Imagine a world in which humorous, sharp conversations about race and identity could be had where multiple perspectives are represented—and many of the participants make good points.

The Dallas Morning News is reporting that health care workers at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas treated Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola on U.S. soil, for two full days without proper protective gear, potentially exposing dozens of workers to the deadly virus.

This video has become popular today as a short vignette about how cats are selfish and malicious and constantly interrupting your Important Human Business. Slice of life, right? We can all relate to those wacky cats! They’re annoying as hell, but we love ‘em anyway.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon at the University of Arizona was suspended from all alcohol activities today in the wake of hazing allegations, according to The Daily Wildcat. But SAE's suspension is a long time coming—last year, Jackass star Johnny Knoxville accused the frat of drugging him.

You might not have realized, but you probably know Bailey, the five-year-old golden retriever that has captured the heart of millions of dad's Microsoft Outlook desktop apps. She is the star of the ever-popular "I have no idea what I'm doing" image macro meme. A new cache of fresh macros have hit the web, the Daily Dot reports, and it's high time we reassess the situation clearly at hand here: this poor dog has been enslaved to forever toil as an internet meme. We all need to be part of the solution. Free "I Have No Idea What I'm Doing" Dog.

Because the contemplation of death is the highest level of human activity, every year we meditate on the passage of time by examining the pop-culture artifacts that were omnipresent at the time of birth of the students now entering high school and/or college. What was the world like when the high school class of 2018 was born? The world was like, as it turns out, the pop-culture diet of a middle-class American adolescent.

A man in Connecticut was charged with "breach of peace and threatening" after he allegedly grabbed a mop out of a hotel worker's hands and mopped aggressively all over the woman's shoes. The accused man apparently never learned how stupid and annoying mopping is or else he'd never have committed this crime.

"How you can profit from Ebola." USA Today's Matt Krantz has the scoop:

We know that actress and lifestyle guru Blake Lively can't resist the "allure of Antebellum," a period in American history characterized by "beauty and grace" and also forced labor and racist subjugation. But Lainey Gossip points out that she apparently also can't resist the allure of rephrasing articles she found on the internet.

New York City is a place where a distinct lack of affordable housing meets a huge supply of luxury housing—much of which is not even used as a primary residence. The city's very richest are aghast at a proposal that their pied-a-terres be taxed.

Pete, a man with a bad dick, had a rough time on Monday's Family Feud. When Steve Harvey asked Pete's wife what one part of her husband's body she would choose to change, she didn't even hesitate before answering: His poor, inadequate penis.

One minor subplot in the saga of former teen movie star Amanda Bynes' brief return to public life was the bizarre case of a little-known Twitter account, @PersianLA27, that some theorized was being secretly used by Bynes to defend herself. Last night the account was hacked, and the perpetrators leaked direct messages say prove it was Bynes after all.

In an unsettling coincidence, Stephen Collins, the actor best known for his role as a father and minister on the long-running WB drama 7th Heaven and for confessing on tape to molesting at least three young girls, plays a pedophile priest in his most recent movie role.

Amber Vinson, the Texas healthcare worker who tested positive for Ebola early Wednesday morning, reportedly travelled Monday on a flight from Cleveland to Dallas, just one day before she started to show symptoms of the virus.

Well, it's done: New York governor Andrew Cuomo has declared yogurt the "Official New York State Snack." Andrew Cuomo is little more than a dancing puppet for Chobani's chalky, curdled agenda. Disgusting and outrageous.

A man aboard a Japan Airlines flight last Saturday allegedly waited until a woman was in the plane's bathroom to force his way in and sexually assault her. The man closed the door behind him, and it took the entire flight crew and the man's mother to pry the door back open.

The latest findings from our nation's top intelligence and black ops agency: our black ops have historically been pretty fucking worthless.

When two St. Paul teens heard the door to their house open Saturday night, they were expecting their parents. Instead, they got a drunken zombie Santa Claus who had apparently lost his way and broken into the residence. As one does.

Teen boys: there's no telling where their libidos might take them. Nineteen-year-old Floridian Sean Johnson's took him to the stuffed animal section of a Tampa-area Walmart, then to its bedding department, then back to the stuffed animal section, and then to jail.

Navarro College, a community college in The Great State of Texas, sent rejection letters to multiple applicants from African countries because "Navarro College is not accepting international students from countries with confirmed Ebola cases."