Yesterday, the country collectively dropped its jaw when Martin Shkreli, the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals dropped the news that his company would be raising the price of a very important drug that cures toxoplasmosis, Daraprim, from $13.50 to $750. One thing not mentioned nearly enough, other than the fact that this happens all the time–that’s only […]
Peter Dinklage is brilliant on “Game of Thrones”, but he’s also humble — his win for Best Supporting Actor at Sunday’s Emmy Awards came as a genuine surprise to the actor, who has won the award once before. He was so prepared to lose, in fact, that he didn’t come prepared with a speech and was still chewing gum […]
When you work at a site that also happens to have a name very close to what my vet has called the McDonald’s of cat food, there are bound to be some mix-ups every now and then. “OH COOL DO YOU GUYS SELL CAT FOOD?” asks some cool human who’s sidling up to you at a […]
On a day where we remember heroes, it’s also important to remember that they come in all forms. Bretagne, who was a part of the search and rescue efforts at ground zero with her handler Denise Corliss, is one of them. She served as a member of the Texas Task Force 1 and is the last known […]
El Paso Police Officer Kenneth Lee Sheka, 28, was arrested on Tuesday after firing off his gun in the middle of a law enforcement convention at the Chase Suites Hotel. Sheka had started talking to one of the servers working the event, eventually making some rather explicit comments towards her, and “inappropriately touching her.” The server told […]
Normally I don’t really care about sports all too much but this was something I could really get into. At a college football game half-time show, the Kansas State Marching Band for The Wildcats, meant to form a Star Wars themed formation, but instead formed something that looked exactly like a giant dick going into […]
Hey hey, it’s the end of summer and Labor Day is around the corner and oh god, everything is going to be miserable soon because winter, as you and Jon Snow know it, is coming. Stave off the inevitable ennui of your pedestrian autumn and your dreary winter by giving up that office lyfe and hitching […]
This Monday, at 3:30 PM, a man who has not yet been identified by police was arrested after walking into the Kansas abortion clinic, carrying a bomb and a bag full of knives. He was also reportedly carrying a box wrapped in tape. Ostensibly, he planned on killing/maiming a bunch of innocent people to prove how […]
This past Sunday, Shawn Fuller, a 31-year-old open-carry advocate from Iredell County, North Carolina, shot and killed his two toddler sons, ages 3 and 4, after a domestic dispute with his wife. Fuller is in critical condition at a nearby hospital, having shot himself in the head. Fuller had apparently spent his day shooting at bottles and […]
