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Hundreds Attend Burial of Vet with No Family After Funeral Invitation Goes...
When 70-year-old James "Jimmy" McConnell passed away last month at a care home in Southsea, Hampshire, he left behind no known family members. Concerned that staffers and a handful of friends would be...
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Unemployment Stories, Vol. 28: 'I'm Inclined to Simply Disappear Into Silence'
As we spend the day arguing over a satirical tweet about a Hollywood awards show, more than 12 million Americans remain unemployed. Millions more have dropped out of the labor force entirely. The...
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Our Far-Flung Swedish Correspondents: Hjalmar and Alex's First Assignment
Last week, Gawker posted a job listing seeking applicants for a reporter position. Among the responses was a letter from Hjalmar Sveinbjőrnsson and Alex Bejerstrand, two under-employed roommates living...
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Internet Raises Nearly $150k for Homeless Man Who Returned Woman's Lost...
A woman who had her diamond engagement ring returned to her by a homeless man after she accidentally dropped it in his change cup says she likes the ring even more now. "I actually feel like I'm...
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Last Year, J.C. Penney Employees Watched More Cat Videos Than Is Humanly...
On Monday, the Wall Street Journal ran an article about the bewildering fall of J.C. Penney, a $17-jean store named after a small denomination of legal tender that tried to rebrand itself as a fancy...
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Professor Accidentally Leaves Projector On While Watching Porn During Class...
Surfing porn sites at work is always tricky business, but probably never more so than when you're a university professor checking out PornHub inside a classroom on a computer that's hooked up to a...
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Janet Jackson Secretly Married a Qatari Businessman Last Year
Tired of all the rumors that were not flying around regarding her wedding, Janet Jackson surprised the world today by announcing (apropos of nothing?) that she and obscenely wealthy Qatari businessman...
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Assemblyman Dov Hikind, King of One-Way Sensitivity, Partied in Blackface...
Dov Hikind is the asshole New York assemblyman representing District 48, a swath of concrete in Brooklyn that includes Midwood and Borough Park, a famous Orthodox Jewish enclave in the borough's...
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Soldiers Deployed Overseas Far More Likely to Be Unemployed When They Come Home
New veterans—those who left US military service recently—have higher unemployment rates than both older veterans and civilians, according to a new research paper from the Chicago Fed. Even taking into...
View ArticleTop Level Chinese Official Misses Flight, Goes Apeshit on Boarding Desk
A top level government official from China who missed his flight not once but twice took his frustrations out on the boarding desk — and the entire unfortunate episode was caught on CCTV cameras....
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Bonded By Blood: A Girls Recap
This episode of Girls is called "Video Games" but don't get too excited, geekboys, because it's actually about Jessa's relationship with her estranged father. Jessa, fetishized by most as the wisest of...
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That Searching for Sugar Man Beat How To Survive a Plague at the Oscars Is...
Malik Bendjelloul's Searching for Sugar Man, which won Best Documentary Feature at last night's Academy Awards, is a puff piece that exists to deify its subject, Sixto DÃaz RodrÃguez. It is less a...
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British Hospital Sued After Surgeons Remove Wrong Testicle From Cancer Patient
Having a cancerous testicle removed is probably a stressful enough procedure; there's the actual surgery in a sensitive, important part, not to mention the life-threatening disease if the procedure...
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Homophobic Family Values Group Accuses GEICO Pig Commercials of Promoting...
The "advocacy group" One Million Moms is at it again. The group/collection of homophobic trolls, best known for protesting JCPenny not once but twice, has recently carved out a bizarre niche market...
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Remembering C. Everett Koop's Groundbreaking, Controversial AIDS Introduction...
C. Everett Koop, who died today in New Hampshire, did a lot throughout the course of his 96 years, including play football at Dartmouth, help put into motion the war against second-hand smoke, and...
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Man Sues Parents for Not Loving Him Enough, Seeks $200,000 and Two Domino's...
Like most of us, Bernard Bey knows the root of his problems: his parents. Unlike most of us, however, the 32-year-old Brooklyn resident is seeking compensation for the damage his parents caused;...
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Accused Teen Killer Confesses to Sex on Victims' Bodies
Eighteen-year-old Alisa Massaro confessed to having sex with her boyfriend, 24-year-old Joshua Miner, on the bodies of two men that Joliet, Ill. police say the pair killed in January, according to the...
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According to a New Survey, Republicans Turn to Olive Garden For Quality...
Not even a delicious breakfast spread can unite a country. Public Policy Polling has released a survey covering how basic food preferences divide along party lines. PPP questioned 500 registered...
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Downton Abbey Is Adding a Black Guy
Downton Abbey? More like Show About a Black Person Abbey. Looks like everyone's favorite program about dramatic white people (of the non-Real Housewives variety) is set to introduce its first black...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Installed a Nursery in Her Office
Last Friday, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer pissed everyone off when she banned her employees from working remotely. Yahoo's working mothers were particularly disgruntled by this change of policy, especially...
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