March 11, 2014 Archive March 2014

Tech company tases its intern to show off terrifying new aerial drone

New York City adopts trans-inclusive student guidelines

Detroit is still fighting to process close to 10,000 untested rape kits

Forthcoming Glenn Beck film will "expose the truth" about Thomas Edison

Chipotle sues Frank Ocean, Frank Ocean tells Chipotle to get lost

The coal industry is using the polar vortex as an excuse to revive older, dirtier power plants

Scientists aren't the only innovators! We really need artists

How to enjoy an orgy

Jake Gyllenhaal: Movies are like dreams -- "I'm thrilled by the open ends and questions"

"Hi, I'm right here": An open letter to Paul Ryan about poverty and empathy

Wal-Mart workers vs. bigots: The right's new workplace hypocrisy

Wingnuts are gullible! How GOP's bubble of ignorance keeps leading to humiliation

4 disturbing ways America is regressing

"True Detective" is no H.P. Lovecraft story

GOP assaults the Constitution: Why they don't really care about free speech

Grover Norquist has a plan to destroy the middle class and Democrats in one fell swoop

Kevin Bacon tells millennials why the '80s were cool

President Obama gets awkward with Zach Galifianakis on "Between Two Ferns"

7 telltale signs social media is killing your self-esteem

Chris Christie update: Top advisor in the crosshairs

Science explains why you can't get enough Sriracha

Must-see morning clip: "People on food assistance have empty souls"

20 tweets from the 31 senators who stayed up all night for climate change

MTV doesn't think Katniss is a hero

Cancer patient who called Obamacare “unaffordable” in conservative ad will actually save money

Study: Police see black children as less innocent and less young than white children

Feinstein slams CIA over spying on torture investigation

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Science is true "whether or not you believe in it"

Democrats’ latest gambit to restore unemployment benefits unlikely to succeed

SXSW's British invasion: 4 bands to hear from across the pond

Methodist church drops case against pro-marriage equality minister, advised to stop prosecuting similar cases

Which Democrats sat out the all-night climate talkathon? Follow the industry money

Gitmo prisoner takes force-feeding to court

Ted Cruz's cringe-inducing "humor"

HBO's gothic Southern porn: "True Detective" has a "Duck Dynasty" problem

Jon Hamm and Jimmy Fallon photobombed a bunch of tourists

"Princeton mom" horrifies Savannah Guthrie with her terrible advice

The war on black intellectuals: What (mostly) white men keep getting wrong about public scholarship

California sets -- and then breaks -- a new solar record

5 reasons slaves still catch your seafood dinner

Behind our fascination with missing planes

Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Rogen parody "True Detective" Season 2

Popcorn Time: Piracy made easy, but no less illegal

Snowden calls out Feinstein's spying hypocrisy

The Tea Party's perverse leftist fantasy

Twitter goes down during co-founder's SXSW panel

Mississippi's last remaining clinic doesn't perform 20-week abortions; lawmakers ban them anyway

From "Conan" to "The X-Files," Alex Trebek's seven best cameo roles

Watch out, "Cosmos"! The Holy Inquisition is not happy with you

Chris Christie's nightmare worsens: Walls caving in amid new revelations and poll

Over 300 dead birds discovered in animal rescuer's home

Michele Bachmann: "The gay community" has "bullied the American people"

Check out the trailer for Dinesh D'Souza's new cinematic masterpiece

Fantastic role model Bill O'Reilly thinks Beyoncé is bad for young people

The Girl Scouts love Barbie but ban "Bossy"

Malcolm Gladwell debunked: Practice may not be the main key to success

Bill O'Reilly's eureka moment: Press defends Obama “because he’s…African American”