Amid all of the hustle and bustle of daily news headlines, useless celebrity minutiae, and the mundane workaday distractions of our own lives, it can be useful at times to take a step back, get some perspective, and remember the "big picture:" we're all doomed.
A Georgia woman accused of striking another woman's car decided to up the ante by ramming into her victim's husband and taking him for a 2-mile ride — clinging to the hood of her car.
Somewhere, deep within the dark wintry woodlands of Old Russia, a tenacious pit bull is tugging at the bark of a tree branch forever on the cusp of becoming a stick, yelping and gyrating as he goes.
Martin Amis, who moved to Brooklyn two years ago, apparently hates it: "[H]e views the Brooklyn hipster scene as populated by conventional posers," a source tells the Evening Standard. "He doesn’t go out as much as he did and has developed a reputation as a curmudgeon." Sounds like he's fitting right in!
In November 2011, following a failed bank robbery, two men in eastern Germany killed themselves and set their van on fire. Inside its scorched remains, police found a CZ 83 handgun, later shown to have been used in a series of murders of immigrant shopowners. They also found a DVD in which "the bodies of the murder victims are pictured while a cartoon Pink Panther tots up the number of dead."
Penis scientist Rush Limbaugh is reportedly upset with executives at his flagship station WABC and its parent company, Cumulus. He's so mad, in fact, that's he's reportedly threatening to leave the company. Why? Because Lew Dickey, Cumulus's CEO, is (probably correctly) blaming Limbaugh's “slut” comments last year for declining ad revenue at the company
Over the past five years, David Stein has made a name for himself as a leader for Hollywood's conservatives. As an operator for the popular website Republican Party Animals, he hosted right-wing congressmen and celebrities at parties, and he was a regular on conservative talk shows. But it turns out Stein had a bizarre secret.
U.N. investigators have collected evidence that shows “strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof” that Syrian rebels have used the nerve agent sarin. The investigation has not yet uncovered any evidence that Syrian government forces used the chemical weapon, despite recent reports to the contrary.
The parents of Avenues, the new for-profit private school that caters to the children of "hedge-fund managers and artists who refuse to live above 23rd Street," have had an exciting first year. From a seven-page e-mail sent by parents about the lack of snacks, to a different series of emails about a homeless man's butt-crack, they remain committed to giving their children an education that matches their hard-fought wealth (part of the demand for the school was that all the other private schools in New York are clogged with legacy-students, AKA old money).
As part of incremental progress towards more freedom for women in the incredibly conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia, women in private schools will now be allowed to play sports.
East Orange Mayor Robert Bowser is currently the subject of a discrimination suit that stems from a long-term extramarital affair he was having with his research assistant. But things weren't always so bleak for the high-minded Bowser. During the affair, he would write the assistant, Corletta Hicks, romantic poetry that wonderfully mixes the lofty and mundane.
