Weather Service Prophet Warns Colorado of "Biblical Rainfall"

Ken Layne · 09/12/13 01:42PM

How do you warn people that the flooding situation is really dangerous around Boulder, Colorado? A forecaster for the National Weather Service used some good old Bible terror in this morning's Denver/Boulder update. Is this modern-day Noah collecting raccoons and deer and stray pit bulls, right now?

Hamilton Nolan · 09/12/13 01:40PM

The world's thinnest glass is just two atoms thick. You can't use it for shit.

The Prosecutions From the Financial Crisis Are Just About Over

Hamilton Nolan · 09/12/13 12:17PM

Five years ago, the world economy melted down. About four and a half years ago, an outcry began in earnest for the SEC to track down and bring cases against the people and institutions responsible for the meltdown. How's that going?

The Collected Op-Eds of Vladimir Putin

J.K. Trotter · 09/12/13 11:47AM

Conservative writers are very upset that The New York Times published an op-ed by Russian President Vladimir Putin calling for the U.S. to halt any plans to strike Syria. “It looks like those pro-Assad Syrians didn’t need to hack the New York Times website after all,” National Review columnist Charles C.W. Cooke tweeted. “They could have just asked nicely.” Commentary editor John Podhoretz mused this morning: “So it’s LITERALLY Pravda-on-the-Hudson.”

Just A Good-Natured Dick Sucking Prank Between Friends

Neetzan Zimmerman · 09/12/13 11:26AM

The so-called "salt shaker prank" is fairly well established in the canon of practical jokes aimed at duping victims into mimicking the motion typically associated with oral sex.

Hamilton Nolan · 09/12/13 11:03AM

"Acupuncture started as a procedure for horses, according to Dr. Marc Siebert at the Lower East Side Animal Hospital, so there’s no reason not to be using it on dogs now."

Julie Chen Had Surgery to Fix the Fact That She's Chinese

Rich Juzwiak · 09/12/13 10:53AM

As a 25-year-old working at Dayton, Ohio's WDTN-TV in 1995, Julie Chen wanted to anchor the news on air. BUT FIRST, she had to look less Chinese and more white, according to both her boss and her agent. And so, as she revealed on yesterday's episode of The Talk, she got plastic surgery all over her face. See above.

Cord Jefferson · 09/12/13 10:45AM

University of Alabama paper The Crimson White does a deep dive into the school's problem of white sororities banning black members. It turns out many of the sorority girls want to desegregate their chapters, but alumnae override them or threaten to cut financial support if a black recruit is admitted.

Babysitter's Abuse Uncovered Thanks to Family Dog

Neetzan Zimmerman · 09/12/13 09:41AM

A real-life Lassie story unfolded in South Carolina earlier this year when a dog alerted its owners to the possibility that their infant son was being physically abused by his babysitter.