Do Not Forbid the Stutterer in Your Class From Speaking

Hamilton Nolan · 10/11/11 08:21AM

Sometimes, the very most basic facts of a story are all that's necessary to see the colossal outpouring of public rage that is sure to follow. As in this case! College professors: do not order a student in your class who stutters not to speak in class, ever.

Condom Store's Latest Product Is 'Occupy Wall Street'-Themed

Lauri Apple · 10/11/11 07:02AM

Given that Occupy Wall Street's HQ has turned into a revolutionary sex-fest that would make Caligula blush (h/t Smiths), you might be worried that protesters will reproduce awful things like sexually transmitted diseases and tiny socialist babies. To help you rest better—and to make a little money—the Condomania condom store has begun selling protest-themed protective devices.

Porn-Making Gang Keeps Trying to Kidnap Saddam Hussein Lookalike

Lauri Apple · 10/11/11 06:24AM

Mohamed Bishr not only has to deal with people on the street harassing him for looking like Saddam Hussein—he also has to evade the Iraqi gang that's trying to kidnap him and force him to star in their porn movies. And you thought you had problems.

World's Most Notoriously Unfinished Hotel Finally Opening (Supposedly)

Lauri Apple · 10/11/11 05:16AM

A big, tentative congrats to North Korea, whose infamous Ryugyong Hotel (aka the "Hotel of Doom") is slated to open its doors in April 2012—only 24 years after its groundbreaking, and just in time for the 100th birthday celebration of O.G. Most Glorious Leader on High Kim Il-sung. Sadly, he won't be doing the ribbon-cutting because he died in 1994. But his ghost is expected to haunt and place bugs in some of the rooms.

Can Your Homemade Rockets Do This?

Lauri Apple · 10/11/11 04:47AM

Everybody say hi to Qu8k ("quake"): An artisanal rocket made by Derek Deville that zoomed 121,000 feet above the surface of Planet Earth in only 92 seconds. Deville launched Qu8k on September 30 from Nevada's Black Rock Desert (the same spot where the Burning Man Festival of the One Percent takes place). The 14-foot rocket weighs 320 pounds, yet looks so skinny. Must be muscle mass.

Man Won't Let Cops or Fires Stop Him From Eating His Taco Bell

Lauri Apple · 10/11/11 03:52AM

After drinking enough to allegedly register a .227 on a blood alcohol content test, Florida person Matthew Falkner went to a Jensen Beach Taco Bell, ordered some tacos, then passed out in his pick-up truck while waiting in the drive-thru—just like you sometimes do! Taco Bell drive-thrus are comforting.

Even Antelopes Hate Bicyclists

Matt Cherette · 10/11/11 03:13AM

Have you ever been waiting patiently to cross the street, then when it's finally your turn, there's some jerk riding a bike down the middle of the road and you wish you could just run out there and ram right into him but you don't, of course, because then you'd be injured and/or in trouble? Well, this South African Red Hartebeest (let's call him Buck Norris) knows nothing about this "timidity" of which you speak. [via Doobybrain]

Watch Police Clash with Occupy Boston Protesters

Seth Abramovitch · 10/11/11 02:39AM

Even before the growing crowds of Occupy Boston migrated from downtown's Dewey Park Square to the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway early this morning, police began warning protesters to move back, or else. First they tweeted a message to @Occupy_Boston: "The BPD respects your right to protest peacefully. We ask for your ongoing cooperation." Then they went old-school, hand-distributing fliers that read, "If asked to leave an area, please do so peacefully."

Seattle Superhero Phoenix Jones's Secret Identity Revealed!

Seth Abramovitch · 10/11/11 01:37AM

The mystery of Phoenix Jones — the citizen superhero who stalks the streets of Seattle seeking out injustice and, for the most part, gets his ass kicked — has at last been solved. The Smoking Gun has the arrest report of one Benjamin Fodor, a 23-year-old mixed martial arts fighter who was detained by police on Sunday for assaulting four people outside a nightclub with pepper-spray.

Did an A-List: Dallas Star Fake His Own Gay-On-Gay Hate Crime?

Seth Abramovitch · 10/11/11 12:39AM

Tonight marks the premiere of The A-List: Dallas, the second installment in Logo's ongoing investigation into the shopping habits, eating disorders and testicular size discrepancies of the 10 percent of the 1 percent who make up America's homosexual elite. And already it's tinged with sssssscandale!

Sarah Jessica Parker Takes Her Blathering to Watch What Happens Live

Matt Cherette · 10/11/11 12:38AM

Remember when Sarah Jessica Parker went on the Late Show last month and told David Letterman a rambling story about Russia? Replace the Late Show with Watch What Happens Live, David Letterman with Andy Cohen and Russia with the Real Housewives, and you'll have described what happened on Bravo tonight. Here's a highlight reel of Parker's manic, albeit pretty adorable, appearance.

Kim's Fairytale Wedding: Kris Humphries vs. Kim Kardashian

Matt Cherette · 10/10/11 11:47PM

Tonight, E! brought us the conclusion of Kim's Fairytale Wedding, a four-hour special about Kim Kardashian's August nuptials to Kris Humphries. During last night's warm-up, the storyline revolved around everybody except Kim hating Kris (groom, not mom). But hey, at least his bride-to-be was on his side! Well, until tonight, that is, as you'll see in this four-minute highlight reel (with a bonus clip at the end featuring Kris Jenner seamlessly working sponsor LivingSocial into the mix). See you for the divorce special during May sweeps!

The Right-Wing Version of 'We Are the 99 Percent': Heartbreaking

Max Read · 10/10/11 11:23PM

Did you know that if you are uninsured or jobless, you should just suck it up? That if you're overworked or underemployed, you should be thankful? Learn all that—and more!—at "We Are the 53%," the right wing's incredibly depressing response to Occupy Wall Street!

Watch Nancy Grace Comb a Man's Chest Hair on Dancing with the Stars

Matt Cherette · 10/10/11 08:32PM

With her giant boobs-cum-giant exposed boobs and an on-air fart, Nancy Grace has given us a schadenfreude fix every week so far this season on Dancing with the Stars, and tonight was no exception. After Tom Bergeron teased her as next up, the camera cut to Grace, who—in an attempt to draw attention away from her own "twins," perhaps—was busy combing the chest hair of her DWTS partner, Tristan MacManus. And boy oh boy was she enjoying it!

Woman Allegedly Murdered Expecting Mother to Steal Baby

Max Read · 10/10/11 07:53PM

Annette Morales-Rodriguez of Milwaukee, Wisc., allegedly used techniques she learned from the Discovery Channel to perform a Cesarean section on a woman she'd abducted and murdered, in the hopes she could pass the woman's child off as her own.