Today in news that reads like bad satire aimed at amoral millennials: the tale of Kirsty Edmondson, a 23-year-old sex worker who allegedly killed a former teacher with a lethal heroin dose, took a selfie with his body, and lived in his apartment with the corpse for a week.
Today, a handful of people favoring the preservation of an abstract institution over the quality of actual human lives took to the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol for the March for Marriage, which was organized by the hate group the National Organization for Marriage. Usual suspects like Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee showed up to spout the usual rhetoric: ensuring that gay people can't get married is about love not hate, kids need a mother and a father, people need the religious freedom to discriminate against whomever they arbitrarily choose, and gay people are bullies for fighting back at the o.g. bullies who go out of their way to interfere with and cast judgement on their lives. There was also the repeated claim that gay marriage has never been enacted by popular vote, which is just bullshit. Shocking that the "traditional marriage" crowd would resort to lies to keep people persuaded.
Fitness is an important component of people's daily routine, all over the world. But is it the right kind of fitness? Hamilton Nolan investigates.
Documents unsealed today reveal that local prosecutors believe Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was part of a "criminal scheme" to coordinate fundraising with outside groups during his recall election in 2012. Walker raised over $30 million in that election, which pundits attributed to vast national interest in the contest at the time.
As I Lay Dying is super hardcore Christian. Sure, they never came out and said "Jesus" or "God" in their songs, but they talked a lot about being Christian rockers and got themselves a following. Who knew that it was all a ploy by godless capitalist screamo dudes just to sell records?
We’re 35 floors high above midtown Manhattan and Lee O’Denat occupies the seat across from me. His is a physically-commanding presence—a bull of a man—and I begin to think everything I have read about him up until this point is true. The designer shades. The diamond-encrusted chain. The deceptively knowing smile that spreads across his round face from time to time. He knows something that you don’t.
Ellis Barrett is a 6-year-old boy who had multiple surgeries earlier this year after a terrible accident with scalding water. Peaches is the treasured pug puppy who comforted him when he came home from the hospital in February. This is a video of some jackholes in pink tracksuits chasing down and stealing Peaches.
A 28-year-old man was arrested for theft in Bra, Italy this week. The targets of his crime? Men's boxers, undershirts and jockstraps. Just kidding — what kind of a viral news item would that be? He was stealing bras, dummy.
A decade ago, everyone was worried about all our kids being on antidepressants. What about the side effects. So the FDA put big warnings on antidepressants about possible increased suicide risks for young people. How did that turn out?
President Obama announced this afternoon that he will send up to 300 military advisers to Iraq to help government forces with intelligence as they combat ISIS militants. He was abundantly clear that these troops will not engage in combat: "American combat troops are not going to be fighting in Iraq again," he said.
On Tuesday, Gawker received an email sent on behalf of an elderly vlogger named Larry King, touting his recent interview with former boybander Lance Bass. Most of the chat revolved around topics related to Bass' sexuality and his space advocacy, but buried about halfway through the interview was this exchange:
Justin Ayers, 33, had just made it home from the hospital with his wife, extended family, and 3-day-old child when a drunk felon next door with a 9mm pistol fired a shot that traveled more than half a football field away, tore through Ayers' house, and killed him.
Every year, towards the end of June, the Supreme Court gets a little backed up. Like college kids who hand in their papers at 4:59 p.m. on the day it's due, the Justices like to submit their most complicated, intricate decisions to the public at the very last moment. Which means that next week will be "a mother," as the children say.
"Gay of Thrones," Funny or Die's Game of Thrones recap series starring a gay hairstylist with encyclopedic pop culture knowledge, scored the mother of all cameo appearances this week: George R.R. Martin, who plays himself playing the grandfather from The Princess Bride.
