Spec Houses: The Kindling of the Class War
Hamilton Nolan · 03/20/15 09:14AMBooty Eating Trend Still Alive and Well In This Guy's Back Alley
Jay Hathaway · 03/20/15 08:50AMWalmart Shoplifting Suspect Escapes By Kicking Through the Ceiling
Aleksander Chan · 03/20/15 08:12AMA suspected—and determined—shoplifter at a Walmart in Mobile, Ala. managed to escape store security Wednesday by climbing up into the store's ventilation system. From there, he crawled his way to the store's entrance, kicked through the ceiling, jumped down, and fled.
Saved By the Bell Actor Can't Believe This Guy Won't Take a Smirnoff Ice
Gabrielle Bluestone · 03/19/15 10:26PM
Professional pornographer Dustin Diamond, formerly known as Screech on Saved By the Bell, is on trial for stabbing a guy at a bar last fall. And earlier that night, cops say, the actor also threatened to stab a different guy who dared to reject Diamond's lame attempt to "ice" him with a bottle of Smirnoff.
Missing Black Man Found Hanging From a Tree in Mississippi
Gabrielle Bluestone · 03/19/15 08:45PMJudge Thinks Robert Durst Killed a Cat and Left Its Head on Her Doorstep
Gabrielle Bluestone · 03/19/15 07:40PMMissing WSJ Reporter’s Body Discovered in New Jersey River
J.K. Trotter · 03/19/15 06:38PMHere's the Internal Memo from Starbucks' Disastrous Race-Relations Push
Jordan Sargent · 03/19/15 04:25PM
Everybody hates Starbucks' absurdly stupid "Race Together" initiative, but the people who hate it the most are probably the baristas, who have been asked by their wealthy bosses to bear the responsibility of starting discussions about American racism... at Starbucks. A tipster sent us a photo of what she says is the internal memo distributed to Starbucks workers—here's what "Race Together" looks like from the inside.
Shirtless Vine Star Busted for Vandalism, Says He Did It For the Vine
Jay Hathaway · 03/19/15 03:10PM
Cameron Dallas is a 20-year-old set of abdominal muscles and one of the 10 most popular people on Vine. (He is also a close friend of Nash Grier, an even more famous Viner.) Dallas was reportedly arrested for vandalism Wednesday after allegedly throwing paint all over his Hollywood apartment and the adjacent hallway.
Dayna Evans · 03/19/15 02:00PM
Quiz: Heads or Tails?
Adam Pash and Tom Scocca · 03/19/15 01:50PMUpdated: Google Suspends Site from Ad Network for Abu Ghraib Photo
Alex Pareene · 03/19/15 12:55PM
[UPDATED BELOW] Since 2006, the venerable libertarian anti-interventionist website AntiWar.com has hosted uncensored photos of abuses committed by United States troops at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. You can see them here. On Wednesday morning, AntiWar.com received an automated email from Google explaining that the site was being suspended from Google's AdSense ad network, because that page violates AdSense policy. Either Google is incorrectly enforcing its own policies, or their policies do not allow for controversial — but clearly and objectively newsworthy — content.
Florida Orders Mental Exam for Worker Who Pushed Climate Change Agenda
Adam Weinstein · 03/19/15 12:12PM
Florida Gov. Rick Scott's unofficial official policy of climate denial has taken a turn for the bizarre: A high-level employee in the state Department of Environmental Protection now says he was suspended and told to get a medical evaluation for refusing to purge mentions of climate change from a state record.
Ferguson and the Criminalization of American Life
David Graeber · 03/19/15 12:09PMOld Ass Ludacris Burns the Entire Bush Family
Jordan Sargent · 03/19/15 12:05PMPenn State Frat Guy Incoherently Defends Sketchy Facebook Group
Jay Hathaway · 03/19/15 10:30AMHundreds March at UVA to Protest Brutal Arrest of Martese Johnson
Jason Parham · 03/19/15 10:05AMTeens Sometimes Change Clothes While Driving, Study Says
Dayna Evans · 03/19/15 09:50AM
Ah, the carefree days of teenagehood. Cruising around with your friends in mom's beatup minivan and not giving a hoot about anything, even keeping your eyes on the road. A new study reports that twenty-seven percent of teenagers have admitted to changing clothes, contact lenses, and doing homework while driving. Unsafe!
Pregnant Woman’s Baby Cut From Womb After She Answered Craigslist Ad
Taylor Berman · 03/19/15 09:05AM
An absolutely horrific crime took place yesterday afternoon in Colorado: A seven-months pregnant woman responding to a Craigslist post for baby's clothing at a Longmont house was attacked and stabbed in her stomach, her fetus removed, allegedly by the woman who'd place the ad. The woman survived, but her baby did not.








