Carbon emissions are causing global warming. Global warming is a slow motion disaster. The consensus is that we must make drastic changes soon. How? We need a carbon tax. A carbon tax is our only hope. Time for a carbon tax now.

Idiot dog commits suicide.

Moe the cat is pretty good at Jenga, but he doesn't have a lot of patience. Or a lot of respect for the rules. Or opposable thumbs.

Is getting a college degree "worth it?" Yes, economically speaking, statistics show that getting a college degree is "worth it." But is it "worth it" by other, less materialist measures?

Nineteen years since his last public performance, former Journey frontman Steve Perry suddenly reappeared Sunday night, singing for the crowd during the encore of an Eels set in St. Paul, Minn. Yes, he sang "Open Arms." No, he did not sing "Don't Stop Believin'."

You are allowed to be mad at an IRS agent for saying you owe $330,000 in back taxes. You are not allowed to leave him phone messages saying you will "torture the agent, rape and kill the agent's wife, injure the agent's daughter and then finally kill the agent."

In case you didn't see the selfie liked 'round the world, Emma Watson graduated from Brown University, where she started in 2009, on Sunday. At the ceremony, she sat with a friend who was also seen leaving as part of her small entourage.

Catherine Middlebum, Duchess of Dayumbridge, future Queen of Assland, may have dressed a little formally for the beach during last month's royal tour of Australia, but a new photo published over the weekend in the German tabloid newspaper Bild suggests that anything goes on the helicopter pad.

This morning the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Hall v. Florida. Florida uses a bright-line IQ threshold score of 70 to determine if an inmate is too intellectually disabled to be executed. And in 5-4 decision, written by Justice Kennedy, the Court struck down that threshold as unconstitutional.

Pope Francis prays on Monday at Jerusalem's Western Wall, the holiest place where Jews can pray, bowing his head and touching the wall in the same gesture he used a day earlier to pray at the Israeli barrier surrounding the biblical West Bank town of Bethlehem. Image via Oded Balilty/AP.

True Detective is starting over next season with a new cast and a new mystery, and, until this week, the only sure thing was that Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson wouldn't be returning as the show's leads. But, in a recent interview, series creator Nic Pizzolatto revealed a little bit more.

A woman suffered minor injuries after a deer fell from an overpass on a Chicago highway, crashing through her windshield and nearly causing her to wreck with her four kids in the car. No one was seriously injured in the crash, though the mother did sustain a minor shoulder wound.

Steel yourself for the inevitable, intractable exchanges with America's least-subtle Second Amendment Men using this "Arguing With Gun Nuts on Twitter" bingo card, via writer and seasoned Twitter troll Bobby Big Wheel.

Last month, Justice Scalia's mistake in a case about air pollution made headlines. He quickly and quietly revised the decision. Amusing though the episode was, as the New York Times detailed over the weekend, it was not unusual. The court does this all the time! Judges: They're Just Like Us Bloggers.

E! (where else?) has the first official photos from the Greatest Wedding of All Time, or the union of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. They are tasteful and pretty. Glowing, even.

Houston Astros prospect Conrad Gregor, playing for the Quad City River Bandits, launched his first home run of the season over the right-center field fence Saturday night, where a fan caught the ball and held it up. But not just any fan.

The problems afflicting crap mecca Walmart extend beyond its persecuted work force, all the way into the corporate executive suite. A new report from an outside overseer says the famously cheap company doesn't mind burning tons of money to benefit top executives.

Alexander Borodai, prime minister of self-declared Donetsk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine, announced Tuesday that 50 pro-Russian military had been in killed in a turf battle over an airport. "This is war," Borodai said. "Our losses are serious. But our opponents losses are not less, and maybe even more."

Important news out of England: Sunday night, Macaulay Culkin and his band, the Pizza Underground, reportedly stormed off stage after unruly fans pelted the group with beer. The worst part? Culkin was about to play a kazoo solo.

David Schwimmer turned over footage from the security cameras outside his East Village home that caught an early-morning brawl between two men and a suspected prostitute.