Backdoor Teen Mom Farrah Abraham is spending her 14th minute of fame promoting the first book in her Celebrity Sex Tape trilogy(!) of erotic novels, based on the "private" sex tape she made with porn star James Deen. Advance reader copies of In The Making have arrived, and they confirm what you already suspected: Life is suffering and everything is terrible.

Lana Del Rey, the pop singer most likely to be a phantom sent by Livejournal circa 2003 to haunt us, told a Guardian interviewer this week, "I wish I was dead already."

The Wall Street Journal warns of "The Terrorist Army Marching on Baghdad." Once it's an army, can you still call it "terrorist?" Either armies are different from terrorists, or all armies are terrorists. Consistency, please. Arguments on this point are welcome.

In October 2013, an Albanian 20-year-old survived a game of Russian roulette after shooting himself through the head. The (very graphic) photo of the resulting injury is insane:

The owners of the 4,000-square-foot mansion currently dangling off a cliff near Texas' Lake Whitney decided to hasten their home's demise by setting it on fire Friday afternoon.

Bad news: Since 1764, the United States has had one fewer school shooting than the next 38 nations combined. Good news: That study only counted up to 2009, so we're probably the world's undisputed No. 1 now.

In the slightly NSFW clip above from the Brazilian talk show The Noite, American singer-songwriter Sky Ferreira is presented with the cover of her album Night Time, My Time, on which she appears topless (photographer/director Gaspar Noé shot it). The comedian host of the show, Danilo Gentili, asks Ferreira, via a translator, "Do you think everybody loves your work because of the music or also because of the cover...and because of the tits, of course?"

Neocons' first move in their renewed offensive against the reality-based community: Get the year of the Iraq invasion wrong.

Laura Dimon, the daughter of J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, has landed at the New York Daily News after a rocky tenure at Millenial news website PolicyMic, where she wrote an article suggesting that most people have never heard of Flint, Michigan. (She also wrote an article* about defecating for The Daily Beast.)

Today, DreamWorks' terrific How To Train Your Dragon 2 glides into theaters. Of the film's several rare creatures is a particularly important one: a matter-of-fact gay character. In a blink-and-miss aside, viking character Gobber comments on a husband and wife's reunion after several years of estrangement by saying, "This is why I never married...that, and one other reason."

We would like to briefly correct a lie about our reporting told by Vice Media co-founder Suroosh Alvi in an interview this week.

At a press conference this afternoon, President Obama said that he's still considering responses to the escalating crisis in Iraq, where Sunni militants are gaining ground by the hour. While officials have said that he's considering airstrikes, Obama was clear at the conference that any military decision would be contingent on the Iraqi government's plan for follow-up action.

Ice Cube does one thing very well as an actor, and nothing's going to stop him from doing it, whether the line is "Sometimes I get angry, so suck a dick!" or "Lavender body wash makes my pores tingle."

A woman in Pennsylvania was imprisoned for failing to pay a debt to the state. And then she died in her cell.

After the shooting at Reynolds High School in Oregon this week, CNN reported that 74 school shootings have happened since the Newtown tragedy in 2012. Now, the network has changed its mind — really, only 15 school shootings have happened since Newtown.

Twitter parody accounts, in general, are the worst, but punishment against their authors probably shouldn't go beyond a simple mute or unfollow. Jim Ardis, mayor of Peoria, Ill., disagrees.

Sad news out of Maryland: This morning, a bull escaped from...somewhere and took off running through the middle Baltimore, where police eventually shot him dead.

If you have ever needed a clear, simple demonstration of the fact that the financial advisory industry is, to a large extent, a hustle designed primarily to soak you for as much money as possible, here it is.

Post-Breaking Bad, Aaron Paul is keeping busy by playing some Xbox and starring in an ad for the Xbox One. And because of the gaming console's best/worst feature, he's also inadvertently trolling anyone who already owns one.