Upset About HS Basketball Coach's 'Attitude' Toward Their Son, Parents Dig Up...
A high school basketball coach from Connecticut was forced out earlier this month after an R-rated film he appeared ten years ago was emailed to the administration by disgruntled parents who felt...
View Article'Factivist' Bono 'Sings Facts,' Says Poverty Rate Should Be Zero by 2030
"I thought, forget the rock opera, forget the bombast, the only thing I would be singing today is the facts," Bono proclaimed at his TED talk yesterday, "For I have truly embraced my inner nerd. So,...
View ArticleJoan Rivers Explains the Hatred of Anne Hathaway Better Than Anyone
"Why do people hate Anne Hathaway?" asked Yahoo! Shine. "Why do women hate Anne Hathaway (but Love Jennifer Lawrence)?" posed the Cut. "Why is everyone hating on Anne Hathaway at 2013 Oscars? (TWEETS,...
View ArticleThe New Dancing with the Stars Cast: A Nana Weighs In
On Tuesday, Dancing with the Stars announced the troupe of celebrities who would cha-cha into our living rooms and, perhaps, our hearts over the course of its sixteenth season. Despite the best efforts...
View ArticleAnti-Drink and Drive Message on Police Vehicles Inadvertently Encourages the...
Authorities in Tasmania didn't see anything wrong with emblazoning an anti-drink-drive message across the side of their breath-testing vans. That is, until someone bothered to open the door. That's...
View ArticleStudent Alerts Principal After Catching Teacher on Camera Stealing from...
A California high school student who hid in a locker to catch a thief who's been stealing stuff from her classmates' backpacks during Phys Ed was shocked to discover the perp was none other than her...
View ArticleFifth Grader Who Faces Expulsion for Bringing Marijuana to School Says He...
A fifth grader from Suffolk, Virginia, could be expelled from school after he brought in some marijuana last week to prevent his father from using it. Local police say the Driver Elementary student...
View ArticleDoes This Photo of Kim Jong Un's Brother Wearing a Dennis Rodman Jersey In...
The world scratched its head yesterday when it learned that former Chicago Bulls star Dennis Rodman is in North Korea, spreading a message of world peace via extreme facial piercings and basketball...
View ArticleNo, Marilyn Musgrave Has Not Changed Her Mind About Gay Marriage
While over 100 prominent Republicans—including several Bush Romney advisors, two current U.S. representatives, and Meg Whitman—have signed an amicus brief backing the constitutionality of gay...
View ArticleYosemite Junior Ranger Pens Adorable-As-All-Get-Out Letter to Park Officials...
Little Evie recently returned home from a trip to Yosemite National Park and, much to her horror, she soon discovered that she had accidentally removed two sticks from their natural habitat. Without a...
View ArticleWhy Wal-Mart Should Be Pushing for Socialism
Wal-Mart is widely despised by left wingers for reasons both philosophical and aesthetic. The company, in turn—though sometimes pushing for "green" improvements and other traditionally liberal notions...
View ArticleHere Is a Taylor Swift Song Remixed with a Goat Yelling Like a Human
Two weeks ago, we had yet to understand how two minutes of goats yelling like humans would inextricably shake the foundations of our very being. And now we have an absolutely perfect 25-second remix...
View ArticleHow America's Racial Wealth Gap Perpetuates Itself
A 2009 survey showed that the median white family in American had twenty times more wealth than the median black family. How can this be, so many years after the civil rights movement? The answer,...
View ArticleThe NRA Wants to Keep Gun Records Secret From Everyone Except the NRA
Legislators and gun rights advocates get really angry whenever nosy reporters try to use public records laws to find out who's packing heat. When the Westchester Journal News published an online map of...
View ArticleFinally, Fashion's Night Out Is Over
After a very expensive four-year run, Fashion's Night Out is over (in the U.S.). Tastefully launched during the peak of the 2009 recession, FNO was initiated to encourage spending by setting up a DJ...
View ArticleThis Makeshift Cannon Was Used to Fire Marijuana Packets Across the Mexicali...
A crude but powerful homemade cannon consisting of a plastic pipe, a metal tank, and an old car engine, was confiscated by authorities in the Mexican border city of Mexicali last week. Police told...
View ArticleRachel McAdams and Michael Sheen Split; In Other News, They Were Once Dating
Well it started romantically: Rachel McAdams and Michael Sheen not only met in the city of love, but they met on the set of a movie about love taking place in the city of love. Sigh, l'amour. But then...
View ArticleDog Shoots Owner in the Leg; Police Rule the Shooting 'Accidental'
Police in Florida say they have no plans to arrest a dog who shot his owner in the leg, having determined that the shooting was accidental. 35-year-old Gregory Dale Lanier of Frostproof was driving...
View ArticleAre There Atoms of Abraham Lincoln in My Body Right Now?
The time has come for "Hey, Science," our relentlessly scientific weekly feature in which we have your most provocative and/ or dumb scientific questions answered by real live scientists (or related...
View ArticleConnecticut Man Caught Red-Handed After Bungled Bank Robbery Flashes...
It took police in New London, Connecticut, all of six minutes to apprehend 35-year-old Jerry Thompson after he allegedly robbed a Citizens Bank located one block away from police headquarters. A...
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