How hard is it for a broke woman taking care of bedridden husband with cancer to discharge student loans in bankruptcy? Hard. "Educational Credit said Ms. Schaffer was spending too much on food by dining out... that was a reference to the $12 she spent at McDonald's."

Earlier this week, BuzzFeed LGBT editor Saeed Jones fed the name of his boss, BuzzFeed editor in chief Ben Smith, into a website called Gay or Straight and tweeted out the result:

Jerry Seinfeld's Emmy award winning web series "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" starts up its third season in style today with highly anticipated passenger Louis C.K.

Matt Drudge's favorite city, "CHICAGOLAND," is at its least murder-ridden since 1965: the city only experienced 415 murders last year, down from 503 in 2012. You keep not murdering people, Chicago!

With all due respect, if you write a book called The End of Men and then you write a New Year's listicle for Time called "Men Are Obsolete" that is "Adapted from her opening statement at the Munk Debate, 'Resolved: Men Are Obsolete,'" you may be in danger of becoming a one-trick pony.

On January 1st, Twitter user Safiyyah Nawaz started a joke, which started the whole world crying for her head on a silver platter.

Driving on highways is hard. Driving while trying to teach your children good pro-American values and warding off hippies in old Volvo wagons? Damn near impossible. Thank God Michigan is on our side, y'all.

It's a small world, after all.

On the heels of Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson's awkward ruminations on Jesus and buttsex and vaginas, the reality TV stars have finally paired up with a popular gun manufacturer to make some boomsticks—and some haunting ads about life, liberty, and shooting God's feathery creatures with said boomsticks.

Russell Brand named his most recent comedy tour The Messiah Complex Tour, so it stands to reason that he is not one to suffer hecklers gladly.

A Florida man who made headlines after winning a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to watch the Breaking Bad series finale with the show's stars at a private party in a Hollywood cemetery is back in the news this week after being busted on multiple drug charges.

Kathleen Parker, the Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning(!) racial alarmist columnist, ended her year proudly by being named one of the Least Important Writers of 2013. In honor of that, she's made sure that her latest column immediately qualifies her as one of the Least Important Writers of 2014.

Boar Tush, Lick Skillet, Slick Lizard, and Smut Eye. Alabama town names are pretty weird. Weirder still is that a list of them is currently one of the most-read "stories" on Alabama's news site of record. What's the weirdest-named place you ever visited? Tell us in the comments.

It was almost exactly one year ago that we first introduced you to the real woman whose real name is Beautiful Existence and whose real New Year's Resolution was to eat nothing but Starbucks food for an entire year.

In perhaps the most mainstream defense of Edward Snowden yet, the New York Times' editorial board published an article yesterday calling on the United States to grant at least partial clemency to the former NSA contractor, who the Times identified as a "whistle-blower" who has "done his country a great service."

Colorado became the first state in the nation to allow retail marijuana sales on Wednesday, a day being referred to by some as "Green Wednesday." Sales began this morning at 37 stores.

Rob Ford, North America's most beloved mayor, will file for re-election tomorrow. Because why the fuck wouldn't he?

[New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio took the oath of office during a public inauguration ceremony at City Hall in New York City on Wednesday. Mayor de Blasio, along with his wife Chirlane McCray, and his children Chiara and Dante, took the subway to the ceremony. In his address, he promised to "leave no New Yorker behind." Image by Seth Wenig via AP]

New Year's resolutions are pretty much wish lists for lazy people. This might be why I love making them. The promise of a new beginning that will completely right all the wrongs of the previous year? Yes, please! Pass the pen and paper. Who's to say this isn't the year where I'll finally lose that weight, run that marathon, and get those finances under control?