“I like it. A lot of good things. I don’t want to talk to you now, but lot of good things. A lot of good points,” said Donald Trump, man of principle, when Reason asked for his views on Libertarianism yesterday. When asked to name a single specific thing he likes about the ideology, Trump demurred. »9/10/15 11:13am3 minutes ago

I pay Time Warner Cable $70 a month for broadband that works 70-percent of the time. Just for fun, I recently upgraded to the company’s best, fastest service—300 Mbps—and guess what. After weeks of speed tests, I can confidently say that I don’t get those speeds. Ever. »9/10/15 10:25am51 minutes ago

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The NYPD officer who tackled and handcuffed retired tennis player James Blake has been placed on desk duty in the wake of his headline-generating mistake, the New York Times reports. »9/10/15 9:15amToday 9:15am

A suspected drug dealer was charged with unlawfully carrying a weapon this week after police allegedly found a fully-loaded .22 caliber handgun in her vagina, USA Today reports. »9/09/15 11:30pmYesterday 11:30pm

Judging by their use of “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” at a Tea Party rally today, Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are huge fans of seminal alt-rockers R.E.M. Unfortunately for them, the feeling isn’t mutual. »9/09/15 10:35pmYesterday 10:35pm

On Wednesday, three brothers ranging in age from 8 to 12 were found stabbed to death in the backseat of an SUV near a South Los Angeles elementary school, KTLA reports. »9/09/15 9:30pmYesterday 9:30pm

This week, an unlicensed cosmetic surgeon pled guilty to reckless manslaughter for injecting silicone into a New Jersey man’s penis, killing him, the Associated Press reports. »9/09/15 7:45pmYesterday 7:45pm

School was scheduled to start Wednesday for more than 50,000 Seattle students, but they’re all staying home or heading back to day camps because Seattle Public Schools has asked teachers to work longer hours, with less recess, for a minimal increase in pay. The teachers, who have gone six years without even a… »9/09/15 6:05pmYesterday 6:05pm

In a post from a few days ago that could just have easily been written at any point over the past seven years, Mashable proclaimed that Apple might be working on a thinner iPhone. No shit. New things are better than old things. Upgrades are made with better parts and built to be more efficient. This will happen every.… »9/09/15 4:56pmYesterday 4:56pm

Years ago, The Learning Channel dumped learning in favor of Honey Boo Boo and a family led by a couple that doesn’t know how to just sit and talk at night. The History Channel slowly went from history to Hitler to the Harrisons, and The Weather Channel—once a force so powerful in America that it was the authority on… »9/09/15 4:32pmYesterday 4:32pm

The reviews of Stephen Colbert’s first episode of Late Show With Stephen Colbert are in. The verdict is: sure, this will do. But the future of the show will rest on how well Colbert can blend surrealism with affability, a formula perfected by his predecessor David Letterman from just about opening night 22 years ago. »9/09/15 4:05pmYesterday 4:05pm