"I will not criticize" incoming NYC mayor Bill de Blasio, said outgoing NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg today. Remember that, everyone.

Spoiler alert: 12 Years a Slave is a Hollywood movie.

The words "pop" and "art" can be confusing. We use "pop" to describe a piece of music from within and without—it can speak to music's genre, its sensibility, and the reaction to it, sometimes simultaneously. When we use the label "art" to describe what's already evidently art—music, for example—we do it as a way of describing a particular expressiveness or originality or difficulty. We use it to distinguish "artful" art.

The Daily Caller’s Patrick Howley published a column today about how cool and subversive and authentic gay culture used to be, before they started to demand things like equal rights and legal recognition of their marriages. Howley explains:

If you're having trouble grasping the concept of zen, try this: cover your hands with glue. Grasp a pencil very tightly. Is that pencil like zen? No, it's not. Is the following koan like zen? At least as much as a pencil, yes.

Frederick Wiseman is a master of the art of documentary. Since 1967’s sensational Titicut Follies, the 83-year-old has made films, focused on American institutions, that don’t use narration, interviews, or identifying chyrons to tell their stories. These stories, in fact, are only implicitly narrative. They are often associative assemblages of scenes that favor portrayal over dictation.

"A former JPMorgan Chase banker who managed Bernard Madoff's account said the con man was on track to receive a $200 million loan less than a month before his arrest." Whoops.

Today CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes retracted its bombshell report about security failures during the September 11, 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. The embarrassing retraction, announced on CBS This Morning by Lara Logan, came nearly a week after The Washington Post challenged the veracity of one of 60 Minutes’ sources, a security contractor named Dylan Davies, and hours after the New York Times revealed that Davies supplied FBI investigators with a very different story.

Despite lacking the wherewithal to make their own sandwiches, entitled "Millennials" are demanding that the sandwiches made for them come on bread that is "unconventional," "unique," or even "wacky." It's about time for some famous newsman to ghostwrite another book about WWII, so we can hear how a real generation ate.

Scandal struck Loganville, Georgia this week when a woman caught having sex in a Waffle House parking lot attempted to wear a hamburger like a sandal.

This is the last page of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's sister Randi's book.

In 2009, the US government passed bipartisan legislation designed to make the credit card industry fairer, and hold down credit card fees. Economists are flabbergasted to find that it did those things.

The Onion’s print edition, currently distributed in Milwaukee, Providence, and Chicago, will cease production on December 12. Founded by two University of Wisconsin juniors in 1988, the paper once reached 17 markets across the United States, including Los Angeles and New York City.

It seems you can never escape the woes of this world, you know? Rich people got 99 problems just like you and me. You might think it would be nice to be waited on by an army of servants. But what you don't see is the hard part of that.

In downtown Los Angeles last night, 54 people were arrested while protesting Wal-Mart's business practices. They're asking for salaries of $25K per year for each full time Wal-Mart employee.

According to Reuters, Edward Snowden persuaded his colleagues at the NSA regional operations in Hawaii to give him their log-in credentials, which he then used to access some of the classified material he would later leak to journalists.

[Geostationary satellites of the Japan Meteorological Agency and EUMETSAT captured this image of Typhoon Haiyan before it slammed into the Philippines early Friday morning. Meteorologists have warned that it is likely to cause widespread damage and “significant loss of life.” Satellite Image by EUMETSTAT via Flickr]

Vice President Joe Biden didn’t just call one wrong Marty Walsh on Tuesday night. He apparently called some random lady’s voicemail and left a congratulatory message for Marty Walsh there too. You can listen to Uncle Joe’s hilarious misdial here.

U.S. Army Veteran Jim Wolf has struggled with alcoholism, poverty, and homelessness for decades. But in September 2013, with the help of Degage Ministries in Grand Rapids, Mich., he agreed to go through a physical transformation.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday made a preliminary determination that partially hydrogenated oils are no longer recognized as “safe.” If the determination is finalized, partially hydrogenated oils will be considered food additives that could not be used without special authorization.