Lacey Donohue · 11/20/13 12:59AM

[A Filipino man walks through a neighborhood devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, Philippines on Wednesday morning. Residents from Tacloban are still waiting for evacuation flights so they can leave the shattered city. Photo by Dita Alangkara via AP]

​This Video Proves You Look Like a Moron When Posing for Pictures

Lacey Donohue · 11/19/13 11:55PM

Club Organizers for the C U Next Tuesday Club in Dublin, Ireland had a great, though unoriginal idea. They asked club-goers to pose for a photo, but instead of capturing a single shot, the photographer took video of the young people strategically posing. The embarrassing footage was then pieced together into a montage set to Carly Simon's "You're So Vain." And yeah, some of these very attractive fuckers are real vain.

Lacey Donohue · 11/19/13 10:51PM

A United Methodist minister who was convicted under church law of officiating his son's same-sex marriage was suspended for 30 days on Tuesday. The Rev. Frank Schaefer refused to apologize for his actions, telling jurors that the church "needs to stop judging people based on their sexual orientation."

Lacey Donohue · 11/19/13 09:01PM

[The U.S. Air Force launched an Orbital Sciences Minotaur 1 Rocket into orbit from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va., on Tuesday night. According to photographer Louis Suarato, this is the rocket as seen from Albany, N.Y. Photo via Twitter]

Cord Jefferson · 11/19/13 08:51PM

More information about Congressman Trey Radel's cocaine bust: The AP reports that Radel allegedly purchased the coke from an undercover DEA agent in D.C.'s Dupont Circle neighborhood. Later that night, authorities came to Radel's home to let him know he'd be charged.

Lacey Donohue · 11/19/13 07:34PM

The Taos County District Attorney will not seek criminal charges against the officer who shot toward a van full of kids. "[Additional] information could come in, but at this preliminary stage, what I've viewed and what I've reviewed I don't see any criminal charges against any of the officers," he said.

Hamilton Nolan · 11/19/13 04:54PM

Damon Silvers, an AFL-CIO official, sat on a congressional panel in 2008 that oversaw the bank bailout. "If I'd known what the consequences of the decision not to restructure the banks would be," he now says, "I would've set myself on fire on the Mall."

Max Read · 11/19/13 03:33PM

[Rick Miller, a President Abraham Lincoln re-enactor, poses for photographs after a ceremony commemorating the 150th anniversary of the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery and President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Photo by Matt Rourke via AP]

Cord Jefferson · 11/19/13 02:53PM

As the Army prepares to integrate women into ground combat positions, an internal Army email says it's best to use "average-looking women" in media materials so as not to give the wrong impression: "In general, ugly women are perceived as competent while pretty women are perceived as having used their looks to get ahead."