Hamilton Nolan · 05/22/13 01:20PM

Former Bush administration flack Dan Bartlett is Wal-Mart's new PR guy. Sounds about right.

Joe Francis Says His "Retarded" Jurors "Should Be Lined Up and Shot"

Rich Juzwiak · 05/22/13 12:14PM

Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis has gone wild and it's way better than a bath full of bouncing, barely (or not-at-all) legal coeds. On May 7, the day after he was found guilty of false imprisonment (three counts), assault causing great bodily injury (one count), and dissuading a witness from reporting (one count), The Hollywood Reporter nabbed an exclusive interview with the supreme douche, who was highly emotional and, as revealed later in the ensuing profile, drunk.

We Need an International Minimum Wage

Hamilton Nolan · 05/22/13 12:02PM

The deadly collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh has sparked calls for better worker treatment. The revelation that Apple manages to avoid almost all taxes has drawn vague calls for tax reform. A more direct path to fairness: let's just have a reasonable international minimum wage.

Demi Moore's Boyfriend Has a Pearl in His Dick

Caity Weaver · 05/22/13 11:38AM

Stars: They're just like us! Their boyfriends have pearls in their dicks! They go grocery shopping with their boyfriends with pearls in their dicks! They visit the planetarium with their boyfriends with pearls in their dicks! They decide to try a new restaurant with their boyfriends with pearls in their dicks and when they get there the service is really terrible and they're like (kind of annoyed) "Where did you find this place?" and their boyfriends with pearls in their dicks are like "I looked it up on Yelp. It got good reviews" and then they look it up on Yelp and realize that restaurant has two locations. ! Demi Moore's new boyfriend has a pearl in his dick.

Stockholm Riots Continue for Third Night, After Police Shooting

Maggie Lange · 05/22/13 11:05AM

Violent riots continue to shake Stockholm's suburbs for the third night in a row, following a police shooting last week. Last Monday, police shot a man in the impoverished, mostly immigrant suburb of Husby, after the 69-year-old allegedly threatened the police with a machete that he was brandishing. Husby is primarily composed of immigrants from the Middle East, Turkey, and Somalia. The riots are a reaction to what was seen as "police brutality."

Bear Bile Farming Is Even Worse Than It Sounds

Nitasha Tiku · 05/22/13 11:00AM

Hackers, protesters, and more than 70 Chinese celebrities, including Yao Ming, are opposing an initial public offering made by a Chinese company called Guizhentang Pharmaceutical, whose key ingredient is bear bile. The bile is cruelly "milked" by inserting tubes in the animals abdomens three times a day, "sometimes for years," reports The New York Times.

Jon Stewart on Rob Ford and Canada's National Crack-Smoking Pastime

Maggie Lange · 05/22/13 10:04AM

Jon Stewart began The Daily Show last night by noting: "The great thing about mayors is that they can maintain the eccentricities that get sanded-off and focus-grouped out of statewide or national politicians." And even among crazy mayors, he says, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford stands out.

Adrian Chen · 05/22/13 09:51AM

The famously fastidious New Yorker has issued a rare apology for inadequately citing a scholar's research in this story on botched ICE deportations.

'I'm shaking ball-sacks man' and Other Encounters with the OK Tornado

Maggie Lange · 05/22/13 08:55AM

On Monday, a man living in Oklahoma decided to be a pal and help out a friend who was moving. This is a saintly act. Moving sucks. While hauling stuff from one place to the next, the men were surprised to encounter a serious tornado on I-44.