Here, a former writer for the Long Beach Post explains how the paper routinely ran press releases from advertisers verbatim, as news stories.

Fuck Earth. It gets so fucking hot here! Why do we live here? How can we keep our body temperatures at a degree capable of sustaining life since we're trapped here?

Right now, it is 93 degrees in Central Park, according to the National Weather Service. It is on its way up to an expected high of 99 degrees, which is a brutal, sweltering temperature—the crest of a severe summer heat wave.

A pizza shop owner in San Diego is in the midst of a PR nightmare after he was allegedly caught on webcam masturbating inside his pizzeria's kitchen.

On one hand, the U.S. economy of the past few years has been great— for investors, banks, and the young affluent types propelling the new tech boom. On the other hand, progress for the middle class is all but absent (not to mention the lower class). Sooner or later, one hand is going to cut the other hand off.

A&E's Intervention, the reality show about addiction-cum-vehicle for some of the most extreme human behavior ever shown on television, ended with last night's episode. It was its 194th. A&E announced the cancelation in May, and while the network didn't specific exactly why, it's clear that the 8-year-old show has been eclipsed in ratings by newer A&E franchises. Last week's new Intervention episode nabbed 1.35 million viewers, while a Duck Dynasty rerun that aired Wednesday night did 1.56 million viewers.

Welcome to Thatz Not Okay, a regular column in which I school inquiring readers on what is and is not okay. Please send your questions to caity.weaver@gawker.com with the subject "Thatz Not Okay."

That's right: Schindler’s list, The iconic document used by German industrialist Oskar Schindler to safeguard the lives of over 1,000 Jews during World War II, is being sold to the highest bidder on the same website you use to track down ultra rare Beanie Babies.

Four years after being convicted in absentia of the abduction of Egyptian-born cleric and accused terrorist Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, Robert Seldon Lady, formerly the CIA's Milan station chief, was arrested in Panama.

What is it about a man who once smoked— but quit— that makes him so raffishly attractive to employers, not to mention chicks? I've often wondered that in my own idle moments, when not fending off advances from Fortune 500 recruiting officers. All science knows for sure: someone who's stopped smoking is a business powerhouse.

In response to questions from Parliament over a secretly-recorded meeting where he admitted to knowledge of illegal news-gathering tactics and railed against the police, News Corp. overlord Rupert Murdoch wrote, "I regret my choice of words."

Last last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) delivered a masterful defense of her proposed update to the bank-regulating Glass-Steagall Act on CNBC's "Squawk Box," effectively shutting down co-anchor Brian Sullivan's claim that government can't do anything to rein in financial risk.

Paul Browne, who has served as the NYPD's spokesman for the past decade, and who in that capacity has purposefully and repeatedly lied to reporters in the course of protecting the reputation of his boss Ray Kelly, is stepping down, presumably to lie for somebody else.

A day after he was sentenced to five years in jail, a judge ordered opposition leader Alexei Navalny to be released from police custody. Navalny, who is Russia's most prominent anti-corruption activist and one of Putin's harshest critics, was convicted of "embezzlement."

It was just another day at the Coalition Drum Shop in La Crosse, Wisconsin, when in came a mysterious grandma who proceeded to blow everyone away with her unexpected skin-slapping prowess.

One of the three fatalities of crashed Asiana Airlines Flight 214 died as a result of injuries she sustained after being run over by a responding emergency vehicle, the San Mateo County coroner's investigators have concluded.

Tourism PSA: the time for "haggling" has come when a driver tries to charge you $720 for a 20-minute pedicab ride.

Prepare yourself for a dramatic This Canadian Life episode about a woman missing for over five decades, who was just found alive in Yukon.

Manhattan residents have an odd tendency of thinking they are "better" than everyone else in their city, state, nation, and planet, just because they live in the borough "where it all happens," or some other falsehood that hasn't been true since Woody Allen's heyday. Sadly, they have a point.