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Lenny Dykstra Doesn’t Dispute Sexual Harassment Claim, Admits Politics Make Him Horny
Caroline Heldman is associate professor of politics at Occidental College. In a Facebook post, she says Fox News host Eric Bolling sexually harassed her when she was a guest on the channel. She also says he referred to her as “Dr. McHottie” on air several times. (Bolling is currently suspended from ...
Now Here's A Mystery For All You Sea Sleuths Out There
Now here’s an item of interest. I don’t make the claim that every piece of news rises to the level of a matter of national importance, but that doesn’t mean that you won’t get a kick out of hearing some of the odd things that happen across our nation. ...
How I Accidentally Made The First Official Cuba-To-Florida Kayak Crossing
The shortest distance from Cuba to the United States is about 90 miles across the Florida Strait. By the standards of human-powered sea travel, it’s extremely doable, and it has been done for decades by refugees aboard the most makeshift of watercraft, driven by desperation. In the peak years, tens ...
Legendary Climber Dean Potter Dead After Wingsuit Disaster
Extreme athlete and adventurer Dean Potter is dead after a failed attempt at wingsuit flight from Yosemite’s Taft Point. Potter held the speed climbing record for The Nose at El Capitan—one of climbing’s signature routes—three separate times, though his notoriety may stem from his more controversial...
Mario Balotelli Caught Sliding Into Some Teenage Girls' Instagram DMs
Most of the time, Mario Balotelli is really good at Instagram. Sometimes, though, he messes up. First, it was posting a dumb internet meme (that, to be fair, elicited an even dumber response by the braindead English FA). Now, we find him hitting on a couple 19-year-old Icelandic girls in their DMs...
Get Your Ya Ya's Out
From his classic book, The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones, dig Stanley Booth on the band's gig at MSG in 1969:...
Nobody Knows Anything
Via Cinephilia and Beyond, check out this post about William Goldman. It features the following interview with Goldman and John Cleese: ...
Bob Ley Is Still Having Camera Trouble
It's time once again for Adventures in Photography, with ESPN's Bob Ley, live from the USMNT world cup qualifier in Honduras....
Here's Video Of The Elusive Great Adventure Baboon Getting Caged And Returned To Captivity
A guy named Peter Kong is narrating this New York Post video about the end of the Great Adventure baboon's three-day reign of terror across New Jersey. He's been waiting for this day his whole damn life. Deliver the goods, Kong! (Raw, Kong-less video here can be found here.)...
THE ELUSIVE GREAT ADVENTURE BABOON HAS BEEN CAPTURED! NEW JERSEY IS SAFE!
The Star-Ledger and others are reporting that a runaway baboon from the Six Flags amusement-park safari in Jackson, NJ was tranquilized and taken into custody around 2:40 p.m. after three days on the lam....
Two Arrests And One Taser Blast Won't Stop A Viking From Hyping His Big Vegas Trip
Everson Griffen will not let The Man bring him down. After a weekend that saw him arrested twice in Los Angeles (public drunkenness, fleeing and cop-crotch-grabbing), the defensive end has urged his Facebook friends to "follow your heart" to Vegas....
Calling All Models Who Bartend: Ryan Braun Would Like To Hire You STAT
The Brewers' left fielder also has entrepreneurial moxie: First, it was his stunning Ream Tee fashion line; now it's his new restaurant which is looking for "models that are bartenders" to fill his "starting line up." 275 fist explosions. [B&C]...