Millionaire playboy and Instagram celebrity Dan Bilzerian is best known of late for chucking a 90-pound porn star, Janice Griffith, off his mansion roof during a shoot for Hustler, and missing the pool. Griffith threatened to sue, and now Bilzerian's lawyer has purportedly written the snarkiest response Bilzerian's money could buy.

A new study published in Nature finds that for the past three decades, hurricanes and tropical cyclones have been gradually moving away from the equator and towards the poles. Hmm. *Checks current location* Fuck.

It’s no secret that Internet headline generator Matt Drudge is obsessed, much like the rest of Washington’s press corps, with ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: Her ambition, her hatred of the press, her age. It’s no secret, either, that Clinton is 66 years old. So why is Drudge depicting Clinton with a bizarre Photoshop of a 16th-century painting?

Amy Kushnir, who lost her shit on Tuesday's episode of her View-esque local Dallas gabfest The Broadcast, used yesterday's show to explain why she stormed off set during a discussion about Michael Sam kissing his boyfriend. (Spoiler alert: The explanation does not contain sentence, "I'm a tantrum-throwing homophobe.")

Buzzfeed's Myles Tanzer just uncovered an internal New York Times report on the paper's digital strategy that, he writes, "paints a dark picture of a newsroom struggling more dramatically than is immediately visible to adjust to the digital world."

Everybody wants to get a piece of that sweet sweet millennial gold. Even the lead-slug tycoons who bankroll the NRA. Behold "Noir," the gun lobby's can't-miss shot at a hot web series for the hip, urbane American who wants a multicolored gun to match that iPhone case!

A wildfire approaches San Marcos, Calif. homes on Wednesday. Flames engulfed suburban homes and shot up along canyon ridges in one of the worst of several blazes during a second day of a sweltering heat wave, taxing fire crews who fear the scattered fires mark only the beginning of a long wildfire season. Image via AP.

Tara, the heroic tabby cat who fought off a neighbor's guard dog after it attacked a young child, cemented her fame this morning with an appearances on Today and ABC News.

Solange Knowles, a Houston woman who threw 'bows at her 44-year-old brother-in-law in an elevator following a party on Cinco de Mayo, threw back Thursday by posting old photographs of herself with elder sister Beyoncé to Instagram. Knowles made headlines on Tuesday when she deleted a photo of herself and Beyoncé from her account—a move which apparently prompted Beyoncé to repost four pictures of the siblings to her own account, which is more popular.

An estimated 55 percent of Americans believe they're smarter than the average American. No word on how many can define irony.

A high school sophomore in Texas was arrested earlier this week after it turned out she was actually 34 years old.

Felix Salmon makes the eminently reasonable case that salaries should not be kept secret, but he fails to disclose his own salary. A mere oversight, no doubt. Felix Salmon, please leave your salary in the comment section below.

And if not, well...maybe try this one of him playing 30 songs in a minute:

The New York Times, and in particular its publisher, Pinch "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr., is taking a lot of flack for abruptly firing editor Jill Abramson yesterday. Amid the uproar, let's not forget to criticize Sulzberger for this: had it been handled differently, there might not be all this criticism.

A study released today by the UCLA's Civil Rights Center reports that 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, American schools are slowly re-segregating themselves, particularly in the suburbs. Someone should let the conservative wing of the Supreme Court know!

They call you a "stupid bitch" and "motherfucking whore" and "thugs with jugs." They stoop down to your wheelchair to spit in your face. They stalk you and ambush you in the dark outside your home. If you're a woman and you think guns should maybe be regulated a bit more, this is what you get.

The C.D.C. made a statement in support of PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis in the form of the pill Truvada) on Wednesday. The institute recommends PrEP for people "at substantial risk for HIV," including men who have sex with men without condoms, HIV negative people in serodiscordant couples, and intravenous drug users.

Iconic American Top 40 host Casey Kasem, who was reported missing earlier this week and believed to be somewhere on an Indian reservation in Washington state, has been found.

If you've ever thought to yourself, while eating a burrito, "Hey, I'd love to read a story by a famous author on my cup of Diet Coke," great news: Starting today, Chipotle's cups will feature original stories by Toni Morrison, George Saunders, Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Lewis, and Jonathan Safran Foer.

On last night's episode of Watch What Happens Live, ringmaster Andy Cohen had his guests Jon Hamm and Amy Sedaris act out an iconic Don Draper/Peggy Olson confrontation from Season 4 of Mad Men. The twist was that Sedaris was made to perform the scene as her former drug addict/prostitute Strangers with Candy character, Jerri Blank. The result was all...mildewy. Unfortunately, though, the scene study did not end with Jerri Blank ugly-crying, as Peggy did on the original episode.