Vox.com recently commissioned an essay from Torbjörn Tännsjö, a professor of practical philosophy at Stockholm University, on the “the repugnant conclusion,” a belief that asserts our moral duty to increase the population size because, according to the argument, more humans means more happiness.
A jury Friday acquitted 19-year-old Owen Labrie, a graduate of elite St. Paul’s prep school in New Hampshire, of felony sexual assault charges, but found him guilty of misdemeanor sex assault. Labrie had been accused of raping a 15-year-old fellow student in the school’s machine room last May. The AP reports the jury deliberated for eight hours.
Former Ohio resident John Felton was pulled over by Dayton police in front of his mom’s house after he allegedly activated his turn signal less than 100 feet before making a right turn. Unable to believe an officer would stop him on such a piddling technicality, Felton asked the officer why he was really followed for several blocks and eventually pulled over.
Kim Kardashian is currently pregnant with her second child. This is great for Kim and Kanye West and also me personally, because Kim likes to share. While more guarded celebrities have gone to great lengths to conceal the havoc pregnancy wreaks on their otherwise flawless bodies, Kim is real—and a real wellspring of information.
Authorities have released new information regarding the truck filled with dead refugees that was abandoned on a Vienna highway yesterday, and it’s grisly: there were reportedly more than 70 bodies inside, including at least 8 women and 4 children.
Lindsay Lohan did not get married this weekend, but she did upstage the hell out of the happy couple that did, if Page Six is to be believed.
And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these blogs, that the ground clave asunder that was under them, the Associated Press reports. And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their bus stop, and all the men (and women) that were waiting at the bus stop in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin, and all their goods, including a bus sign. They, and all that appertained to them, went alive down into the pit, and the earth did not, in this case, close upon them, nor did they perish from the congregation, but rather, four of the people sustained minor injuries to their feet, legs, arms, and shoulders, but were mostly okay, the whole thing having been captured on video by a nearby noodle shop’s surveillance camera, according to local station Heilongjiang Television.
At a campaign event on Thursday, in Little Rock, Arkansas, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said, to a smattering of applause, “There is no war on women. There may be a war on what’s inside of women, but there is no war on women in this country.”
On Thursday, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, announced that his office would be joining the Dutchess County district attorney’s investigation into the suspicious death of Samuel Harrell, a prisoner at Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, N.Y., in April.
Miley Cyrus is hosting this year’s MTV Video Music Awards, which, you may or may not be aware, airs this Sunday. In honor of the event, she did an interview with the New York Times, in which she reveals that future two-term president Donald Trump personally called her up to say how much he loved her much-derided 2013 VMA performance with a man named Robin Thicke.
