The lengthy obituary of literary titan Gore Vidal that ran in Wednesday's New York Times was updated yesterday to correct three hilarious mistakes.

It seems half a million people may have made good on their promise to eat at Chick-fil-A yesterday in support of company president Dan Cathy's marriage equality opposition.

Some train real hard to get to the Olympics and others train real hard and open a brothel to get to the Olympics.

Chinese Diver Minxia Wu won the gold medal in synchronized diving yesterday. As part of her celebration, her family revealed to her that her mother had breast cancer and two of her grandparents died a year ago.

Aurora shooting suspect James Holmes reportedly raised serious red flags with his psychiatrist prior to the July 20 massacre, sources told Denver media outlets.

John Krenicki, 50, will make $89K per month for the next three years in exchange for not working. Working class hero.

A Longmont, Colorado man was arrested Saturday night at Shooters Grill and Bar in Boulder after he urinated on a woman who turned him down.

A self-described "foamer" (i.e. a railfan who foams at the mouth at the sight of trains) gets what can only be described as sexually aroused while watching heritage units move back and forth across a track in North Creek, New York.

Three US Airways flights came within seconds of colliding midair near Reagan National Airport on Tuesday.

Aaron Sorkin, the creator of the show everyone but Dan Rather hates, defended The Newsroom tonight at a Television Critics Association panel with Jeff Daniels. Those reports that he fired everyone on his writing staff except his ex-girlfriend? Untrue, says Sorkin.

President Obama has secretly authorized the CIA and other U.S agencies to provide support to rebels in Syria.

Candidates in a Tennessee Republican congressional primary are engaged in an epic battle to determine who's more of a wretched bigot. Lou Ann Zelenik, who lost to current congresswoman Diane Black two years ago, promises to be super racist and awful towards Muslims like the ones who wanted to build a mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee a couple of years ago.

In case anxious people didn't have enough to worry about, there's this: minor psychological duress, like anxiety or mild depression, has now officially been linked to an early death. Which is to say, if you're a worrier and you get hurt, develop cancer, heart disease or practically any other illness, you're more likely to die from it than the calm, normal, well-adjusted people you know. Says the author of the study:

Another normal night in Gaston County, North Carolina. Pastor Richard Robinson was at home minding his own business and enjoying the Southern summer night when his neighbors came barging in, armed to the teeth and high as shit on bath salts. Spoiler alert: the neighbors did not end up eating Pastor Robinson.

Ancient Olympians were dopers, too; they chewed animal testicles to boost their testosterone levels before competition.

Chick-Fil-A continues to divide our once great no-homo nation, but sane Gospel Coalition columnist Trevin Wax says it's not just lovers of chicken sandwiches with tiny pickles being marginalized by the backlash:

Sketch comedy troupe Captain Hippo asks and answers the ultimate question: What if Luc Besson's 2008 cult thriller Taken happened in real life — but instead of bad-ass retired CIA field operative Liam Neeson using any means necessary to hunt down the Albanian human traffickers who kidnapped you, your only hope of being rescued was your own dad?

As Team USA slides ever further behind China in the race to acquire the most gold necklaces this Olympics, America's athletes need a cheerleader. A cheerleader who will root for them with passion that is unbridled, unrivaled, and, at times, unsettling. A cheerleader who loves them more than their parents do.

At the Welsh Mountain Zoo near Colwyn Bay, visitors are shocked when a chimpanzee appears to instruct them on how to open its enclosure so it can escape.

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