Rise of the slut-shamed: After being invited, disinvited, and then re-invited, director Dustin Lance Black will deliver a commencement address at Pasadena City College, after all.

Subway, a store that sells the smell of baking bread, says it will start slicing its meat thinner, so that sandwiches will get the same amount of meat but 50% more slices. The company's cofounder explained,"For some reason, it looks better. It looks like more meat." TWSS.

This video was posted on reddit with no context other than, "I had to babysit my girlfriend's cat," as if that adequately explains what happened next.

Last week, Clayton Lockett, a convicted killer, died strapped to a table in Oklahoma, but nothing else about it went as planned. The widespread public queasiness which followed infected even some steadfast supporters of the death penalty, leading to hopes for reform. Are those hopes misplaced?

Today, the labor coalition leading the ongoing movement to raise wages for fast food workers announced that workers in 150 cities around the world will walk out and/ or strike on May 15. That's fine and dandy. But might there be a better way for this movement to operate?

An Amur tiger walks across a passageway after a news conference at the Philadelphia Zoo on Wednesday. The mesh pathway, called Big Cat Crossing, is part of a concept called animal rotation that zoos use to enrich the experience of both creatures and guests. Image via Matt Slocum/AP.

Before they gave the precious gift of life to their ungrateful children, our moms were regular people with lives of their own. They had careers, ambitions, talents, dope, naked mud wrestling matches, and tons of casual sex with workers of all stripes. Especially plumbers, for some reason.

This eight-legged, male-and-female-reproductive-organ-having goat—nicknamed "octogoat"—was born earlier this week in Croatia.

This family needed 200 points to win the final "fast money" round of Family Feud, and their patriarch (played by Jeffrey Tambor?) effortlessly scored 182 of them. All his daughter needed to do was finish the job with 18 more.

"Wu-Tang, baby! They rock the world!" Mmm, yeah, that sounds about right coming from a 67-year-old.

Bernie Tiede, a Texas mortician sentenced to life for his 1996 murder of a wealthy widow, was the inspiration for the 2012 film Bernie. On Tuesday, a judge freed Tiede on bond, and it now appears he's going to move in with director Richard Linklater, who turned his story into a dark comedy.

Sending in a fake question to "Dear Abby," the longtime advice column now written by the 72-year-old Jeanne Phillips, is, admittedly, kind of psychotic. But—but!—if you are going to do it, please use this question about twerking as the bar.

Justin Bieber's a piece of shit, that's Seth Rogen's story and he's sticking to it. Earlier on the Today show, he told Matt Lauer, "None of these people in this room like Justin Bieber. I can guarantee you that...I don't know anybody who likes Justin Bieber."

Last year, a Southern California high school has started an unofficial tradition of selecting dates to the prom through an NFL-style draft, where the boys rank the girls—allegedly in order of hotness—and then draft their dates. This year, the school's administration has called for it to stop.

A dog, Gawker's chief dog correspondent, writes today about the soothing sounds of music. "My jam," a dog writes, "is the one where they snap the fingers, and the man is singing 'Shoo boop, de booop shoooooooooo, ahhhhhhh, wop wop wop.' Do you know that one?" Well? Do you?

First curse words, now bloggers: On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a new law—referred to as the "blogger's law"—that will require online writers with more than 3,000 daily readers to register with the Roskomnadzor, Russia's media oversight agency.

Remember Brian Lewis, the former vice president of media relations for Fox News and even more former confidante of Fox News president Roger Ailes? This past November, Fox paid approximately $8 million in hush money to settle a dispute over his dramatic firing, in which the network had accused Lewis of “financial irregularities” and Lewis had countered, through his attorney, with a threat to tell “the truth” about Fox News.

Clay Aiken, the runner-up from season 2 of American Idol, holds a slim lead in his Democratic Congressional primary against former North Carolina Commerce Secretary Keith Crisco this morning. Aiken is ahead by just 372 votes with all precincts already reporting, leaving the race too close to call.

As a couple was getting married Saturday in a Catholic church in Salt Lake City, a second couple was allegedly busy having sex on the church's lawn. Specifically, police say they caught the man with "his tongue and finger inside of [the woman's] vagina."

Neel Kashkari is currently a Republican candidate for governor of California, endorsed by Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney. In 2008, he was the Treasury Department official in charge of bailing out the banks, and we ran his high school yearbook page.