Turns out politicians are just like us—they were once young and attractive, with their whole lives ahead of them, and now they’re not. Join us on a truly incredible DNC-themed look back at once was, what could have been, and which former cutie you should call “dad” this week on Twitter (it’s Tim Kaine).
In a wonderful, wonderful demonstration of how the Internet Personal Essay Economy can go awry, xoJane ran a personal essay by a lady named Brenna Phares, about how she recovered from her painful breakup with the use of a “breakup box.” Turns out Brenna works for the company she was writing about, which she didn’t…
Ted Cruz has been popping up in all sorts of crazy places recently. First, we found out he was the famed Zodiac Killer. Then he was the lead singer of Christian metal band Stryper. But the internet’s found Ted Cruz’s uncanniest match yet: The late Queen of People’s Hearts. Yes—Ted Cruz is Princess Diana.
A solid meme for a Friday afternoon: Stock footage of baboons doing human things, paired with silly one-liner captions. They talk on the phone, they throw their computers, they gaze dewy-eyed into the distance and softly smack their lips in resignation. I love these goddamn baboons, and I can’t wait to share them with…
AMAZING video—this dog is doing squats! A dog doing squats on video—amazing! Watch a dog doing squats—caught on tape!
The annual "mayfly hatch," as it's so charmingly known in towns along the Mississippi River, has yielded a specific kind of repulsion the past few days as the pests that commonly hatch along river towns have burst onto everything from gas pumps to soda machines to busy roads, causing car accidents.
Robby Gabbert, a soldier currently deployed to Afghanistan, was heartbroken to find that his ex-girlfriend, who was supposed to be taking care of his dog, Baxter, had sold the Shiba Inu on Craigslist. After a widespread internet campaign, though, Baxter is headed back to Robby's family.
A THC-based "syzurp" is reportedly now for sale in California. In other words, if you're keeping score: One real recreational drug, legalized for sale as a medical product, is now being used to make a fake bootleg version of a different medical drug that's widely used for recreational purposes.
Missouri University of Science and Technology's website always looks like this.
An activist apparently managed to smuggle the first-ever known video recording of a Supreme Court hearing out of the storied building and posted it to YouTube yesterday as part of a protest against the court's pro-corporate Citizens United ruling.
All the Memes That Are Fit to Print (Months After Relevance).
It's every musician's worst nightmare: You sit down to perform a Mozart concerto in front of a live audience at a prestigious concert hall, when, all of a sudden, the orchestra starts playing the wrong concerto.
Sometimes you see a dated movie about old-school technology, and you're like: "Oh, haha, people were so easily impressed." This short film totally looks like that, but it's actually the opposite of that.*
Watch this guy impress girls by chugging a pitcher of beer in 5 seconds flat.
This random twister is relentless when it gradually picks up velocity and power on a soccer field mid-game. Attempting to take two tents with it, it fizzles as quickly as it appeared.
People will do anything to live in Manhattan. This includes living in a space so tiny, you have to sit sideways to pee and suffer through occasional panic attacks. Only in New York would you keep bananas in your toaster!
Travel back in time with this great piece of old New York history filled with graffiti covered subway trains, old signage, and grimy New York subway stations.
