How does multi-platform conflict-machine Howard Kurtz crank out so much coverage, people wonder? Maybe it's easier to write a lot of media criticism if you don't read the media you're criticizing. So today Kurtz finds—for two different outlets—a dark shadow in the sunny coverage of NBA player Jason Collins' decision to come out as gay: Collins was at one point engaged to a woman.

Do you want to make $600 cash by Tuesday? Then get to work on this rich guy's "Masters Level History" papers. We are not talking about a cut-and-paste from Wikipedia here, this guy is a legitimate grad student who needs to learn about World War II by having you write his well-sourced academic papers. "I've done this type of thing before," he writes, "so I am comfortable and experienced with it." What could go wrong?

When Newtown (CT) police officers responded to a State Police tip about suspicious activity at a rundown property in Sandy Hook they found the back door had been broken down.

Hiring "controversial" rappers to be your brand ambassadors can be a blessing and a curse. Mountain Dew, the extreme corn-syrup beverage, is learning a peculiar fact about these spokespeople: They tend to generate controversy.

On Tuesday night, America's cinnamon challenge Lindsay Lohan Instagrammed a picture of herself hard(ish) at work, packing for her upcoming court-ordered 90-day stint in rehab. Lohan captioned the photo, which finds her surrounded by duffel bags, suitcases, and what appears to be a toy chest stuffed with clothes ,"90 days and 270 looks," before locking down her account.

Sometimes a slideshow of 10 giant cocks is just a slideshow of 10 giant cocks.

HBO has renewed Veep for a third season. This is wonderful news! Created by curse-generating genius Armando Iannucci, Veep follows Vice President Selina Meyer, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and her bumbling staff, helmed by Anna Chlumsky, as they narrowly avoid an endless onslaught of political catastrophes.

Facebook has rejected an ad criticizing FWD.us, Mark Zuckerberg's creepy political group, because it used Zuckerberg's face.

Lil Wayne, who was hospitalized after suffering a series of seizures in March, was back in the hospital last night and early this morning when he had yet another seizure.

Pop star/Dr. Teeth impersonator Ke$ha has a reality show on MTV called My Crazy Beautiful Life. It is not beautiful, nor is it particularly crazy in the scheme of reality TV, but I do find her sexual frankness to be radical for a woman in her field.

Shortly after finishing first in an obviously rigged 1,000-meter horse race this past Sunday, Turkmenistan's "superhero" president Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov was caught on camera getting thrown off his trusty steed "Mighty."

The internet got excited yesterday when an old man living in a Vietnamese jungle identified himself as Sgt. John Hartley Robinson, a US soldier who disappeared in Laos in 1968. Interest spiked in an upcoming documentary about the man, who'd raised a Vietnamese family. There was only problem: He was a liar.

One of the most insidious aspects of revenge porn—the non-consensual erotica pioneered by the likes of Hunter Moore—is the fact that victims have typically had little legal recourse to stop porn websites from profiting off their most compromising images. But a new wave of revenge porn victims are speaking out and organizing. One of the most prominent is the woman behind the advocacy group End Revenge Porn. She's been anonymous until today, when she was profiled by BetaBeat and revealed herself to be 29-year-old Florida PhD student Holly Jacobs.

According to the FBI affidavit (which you can read in full here), one of the suspects arrested today for obstruction of justice texted Dhokhar Tsarnaev when pictures of the Marathon bombing suspects were released. Tsarnaev's response: "lol."

Over the past 12 years, New Zealand's Department of Internal Affairs has banned nearly 80 names deemed unacceptable to the government.

In advance of the royal birth, Britain's Tatler magazine (think Gossip Girl, on paper, for rich British people) has published an earth-shattering profile of Kate Middleton’s mother, Carole, in which it is revealed that her children were VERY WELL BROUGHT UP and had FINE MANNERS.

"There were some on my side who did not want to be seen helping the president do something he wanted to get done, just because the president wanted to do it." —Republican Senator Pat Toomey on why some members of his party opposed expanding background checks for gun sales.

John Oliver will guest-host The Daily Show from June 10th until September 3rd, while Jon Stewart films Rosewater. “Don’t worry, it’s still going to be everything that you love about The Daily Show," says Oliver, "just without the thing that you love the most about it."

A school district in Oregon is catching some flak after it recently sicced two masked gunmen loaded with blank on a meeting room full of teachers as part of a surprise "readiness drill" for an active shooter scenario.

Jamestown was a gruesomely failed start to the English colonization of America. The people were malnourished and disease-ridden and too dumb to eat the bountiful fish and fruits all around them. Most of the settlers were dead within the first year, and in the second hungry winter of 1609-10, the starving survivors chopped open the skull of a newly dead 14-year-old girl and feasted upon her brains.