How Reddit's Expansion Shames Condé Nast

Ryan Tate · 02/09/11 01:20PM

Scrappy Reddit is doubling sales and engineering staff to keep up with traffic gains. But don't thank the social news site's parent company: Condé Nast starved Reddit of money, so the site paid for expansion using member contributions.

At the CIA, Accidentally Kidnapping and Torturing an Innocent Guy Earns You a Promotion

John Cook · 02/09/11 01:09PM

The Associated Press' Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo have a breathtaking-but-sadly-unsurprising story detailing the CIA's habit of promoting the very people responsible for the Agency's most spectacular fuck-ups. The analyst responsible for illegally abducting, drugging, sodomizing, and beating a completely innocent man because she thought he was someone else? She's running the hunt for bin Laden now. The guy who let a prisoner freeze to death in Afghanistan? He oversees spying operations in the Middle East.

Glee Delivers a Surprisingly Cohesive Valentine's Gift

Madeleine Davies · 02/09/11 01:00PM

Last night's episode of Glee, entitled "Silly Love Songs" was all about that finicky organ known as the human heart. Yes, Valentine's Day has come to McKinley High and the Gleeks are finding themselves falling in and out of love quicker than Sue Sylvester fires insults.

Girl in Pigtails Throws a Mean Head Slap

Lauren Soroken · 02/09/11 12:15PM

This girl is the baddest bully to ever wear pigtails and a pink sweater. Watch as she slaps the other girl and then continues prancing about the living room as if her abused companion isn't sobbing.

Teen Mom 2: No Tears For The Wicked

Jessica Poolt · 02/09/11 12:10PM

It's a shame we must constantly focus our attention on someone so shamelessly unaware of their own vileness but Jenelle's drama, like an annoying cloud made of angst and selfishness, has once again overshadowed the storylines of our other moms.

Screaming Baggage Handler Narrowly Escapes Becoming a Popsicle

Hamilton Nolan · 02/09/11 11:07AM

A US Airways flight from DC to Hartford was all set to take off Monday when—hey, do you hear a sort of muffled, thumping, screaming sound? Yes. Yes, definitely. The passengers did in fact hear that sound. It was a baggage handler who'd been locked in the cargo hold under the plane, by one of his colleagues, by accident. Whoops! Could be a very tense situation at the workplace, after that. The baggage handler got out though, and was fine (physically). The plane got off on time! It could have been worse.

Monkey in Girl's Mask is Ready to Take Your Order

Leah Beckmann · 02/09/11 11:05AM

This restaurant is all monkey business. And also, this server won't stop monkeying around at this restaurant in Japan. Whichever the monkey joke you prefer, this mask-wearing waitress is a monkey.