'To See and Not Believe': City Workers Paint Handicapped Space Around Woman's...
Surveillance footage showing city workers in Tel Aviv painting a handicapped spot around a woman's legally parked car and towing her car away has shocked many around the world after it was uploaded to...
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A Discussion With Neil Drumming, Writer and Director of Big Words
Neil Drumming is a veteran journalist who's written and edited for the Washington City Paper, Entertainment Weekly, and elsewhere. Last year, he decided to turn his screenplay into a movie, and—unlike...
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Three People, Including Two Children, Shot Dead in Denver
Denver police are investigating a shooting this morning that left three dead, including two children. Another child was injured and taken to the hospital; all three children involved are under 10...
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'Bye Internet,' Says Internet Musician Grimes After Deleting Most of Her Tumblr
The musician Claire Boucher, better known as Grimes, is responsible for one of last year's most acclaimed indie albums, Visions. This morning, she posted an essay on her Tumblr regarding her pop-filled...
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Racism Doesn't Exist in Tech Because White Tech Blog Millionaire Jason...
People of color looking to break into the startup world or tech journalism will be happy to learn, per blowhard entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, that "there isn't a race wall in tech." Why, then, is tech...
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Employment Agency Apologizes For Hooking Teen Up with Brothel Job
The Augsburg branch of Germany's Federal Labor Office was forced to apologize to a 19-year-old woman who was inadvertently assigned to work at a local brothel without her knowledge. 19-year-old...
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NYC Will Get Either 3 or 30 Inches of Snow This Weekend
Have you made plans for this weekend that include traveling outside of your house for even the briefest moment? Cancel them! Or maybe make more of them? The Northeast is about to get walloped or...
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Fictitious 'Hispanic Male' Blamed After Texas Woman Accidentally Shot in the...
Police in San Antonio say a group of friends panicked after one of them accidentally shot another in the back, and tried to pin the whole thing on a "Hispanic male" who never existed. Three men and...
View ArticleCertified Mean Person Naomi Campbell Is Now Just as Campy as Everybody Else
Serial employee-assaulter, probable perjurer and popularizer of the phrase "I'm not here for that" Naomi Campbell is a "coach" on and executive producer of Oxygen's new modeling show The Face. Per the...
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'Autism-Friendly' Performance of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Planned
This coming April, Broadway's biggest tourist trap will be going dark. Of course Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark isn't closing, it makes like a billion dollars a day. But it will be turning on the dark...
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Teen Signs Faustian Deal with Dad to Quit Facebook In Exchange for Cash
If Goethe were a 14-year-old girl living in modern times, his Faust might have played out like the real-life story of Rachel Baier, a Massachusetts teen who was convinced by her dad to quit Facebook...
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CBS Bans ‘Puffy’ Genitals, ‘Bare Fleshy’ Butt Curves from the Grammys in One...
The "bare fleshy under curves" of everyone's buttocks are drooping a little lower today, as CBS' Standards & Practices department has issued a harshly-worded email forbidding all Grammy attendees...
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Obama Urges Boy Scouts to Pull the Same Bullshit He Did Last Year
On Super Bowl Sunday, President Obama told CBS' Scott Pelley that the Boy Scouts of America should end its ban on gays. Today, BSA board members decided to table a vote on whether the group should lift...
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Another Unimaginably Horrible Thing Happens in Beautiful Acapulco
We are not "yellow" journalists who would sensationalize stories in a way that might have a negative impact on the economic livelihood of an entire region. So we will not go out of our way to urge...
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Hyperlocal News Site EveryBlock Shuts Down Unexpectedly
Hyperlocal news site EveryBlock announced today it was shutting down for good. The closure marks an unexpected end to the site, which was once hailed for its innovation and ideas; the phrase "future...
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Killer Cop Possibly Barricaded in San Diego Hotel (Update: False Alarm)
A suspect matching the description of Christopher Jordan Dorner, the ex-LAPD officer who allegedly set out on a revenge killing spree earlier this week, is said to be barricaded inside a hotel at Point...
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Where Are They Now: News Reporter Tracks Down Kai, the 'Hatchet-Wielding...
It's been nearly a week since a mysterious transient named Kai used a hatchet to save a woman from the clutches of a racist man claiming to be Jesus, but still very little is known about the...
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Daft Americans Pay More For the Privilege of Eating Less
The ongoing American obesity crisis has doubtless had a negative impact on our nation's health, appearance, and collective long-jump ability. And that's not all: it's also actually making us dumber....
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The Post-Sandy New York City Rat Invasion Everyone Said Wouldn't Happen Has...
The experts said it would all be OK. They told us there would be no rat invasion of New York City after Superstorm Sandy. The scientists swore to us that the rats would not flow from their underground...
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Are You Not Entertained?: LA Freeway Car Chase Concludes with Fiery Crash
Fans of police chases were in for a treat last night when a freeway pursuit of a suspected drunk driver in a red Chevrolet Camaro ended with the car slamming into the sidewall and bursting into...
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