This morning I was disturbed to learn that a California-bound American Airlines flight was diverted back to London after several passengers and at least one flight attendant fell sick with a mysterious illness. Then I actually read the article and, frankly, it was horrifying.
FuzzBeed, a website that automatically generates nonsense content in the style of a certain well-funded social news and entertainment company, popped up on Hacker News just yesterday, and is already filled with such stilted and existentially haunting shareables as "The 37 Most Perfect Toothpastes That Will Make You…
Original Teen Mom™ and Britney's kid sister Jamie Lynn Spears has seen some shit in her 23 years, which is perhaps why she was able to allegedly shut down a violent brawl at a sandwich shop last weekend by pulling a huge knife.
Virginia State Delegate Joe Morrissey was recently charged with four felonies related to a sexual relationship he allegedly carried on with a 17-year-old receptionist at his law office. In a live televised press conference yesterday meant to deflect the accusations, Morrissey said: "OMG, I just fucked my boss."
A 10-year-old boy with Down syndrome who disappeared Tuesday afternoon from his home in Hackleburg, Alabama, was found safe and sound yesterday after spending a cold night in the woods.
Here's a video of two penguins — Pete and Penny — chilling in first class on a flight from Atlanta to New York, where they were guests at the premiere of Discovery Channel's documentary Frozen Planet. I'm thinking there are two joke possibilities here: something about "flightless birds" and something about how of…
He knows just where to take that receipt.
"Are tiny plastic toiletries on their way out?" asks AngelPulitzer-winning newspaper USA Today. I certainly hope that the answer is "no." Let's see... the answer is "yes." Drat.
After all these years of pale blue liquid being poured out of a sterile beaker into a maxi pad in commercials, the truth is finally coming out: there's blood in them thar pads! Bodily fluid advertising expert Copyranter says this Always ad (click to enlarge) may be one of the first times ever that an American…
What on earth could be cuter than a pair of baby ligers (the product of a Manchurian tiger mother and African lion father)? What about... those ligers being raised by a dog, alongside two of her own pups? This particular adorable multispecies family hails from the Xixiakou Wildlife Zoo in Shangdong, China.…
Today is the future you heard about yesterday, and it's here: a paralyzed man can now stand up and walk. Thanks to science!
Breaking newsworthy news story: a college, in America, will not charge as much this year as it did last year. That's right: Sewanee, the University of the South, in Tennessee, will cost 10% less this year than the $46,000 it cost last year. This moderate price cut at an otherwise unremarkable regional college earned…
The young man seen here was apparently caught bragging about gang-banging activities, on Facebook. His uncle decided to whup his ass with a belt, live on video. Here is what strong social media boundary-setting looks like. Parents, take note.
There is an uncanny resemblance between Usher's 2010 hit "OMG" and Homer Simpson's Christmas carol from the season 14 episode "Dude, Where's My Ranch?" See for yourself, if only to hear a Usher / Homer duet.
We are gobsmacked and awestruck! Howard Kurtz, the Washington Post's tireless conventional wisdom-spouting media reporter, is leaving the newspaper to join The Daily Beast as Washington Bureau Chief. We never thought we'd see the day.
Some things are small miracles, like a child's smile. And then there are big miracles, like when a stolen fragment of the True Cross is returned by a mysterious transient, who disappears. How in-your-face does Jesus have to be? Jesus.
A new study shows that more young girls are reaching puberty at very young ages—a significant portion of them by the age of seven. What's going on in this crazy mixed-up world? Are stereotypes to blame?
Monkey soldiers of killer doom? Prehensile terror tails and teeth! Trained macaques wielding automatic weapons and Islamofasctist sympathies! The word is finally out: the Taliban is using the CIA's murder monkey program against us. The troops! The troops!
Are you sitting down? This may come as a shock. On his Census, the president checked the box for "Black, African Am., or Negro." Multiracial people can check more than one box, but he did not. [NYT]
So last week some humans decided to blow the crap out of some stupid tree that made a big mistake by growing. Well the trees are fed up. Watch as this mighty oak exacts revenge on a wood shed.
