Man Shows Up for Mugshot Wearing Previous Mugshot on His Shirt

Andy Cush · 08/18/14 04:13PM

So you've just been arrested, and you're wondering what you should wear when you're booked into jail. Worry not, as there's one surefire way to nail it with style and grace: just wear any old shirt, but print the mugshot from a previous arrest on the front. You'll knock 'em out.

Seventeen Suspected Ebola Patients Missing in Liberia

Allie Jones · 08/18/14 01:25PM

The Liberian government admitted today that 17 suspected Ebola sufferers have gone "missing" from a West Point district clinic. Lewis Brown, the Information Minister, told the BBC the patients went "back into their communities." The government previously denied the patients left, claiming they were simply moved to another hospital.

Holy Shit Look at This Giant Alligator Pulled Out of an Alabama Swamp

Aleksander Chan · 08/18/14 12:38PM

It took an Alabama family five hours to wrestle a 15-foot-long alligator from a swamp in Camden, Ala. over the weekend—the largest legal alligator killing by an Alabama hunter ever. After breaking a winch used to weigh gator catches, Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Biologists used a backhoe to lift the gator's body, which came in at 1,011.5 pounds.

Against Editors

Hamilton Nolan · 08/18/14 12:00PM

In the writing world, there is a hierarchy. The writers are on the bottom. Above them are editors, who tell the writers what to change. This is backwards. How many good writers has Big Edit destroyed?

Kill All Millennials

Leah Finnegan · 08/18/14 10:55AM

In the New York Times this weekend, Sam Tanenhaus, a scholar of the conservative movement, tried to make sense of the millennial generation. From reading his article one can only conclude that Tanenhaus wants all millennials to die.