Police Department Does Reasonable Thing
When police departments face criticism, they tend to dig in their heels, deny any wrongdoing, and accuse those who dare to point out their flaws of being crime-humping gang-lovers. That’s all very...
View ArticleJenson Button And Wife Gassed In Home, Robbed Of $465K Worth Of Stuff
In a crime that sounds as if it was from a James Bond film instead of real life, F1 driver Jenson Button and wife Jessica Michibata were robbed in a vacation home in the south of France. Burglars...
View ArticleAbercrombie & Fitch has agreed to end its use of “on-call” scheduling,...
Abercrombie & Fitch has agreed to end its use of “on-call” scheduling, which forces workers to put their lives on hold and come into work on short notice. Banning this practice would be a good...
View ArticleDeadspin Stop Pretending Donald Trump Is Running For President | Gizmodo...
Deadspin Stop Pretending Donald Trump Is Running For President | Gizmodo Crazy people chainsawed a frozen lake to make a spinning ice carousel | Jezebel Leonardo DiCaprio Doesn’t Have Fleas in His...
View ArticleJohn McAfee Arrested While Armed and High as Hell on Xanax
John McAfee, an entrepreneur once associated with antivirus software and now associated with drugs and tropical murder accusations, is back in the news for illicit reasons. Police in his new home of...
View ArticleWhy Does This World-Famous Conservationist Keep Shooting Animals?
Last week, the Daily Mail ran a story about a financier who had given up big-game hunting for conservation.Angus Murray, the money man in question, told the tabloid that he had an epiphany four years...
View ArticleVideo From America's Biggest Museum Heist Released 25 Years Later
Newly released surveillance video may be the key to breaking open a 25-year-old museum heist, the largest and most expensive art theft in U.S. history. Federal officials this week released a tape from...
View ArticleState Rep. Planted Gay Sex Scandal to Hide Relationship With Tea Partier
If you’re a conservative state representative having an affair with a colleague, you have a few options. You could fess up, you could keep lying, or, if you’re Michigan State Rep. Todd Courser, you...
View ArticleThe American Police State Hates Black and Poor People
The Wall Street Journal today states that roughly 30 percent of Americans have a criminal record of some sort. We’ve been over this before, but let’s take this opportunity to discuss exactly why the...
View ArticleWrite Your Very Own Hit YA Novel With Our John Green Book Generator
John Green, author of bestselling novels-turned-movies The Fault In Our Stars and Paper Towns, is a superstar. Teens love him. Adults love him. Taylor Swift loves him. The film adaptation of his first...
View ArticleAll Is Lost; Nightmare Man "Surprises" Wife With Her Own Pregnancy
In an age where elaborately-staged marriage proposals and tearjerking pregnancy reveals are YouTube commonplace, self-proclaimed vloggers must now go to extreme lengths to achieve maximum virality when...
View ArticleChristie Lied About Being Appointed U.S. Attorney on Sept. 10, 2001
Chris Christie (campaign slogan: Telling It Like It Is) repeatedly told it like it factually is not during last night’s GOP debate, twice claiming that President Bush appointed him U.S. attorney one...
View ArticleIn the City, Every Window Is a Pigeon Love Hotel
It starts around 6:30 a.m—“incessant, almost guttural cooing,” according to Michael Kelly, a 33-year-old opera singer who lives on a usually quiet stretch of 100th Street on the Upper West Side. He’s...
View ArticleForward or Delete: This Week's Fake Viral Photos
Occasionally, against all odds, you’ll see an interesting or even enjoyable picture on the Internet. But is it worth sharing, or just another Photoshop job that belongs in the digital trash heap? Check...
View ArticleVice Writers Have Reportedly Unionized
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that writers at Williamsburg-based Vice Media have voted to unionize:The writers will be joining the Writers Guild of America, East, and Vice’s management has been...
View ArticleThe GOP's Biggest Losers Debate Was a Glorious Car Crash
The Republican debate held at 5 p.m. last night, which featured the current 11th through 17th most popular GOP candidates in the 2016 field, was perhaps the least consequential national debate in...
View ArticleCarl Icahn Changes His Mind, Says He'll Be Trump's Treasury Secretary
Shortly after Donald Trump, a wispy corn husk wrapped around several stacks of sequential hundreds, announced his run for president in June, he suggested his nominee for Secretary of the Treasury would...
View ArticleFox News "Wins" Elaborate Fox News-Created Farce
The post-debate consensus is in: “Fox News Moderators Bring a Sharpened Edge to the Republican Debate Stage,” raves the Times. They proved the haters wrong!There was more than just good television at...
View ArticleFamily of Kalief Browder to Sue New York City for $20 Million
In early June, Kalief Browder, the Bronx native who battled mental health issues after spending three violent years in jail at Rikers Island without ever being convicted of a crime, committed suicide....
View ArticleSF Weekly's New Logo Is Definitely a Swastika, I Mean Come On
It’s hard enough running an alt weekly in 2015 without evoking fascist iconography.Just look at this thing:Yikes. The paper debuted its new look Facebook, and was immediately met with the obvious:Well,...
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