Bob's trust fall failed to achieve its goal, but, on the other hand, you might say it achieved its goal perfectly by teaching him that you can't trust anyone. [Reddit]
View ArticleJames Franco and Seth Rogen Survive Armageddon in the Aptly Titled...
Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, the dynamic screenwriting duo behind Superbad and Pineapple Express, reunite just in time for the End of Days to pen a post-apocalyptic comedy vehicle for their buddies....
View ArticleMadonna Goes Ballistic, Threatens to Cancel Concert Over Smoking Fan
During an open-air concert in Santiago, Chile, on Wednesday, Madonna got a bit testy with a fan who decided to visit flavor country in the middle of her set. After sensing some cigarette smoke wafting...
View ArticleHomeowner Catches UPS Driver Stealing iPad Mini That Had Just Been Dropped...
When Al Alverson of Texas came home to find the FedEx package he was expecting to receive that day missing, he immediately went to his surveillance camera footage to see if it had been stolen. Sure...
View ArticleEggs Stashed Away in Wardrobe by Toddler Hatch Into World's Second Most...
A mother in Australia was stunned to find several highly venomous snakes slithering around inside her bedroom wardrobe after they hatched from eggs brought into the Queensland home by her son a few...
View ArticleBad Santa Fired For Telling Kids About Sandy Hook Shooting, Revealing That He...
A British mother says her Christmas was ruined by one very unlikely scrooge: Santa Claus. Wendy Kennett of Oxfordshire says she took her kids, aged 6, 7, and 10, to see Santa at a local garden center...
View ArticleNorth Korea Has Arrested an American Citizen for a Mystery Crime
North Korean officials have arrested an American citizen, though they have not yet stated what crime the man commit. A Reuters report says the man, Kenneth Bae, who is Korean-American, traveled to...
View Article'The NRA is Killing Our Children': Protester Interrupts NRA News Conference
The NRA's news conference Friday morning had one unexpected visitor: a protestor with a big pink sign. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre was proposing his organization's solution to recent...
View ArticleThe Website Counting Down to Gangnam Style's Billionth Hit Turned to Porn Ads...
If you were counting down to "Gangnam Style"'s one billionth YouTube view on the site BillionCount.com, you might have been a little confused at what happened when the counter hit 1,000,000,000: it...
View ArticleAccording to 1912, the 'Perfect Woman' Is From Brooklyn, Weighs 171 Pounds,...
On December 21, 1912, the New York Times published a profile of "The Perfect Girl": a size 14 wannabe-vegetable farmer who loved beefsteak and, by her own admission, literally did not know what fear...
View ArticleHere's the Last Scene of the Last Episode of Jersey Shore
And now it's dead...almost. Last night's episode of Jersey Shore found the show's guido/guidette family packing up and moving out of Seaside Heights, NJ, for good. The girls cried, Vinny got an itchy...
View ArticleWhile the NRA Was on TV Talking About the Need for More Guns Some Guy Was...
The National Rifle Association today held its first press conference since last week's deadly shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, and the takeaway was clear: We need more guns. "The only thing that...
View ArticleThe 50 Least Important Writers of 2012
With our profuse apologies, we now present to you, in no particular order, the 50 least important writers of 2012. Enjoy, or not. Katie Roiphe A classic wide-eyed bourgeois Brooklynite, Roiphe has...
View ArticleJimmy Fallon, Billy Crystal, and Jerry Seinfeld Did a Pretty Decent Abbott...
The best part about this "sequel" to Abbott and Costello's classic "Who's on First" routine starring Jimmy Fallon, Billy Crystal, Jerry Seinfeld, and A.D. Miles, is how great it is. The worst part...
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