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Over the weekend a massive 11-hour riot broke out at a jail in Chino, just outside Los Angeles. Between Saturday night and Sunday morning some 250 prisoners were injured, with over fifty ending up hospitalized. Though nobody was killed, and no prison employees were injured, the violence between black and Latino gangs did some pretty [...]

Today, in addition to being Canada Day, is Build a Scarecrow Day, which strikes us as rather region-specific national holiday, but there you go. Of course, now that we’re thinking about it, just because they’re called scarecrows doesn’t mean they can only be used to scare crows. To prove our point, we’ve rounded up these [...]

It’s about time somebody made this listicle, ’cause we’d had it just about up to here with all the noise about Christian Bale’s on-set, on-tape flip-out. We especially appreciate Underwire for their quick recap of the Bale meme and their thorough historical exposé of disastrous on-air, on-camera and on-tape freak-outs. Not only do they cover [...]

So apparently there was a big scare over contaminated peanut butter in the U.S. recently, but we just kept on eating our regular two jars per week and we felt fine. No, we’re not in the pockets of the peanut and peanut butter lobbies (if you must know, our flashy new peanut-powered car was something [...]