Ohio Ink Studio Fixes Infamous 'World's Worst Portrait Tattoo' for Free
If you've been anywhere near the Internet for the past five years or so, you've no doubt come across the so-called "world's worst portrait tattoo." Story goes that this guy wanted to pay tribute to...
View ArticlePistorius Granted Bail After Two-Hour Lecture from Magistrate
In a bizarrely lengthy ruling—the reading of which took nearly two hours, most of which was devoted to summary of the evidence and of South African law—Magistrate Desmond Nair granted bail to...
View ArticleNC House Committee Votes to Reject Medical Marijuana Bill Because Too Many...
After just 20 minutes of public comments, North Carolina's House Rules Committee voted to reject a bill that would have legalized the possession and use of medical marijuana in the state. WRAL's...
View ArticleAmericans Want to Take a Good Look at That Meat
Meat! Think it's just about dead animal flesh, hacked and ground and processed with ever less "natural" flavors and preservatives? Well, I guess you know everything, don't you? No you don't. There are...
View ArticleAIDS Study Shows Fastest Life Expectancy Gains 'In the History of Public Health'
The results of a huge, seven-year study in rural South Africa are in, and god damn: by giving antiretroviral drugs daily to 100,000 people in Kwazulu-Natal, researchers were able to raise the entire...
View ArticleEvil Middle School Teachers Prank Students with Fake Disney World Field Trip
Two eighth grade classes at Roseland public school in Windsor were made the butt of an extremely cruel and unusual prank orchestrated by a pair of evil teachers that involved tricking the students...
View ArticleRecord-Setting Number of Heroin Bags Found Inside Gang Member's Anus
Officers in New Jersey who brought a driver into police headquarters over outstanding traffic warrants discovered something even more outstanding when they searched his cavities: 100 bags of heroin...
View ArticleLeaked FBI Memos Reveal Employees Sext Constantly, Sometimes Point Guns at...
Over the last hundred or so years, the FBI has developed a reputation for being kind of a serious place to work. Judging from a series of newly-leaked disciplinary memos though, many of its employees...
View ArticleThe Unfairness and Stupidity of the Payroll Tax
A temporary payroll tax cut was allowed to expire recently, meaning that payroll taxes are now removing an extra 2% from everyone's paychecks. Every corporation in the business of selling things to...
View ArticleHeartbroken Optician Logs Into Girlfriend's Facebook Account, Leaves Behind...
Hell hath no fury like a Scottish optician scorned. Having recently uncovered a clandestine Facebook account through which his girlfriend had allegedly been keeping in touch with her other boyfriend,...
View Article'A Worthless Hire': A Letter From Hjalmar and Alex, Our Far-Flung Swedish...
Earlier this week, Gawker posted a job listing seeking applicants for a reporter position. Among the responses was this letter from Hjalmar Sveinbjőrnsson and Alex, two under-employed Swedish...
View ArticleThousands Possibly Exposed in a Tuberculosis Outbreak Among LA's Homeless
The largest California outbreak of tuberculosis in a decade is happening in Los Angeles right now, and the Centers for Disease Control has finally dispatched a team of scientists to help LA-area...
View Article'You Like Me, You Really Like Me!': Watch a Supercut of People, Cartoons and...
"Let the darn thing go, will ya?" said Sally Field said during the manic 20/20 special Mad About the Oscars with Katie Couric. Field was referring to her frequently quoted speech from the 1985 Academy...
View ArticleKate Upton and Ryan Gosling Explain the Sequester
Did you know that the federal government is on track to enact massive, across-the-board spending cuts one week from today—cuts that that could affect important government services, cost hundreds of...
View ArticleMan Buried Beside Wife After Dying on the Way to Her Funeral
"Till death do us part" was clearly absent from the vows of one upstate New York man who passed away while riding in a limo on the way to his wife's funeral. Norman Hendrickson had just lost his wife...
View ArticleDiane Lane and Josh Brolin Are Ending Their Eight Year Marriage
Diane Lane Brolin filed papers to divorce from Josh Brolin and will return to her maiden name, thank you very much. The couple certainly shared ostensibly happy times on the red carpet, but doesn't she...
View ArticleThe Next Big Internet Thing Is Already the Dumbest Thing on the Web
Internet things, am I right? Much like the head of the mythical Hydra, cutting one down merely causes two more to grow in its place. Except, in the case of Internet things, the Hydra suffers from...
View ArticleArkansas State Senator Jason Rapert Should Probably Change His Twitter...
Has Arkansas State Senator Jason Rapert (R-Conway) ever actually been to his own Twitter page? My guess would be no, because otherwise he most likely would have changed the background image to stop it...
View ArticleYour Guide to Cressida Bonas, the Girl Prince Harry Nailed at the Dinner Table
Earlier this week, Prince Harry and a 24-year-old blonde reportedly got real weird and inappropriate at a dinner for Harry's uncle Andrew's 53rd birthday. In addition to making out with him hard for...
View ArticleNo, Banksy Probably Didn't Get Arrested
You may have heard by now that Urban Outfitters' favorite street artist, Banksy, was arrested in London last night on charges of vandalism. Even better, after hauling him in, police reportedly...
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