Oregon Community College Shooter Left a Message for Police Before Killing...
Police confirmed on Saturday that Christopher Harper-Mercer, the gunman who killed nine people at a community college in Oregon this week, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound following a shootout...
View ArticleNew Jersey Priest Accused of Threatening 8-Year-Old Cowboys Fan with Civil...
Prosecutors have accused a priest in New Jersey of pointing a functioning, Civil War-style musket at an 8-year-old boy because he was a fan of the Dallas Cowboys, NBC New York reports. The priest is a...
View ArticleAunt Loses Lawsuit Against 12-Year-Old Nephew Who Allegedly Broke Her Wrist...
The Manhattan aunt suing her 12-year-old nephew for allegedly breaking her wrist with an enthusiastic hug on his 8th birthday has lost her case. A Connecticut jury took just 25 minutes to find in favor...
View ArticleComplaint: Ben Carson Saved Real Money at Costco Approving Stock Options Fraud
Politics aside, few would argue that GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson—a retired pediatric neurosurgeon—isn’t a bright guy. So what does it mean that, while serving on Costco’s board from 2002 to...
View ArticleSquare-Jawed Muscleman Jim Webb Predicts Jim Webb Will Win Tonight's Debate
Jim Webb (who?) tweeted an article this afternoon entitled “Debate Preview: Why My Money’s on Jim Webb.” Unfortunately for Jim Webb, that article was intended as comedy. Webb—or Webb’s social media...
View ArticleDemocratic Debate 2016: Meet the Other Guys
Hillary’s on top (currently leading the polls at 43 percent), the kids love Bernie (he’s reached a million online donors faster than any candidate ever before), and Joe Biden is playing coy. But with...
View Article500 Days of Kristin, Day 261: You've Been Throwing Out the Healthiest Part of...
A message from Kristin Cavallari, via the Official Kristin Cavallari App for iPhone and Android: “You’ve been throwing out the healthiest part of avocados this entire time.”The healthiest part is the...
View ArticleOn Tuesday, Marlon James became the first Jamaican writer to win the Man...
On Tuesday, Marlon James became the first Jamaican writer to win the Man Booker Prize in the award’s 47-year history for A Brief History of Seven Killings, an “expansive and near-mythic survey of his...
View ArticleDeadspin So We Got Suspended From Twitter | io9 Luke Skywalker Has a...
Deadspin So We Got Suspended From Twitter | io9 Luke Skywalker Has a Perfectly Good Explanation for His “Flub” in A New Hope | Jalopnik Watch The Harrowing Video Report On The Missile That Shot Down...
View ArticleStraight Men Discuss Their Attraction to Trans Women in New Doc
A documentary about trans women and the men who love them called Sex Diaries: Trans Lovers aired on the U.K.’s Channel 4 last night. It was a regularly fascinating glimpse into a subject that’s still...
View ArticleUber Data Breach Exposes Licenses and IRS Documents for Nearly a Thousand...
Earlier today, Uber released a new “Uber Partner app, designed to give drivers more information so Uber works better for them.” It also inadvertently gave anyone access to an untold number of sensitive...
View ArticleNew York Couple Charged With Beating Son to Death at Church
An upstate New York couple have been charged with beating their 19-year-old son to death inside the Word of Life Church in New Hartford, New York, the Associated Press reports. Four other members of...
View ArticleMilwaukee Gun Shop Ordered to Pay $6 Million to Cops for Negligent Gun Sale
Badger Guns, known as “the number one crime gun dealer in America” for a history of selling guns that later turn up in crime scenes, has been ordered to pay $6 million to Milwaukee police officers...
View ArticleTrevor Noah Told a Funny Joke Because It Was Dave Chappelle's
Over the weekend, new Daily Show host Trevor Noah performed a short standup set at a convention in Los Angeles called Politicon. There, he did a bit about the varying extremes of racism he has...
View ArticleMcDonald's: Still the Absolute Worst, Now Brainwashing Children
McDonald’s, a protracted practical joke whose punchline is cardiovascular disease, is apparently still sore enough over Super Size Me that they’ve produced a documentary of their own to refute its...
View ArticleVegas is Hil Country: Welcome to the 2016 Democratic Debate Liveblog
Tonight at 8:30 p.m., all of our grandparents are going to fight in the Wynn hotel and casino in Las Vegas for the chance to be our Democratic nominee for President of the United States. And we’ll be...
View ArticleBerkeley Astronomers Disavow Professor Found to Have Sexually Harassed Students
A majority of UC-Berkeley’s astronomy faculty have signed a letter calling for the dismissal of Geoffrey Marcy, an astronomer at the university since 1999, who was found to have sexually harassed his...
View ArticleKid Badly Wants to Say "Holy Shit," Can't Close the Deal
Here is a video of a kid who just so damn badly wants to shout “holy shit” but just can’t get any closer than “holy crud,” which, if we’re being honest, is a poor substitute.Also, a seal gets eaten by...
View ArticleWhy Does the NYPD Need Secret X-Ray Vans?
The New York Post reports that the NYCLU has requested to file an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit filed by the website ProPublica against the NYPD three years ago seeking information about the...
View ArticleResearcher Sparks Controversy by Collecting a Rare Bird to Death
A researcher from the American Museum of Natural History tracked down an extremely rare bird in Guadalcanal and, after consideration, collected a specimen. With extreme prejudice. What I’m saying here...
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