After a Toronto police officer said women should "avoid dressing like sluts" to avoid being victimized in a speech at York University in January, almost 2,000 people gathered for the Slut Walk. The Toronto Police Department called the officer's remarks "unacceptable."
In your springy Monday media column: reporters get great bonus opportunities, Katie Couric's future in detail, the SF Chronicle eyes a paywall, the freelancer purge at AOL, and Ken Auletta on Robert Thomson.
This guy seems to be on the wrong side of a three martini lunch and even worse, there's an entire office filming his exploits. A kind stranger unsuccessfully tries to help, but at least he brings him some water.
Don't pull that trigger just yet, suicidal chronically unemployed Americans: Mcdonald's is hiring 50,000 new workers right here in the USA, for positions ranging from cleaning grease traps to supervising the cleaning of grease traps to creating spreadsheets that rank the most cost-effective methods of cleaning grease traps. It's all part of a McDonald's effort to keep its grease traps clean. Along with its image!
The Obama Administration will announce this afternoon what's been expected for about a year now: Self-described 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed won't be tried in a New York civilian court as originally planned and instead will go before a military commission at Guantanamo Bay. That's an unusual way to follow up the PR blitz surrounding your campaign launch, isn't it? By caving? No! Shut up! Fewer questions, more donations!
When the five horsewomen of the apocalypse finally bring about their Armageddon on the seven million families that live in gated communities, there will only be one thing left for us to remember them by: their stuff. Let's sift through the Real Housewives rubble.
Orlando Bloom bought a bonsai tree in Malibu Valley. He spent five minutes choosing which tree to buy.
Last night Jersey Shore heffalump Snooki was the main feature at WWE's biggest event of the year, Wrestlemania. Watch her kick WWE Women's Champion Michelle McCool's ass with this insane back handspring maneuver and then pin her with a Bam-Bam Bigelow style cartwheel. This girl sure has a lot of coordination—when she's not wasted and falling down in the sand.
President Obama has officially filed the paperwork for his 2012 reelection bid, as you may have been notified by email, text, tweet, second email, carrier pigeon, secret government brainwave transmission, and so on. The announcements comes with this video of campaign supporters urging you to begin constant grassroots organizing efforts, immediately. The campaign website asks "Are you in?" and urges you to "Get In with Facebook."
Rescued after three weeks afloat a mile and a half from the coast of Kesennuma in northern Japan, an extremely cute dog named Ban has been reunited with his owner.
Get your tissues ready because this reunion is heavy. This dog was found drifting on top of a disintegrating roof at sea for an unknown amount of days and he still had energy to wag his tail for his owner.
A crack medical team has been sent to a remote island to explore a radical theory that could uncover a cure for the zombie epidemic. Based on the team's research and the observations of renowned zombie expert Dr. Stanley Blum, The Zombie Autopsies documents for the first time the unique biology of zombie organisms.
This random twister is relentless when it gradually picks up velocity and power on a soccer field mid-game. Attempting to take two tents with it, it fizzles as quickly as it appeared.
This makes up for all the fan letters I sent, none of which got a response. Alas, gems like this pop up from time to time and reassure me my childhood heroes were just too busy saving the world.
Dominic was minding his own business, just walking in the park when local goose Maria began following him. Now they spend everyday together. What, you've never seen a man walking with a goose before?!
When this man came home to find his plants destroyed he searched for answers in his cats. While one seemed very nonchalant the other was obviously hiding something.
A strange, scary coda to the Duke lacrosse rape scandal: Crystal Mangum, the stripper who falsely accused three college lacrosse players of rape, has been charged for stabbing her boyfriend in the chest with "intent to kill." The boyfriend was treated at the Duke University Hospital, the same hospital that treated Crystal when she cried rape. Yesterday's arrest was Crystal's second since the Duke rape scandal; last year, she was sentenced to 88 days in jail for assaulting her previous boyfriend in front of his children, then setting his clothes on fire. This lady wreaks havoc on all who encounter her. [WRAL via Crimesider, image of Crystal in 2008 via AP]
