When Stealing, Do Not Be Too Greedy

Hamilton Nolan · 11/14/12 10:00AM

If you run a convenience store, and someone purchases a winning scratch-off lottery ticket worth $5 million, and you decide that you want to steal it, it seems downright greedy, even in the context of a ripoff, to do this:

Taylor Berman · 11/14/12 12:46AM

Here's a picture of Jill Kelley at home, watching news about the Petraeus affair on Fox News.

Papa John's Is Being Sued for $250 Million for Sending Too Many Text Messages

Taylor Berman · 11/14/12 12:08AM

Papa John's is facing the wrath of their customers, and not just because their Obama-fearing CEO is threatening to cut employer's hours; it turns out the company sent customers over 500,000 unwanted text messages in early 2010. According to the the attorney representing the victimized fans of crap pizza, some customers received 15 or 16 texts in a row, often in the middle of the night.

Here Are Some of the Better Lines From the New York Times' Sort of Funny Review of Guy Fieri's New Restaurant

Taylor Berman · 11/13/12 10:41PM

As you may have heard, noted food expert Guy Fieri opened a restaurant, the appropriately titled Guy's American Kitchen & Bar, in Times Square in September. From other reviews/common sense, we already know it's terrible. Nonetheless, Pete Wells, The New York Times' restaurant critic, decided to review it so we could learn the Times' Official Opinion. Consisting entirely of rhetorical questions directed at Fieri, the review is sort of funny. Here are some of the better lines/questions:

'I Felt That It Was My Duty': Dick Morris Speaks Openly About Why He Predicted a Romney Landslide

Cord Jefferson · 11/13/12 08:30PM

At the end of October, disgraced former Clinton adviser turned Fox News contributor Dick Morris predicted Mitt Romney was going to win in a landslide. "Pollster John McLaughlin and I went through the actual results of the last four elections and on average, the Republicans had 1 percent more than the Democrats," Morris said in an interview with Bill O'Reilly about the New York Times' poll. "So that poll is off by a factor of 8. So instead of Obama winning by 1, Romney would win Florida by 7."

Petraeus' Pal Jill Kelley Loaned $800,000 to Her 'Unstable' Twin Sister

John Cook · 11/13/12 06:38PM

Well, it looks like David Petraeus got himself wrapped up with some real fine folks when he befriended the Khawam family. Jill Kelley (nee Khawam) is the financially troubled Tampa socialite who went to the feds complaining of harassing emails from an anonymous tormentor who turned out to by Paula Broadwell. Her twin sister, Natalie Khawam, is the bankrupt lawyer that a D.C judge has called "unstable," who has been repeatedly accused of lying to state and federal courts, and who, with her sister, regularly took Petraeus' wife on shopping trips. Just a couple regular gals!