Little Kid Is Furious at His Mom for Getting Pregnant Again

Jay Hathaway · 08/28/14 03:27PM

Trey just found out he's about to have a new baby sibling, and this is exasperating. Why would his mom replace him and his sister, the two babies she just had, with a new one that's just going to cry all the time? It makes no sense!

Gamer Gets SWAT Raided Over Prank Call During Livestream Broadcast

Andy Cush · 08/28/14 03:20PM

Pranks can a real hoot, sometimes. Just goofin' on your friends, clownin' around, havin' fun. If there's any chance your innocent joke might end with your buddy facedown on the floor with an assault rifle pointed at his back, though, you might want to reconsider.

At Legacy Paper, Old Ass Editors

Jordan Sargent · 08/28/14 02:13PM

As our own Hamilton Nolan outlined in his universally beloved piece "Against Editors," the typical career track in journalism pushes talented young writers to become editors, where they get comfy and grow old... and lose touch of who is famous, leading to sad and embarrassing errors like the following ones from the New York Times.

Watch Rob Ford Sing and Dance to "One Love" at a Council Meeting Again

Andy Cush · 08/28/14 01:55PM

Rob Ford, Toronto's most beloved singing and dancing entertainer, marked the final meeting of that city's current council the way he is wont to do: pounding his chest, swinging his hips, and making gentle pushing gestures, as a reggae band performed Bob Marley's "One Love." He even sang along!

Georgia Gov. Mistakes Hispanic College Student for an "Illegal"

Adam Weinstein · 08/28/14 12:40PM

Nathan Deal, the conservative Georgia governor who's in a tight re-election race against a grandson of Jimmy Carter, suffered a misstep Tuesday when he mistakenly assumed a Hispanic student speaking to him at the University of Georgia was an undocumented immigrant.

Ayn Rand's Capitalist Paradise Is Now a Greedy Land-Grabbing Shitstorm

Adam Weinstein · 08/28/14 11:56AM

Atlas Shrugged readers remember Galt's Gulch as the rural refuge where Ayn Rand's Real Men of Genius spurned American socialism for their own anti-leftist paradise. Some inspired libertarians have set up a real-life Galt's Gulch in Chile. Unregulated capitalism, though, is presenting some problems!

Racist Teacher Tweets "Wanna Stab Some Kids," Keeps Job

Allie Jones · 08/28/14 11:35AM

Krista Hodges, who goes by "Mrs. Hodges ☮" on Twitter, has not yet been fired from her teaching job at Newark Memorial High School in California. She should be, because she has been threatening to kill her students on Twitter for months. In one (public) tweet, she asked, "I already wanna stab some kids. Is that bad?"

Where Is the Next Next Next Brooklyn Neighborhood?

Hamilton Nolan · 08/28/14 10:48AM

In Brooklyn, America's Coolest Land Area, the "name of the game" is staying one step ahead of the tidal wave of gentrification that wants to swallow you and price you out of your own neighborhood. Bad news: it's time to find the "next" Brooklyn neighborhood.

Judge May Force Pentagon to Release 2,000 Unseen Abu Ghraib Photos

Adam Weinstein · 08/28/14 10:40AM

A U.S. district court judge has given the Department of Defense less than two weeks to convince him to halt the public release of thousands of never-before-seen inmate photos taken inside Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison while American forces operated it.