According to police who were involved in a high speed chase with a man in Michigan, when they finally were able to approach the man's car, he lit up a bong right in front of them. No big deal.

When Heba Mohammad, a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, emailed Alderman Chris Wery to ask if transportation would be provided for midterm elections in two weeks, Wery immediately called her religious and political affiliations into question—assuming she might have ties to Islamic extremist groups. Because, you know, that's totally normal for an elected official to do.

On October 1, the computing giant Intel pulled its ads from Gamasutra, a trade website for game developers, over an essay called "'Gamers' don't have to be your audience. 'Gamers' are over" by a journalist named Leigh Alexander. Intel had been successfully harassed by a small, contemptible crusade called "Gamergate"—a campaign of dedicated anti-feminist internet trolls using an ill-informed mob of alienated and resentful video game-playing teenagers and young men to harass and intimidate female activists, journalists, and critics.

"Someone get a tape of this? I hope you do, so you can see this when I'm famous and all of you will remember me as this beautiful little girl," says Kim Kardashian in an eighth-grade graduation video dug up by Entertainment Tonight.

A 54-year-old drunken clown was arrested in Michigan this week for sitting in his garage and firing his pellet gun at a can on the street on what would have otherwise been a perfectly nice Monday morning.

The above video shows drunk frat bros fighting, rolling around on the ground, and calling each other bitches at a University of Arkansas tailgate. According to Bro Bible, the fight is between Sigma Nus and SAEs, but according to me, it's between a bunch of IDIOTS who aren't even throwing real punches.

About a week ago, one of our writers made a bad joke. "Ultimately #GamerGate is reaffirming what we've known to be true for decades: Nerds should be constantly shamed and degraded into submission." It was a joke, sure, but a stupid one, and he apologized.

Lady Liberty. The guardian of our shores. The protector of America. Her greenness, the anti-whore, who looks down upon capitalism but does not let herself be defiled by it. Until now.

Climate change is causing rising oceans and more extreme weather. Even as beachfront development continues, beachfront living is growing ever more perilous. What happens when all the insurance companies decide to stop insuring anything by a beach?

In a lawsuit filed by Regina Janito, the mother alleges two men dressed as clowns terrorized her and her family during a visit to the Massacre Haunted House in Montgomery, Ill. She accuses one of the clowns of "violently" poking her daughter with a purple vibrator while the other simulated oral sex on a teddy bear with another vibrator strapped to its crotch.

After a spark ignited at a home in East Berlin, Pa. causing it to burn down, it was discovered that the homeowner was a snake breeder and that seventy-five percent of his snakes had been caught in the blaze. How many snakes is that? Something like over 200 snakes.

A tiny cub, sad because he couldn't find his mother, went looking for chewing gum and prescription narcotics in an Oregon pharmacy on Sunday. But before the one-month-old bear could find any good pills, narcs from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife took him away—in a shopping basket no less, which is the most humiliating way to be removed from a Rite Aid. Now the little guy is headed to rehab :( (or a zoo).

Apparently everyone wants out at the New York Times! The paper's generous buyout offer, which they hoped would attract 100 employees, received more than 300 requests. Awkward.

In a setup that would make Jimmy Kimmel green with envy, two Dutch pranksters visited a major culinary convention to show off their new line of delicious, organic food—actually bog standard McDonald's fare, just cut up and skewered with toothpicks.

All four Blackwater security guards on trial for the deadly 2007 shooting in Baghdad's Nisour Square have been found guilty by a federal jury, concluding a 11-week trial. The group was charged with the killings of 14 Iraqis and injuring 17 others.

Can you believe it's 2014 and no one has made a documentary about Joan Didion? Neither can Griffin Dunne, Didion's very proud nephew via her late husband, John Gregory Dunne. The younger Dunne, the erstwhile director of Practical Magic, is asking the public for $80,000 to make a movie about his 79-year-old aunt (and maybe a little about himself).

Yesterday, the longtime Brooklyn music and art venue Glasslands announced that it would be closing on New Year's Day 2015. Why? Because the marketing conglomerate Vice Media has already started building its huge new office near the property where Glasslands now stands, and will eventually get to Glasslands itself.

Rob Cantor and the The Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles present a song about Shia LeBeouf, a famed Hollywood actor and forest-dwelling eater of human flesh who sets upon you one night and forces you into a fight for your very life—featuring Shia LeBeouf as himself as Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane.

I can't recall a public performance more divisive than Aretha Franklin's cover of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" on the Sept. 29 episode of The Late Show with David Letterman. The conversations I had about it fell into two distinct camps: those who loved and those who hated it. Both were adamant. One person on the latter side suggested that anyone who posted praise of it was just traffic-whoring. One person on the former side jokingly called for a ban on opinions, specifically of those who suggested that Franklin's vocals on the studio version of "Deep" had been sweetened with Auto-tune .

CNN has more details about the trio of American teens who were caught by the FBI trying to join ISIS. They carried out their plan just like you'd imagine, by faking sick, skipping school, and stealing some cash.