A domestic violence victim has come forward this week after being fired from her teaching job at a San Diego Catholic school because she was deemed a liability for having an abusive ex-husband.

Glenn Beck lost his voice on Monday. Which is to say, Glenn Beck (as we are led to believe) could not make any physical words come out of his mouth on Monday. But an anger-clown without a voice is still an anger-clown, albeit a sad anger-clown. And this particular sad anger-clown would like you to please feel sorry for him in his state of silence. In fact, Glenn Beck would like you to know that life has always been pretty hard for Glenn Beck, and for the love of God could you please just feel sorry for Glenn Beck? Here is what a mute Glenn Beck told the public (if the public was even watching) on his show this past Monday while aggressively frowning over a reeeeeeeally big stack of hand-written flashcards:

Eddie Redmayne is moving from sad, beautiful, singing revolutionary to potentially snagging the role of Stephen Hawking in Theory of Everything.

It is physically impossible to sit through this montage of happy-go-lucky dogs blissfully sticking their heads out of a moving car window without cracking a mile-wide smile. Go on — try it.

A group of wildfires threaten thousands of residents throughout Colorado and hundreds of inmates from an area prison. The fires have destroyed nearly a hundred homes and nearly seven thousand people have evacuated the area. Officials report that 2,300 homes are directly threatened by the flames. About a thousand prisoners had to be transported from an area prison, mainly as a precaution, as moving prisoners is a long process.

Early this morning, Toronto cops undertook a huge sweep of the neighborhood the Toronto Star calls "ground zero for the Rob Ford crack video scandal," taking several people into custody at the infamous Dixon Road apartments and visiting the home of one of the men photographed standing with Ford in the infamous "crack house" picture.

Here is an article about the career of a pink gorilla, with a cameo by A.J. Daulerio.

All your heroes eventually die and go to Cobble Hill to become yuppie parents. Even Mike D.

Holy shit the Replacements are reuniting for three Riot Fest shows this summer.

Lightning hits the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) and another building during a storm in downtown Chicago Wednesday evening.

According to a new Reuters poll, more Americans see NSA leaker Edward Snowden as a patriot than as a traitor, though 46 percent of those surveyed said they didn't know.

On Wednesday morning, an emu escaped from the home of a Tempe, Arizona resident. The emu's owner called zoo authorities and police, who may have killed the bird – named Ichabod – as they chased it.

Before Racquel Cloutier went to the hospital to deliver her fifth child, she hid her $23,000 diamond wedding ring in a plain watch box to keep it safe from her two-year-old twins. As she was in the hospital recovering, her husband, Eric Cloutier, decided to hold a yard sale in part to keep the couple's other children occupied. Only one problem: he accidentally put the watch box, containing the $23,000 ring inside, for sale – for $10 – and someone bought it.

They're creative, powerful, under 30, and beautifully photographed. Peruse this year's "30 Under 30" from Refinery29 here.

UPDATE: Snopes has rated this trend "Fake" based on an article by "Tokyo-based journalist Mark Schreiber" who traced its origins to a story on a subculture website that "had all the trappings of an urban legend."

The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin announced a major conviction today in the ongoing criminal prosecution of the people who brought the economy to its knees four years ago via a toxic campaign of mortgage fraud. Meet James Wazlawik of Prescott, Wisc.

A guide dog saved the lives of two trainers last Monday after he alerted them to a runaway car that was barreling towards them on the sidewalk.

The 84-year-old line cutter who was recently rewarded for jumping the queue at Publix with the largest single jackpot in American lottery history ($370.8 million), may have bought dinner for a restaurant full of strangers over the weekend. She also may have continued hoarding the millions all to herself, not givin' anyone shit. An employee of the Buddy Freddy's restaurant in Plant City, FL told the Tampa Bay Times that a woman who "sure looked like" Gloria MacKenzie paid for dinner for 180 people on Sunday. That woman told the employee that she sure wasn't Gloria MacKenzie; just some other mysterious 84-year-old millionaire from central Florida buying everyone dinner for no reason.

The parade of columnists declaring their support for the NSA's massive secret spying program goes on, and on, and on...

Ten years before 29-year-old Booz Allen contractor Edward Snowden undertook the most "significant or helpful leak... in American history" he was "Edowaado," a goofy anime fan working at a small anime art company.