Teacher Fired For Not Noticing Third Graders Having Oral Sex In Classroom

A teacher in Tallulah, Louisiana, has been fired this week because she failed to notice that two of her students were engaged in oral sex underneath a desk right there in the classroom. But this wasn’t a high school, or even a middle school. The alleged incident occurred at Tallulah Elementary School, and the kids [...]

Happy National Cleavage Day!

Did you know that today, Friday, March 30, is National Cleavage Day? Well, you do now. And I’m sure that, even if you’ve never heard of National Cleavage Day before, it is already your favorite holiday. Of course, as I’m sure you suspected, this “holiday” isn’t so much a holiday as it is a marketing [...]

Brooklyn High School to Students: Delete Facebook Accounts, or Else

An all-girls Orthodox Jewish High School is making headlines this week after issuing a mandate for all 11th grade girls to delete their Facebook accounts or face expulsion. The issue is modesty. Or, more specifically, the girls’ lack thereof. Authorities at the Beis Rivkah High School in Brooklyn, NY, say they are trying to restore [...]

Child's Party Erupts In Violence...When The Beer Runs Out

We hear stories about wild parties that get out of control and turn into drunken brawls all the time. Often, it’s because someone ends up dead for no good reason. But usually these are late night drug and booze-fueled affairs attended by adults or wild teenagers—not kid’s birthday parties. Unfortunately, there’s a first time for [...]

Woman Buries Dead Hubby In Backyard, Tells Kids He Just Went To Oklahoma

Need a good reason to buy life insurance? How about so your wife doesn’t just bury you out back underneath the herb garden when you kick the bucket—is that a good enough reason? Old Benny Scott, 77, of Lake Alfred, Florida, apparently died back in January. I say “apparently” because the majority of his friends [...]

Study: Birth Control Pills Makes Women Settle For Unsuitable Partners

Good news and bad news about the birth control pill today. First, the good news: a study recently published by researchers at the University of Michigan concludes that the pill is responsible for a significant increase in women’s wages over the last 40 years. Which is cool. Now the bad: another study published by researchers [...]

Protester Lights Himself On Fire, Collapses, Dies *WARNING: Disturbing Images*

Think you’ve got convictions because you signed that Kony 2012 petition as soon as you saw the video everyone posted on Facebook? Well, in India on Monday, a dude lit himself on fire to protest the Chinese government’s rule of Tibet. Now that’s commitment. Jamphel Yeshi, 27, escaped from Tibet in 2006 and had been [...]

Internet Porn Is Killing Cable TV

Okay internet people, here’s a hypothetical question for you: if you regularly consumed pornography, would you be most likely to get it through your television provider, or on the internet? I’m guessing the majority of you just answered (hypothetically, of course) “computer.” Moreover, I’m guessing another sizable percentage of you answered, “you can get porn [...]

Ninjas Rob Medical Marijuana Delivery Guy

Yes, you read the headline correctly. Apparently there are people out there who make a living delivering pot—legally. And, according to police in Southern California, they are investigating a reported robbery involving one of these medical marijuana delivery men and two dudes dressed as ninjas. You just can’t make this stuff up. This past Friday [...]

Pinterest Prank Getting People in Trouble with the Law

Experts are always talking about how social networks have transformed the way we communicate, thereby altering the human experience, or some such nonsense. But the reality is that, when you really get down to it, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumlr, or whatever—they’re all just sophisticated ways for people to kill time when they’re bored. Of course, [...]

Teen Tweets Prom Invite to Porn Star...and She Says Yes

What’s a boy to do when all the girls at his school already have dates to the prom? For Minnesota high school senior Michael Stone, 18, the answer was obvious: get on Twitter and ask every porn star he could think of to be his date. After only 600 tweets, Stone had found his girl. [...]

Twitter Turns Six Years Old

Today marks the 6th anniversary of the very first tweet. On March 21, 2006, at 3:50PM, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey announced “Just setting up my twttr” over the social network that no one else was even using yet. And while it wasn’t exactly “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you”—the very first words [...]

Girls Can Be Internet Sex Predators, Too

Usually when you hear about internet sex predators luring children into illicit liasons, you assume we’re talking about a gross middle-aged white dude pretending to be a teenage girl so he can trick some poor, horny teenage boy into talking dirty to him. But it turns out that gross middle-aged white dudes don’t have a [...]

Fighting Crime In The Age Of Social Media: Police And Criminals Turning To Facebook

It turns out that there is pretty much no aspect of modern life that cannot be conducted on Facebook. Even modern criminal life. More and more, criminals are actually being so stupid as to leave clues about their crimes on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites. And, more and more, cops are learning how [...]

Pinterest Now Driving More Traffic Than Twitter

Everyone already knew that Pinterest was rising faster than any social media website ever had before. It reached 10 million users faster than both Facebook and Twitter, and at over 17 million unique visits a month it’s now the 24th most popular website in the United States. But users and visits don’t really tell you [...]