Donating to charity, especially in a time of crisis, can be intimidating. There are so many options. How do you know the organization you choose will use the money effectively? You might pick one with a history, a pedigree, a name you can trust. You might pick the American Red Cross. Fuck that.

During the three times I listened to Taylor Swift's new synth pop album, 1989, I felt like I was being screamed at for over an hour. Her vocals are amplified above all else, and generally what that all else is are loud block waveforms of electronic pop. Often, she is shouting politely, to boot. Her yelps are more BratCitibike than Bratmobile, but they add to the racket, nonetheless. Her voice is to my ears what fluorescent lights are to my eyes.

In-N-Out Burger employees in Redding, Calif., reportedly asked this Bible-carrying gentleman to stop holding the door open for customers and either buy something or leave. He chose a secret, off-menu option: Come into the store and explode in an Animal Style supernova of obnoxious rage.

Amid raunchy football-hazing controversies at high schools in Sayreville, N.J. and Doylestown, Pa., a third Northeastern high school has had to launch an investigation into its team because its players couldn't keep their genitals away from each other.

The homeless in America are not just old winos perched on the same corner day after day. There are also the young homeless, who ride the rails and sleep on the beach and live equally awful but more mobile lives. Some towns would like to make their lives harder.

Actor Daniel Radcliffe's ongoing quest to get you to stop thinking of him as Harry Potter brought him to the Tonight Show Tuesday, where he revealed his secret passion for fast, acrobatic raps.

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis recently had a baby and gave it a dumb name (Wyatt Isabelle). On Conan last night, Ashton unsurprisingly revealed he thinks he's killing it in the Dad Department.

Former MLB slugger and avid Twitter user Jose Canseco had an accident last night. According to his fiancé, Leila Knight, Canseco shot himself in his left hand while cleaning his semiautomatic handgun. She told TMZ the shot "ripped through the middle finger on his left hand."

A woman in her 60s was found beheaded in front of an apartment complex in Farmingdale, Long Island late Tuesday night. Twenty minutes after police arrived at the scene, her suspected killer jumped in front of an oncoming Long Island Rail Road train. Police suspect the incident was a murder-suicide of a mother and son.

The scheduled execution of Mark Christeson, a Missouri man who murdered a woman and her two children, was temporarily halted Tuesday night by the Supreme Court over concerns his case had not been properly reviewed.

The man who led the investigation into the Secret Service prostitution scandal was forced to quit this summer after he was busted in a prostitution scandal of his own, the New York Times reports.

An unmanned rocket bound for the International Space Station exploded Tuesday night, seconds after its launch from a Virginia island. No one was hurt in the fiery explosion, but officials say there was extensive property damage.

Chris Christie, an antagonistic noisemaker who happens to be in charge of governing the state of New Jersey, was in Rhode Island on Tuesday, campaigning for the Republican candidate for governor there. Reporters asked him what he thought about potentially getting sued by Kaci Hickox, a nurse Christie forced into mandatory quarantine this week under his Ebola policy.

Kids these days think they invented partying. Incorrect: People have stayed up all night getting wasted, ripping their clothes off, and doing ridiculous dances since the invention of booze. The primary difference between the way Baby Boomers got down and the way we do it today is that previous generations didn't have Wiz Khalifa.

Today Jeffrey Goldberg published an essay at The Atlantic about rising tensions between the governments of the United States and Israel. Things do not seem to be going very well. Goldberg opens his piece by quoting an unnamed “senior Obama administration official” who recently told him: “The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickenshit.” Bibi is the nickname of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Scientists in Florida say they have documented lizard species there evolving in as little as 15 years—so quickly that one may even run for President of the United States.

The Wall Street Journal says McDonald's, a store that sells toxic food and pays the people who make said food just enough money to ensure permanent poverty, has a new advertising slogan: "Lovin' Beats Hatin'"—sure, man, OK, that sounds good, why not.

An Arabian stallion named Stormy, who has free reign of his owner's property, somehow managed to walk into the backyard swimming pool Saturday and found himself unable to escape. As Stormy panicked and thrashed against the deck, his owner's grandson called 911.

Yesterday, the New York Times revealed that the CIA and FBI used "at least" 1,000 Nazis as informants and spies during the Cold War. Many of the Nazis were allowed to live in America, as if they were not Nazis but upstanding American citizens, thus revealing what many of us have long known to be true: There are Nazis among us.

After comedian Hannibal Buress brought up at his standup show in Philly last week that 13 women have accused Bill Cosby of rape from the 1970s into the 2000s (accusations that Cosby's PR machine has continually buried), one woman who came forward in 2006 revealed further details of the several times she says Cosby drugged and raped her.