The hotel maid who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former chief of the International Monetary Fund, of sexual assault has lied to investigators numerous times about her past and has some dodgy connections to a drug dealer, according to a bombshell New York Times story published last night. The woman’s inconsistencies about her personal life — like […]
Let me preface this depressing news by saying that I’ve never felt anything but supreme joy when eating a doughnut. However, according to the British Dietetic Association, doughnuts are dangerous to our mental health: “We tend to crave sugary and fatty foods [like doughnuts] for a quick mood fix, but the sugar crash that follows […]
Is it possible for a pet to have an identity crisis? Behold, a pair of dogs who think they are pandas, thanks to a little hair dye from their owners. Normally, I’d say this was cruel … but do you see how freaking cute they are? After the jump, a dog who thinks he’s a […]
Last week, when a gray boxer-brief crotch shot appeared on the Twitter feed of New York Representative Anthony Weiner, he claimed that he had been hacked, that this was a prank having to do with his unfortunate last name, and then cracked a few peen jokes himself for good measure. But yesterday, his tune changed. […]
UPDATE: Rep. Anthony Weiner admitted in a press conference today that he had sexual conversations over Facebook and sent scantily clad pics of his penis and his chest to numerous women, whom he thought were his “friends.” Weiner said he had inappropriate conversations with six women, some before his marriage began and some afterwards. Weiner […]
We tend to think of human trafficking as something that happens over there, a crime committed by someone else. But, as discussed in a piece in the current issue of The New Yorker, it turns out that human trafficking is part of the bedrock that keeps the U.S. military afloat in places like Afghanistan and […]
In the last, uh, 10 minutes I’ve gotten a whole bunch of emails from commenters who’ve been blocked from commenting by Disqus. This is definitely some sort of technical error that I am trying to get someone to fix now. If you’ve been blocked, it’s not because you’ve done anything wrong — there’s just some […]
A bizarre and troubling story out of New York City this week: police officer Kenneth Moreno, 43, is standing trial for the alleged rape of an intoxicated woman whom he and his partner were called to help. What happened next is beyond f**ked up … and a “Law & Order: SVU” episode just waiting to […]
UPDATE: A spokeswoman for The New York Times defended the article to Yahoo.com’s Cutline blog yesterday and the paper also published a critical letter to the editor online. A tragic gang rape story out of Cleveland, Texas, has been made all the more worse by a New York Times article that tells us the 11-year-old […]
