On Flag Day, Defend the U.S. Flag By Punishing Those Who Desecrate It!
Ken Layne · 06/14/13 01:21PM
Today is Flag Day, America's most important holiday. And while it might seem like a good idea to wear flag wings over your bikini or use a tattered Old Glory as a summer blouse, such actions are illegal. But because there's no enforcement or punishment for hurting the American flag, freedom is constantly under assault.
This "What Is Your Salary?" Thread Is Terrifying/Anxiety Inducing
Max Read · 06/14/13 01:15PMTom Scocca · 06/14/13 12:43PM
The Pixies have announced that singer/bassist/McCartney Kim Deal has quit the band, or at least that Kim Deal perceives herself as having quit the band, while the other three Pixies "will always consider her a member." Given that the Pixies had never really re-formed as an album-making unit after 1991's Trompe le Monde, either take on the transaction makes sense. Rather than her spotlight turn on "Gigantic," which could suggest Deal's role was isolable or separable, here's the band in youth and unison doing "Bone Machine":
Blimps Are Back
Hamilton Nolan · 06/14/13 12:31PMCord Jefferson · 06/14/13 11:56AM
Tom Brokaw Remembers Daughters' Menstruation in Father's Day Letter
Caity Weaver · 06/14/13 11:53AM
In honor of Father's Day, a day when mothers across America buy cards for their husbands and then search all over the house for their children so that they can sign the card—they literally don't have to do anything but sign the card, look, here I already bought it—TIME magazine assembled a team of famous fathers to write open letters to their daughters. There were old dads and young dads and politician dads and musician dads and good dads and Bruce Jenner. Most of the letters were sweet, if a little dull.
Boston Woman Pays Half a Million Dollars for Tandem Parking Spots
Neetzan Zimmerman · 06/14/13 11:44AMThe Journalist's Guide To Not Getting Charged With Espionage
Adrian Chen · 06/14/13 11:36AM
Journalists nationwide were miffed on Wednesday after New York Congressman and Super Mario Bros. Mini-boss Peter King explicitly called on the Department of Justice to go after Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald for publishing classified documents revealing how much the NSA has been spying on all of us. This is almost certainly not going to happen, and would be a huge injustice if it did. But it got us wondering: Since the Obama Administration is clamping down on leaks with the dangerous zeal of a snapping turtle latching onto a toddler's pinky at a petting zoo, what is the best way for enterprising journalists to reveal important classified information to the world without being caught up in a nasty espionage investigation?
Hamilton Nolan · 06/14/13 11:28AM
Flatulent Cop Leads Police to 'Cannabis Factory'
Neetzan Zimmerman · 06/14/13 10:31AMYoung People Still Broke As Hell
Hamilton Nolan · 06/14/13 10:18AMPoet Puts Testicles on Sale to Pay for European Tour
Neetzan Zimmerman · 06/14/13 10:07AMThe Story of the 450-Pound Rapper Who Loved Waffle House Too Much
Camille Dodero · 06/14/13 10:00AM
Jelly Roll, a 28-year-old white rapper from Antioch, Tennessee, has eaten at Waffle House more times than he can possibly remember. Hundreds of visits, but more likely thousands, to an inestimable percentage of America’s 1,600 Southern franchises. He orders the same meal every time, his particular variation of an All-Star Breakfast: scrambled eggs with cheese and wheat toast; hash browns that are double scattered, smothered, covered, and chunked (splattered with cheese, onions, and ham); a side of sausage; and a chocolate-chip waffle.
SC Man Could Spend Years in Prison for Growing Pot to Help Sick Wife
Neetzan Zimmerman · 06/14/13 09:29AMLos Angeles Boys Have Eating Disorders Thanks to Channing Tatum
Hamilton Nolan · 06/14/13 08:56AMAustralia's Army Chief Orders Sexists to 'Get Out' in Stirring PSA
Neetzan Zimmerman · 06/14/13 08:44AMWhile the US is holding hearings on the military's disturbing sexual assault problem with an (almost) all-male panel, Australia's Chief of Army Lieutenant General David Morrison is getting down to brass tacks: If being civil toward female soldiers and respecting their contributions to the service does not suit you, "then get out."









