On Oct. 14, Bobby Gerald Bennett of Dallas, 59, of Dallas, Texas began acting erratically. Sitting in a swivel chair in the middle of the cul de sac holding a knife, his mother, Joyce Jackson, called the police and asked the dispatcher to send officers who were trained in dealing with the mentally ill.
House stenographer and conservative martyr Dianne Reidy explained her Wednesday night outburst
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On Tuesday, a ferocious animal vandal urinated on Banksy's flower-bursting Twin Towers stencil, as a cluster of awestruck humans watched. The culprit's name is Freddi, he's an eight-year-old pug, and his caretaker is Elisa Casas, a lifelong New Yorker who was also cast on the Sundance Channel reality show Girls Who…
Kanye West, in an interview with Jimmy Kimmel that you might have missed
The second in Stephen Fry's gay-centric, two-part Out There documentary series aired last night in England. (The first, which featured Fry frying an ex-gay therapist
It's pretty simple: if you're the guy behind a wildly popular dating app, you rely on the goodwill of strangers. If you rely on the goodwill of strangers, don't say racist things on Facebook.
A highly intoxicated college student in York was walking home from the pub with a fresh pizza from King's with which he intended to vanquish the drunk munchies.
In vast swaths of America, the conversion of the "public" school system into a separate and unequal educational system catering to the poor and powerless is almost complete.
Jonas Cuaron, who wrote Gravity with his father Alfonso (who directed the space thriller box-office hit), is heading in a different direction for his next project: Atlantis.
For Sally Grimes, "chief innovation officer" at Hillshire Brands, her "innovation mantra is 'A.M.P.,' which stands for 'accelerating meat possibilities.'"
What are the United States' best regional foodstuffs? Its worst? These are the questions that bedevil the mind of man—but no longer! For here, we have ranked them. Rigorously scientific (not), ardently researched (nope), and scrupulously fair (not even a little bit): this is the Great American Menu!
When that brave lady started ranting last night about the Freemasons and a United States controlled from the beginning by satanic money-worshipping pigs, the otherwise dull Congressional proceedings finally got a moment of excitement. Maybe this one lady, working within the House of Representatives all these years, could set off a devastating civil war that would leave the United States in ruins.
A high school in Georgia says it has turned two freshmen students over to the authorities after they were found to have recorded themselves engaging in a sex act inside the school's cafeteria.
Professional sad man Morrissey had a memoir in the works, but then he didn't
This amazing mosaic photograph of Saturn, made by Gordan Urgakovic from images taken by the Cassini spacecraft, shows, among other things, the planet's "bizarre hexagonal north polar vortex." [via Bad Astronomy]
Controversial globe-trotting sex tourist Daryush Valizadeh, better known by his by-the-hour motel pseudonym Roosh V, is the only pickup artist to date to have had the honor of being labeled a misogynist by none other than the venerable Southern Poverty Law Center.
Does Vanity Fair have a bombshell story about Gwyneth Paltrow?
The Patrick Bateman-esque founder of Palantir—the company that allegedly helped the CIA find and kill Osama bin Laden—has a very creepy pick-up approach when it comes to potential employees.
Today, a rich girl college student takes to the internet to voice her displeasure that "bitter and unhappy" poors are looking at her sideways just because she is, to reiterate, a rich girl. Thought Catalog? Thought Catalog.
World-renowned filmmaker Michael Bay, best known for his "machines attack humans, other machines" oeuvre, was recently himself attacked by a man wielding a much smaller machine: an air conditioner.
Drawing by Shantell Martin.
With less than a month before New York City chooses its next mayor, Republican candidate and non-frontrunner Joe Lhota has begun airing attack ads portraying opponent (and Democrat) Bill de Blasio as so soft on crime—indeed, very possibly pro-crime, because why not?—that his election would deliver Gotham to its dark,…
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Julian Proctor Van Winkle III and his son Julian Preston Van Winkle are the proprietors of Kentucky's Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery, and they make the best bourbon in the world at a rate of roughly 7,000 cases per year. Which is why you can't find any of it, anywhere. Sighting a bottle of the 20-year-old Pappy Van Winkle's Family Reserve, which retails at $130, in a liquor store is like spotting a Scaly-Sided Meganser in the wild. The Van Winkles are personally beset by desperate high-class drunks seeking an in. Personal assistants have wasted days trying to track down bottles for well-heeled bosses. Pappy is furtively deployed to seal multi-million-dollar business deals. Leads are whispered about among aficionados: "I heard about a warehouse in Jersey that just got a shipment."
Banksy's newest NYC piece is a silhouette work in East Williamsburg. A graffiti writer who tagged the piece was "caught and beaten up."
In his post-budget deal speech this morning, President Obama outlined the necessity of an effective federal government and thanked the Democrats and Republicans who worked together to end the shutdown while criticizing, without specifically naming, the conservatives responsible for the closure.
Dick "Dick" Cheney, the defining political figure of 21st century America, is publishing a book next week called Heart: An American Medical Odyssey, about his own health problems. Cheney had the first of his five heart attacks in 1978. What if he had not survived?
