11-Year-Old's Alleged Breakup Text: Screw You Joey, Your Not on My Level

Jay Hathaway · 06/30/15 04:30PM

An incoming sixth-grader named Joey is crying into his Starbucks today after his girlfriend caught him cheating on her by going to the park with another girl. She bluntly ended their relationship via perhaps the greatest series of breakup texts ever composed by an 11-year-old.

California Is Now Safer Thanks to Mandatory Vaccination Law

Gabrielle Bluestone · 06/30/15 01:17PM

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law one of the strictest vaccination requirements in the country in an attempt to ensure widespread outbreaks—like the recent Disneyland measles debacle—don’t occur again.

The Seattle "Up" House Is Probably Doomed, Sorry 

Dayna Evans · 06/30/15 11:50AM

Ah, the crushing jaws of commercial development. Even the most twee and “independent” of cities will be eaten alive by it yet, and Seattle—no matter how many steampunk vegan scones you’d bet in its favor—is no exception. Take the late Edith Macefield’s fixer-upper, a house that looks like the one from that movie Up. You think this thing is going to last?

Hamilton Nolan · 06/30/15 11:15AM

Bad yogurt manufacturer Chobani will be the official Greek yogurt provider for America’s federal school lunch program. Appropriate. For children, Chobani; for adults, Fage; and for society’s most respected heroes, Noosa. Don’t waste the good stuff on kids.

Pizza Hut Fires Man After Customers Say They Caught Him Masturbating

Jay Hathaway · 06/30/15 10:45AM

A Lexington, Ky., Pizza Hut employee has reportedly been fired after a teenage customer snapped a photo of him with his hand down his pants. The photo got a lot of attention on Facebook and Reddit, and the teen girl’s mom has alleged that our erstwhile pizza boy was “playing with himself.”