A spit-take-inducing story about a McDonald's restaurant in Massachusetts requiring applicants for a cashier job to hold at least a bachelor's degree along with 1-2 years of experience went viral yesterday after being republished by the Washington Examiner along with a "thanks, Obama"-style write-up courtesy of Washington whisperer Paul Bedard.
With a body of work that includes the guitar case rocket-launcher in Desperado and the motorized vampire-staker in From Dusk til Dawn, it's obvious that director Robert Rodriguez knows a thing or two about crafting amazing weapons that don't really exist (although I wish they did). But now he's turning to the denizens of the Internet for help with his latest project.
While farm animals wandering amok in city parks are often associated with agrarian cities of yesteryear, and also Texas, some Parisian officials have decided that woolly mouton are the latest chic, sophisticated addition to the 21st century metropolis.
Just when you thought spiders couldn't possibly get any worse, along comes Poecilotheria rajaei.
When Colorado's prisons chief was shot in the face last month and a Texas prosecutor was gunned down with his wife in their house last weekend—the second such assassination of a Lone Star DA since January—you could have looked at any number of suspects:
Christopher Abbott, better (and forever) known as Charlie on Girls, has just announced his abrupt departure from the HBO series, which follows a group of youths with undiagnosed personality disorders as they careen wildly around New York's Brooklyn borough.
Ironically, it was just after the high school in Wilcox County, Georgia, became integrated thirty years ago that the school held its first segregated proms.
If you're a rich person hiding your money from the taxman on a tiny island nation, you'd better call your bank. (Also: fuck you.) A massive trove of documents has exposed the offshore holdings of hundreds of individuals and companies from around the world—revealing, in detail, the secret means by which the rich and powerful store and hide their wealth. Over the last year, dozens of journalists working with the internation Consortium of Investigative Journalists and publications from around the world have been analyzing millions of emails, statements and other records in an attempt to untangle the complicated knot of payments and transfers that make up the estimated $20-trillion offshore finance industry. "Government officials and their families and associates in Azerbaijan, Russia, Canada, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, Canada, Mongolia and other countries have embraced the use of covert companies and bank accounts," ICIJ writes in its "key findings." Among the names in the documents: Jean-Jacques Augier, an aide and confidante to French President François Hollande; the former finance minister of Mongolia; the president of Azerbaijan; the wife of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov; the husband of Canadian Senator Pana Merchant; the daughter of Ferdinand Marcos—and our old friend Denise Rich. ICIJ's placed its preliminary findings up here. [ICIJ, The Guardian, Der Spiegel]
That headline says it all, really. But in case you want to know more: In early February, Daniel Anaya, a former shoe salesman in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault after he allegedly bit part of his ex-girlfriend's toe to the bone. That wasn't the first time he'd bitten her toe, according to the ex; in November of 2012, she broke up with him after he bit her other big toe. The incident resulted the aforementioned charges (which were later dismissed after a witness failed to appear in court) and a restraining order from the ex-girlfriend against Anaya.
The U.S. Embassy in Cairo could use a good social media editor after two disastrous days on Twitter. The embassy's problems began Tuesday, when they (or whoever is in charge of their Twitter account) tweeted a link to The Daily Show's passionate defense of "Egypt's Jon Stewart" Bassem Youseff, who was arrested last weekend for insulting President Mohamed Morsi and Islam. That tweet didn't go over well with the offices of Morsi or the Muslim Brotherhood.
