15-year-old Christian Adamek, a popular student at Sparkman High School in Harvest, Alabama, hanged himself Oct. 2 and died from his injuries two days later. His death came just a week after he was arrested for streaking across the Sparkman High football field during a Sept. 27 football game.

On Thursday, President Obama signed into law a bill to restore funding to families of fallen troops during the shutdown. The passage of the bill comes one day after a Maryland-based nonprofit agreed to offer an advance grant to impacted families who need help covering travel and funeral costs.

Claudia Gocman, 27, was already pissed off when she sat down and watched her “professional” wedding video. It was low quality, missing key moments, and, according to the Jewish Chronicle, you could see “more of the guests’ backs than the faces.” And then she heard the cameraman, Anthony Aurelius, making anti-Semitic remarks.

Holy hell, this is harrowing. This past weekend, Delorean, an electronic-pop act from Barcelona, performed at the Mexican installment of the Mutek Festival and on Monday morning, they were still at their Mexico City hotel when an emergency call came in, urging them to vacate the premises due to a shootout. They complied—and were taken hostage.

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Everyone is annoyed by TED Talks these days, those vacuum-sealed idea nuggets. So comedian Sam Hyde sneaking onto an (independently organized) TEDx program at Drexel University last weekend and delivering this incomprehensible 20 minute talk on the "2070 paradigm shift" must be seen as a symbolic victory in the war on bullshit, even if it gets kind of old after minute 10. (Which is, I think, part of the joke.)

But I thought the GOP was behaving like this on behalf of America? "By a 22-point margin (53 percent to 31 percent), the public blames the Republican Party more for the shutdown than President Barack Obama—a wider margin of blame for the GOP than the party received during the poll during the last shutdown in 1995-96."

Lars von Trier's up-coming Charlotte Gainsbourg vehicle is about a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac who recounts her decades-long sex life to a stranger in a dark alley.

Remember how Congressional Republicans went to the shut-down World War II Memorial to protest the fact that the Republican majority in the House of Representatives had just shut down the government? In a spectacular meta-expansion of that story line, today's New York Times checks in with the right-wing organizations that spent millions on millions of dollars to elect and entrench a Republican majority in the House. They're upset.

Some people are noted for having a good deal of resilience—being able to deal with the traumas of life with equanimity and nobility, bouncing back ever stronger after tribulations. Yeah... more like they're a bunch of god damn junkies, according to science.

Writer-turned-not-lawyer-turned-lawyer-turned-writer Elizabeth Wurtzel has been on something of a musical jag lately. Last month, she wrote in the Daily Beast about her fraught relationship with Paul Westerberg, and how he wrote a song about her. Today in Thought Catalog (which is just really, really odd placement), she writes about how she fucked a pseudonymous married musician, who likewise wrote a song about her. Next up: Dave Pirner in the BuzzFeed Community Forums!

Rabbis teach. Rabbis counsel. Rabbis lead. Rabbis support. Rabbis... kidnap and, uh, torture?

Kanye West's Otis Redding-sampling "Gone," from his 2005 sophomore release Late Registration, entered Billboard's Hot 100 this week at number 18, thanks to Marina Shifrin's "I Quit" viral selfie.

House Republicans suggested interest in a short-term debt limit increase today in a move that would temporarily prevent the United States from defaulting. Hooray! Of course this means nothing for the government shutdown, and now you can look forward to more pathetic debt-limit brinkmanship taking place right around the holidays. God kill us, everyone.

Former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been sentenced to 28 years (!) in prison for racketeering and conspiracy committed during his term as mayor. Yowza.

Warning: This post contains a graphic photo of a woman giving birth which some may find disturbing.

A group of men has begun charging $5 apiece for photos of the new Banksy piece in East New York today, according to the Instagram account streetartjamz. This development is the most compelling thing about Banksy's latest work, which before had just been a stencil painting of a beaver gnawing on a felled parking sign.

In light of the reason Kanye West was invited to be a guest on last night's Jimmy Kimmel Live, the host "thought it would be appropriate" to air an all-musician edition of the show's best recurring segment, "Mean Tweets."

The superintendent of the Naval Academy ordered two former Navy football players to face court-martial for allegedly sexually assaulting a female midshipman at a party last year.

If you'd bought a flimsy McMansion in one of America's sweltering boom zones just after the recession struck, you could have had it for a nickel. Now, prices are soaring once again. The boomiest boom areas of the boom time are booming!