Think of your workplace. Now, think of that little prick who always, somehow, seems to get promoted, despite being a little prick who is not even that smart, Nathan. Researchers say that they have discovered why little pricks like this always succeed.

German police searched the apartment of an alleged spy in Berlin this morning, according to the New York Times. If this person spied for the U.S., as several military sources told the German paper Süddeutsche Zeitung, he would be the second such spy Germany's found in two weeks.

George R.R. Martin, the 65-year-old author of A Song of Ice and Fire, isn't exactly the fastest writer, much to the chagrin of fans who've gotten used to waiting years for their next fix. And then there's the nightmare scenario: What if GRRM dies before he completes the seventh book?

Since Tuesday, Israel's offensive on Gaza has killed 41 Palestinians, including eight children. And the operation, aimed at stopping Hamas' recent barrage of rocket attacks, shows no sign of letting up. The New York Times reports that Israel is calling up as many as 40,000 reservists to "free them for a possible ground invasion of Gaza."

A model has her hair styled before walking in Austrian designer Lena Hoschek's runway show presenting her Spring/Summer 2015 collection at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Berlin. Hoschek's new pieces featured African-inspired prints. Image by Markus Schreiber via AP.

Accused Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's former college roommate testified today that he behaved as normal in the days following the bombing. "He slept a little bit more, but that was it," Andrew Dwinells said.

Storms Monday night forced a flight heading to Denver from Washington to make a pitstop in Wyoming for several hours. Flight attendants had served all the food on the plane, so the pilot pulled the only surefire trick to keep fussy passengers from revolting: ply them with pizza. He ordered Domino's, enough for each row to have their own pie.

Russian hacker Roman Valerevich Seleznev, known as "Track2," is accused of hacking into numerous American retailers and restaurants' computers and installing software that allowed him to steal customer credit card numbers that he later sold. Seleznev was arrested by U.S. Secret Service over the weekend in Guam.

Police arrested 20-year-old Frankea Dabbs on abandonment charges after she purposely left her seven-month-old daughter in her stroller on a subway platform at Columbus Circle Monday. Dabbs was spotted on the Upper West Side around midnight Tuesday by someone who recognized her from security footage released by police.

According to police, a man shot and killed his wife, an employee of the Deaconess Hospital cancer center in Spokane, Wash., before turning the gun on himself early Tuesday. The couple have two children.

They call it "rolling coal" or "hybrid repellent." It is what it sounds like: "pollution porn for dudes with pickup trucks," a setup that costs hundreds or thousands of bucks and gives liberal-hatin' drivers a way to protest Obama by puking clouds of exhaust smoke on little lefties in their lefty cars.

Today, Buzzfeed published a long read on Michael Johnson—a.k.a. Tiger Mandingo—whose story went super-viral earlier this year after news broke that he videotaped himself having sex with 31 people. It is alleged that he knowingly exposed them to HIV*.

A patron of a New York City Chop't restaurant—a "Creative Salad Company"—happened upon a disgusting dead rodent when chomping into his wrap on Tuesday. The wrap had been made by the Chop't location in the Financial District of Manhattan.

Jeremy Meeks, the former gang member known variously around these parts as "sexy mugshot guy," "fine felon," and "Dreamy McMugshot," may not actually have a modeling contract, but he did Blue Steel and Magnum his way through his day in court Tuesday.

U.S. Navy veteran Madelynn Taylor filed a civil rights suit against the Idaho Division of Veterans Services yesterday, after her request to be buried in the state's vet cemetery with her late wife was denied. Taylor married Jean, who died in 2012, in California in 2008.

"We Are The Next Lost Generation"—a Thought Catalog exercise in putting life in perspective.

A London gallery has removed a semi-nude painting of a woman from an exhibition, apparently because viewers couldn't handle the depiction of a small strip of pubic hair.

PSA: If you leave your dog locked in a hot car for 13 hours, it will die. Even if you crack the window, sometimes.

Laugh-a-minute Fox News reporter Jesse Watters has made a career out of ambushing story subjects on the street and broadcasting their confused reactions on The O’Reilly Factor. Last night, Watters’ gaze turned toward the participants of the annual San Francisco Pride Celebration & Parade, where the Fox emissary trolled the parade route in downtown S.F. to get a rise out of various attendees. After all, 60-something conservative men need some way to gape at gay people.