Earlier this month, San Marino, Ca. Mayor Dennis Kneier was caught on security camera throwing a bag of dog shit onto a neighbor's yard. Apparently, the incident was so embarrassing and scandalizing, he was forced to announce today that he's resigning as mayor.
Marina Shifrin was a young gainfully employed person working for Taiwanese company Next Media Animation until she became disenchanted with her managerial mandate of "make deadlines, not art" and decided to quit rather publicly, in a YouTube selfie of her dancing to Kanye West's "Gone."
Weird hours, constant monitoring of traffic, an inability to explain to loved ones why you need to be on Twitter for 17 hours a day — it can just become too much for some young people working on the Internet*.
Newt Gingrich has pledged to formally end his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination next week, a spokesman confirms. It's kind of like a straggling party guest creeping into your bedroom to let you know they're leaving now, even though you've been in bed for an hour.
It's a tearful day in the world of cosmopolitan magazines and television studios, as the infamously sane Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman has dropped out of the race, due to a near-total void of interest in his campaign among Republican primary voters. How did this relatively competent-seeming person…
After a particularly offensive week—during which he called people who rehearse "fags" and told Howard Stern about "banging" Olivia Munn—Rush Hour director and physical embodiment of everything Axe body spray stands for Brett Ratner has quit his gig producing the Oscars under heavy pressure from the Academy. Hooray!…
Teen angst icon and longtime child star Taylor Momsen is retiring from acting at the age of 18. In an interview with Elle, she says she's all about the music:
Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty has abandoned his sad quest for the presidency after a disappointing third-place finish in yesterday's Iowa straw poll. He told staff Sunday morning.
Laura Fotusky, clerk of rural Barker, N.Y., quit her post on Tuesday rather than grant marriage licenses to gay folks. She would probably had more fun staying and being really judge-y with the marrying gays, but, well, God hates gay marriage! (She's posted her resignation letter here, if you really care.) Gay couples…
Emotionally unstable television host Glenn Beck is pulling a Palin and quitting his Fox News Channel show later this year, according to a cryptic and confusing press release published on his web site, The Blaze. (The site is down right now, apparently from all the "Beck is quitting" traffic, but the Google cache is…
"In the high seas equivalent of trying to open an airplane door mid-flight, an intoxicated California man released the anchor on a Holland America cruise ship while the vessel was traveling in international waters en route to Florida." [TSG]
Democrats will be delighted to read a guest op-ed in today's New York Times from retiring Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh, lecturing his fellow Democrats about why they must become a right-wing party. What a troll, huh?
John Mayer has quit Twitter. Repeat: @JohnCMayer has qwittered. This startling development comes three days after Mayer tweeted a photo entitled "Self Portrait of The Artist Three Days Before His Metaphoric Retirement." Here are his last tweets, preserved for posterity.
With a slide down an inflatable chute, a new star flickered to life on Monday. Five days later, disgruntled steward Steven Slater's star is waning: Video of his walk-off was disappointing, and his dissenters grow. Is this our hero's end?
According to an internal memo, JetBlue hates hero flight attendant Steven Slater for being awesome. But Steven Slater still wants to work for them. How does Slater not realize that this is never, ever going to happen?
This week everyone's spirits were crushed when we found out that the girl who had quit via embarassing dry-erase board messages was a hoax. Here she talks about how holding up rectangles and making zany faces might give her a career.
Steven Slater—the JetBlue flight attendant who became a national treasure by quitting his job in a blaze of pissed-off, flamboyantly gay glory—has broken his silence. All the latest details on our hero and his plight.
This awesome girl, supposedly named Jenny, got fed up with her disgusting boss and quit her job via 33 photos of statements written on a dry erase board. She then sent them in an email to the entire office.
Hey, universally hated baby-killing congresscreep Bart Stupak is retiring, too. For some reason the "Tea Parties" are taking credit for this, even though they are just the noisiest group of people who dislike him. (These guys deserve some credit too!)
Representative Bart Stupak hijacked the most important domestic policy priority of the Democratic party until the bill was suitably damaging to one of the most important constituencies of the party. Now he wants to quit because no one likes him.
