No secret that disconnecting from Comcast is the worst, but to add insult to injury, the company actually started insulting one couple who tried to end their cable service earlier this year.

Two recent high-profile calls to Comcast customer service—one where a rep kept a couple stuck in a verbal loop for 20 minutes as they desperately tried to disconnect their service, and one where the company only reversed fraudulent fees because the customer recorded the call—have opened the floodgates of evidence…

When you first step inside the Times Square Guitar Center, perhaps you hear the opening arpeggios of "Stairway to Heaven," floating across the sales floor like a spring breeze. Then, the "Crazy Train" solo adds a dissonant but not altogether unpleasant counterpoint, followed closely by the "Layla" chorus riff, as if…

Last week, creationist minister Ken Ham responded to a NASA astronomer's estimate that "in the next 20 years we will find out we are not alone in the universe" by declaring the search for extraterrestrials "pointless" because they're all going to hell anyway. Neil DeGrasse Tyson, astronomical badass, went on Real Time…

If you are a human who has successfully survived past the age of 30, chances are you've experienced lower back pain, a condition brought on by excessive sitting, standing, inactivity, or moving. A new study says: there is no relief.

As soon as the recording of this call to Comcast's customer service line begins, you understand how bad it's going to be. This is not a helpful, friendly staffer; this is the condescending, needy ex-boyfriend from hell, pitifully demanding to know why you're leaving him.

The Republican Party of the USA, "seeking to capture the quintessential swing state of Ohio in the next presidential election," has chosen Cleveland as the lucky host of the 2016 Republican National Convention.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, unless thy neighbor is a titty bar. At least, that's what the Lord has told the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo in Chicago, who are suing the strip club that moved in next door to them.

The video above depicts nothing less than a sonic hijacking. Gothamist reports that yesterday, a Brooklyn resident rode an N train holding about 50 kids who played recorders stop after stop after stop, for a total of 40 minutes. What assholes.

What does T H E F U T U R E hold for us? If we are lucky, it holds unspeakably horrible new punishment technology. Aeon Magazine explores the future of jailing:

When you ease into the typical airline seat, you probably think to yourself, "This roominess is freaking me out. This seat could stand to lose a few inches." Your dreams are coming true, happy traveler!

Do you know what yesterday was? September 9. Also, the start of the Christmas advertising season. Fuck you, Kmart.

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.