Three men who tried to promote their bar on Facebook by uploading a fun picture of a Buddha wearing headphones get to spend the next two-and-a-half years locked in a Burmese prison, all thanks to their marketing plan.

A Mother Jones story on the Winn Parish Correctional Center blew up this weekend when a senior producer was arrested for trespass, apparently prompting a second reporter who had been working undercover as a guard to abandon the investigation.

The image of Michael Phelps as a fish in the streets and a real kinky guy in the sheets just got a big boost from Kim Petro, a plus-size dominatrix who apparently passed a lie detector test before selling her story to the National Enquirer.

Even more sad news out of Two and a Half Men, a halfway house for the criminally insane: Jon Cryer—arguably the most well-adjusted of the group, whatever that means—once turned to Charlie Sheen for help hiring prostitutes because he was "an emotional basket case" over his divorce.

A special thing happened last weekend at the South Carolina National Security Action Summit: Rick "We Will Never Have the Smart People on Our Side" Santorum met an American citizen who makes him look like a champion of reason.

Everyone's favorite alleged murderer Robert Durst was reportedly in possession of a latex mask designed to conceal his identity when he was arrested last weekend. TMZ reports that police found the mask in the real estate heir's hotel room along with $42,000 in cash, a loaded handgun, and a small amount of marijuana.

San Francisco's St. Mary's Cathedral is trying to baptize the city's homeless away: the Archdiocese of San Francisco has installed a watering system that floods the steps of the church, KCBS reports.

A man who was minding his own business, just drinking in a tree like we all do sometimes, met his fate in a horrible freak accident when he fell from said tree and was impaled on a fence. Good reason not to climb trees.

Thanks to tax breaks like the mortgage interest deduction that overwhelmingly benefit the affluent, the top 1% of earners received more in government tax breaks than the bottom 80% of earners combined in 2013. The solution, as always, is to tax the rich.

A passel of racist, homophobic text messages sent between at least five San Francisco police officers were released last Friday as part of a motion by the U.S. Attorney's office to deny bail to Ian Furminger, a former SFPD sergeant recently convicted on federal corruption charges and a primary actor in the series of bigoted texts.

I graduated from Harvard in 2006, and have spent eight of the last nine years working as an admissions officer for my alma mater. A low-level volunteer, sure, but an official one all the same. I served as one of thousands of alumni volunteers around the world—a Regional Representative for my local Schools Committee, if you want to get technical. And, as a Regional Rep, my duties fell somewhere between Harvard recruiter and Harvard gatekeeper.

In California, the high cost of housing is hurting the state's economic growth and pushing its citizens deeper into poverty. But there's so much land! Why is it so hard to find somewhere affordable to rent?

A common nightmare for New Yorkers came true yesterday evening when a woman walking in Greenwich Village died after being hit by a large piece of plywood blown from a nearby construction site.

New York City's comptroller, Scott Stringer, released details from a study on Wednesday that concluded New Yorkers work the longest workweeks in comparison to 29 other major American cities when our commuting hours are taken into account. The average New Yorker spends over six hours a week commuting. Hell. HELL!

It wasn't so long ago that Boston, a highway rest stop on the road from New York to Maine, was pining for the world's spotlight and asking to host the Olympic games and generally be the center of attention. My, how things change.

Gunmen entered the National Bardo Museum in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, on Wednesday and killed eight, taking several hostages, the New York Times reports. Reports say the unnamed gunmen were wearing military uniforms.

Cristie Schoen Codd, a contestant on season eight of Food Network Star, and her husband, JT Codd, were found dead Monday in Leicester, NC. Robert Jason Owens, 36, a neighbor and contractor the couple had hired to work on their home, was arrested by police Monday for their murder. Cristie Codd was five months pregnant.

Dicks: Many of us have them, and sometimes they get messed up. In such cases, we can only hope that any necessary procedure is quick, painless and—most importantly—singular. According to Jimmy Kimmel, his messed up dick surgery was none of those things.

The Secret Service says a letter sent to the White House this week has tested positive for cyanide, confirming an earlier report by The Intercept. According to that story, the letter's return address matches that of a man who previously mailed the White House "a package covered in urine and feces."

A fraternity at Penn State university was suspended for a year on Tuesday after allegedly exchanging photos of nude, passed out women online, the Associated Press reports.