Amanda Bynes is having a rough week, between her arrest, some bong-throwing, and accusations of being sexually harassed by the NYPD. But that's no reason to take it all out on Rihanna.

Fast & Furious 6 will make $122.5 million by the end of the holiday weekend, ensuring that we will continue living in a constant state of furiousness and fastness.

Thousands of separate bridges across the United States are in danger of collapsing if only a single part fails, having been built with zero redundancy.

On the heels of France's new gay marriage law coming into effect last week, thousands of French are marching in Paris today in opposition to the new law.

In a weird twist, the constantly-strapped State of California now has too much money. But what to do with it?

The New York Post, a bastion of journalistic integrity, gave a highly sympathetic forum to retired NYPD Detective Louis Scarcella to set the record straight after an investigation by the New York Times found that Scarcella falsified evidence and forced confessions during the 1980s and 1990s.

Would you pay $600 for this man's radical "virgin hair"? It can be cut to your specifications.

Oregon teenager Grant Acord will be charged with attempted aggravated murder after he was found with six bombs in his bedroom, which he allegedly planned to use on an attack on his school.

A new piece by Toronto's Globe and Mail outlines how crack-smoking Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's brothers and sister have a long history with the suburban Toronto drug scene, and that his brother, adviser, and current Toronto city councilman Doug Ford was a major drug dealer in the eighties.

Far-right groups are once again out in force in northern England today following Wednesday's attack on a British soldier in Woolwich.

Choice quote from this Times piece about Hamptons residents who fear Hurricane Sandy ruining the Jersey Shore means those people may instead come to the Hamptons this summer: "I don’t want to get anywhere near that sort of thing."

Amanda Bynes, freshly sprung, took to Twitter last night to clear the air about her recent arrest for bong-throwing and marijuana possession.

We will call her "Lydia Bearback." Lydia Bearback and I were elementary classmates on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in a town called Browning, Montana. Browning is a small town in Northern Montana with a population of a whisker over 1000. Like most Indian reservations on the Great Plains, the Blackfeet Reservation was governmentally engineered to be poor, and my family was poorer than most. Destructive public policies have decimated Indigenous economies. These policies, combined with utterly remote geographic location, have led to 70 percent unemployment for decades. "Let them kill, skin, and sell until the buffalo is exterminated," General Sherman said, "as it is the only way to bring lasting peace and allow civilization to advance."

Early this morning in Rockview, Missouri, a Union Pacific train hauling auto parts t-boned another freight train at an intersection, derailing the Union Pacific train and collapsing a highway overpass in the second major train derailment this week.

"Thong Cape Scooter Man," is a 56-year-old man who, when the weather gets nice, rides around Madison, Wisconsin on a scooter while wearing only a thong, a helmet and a black cape. It's a perfectly reasonable reaction to the long-awaited arrival of springtime in the Midwest.

"Baby, you've got a stew going!" Martha Stewart has put up an Arrested Development Premiere Party Menu featuring chocolate-covered bananas, cornballs, and a stew Carl Weathers would love.

If you're a conservative politician looking to make sure the American underclass eventually dies off either through malnutrition or disease, boy, has it been a pretty great week for you!

Last time Will Smith was on the Graham Norton Show, he led the audience in a rap-along of the Fresh Prince theme song. This time, he brought along some familiar friends to help him do it again.

Our pen pals had a one-track mind this week, and their collective mind was set on Rob Ford, crack, Canada, and the crackstarter. Their thoughts below:

Veep is an HBO comedy of political ill-manners, currently in its second season. It was created by mastermind architect of vicious profanity, Armando Iannucci, about Vice President Selina Meyer, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Meyer presides over a staff—including actors Anna Chlumsky, Tony Hale, and Reid Scott—that spends their time leaping and bounding from one political fuck-up to another.