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National Book Awards: Oops, We Shortlisted the Wrong Book
Maureen O'Connor · 10/17/11 12:12PMRupert Murdoch, Bill Clinton Attend Steve Jobs Memorial Service
Adrian Chen · 10/17/11 12:10PMGuy Fieri Accused of Harassing Women, Disliking Gays
Richard Lawson · 10/17/11 12:00PMJill Abramson Vows to Manage Newsroom Like Dogs
Hamilton Nolan · 10/17/11 11:57AMHerman Cain Sings About Pizza to the Tune of 'Imagine'
Jim Newell · 10/17/11 11:54AMYou know all of those dumb jokes about how Herman Cain, former Godfather's Pizza CEO, just thinks about pizza all the time? Well here's Herman Cain himself making one of them 20 years ago at the Omaha Press Club. The difference is that his joke — a performance of John Lennon's commie song "Imagine" but with lyrics about pizza — is rather well plotted!
Two-Year-Old Hit-and-Run Victim Left to Die in Street in China
John Cook · 10/17/11 11:32AM
Last week, a two-year-old girl wandering in the street in a market in Foshan, China, was hit by a van. The driver stopped for a moment and continued on, rolling over the girl again with the van's rear wheels. Over the course of the next seven minutes, as she lay in the street bleeding, 17 passersby walked over and around her—one truck ran over her again—without helping.
Occupy Wall Street Is Armed with Cash
Adrian Chen · 10/17/11 11:15AMLiLo's New Legal Panic: 18 Months in Jail for Violating Probation
Maureen O'Connor · 10/17/11 11:05AMFoolish Young People Don't Hate Work Yet
Hamilton Nolan · 10/17/11 10:33AM
Young people: will they ever stop evincing their painful ignorance of life's fundamentally tragic nature? Everybody old enough to pay taxes and be killed in a foreign war should understand that what we call "life" is nothing but an endless treadmill of mind-numbing and unfulfilling work followed shortly thereafter by the loss of one's mental faculties, and death.
Which Married Actor Got One of His Exes Pregnant?
Brian Moylan · 10/17/11 10:14AMDancing Teens Slain by Robots
Richard Lawson · 10/17/11 09:55AMBumbling SWAT Team Robbed For Its Machine Guns
Hamilton Nolan · 10/17/11 09:12AM
What is that highly trained squadron of commandos charged with tackling life's thorniest situations and defeating the scariest malefactors in our society, the Los Angeles SWAT team, up to now? Oh just getting robbed for a bunch of machine guns, by malefactors! I guess commando training doesn't include irony appreciation, which is quite an oversight!
Keeping Track of All the Facebook Anti-Tracking Lawsuits
Lauri Apple · 10/17/11 09:07AM
Facebook's tracking scandal has mushroomed into a niche industry of sorts for privacy lawyers. The company now faces at least nine suits filed by people who oppose the company's use of cookie technology that tracks users' online activity even after they've logged out of their accounts. Expect a few more suits to follow.
A Protester's Account of This Weekend's Citibank Arrests
Max Read · 10/17/11 08:24AMWal-Mart's Nasty China Pork Scandal Is a Big Deal
Hamilton Nolan · 10/17/11 08:21AMStarbucks Has a 'Racist' Poster Scandal Abroad
Lauri Apple · 10/17/11 07:51AM
That Starbucks harbors classist attitudes against hard-working hobos and even harder-working Starbucks employees has been well-documented. Now a French anti-racism group has accused the universally beloved coffee chain of decorating its outlets in France with anti-pickpocketing posters that "targeted a minority."
Seven Billion by Halloween
Lauri Apple · 10/17/11 06:10AM
That's the UN Population Fund's latest global population projection, which confirms population predictions made earlier this year. As you might have noticed, our species hasn't been making jobs like we've been making babies, which presents some issues. Don't worry, though: catastrophe's not necessarily inevitable. Not even in this global economic climate, with all the unemployment and stock market speculation on food and hunger. Somebody will get to fixing that stuff up ASAP. So just have some more high-fructose candy corn and relax.
Vet to NYPD Officers: 'How Do You Sleep at Night?'
Lauri Apple · 10/17/11 04:56AMHere's a veteran, identified as U.S. Marine Sergeant Shamar Thomas, confronting New York Police Department officers during Saturday night's protests to ask them why they've been arresting Occupy Wall Streeters instead of defending the right to protest. A valid question! "How do you sleep at night?" he asks them. "There is no honor in this."
Woman Accused of Attacking Her Husband With Cupcakes
Lauri Apple · 10/17/11 03:58AM
In an incident similar to the Great Roommate Buttering Caper of May 2011 in terms of messiness, domestic disruption, and—perhaps most remarkably—the involvement of a woman named Dawn, a Chicago wife has been arrested for hurling cupcakes at her husband during an argument. How sweet it isn't! ("It" being a difficult-sounding marriage.)










