Naked Passenger: I Got Drunk, Took Xanax, and Peed on Dolph Lundgren

Andy Cush · 06/01/15 04:23PM

Consider Matthew Pritchard, the shirtless 42-year-old man in the Instagram photo above. What might he be thinking? “I could use another Corona.” “I look great in these shades.” “Hours ago, I was emptying my willie onto the feet of world-renowned action star and martial artist Dolph Lundgren.”

Floppy-Dicked Haters Kick Erect Man Out of Naked Bike Ride

Jay Hathaway · 06/01/15 02:05PM

The World Naked Bike Ride, which is exactly what it sounds like, came to Kent, U.K., over the weekend, and the participants had barely got their kits off before organizers ejected a bloke for popping a stiffy.

Remember When Lindsey Graham Lied About Being a Veteran?

Alex Pareene · 06/01/15 01:50PM

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-John McCain’s sad shadow), a man loathed by conservatives for supporting immigration reform and loathed by non-conservatives for supporting all wars everywhere forever, is running for president. CNN reports that Graham “hopes that his track record on foreign affairs will give him the advantage in a wide-open primary fight.”

Behavioral Science and Poverty

Hamilton Nolan · 06/01/15 01:25PM

The fastest way to fight poverty is to redirect money from higher-income to lower-income people. In the meantime, behavioral scientists have some tips on how the present system can do a better job of helping the poor.

Lion Leaps Through Car Window, Mauls American Tourist To Death

Jordan Sargent · 06/01/15 01:15PM

Following the rules for the entirety of your lifetime can get tiring. But if there’s anywhere on Earth where you should definitely swallow your pride and just follow the rules it’s a tourist park where lions roam free. If not, one might leap through your car window and murder you.

Why Do I Still Live in New York City?: A Roundtable

Jason Parham · 06/01/15 12:05PM

Weeks ago, reeling from a night of booze and bad decisions, I ventured to a local Bayou-themed restaurant in search of comfort food. I wanted to absorb the last of the alcohol that remained from just hours before, fully determined to get rid of my hangover. When you live alone, this is not an uncommon practice. I often eat out by myself—it’s hard to wait on friends to make brunch plans when all you want to do is devour a plate of syrup-coated waffles—so it wasn’t strange when the bartender and the gray-haired gentleman to my right decided to include me in their conversation. “What do you think?” he said. They had been discussing rising property values in the neighborhood, and the ills of gentrification. The bartender mentioned how a small patch of dirt between two brownstones, just blocks from the restaurant and my apartment, was going for $2 million. “There was also that old gas station in Crown Heights that sold for 30 million recently,” she said. “How is anybody expected to live here now? It’s just too much.”

Adam Weinstein · 06/01/15 10:47AM

“In light of the charges and allegations that have emerged,” conservative Christian Wheaton College says it has renamed its J. Dennis Hastert Center for Economics, Government, and Public Policy. They could also change the motto to: “Integrity is doing the right thing when everybody’s watching.”

Today Is a Work Holiday in Alabama to Honor Jefferson Davis

Adam Weinstein · 06/01/15 08:58AM

If you needed to run yonder to Bessemer for that easement to cross Scuzz McWhorter’s field so’s you can dig up all the lead shot what gramma’s blasted out there from the kitchen porch over all these years, let it wait till Tuesday, son: Alabama done went down to the beach in honor of the Confederacy!

Hamilton Nolan · 06/01/15 08:40AM

Dick Fuld, the former Lehman Bros. CEO who has “no regrets” about helping to spark the biggest financial crisis of our generation, is selling off his 75-acre estate in Sun Valley, Idaho. We pray he makes enough to hang onto his three other homes.

Tearful Tracy Morgan: I Watched Fatal Car Wreck on YouTube "Every Day"

Taylor Berman · 06/01/15 08:08AM

Tracy Morgan gave an emotional interview to The Today Show’s Matt Lauer this morning, the first since a Walmart truck crashed into his limo last June, severely injuring Morgan and killing his friend, the comedian James McNair. “The case is settled, but the pain is always going to be there for Jimmy Mac,” Morgan said. “Bones heal, but the loss of my friend will never heal.”