You Can Make a Fortune Leasing Nuclear Fallout Shelters
Jeff Neumann · 08/22/11 04:51AM
If there's one thing that Americans learned from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, it's that giving some guy in California $50,000 for a one person space in his nuclear fallout shelter is a good idea. Robert Vicino is CEO and founder of "underground shelter network" Vivos and he's making a lot of money off of stupid concerned people, according to Asahi Shimbun:
Swine Flu Makes You Sleepy
Jeff Neumann · 08/22/11 03:10AMMitt Romney to Quadruple Size of California Mansion
Jeff Neumann · 08/22/11 01:52AM
American everyman Mitt Romney has decided that his 3,009 square foot home in La Jolla, California isn't quite big enough. According to a Romney spokesman, the well coiffed GOP presidential candidate is doing a little add-on because the $12 million home "is inadequate for their needs." When renovations are complete, after the 2012 election of course, the Romney fortress will be around 11,000 square feet.
Dangerous Rapper Sparks Suburban Food Court Uprising
Jeff Neumann · 08/22/11 12:45AMThe Stupidest 15 Seconds of Tonight's Keeping Up With the Kardashians
Matt Cherette · 08/22/11 12:18AMBecause nobody should be forced to endure an entire 30 minutes of America's most overexposed family every Sunday night, I'll be watching Keeping Up With the Kardashians for you and reporting back with a clip of each episode's most cringeworthy 15 or so seconds.
The Week in Celebrity Snapshots
Matt Cherette · 08/22/11 12:16AMRich Coastal Brats Still Partying Like It's 1999, Times Can't Underscore Enough
Seth Abramovitch · 08/21/11 10:09PMInmate Weds, But Can't Touch, Fiancée in Criminal Court
Seth Abramovitch · 08/21/11 09:10PM
Tharvin Benitez, 21, is currently in an Illinois jail after an arrest last May on felony drug charges. But his first child with girlfriend Jessica Ortiz is due any day, and the two wanted to be married before it arrived — so they petitioned for a courthouse wedding. And what do you know! Not only did DuPage County Judge Blanche Fawell — the presiding judge on Benitez's criminal case — sign off on it, she officiated the ceremony herself.
American Apparel Employee Killed by Knitting Machine
Seth Abramovitch · 08/21/11 08:39PMMan Sues Dallas Hospital For Implanting GPS Tracker In His Armpit
Seth Abramovitch · 08/21/11 08:21PMLibyan Rebels Enter Tripoli; Qaddafi's Son Captured
Lauri Apple · 08/21/11 04:37PM
After months of trying, rebel forces finally and quickly entered the capital city of Tripoli—busting through 42-year dictator Muammar Qaddafi's "ring of steel defense." Ecstatic Libyans are celebrating in the streets, honking their horns, jumping up and down, and chanting "down with Qaddafi! or Khaddafi! or however the fuck you spell it ... Gah!"
Michele Bachmann Says Dumb Things Because She's Always Talking
Lauri Apple · 08/21/11 03:39PMScientists Creating Alligator-Chickens
Lauri Apple · 08/21/11 03:18PMDying Man's Husband To Be Deported
Remy Stern · 08/21/11 02:09PMSeven years ago in Massachusetts, Bradford Wells married his long-time partner, Anthony John Makk. They have now been together for 19 years. Sometime this week — by Thursday at the latest — Anthony John Makk will be forcibly removed from the country. He is Australian, and the government has denied him permanent residency. Which it can do, because the federal government doesn't recognize same-sex marriage.












