Last night, during Mad Men, a bourbon company called Woodford Reserve premiered a national commercial, baffling the entire nation.

The woman who threw a shoe at Hillary Clinton last week is apparently a conspiracy theorist who believes Aurora, Colorado mass-shooter James Holmes was duped by "a group of cabal evil worldwide crooks who want to control the world through false flag attacks akin to George Orwell 1984." She adds, "I look like g.i. jane."

A Norwegian fisherman was gutting a large cod he'd caught when he ran across an unusual lump in his fish. Probably just some semi-digested herrings, right? No big deal. (Spoiler: It wasn't just semi-digested herrings.)

Oberlin College is considering the controversial possibility of revising its policy on trigger warnings in order to allow professors to teach "books" and other academic material, rather than just reciting trigger warnings nonstop all semester. Is the world ready?

For months, residents of Davidson, N.C., have debated the merits of a bronze statue of Jesus Christ as a homeless man on a local park bench. But when news of the hobo lord hit national TV this morning, NBC's hosts had a decidedly less coherent religious experience.

A man named God is filing suit against credit rating agency Equifax because the company claims he has no financial history.

The Brecht Forum, a New York venue for Marxist teaching, is closing down because rising costs and real estate prices have "made the provision of space impossible for an organization of our means." We are all Marxists now.

The man accused of killing three people at two Overland Park, Kan. Jewish centers on Sunday has been identified as Frazier Glenn Miller, a 73-year-old white supremacist and the founder of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

Only two episodes in to season four, and Game of Thrones is already killing off major characters. As I did for episode one, I've put together a collection of scenes, references, and characters from episode two that deserve a special comment or mention—in particular, an investigation into season four's first major death.

Police made a gruesome discovery Sunday when they discovered the remains of seven babies hidden in cardboard boxes in a Utah woman's garage.

Apparently actual late nights with Jimmy Fallon involve narrowly escaping bar fights and buying shots for everyone around him.

The Borgata Casino is suing one of the most famous poker players in the world, claiming he won close to $10 million by cheating with a technique called edge sorting.

The percentage of the population that understands the phrase, "Be kind, please rewind," is on the decline, so it shouldn't be as surprising as it is when a group of under-15's mistake a Sony Walkman for a cell phone, a walkie talkie, and a boom box.

Good year for write-offs: your chances of getting audited haven't been this low since the 80's.

For the season premiere of Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon Ramsay returned to the scene of the crime: Amy and Samy, the terrifying owners of Amy's Baking Company.

The James Franco Did He or Didn't He Try to Sleep with a Teenage Girl, and Do We Really Care? story is entering its second phase: parody.

Two shootings have been reported at two separate Jewish-related sites in Overland Park, Kansas, leaving at least three people dead. One man is in custody and was heard yelling "heil Hitler" as he was placed in handcuffs.

More than 10,000 people have been evacuated after a fire in Chile's port city Valparaiso killed 11 people and destroyed more than 500 homes.

A twitter user named @queendemetriax is having a tough time after tweeting an innocent little Al Qaida joke at American Airlines today, though a Twitter spokesperson says the airline couldn't possibly have the information on her that it claims to have.

Imagine the life of a teen in 2014. What do you see? A young man stumbling out of bed and sending his first sext before he even reaches his chewed gum and Toy Machine sticker covered doorway? A young lady calling somebody she knows from Twitter a "basic bitch" on an app you've never heard of? An emoji with a backwards baseball cap high on Molly? If you add some glow sticks to the last one, you have parents' new worst nightmare: "glow parties."