Motivational speaker/author Lizzie Velasquez is something of a tabloid fixture as a result of her rare condition that's similar to progeria (though her problems extend beyond that classification — she's blind in her right eye, for example). Her condition is so rare, she's believed to be one of three people in the world to have it. She's known for her hyperactive metabolism, and for being "the world's ugliest woman," as she was dubbed in a YouTube video that received millions of views.

On New Years' Day, more footage surfaced from Jerry Lewis' long-lost Holocaust clown film, The Day the Clown Cried. The footage is taken from a Flemish documentary about the film, part of which was posted last fall.

A small-town council member from New York is making national headlines this week after becoming the first openly Pastafarian politician to be sworn into public office.

"A communications degree is not something to be taken lightly." Today's gem only gets more hilarious from there.

A New York-based Satanic church has applied to put up a statue of a Baphometic idol in the Oklahoma state capitol next to an already erected Ten Commandments monument. "The monument has been designed to reflect the views of Satanists in Oklahoma City and beyond," Satantic Temple spokesman Lucien Greaves told the Associated Press. Also, the statue is functional, serving as "a chair where people of all ages may sit on the lap of Satan for inspiration and contemplation."

"My Uncle Henry is hearing & speech impaired," writes YouTuber MiamiRedSkin. "He has a heart of gold and everyone who meets Henry absolutely loves him."

The Boston Globe has poached America's preeminent Vatican correspondent, John Allen, from the National Catholic Reporter, because of the "resurgence of global interest in the Catholic Church." Everyone loves to read about Pope Francis!

Americans love myths. We love ghost stories and the "American Dream" and "pulling yourself up by the bootstraps," and we especially love the idea of Bigfoot. This is the only reason why the same backwoods drifter can claim he found two different Bigfoot monsters and make the news for each of them.

Here you will see a video showing several Seabrook, NH police officers slamming a prisoner in their custody into a wall and pepper spraying him for no apparent reason.

Television's most delightful occult/weird-crime/Tibetan Book of the Dead soap opera was Twin Peaks, first broadcast on ABC in 1990 and 1991. It was a magical era before all the characters stared at smart phones and websites all the time, because such things didn't exist. And now David Lynch is looking for a "HOT caucasian girl," among other Los Angeles actors, for a semi-mysterious Twin Peaks project.

Email. We love it, until it burns us. Like when you think you're sending instructions to a coworker on how to whittle down a pesky reporter's request for federal records related to the Washington Navy Yard shooting, and you realize too late that you emailed them to the reporter himself.

Last night on UK television aired a documentary called Secrets of the Living Dolls, about men who dress up in rubber suits and masks, giving them the appearance of walking sex dolls. "Maskers" mask for a variety of reasons that were mentioned but not exactly explored on this freak-show doc: to be the women that they can't get, to get attention, perhaps sexual reasons. None in the documentary owned up to this last reason, but one of the members of the family that makes of FemSkin body suits, which seems to be the sole supplier of rubber body suits to these guys, told a group of maskers at a convention, "I don't know what you guys shove up those vaginas, but they can't take it, I'm tellin' ya."

CBS News correspondent Lara Logan and her producer Max McClellan are scheduled to return to 60 Minutes quite soon, after the pair took a public beating last year for airing the Benghazi lies of British military contractor Dylan Davies. But they’re not the only ones to blame.

Those "workplace wellness programs" that your job offers to help you stop smoking and lose weight and whatnot are fucking worthless, statistically speaking.

Samuel See, the young Yale professor found dead in his jail cell following a domestic dispute with his husband in November, died of "acute methamphetamine and amphetamine intoxication with recent myocardial infarct," according to the Connecticut medial examiner.

There was more than just Armond White's heckling at last night's New York Critics Circle Awards. The 87-year-old Harry Belafonte, for example, delivered a great speech on his experience with race and cinema throughout his life.

After dawdling through the holidays and a winter storm that's hitting America's poor especially badly, the Senate today passed a plan to fund three months of unemployment insurance for those who need it most. The GOP-led House will take up the bill after Hell freezes over later this week.

For four years, the top editor of the manic media-news website Mediaite has worked and written under a fake name in order to conceal his criminal past, managing editor Jon Nicosia, whose real name is Zachary Hildreth, revealed on Saturday.

Why are so many ferrets being stolen in the U.K.? You can tell us your theories in the comments, but know this—if you ever get caught jacking a ferret, just say yours is not the one cops are looking for: "I'd suggest one ferret looks very much like another. That's going to be one of the issues at trial."

There isn't much context to go along with this video of a Golden Retriever's pitch-perfect imitation of a wailing ambulance siren, but, then again, none is really needed.