Three things that are amusing about the newly released trailer for shock-auteur Lars von Trier's forthcoming Nymphomaniac:

Nothing deters watching porn more than the birth of Christ or the death of a terrorist. According to PornHub's page view analysis, people watch far less porn on major holidays—Christmas and Thanksgiving, especially—and on days in which major news events took place—jerking off was way down the day Osama Bin Laden was killed, for example.

Playboy asks NYPD boss Ray Kelly about political critics of his stop-and-frisk policy: "Do you think they were just full of shit?" "Absolutely," Kelly says. Then he talks about how black teens in Harlem love him.

So it rained a little bit in Los Angeles for a few hours earlier this week. EVERYBODY PANIC.

Poor people, generally, make bad decisions—bad in the sense of their long-term physical, mental and financial welfare. But their bad decisions aren't the reason for their poverty. They're caused by it.

"I might be mistaken but I think Zach Braff totally photobombed my newlywed couple," tweeted photographer Sascha Reinking after noticing a familiar smiling face in the crowd while shooting wedding photos in Times Square.

More than a dozen schools, two college campuses, and multiple businesses in Decatur, Alabama, were evacuated Thursday over a suspicious package attached to a railcar laden with toxic gas. But rather than explosives, authorities found the package held several pounds of weed.

Today, the Wall Street Journal's editorial page decried the Democratic Senate's use of the "nuclear option" to end filibusters of presidential nominees, sniffing, "They view the minority as an inconvenience to be rolled." But... but you said before...

A shocking case of racial profiling has emerged in Florida after it was revealed that a black convenience store employee had been arrested dozens of times for trespassing in and around the store where he works — during work hours.

Higher education is no longer the nonstop growth field it once was. America's college boom has peaked. Now, the industry of higher learning better prepare for the next step: shrinkage.

New figures show that homelessness is down 4% nationwide this year, but up by 13% in New York City, where affordable housing is but a dream.

Nearly 1,500 homes were destroyed in a powerful tornado outbreak that swept across the midwest on Sunday, leaving at least eight people dead in its wake.

At least 33 people, including three fire fighters, were killed when the roof of a supermarket collapsed during rush hour in the Latvian capital of Riga. Hours later, rescue workers are still searching through the rubble, asking family members and friends to call the cell phones of the missing to help locate their bodies.

[A child watches a show by the French street theatre company Les Plasticiens Volant, featuring giant, terrifying puppets, during an event to mark the start of the Christmas shopping season in Amsterdam, Netherlands on Thursday. Photo by Peter Dejong via AP]

On Wednesday, three San Jose State University freshmen were suspended and charged with hate crimes for their mistreatment of a black roommate. Colin Warren, Joseph Bomgardner, and Logan Beaschler have not yet been arrested because campus police are waiting for them to surrender.

Lachlan Connors was playing lacrosse in the sixth grade when he hit his head on the ground and sustained a concussion. Although he began to display "concerning behaviors," he was allowed to return to sports. Soon after, another concussion sent him to the hospital for weeks and Connors began suffering from epileptic seizures and mini-hallucinations.

Tae Kwon Do instructor J. Everett Dutschke was arrested in April for the outlandish crime of sending ricin-tainted letters to public figures and then trying to frame his archenemy, an Elvis impersonator named Paul Kevin Curtis, with the poisoning attempts. The story immediately became freak-show fodder, complete with a long GQ article that went back to the origin of Dutschke and Curtis' rivalry. Today that story continues, as Dutschke has been charged with again attempting the same ridiculous crime, this time from behind bars.

[Excited about the grand opening of Delaware hoagie chain Capriotti's first Washington branch, Vice President Joe Biden put in his order right after 11 a.m. on Thursday. "The only way to eat these things is with hot peppers," Biden said, "but not everybody understands that. You know what I mean?" Photo by Carolyn Kaster via AP]

Dayna Morales, the New Jersey waitress and former Marine who received a hateful note in lieu of a tip, has now received thousands of dollars in donations. But in order to "pay it forward," Morales has chosen to donate all of the money to the Wounded Warrior Project.

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