Jon Stewart began The Daily Show last night by noting: "The great thing about mayors is that they can maintain the eccentricities that get sanded-off and focus-grouped out of statewide or national politicians." And even among crazy mayors, he says, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford stands out.
The famously fastidious New Yorker has issued a rare apology for inadequately citing a scholar's research in this story on botched ICE deportations.
In Shocker, Technocratic Centrist-Democrat Elected Mayor of Large City
City Councilman Eric Garcetti won the race for mayor of Los Angeles last night, defeating his opponent, city controller Wendy Greuel, by a margin of eight percent.
Teen Girl Unimpressed with Own Ability to Slay Van Halen's 'Eruption'
A few years ago, guitar prodigy Tina S. made a minor splash with her dexterous performance of Ferdinando Carulli's "Andante."
You Will Never Be Able to Escape Your Suburban Office Park
As demographic changes push America's suburbs into a new life as homes to the poor, one of the obvious infrastructural consequences— along with dead malls— is the potential for a plague empty and unwanted office parks. Ugh, nothing could be more depressing. Except for the solution to unwanted office parks.
AZ Lawmaker In Charge of House Prayer Tells Colleagues He's an Atheist
A lawmaker put in charge of delivering the opening prayer at yesterday's session of the Arizona House of Representatives surprised his colleagues by using the opportunity to talk about his atheism and quote Carl Sagan.
Amazing Photo Shows Bowling Pins Standing in Tornado-Flattened Alley
By far one of the most iconic photos to emerge from Monday's top-of-the-scale Tornado
Alex Jones Is a Tornado Truther Because, Obviously
Yesterday, we explored the wild reality of Tornado Truthers, who believe that massive storms are created by the HAARP antenna farm in Alaska (HAARP is actually a research station to communicate with aliens living underground — only fools think otherwise). Still, the whole affair was missing the input of King Nut…
