Dead Dog Slideshow Gets Six-Figure Book Advance

Leah Finnegan · 03/10/15 05:05PM

In January, Yahoo published a piece by a woman named Lauren Fern Watt titled "I Took My Dying Dog on a Bucket-List Adventure." The piece wasn't really an essay, per se, but some introductory text and eleven photos accompanied by captions that described Watt's relationship with her dying dog, Gizelle, who had been diagnosed with bone cancer. Watt was determined to make the 160-pound English Mastiff's last days her best days (and although the two ate lobster and doughnuts, went on boat and car rides, and cuddled profusely, who can really be sure if a dog with a terminal illness is having fun?).

Please Don't Put Black Pepper on My Sandwich

Taylor Berman · 03/10/15 12:13PM

The following scenario has unfolded this way, almost daily, for decades. Yet every time is as hotly frustrating as the first. Be warned. It is graphic.

Revenge Porn Dirtbag Plagiarizes Shark Tank Star

Sam Biddle · 03/10/15 11:00AM

Every shitman deserves a second chance, right? Former revenge porn magnate Chance Trahan (that name!) is attempting to reinvent himself after his site, IsAnybodyDown, was shuttered. But he can't even start over again without exploiting someone else's life.

How Reddit Became a Worse Black Hole of Violent Racism than Stormfront

Keegan Hankes, SPLC Research Analyst · 03/10/15 10:00AM

One section of the Web forum is dedicated to watching black men die, while another is called "CoonTown" and features users wondering if there are any states left that are "nigger free." One conversation focuses on the state of being "Negro Free," while another is about how best to bring attention to the assertion that black people are more prone to commit sexual assaults than whites.

Racist Oklahoma Frat's House Mom Filmed Chanting Racist Slurs 

Aleksander Chan · 03/10/15 08:35AM

In a 2013 Vine discovered by the University of Oklahoma's student newspaper, a seemingly intoxicated Sigma Alpha Epsilon house mother chants "nigger, nigger, nigger" along to Trinidad James' "All Gold Everything."