Last week the Fan Francisco 49ers cancelled a planned sleepover for the Girl Scouts, which was initially the prize for the top cookie-sellers in northern California. After the cancellation was reported and the public was not pleased, the team offered to reschedule and pay for the event, San Jose Mercury News reported. Initially the vague reason […]
I’ve known for the last sixteen years of my life that one day I would read the news and the headline would be that David Bowie had died, and I wondered what would happen next. Now I know. David Bowie died peacefully last night, January 10, 2015, after battling cancer for a year and a half. […]
I first saw the photo above come across my feed when a friend posted it. Soon, it was popping up everywhere. A disturbing family photo, this one went straight past “awkward” or “silly,” and right into “creepy,” “terrifyingly sad” and “nauseating.” The photo shows a family of five, seated in an idyllic meadow. The mother […]
Behold! Here is a video of Carly Fiorina, surrounded by puppies, explaining why dogs are better than cats. At one point, in said video, Fiorina announces that she used to eat Milk Bones as a child, and then takes a bite of one and chews it up. The video is part of a series created by IJ […]
You’re going to be so mad at me when you read this list! It’s okay. I’m prepared. But I do stand by my rankings. I’m passionate! I’m convinced! Now tell me how wrong I am in the comments. My rankings are for American movies from 2000-2015 that are romantic comedies. Romantic movies that don’t even […]
Earlier this year, the state of Vermont became the first state to no longer allow “philosophical” exemptions to their mandate that all public school children be vaccinated. Which is a pretty smart thing to do! They did, however, decide to continue to allow religious exemptions to the mandate — and now some anti-vaxxers are considering starting a new religion in […]
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 […]
Today at the Daily Mail, the rag has published one of their usual inflammatory click-baiting articles, but this one particularly chapped my hide. Shona Sibary writes that over the last four years, she has adopted four dogs and then given them away when they stopped being cute puppies. She writes about this “addiction” as if it’s just some […]
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 […]
