So, a new presidential election is upon us. It might seem a tad early to be discussing something that isn’t actually happening for 15 months, but, according to the 24-hour news networks, the 2012 election has been going on since before Obama officially took office. So, …

The infographic looks at the crazy ways smugglers get drugs into the US. Created by: Criminal Justice Degree  Top photo via.

After a couple of Democrats (one of them being the Vice-President) referred to the Tea Party members of the House as terrorists (classic Biden), Palin joked on Hannity that if the Tea Partiers were in fact terrorists, Obama would want to pal around with them, just like he …

We always hear how dumb the Republican candidates are, but how stupid are they actually? How many degrees do they have backing them up? And how many past elections have gone to the candidate with the smarts? Check out the answers after the jump.  

In a move that every single news source seemed to call “historic,” the New York Senate passed a bill that legalized gay marriage. The rusty, overburdened gears of government took a while to actually put the new law in motion, but the first marriages In the city were …

A lot of readers may be annoyed by a recent NYT “Home” article (Though readers who are easily annoyed would do well to avoid the “Home” section of the paper, or, in fact, the New York Times all together)  entitled Child’s Play, Grown-Up Cash, which describes in …

The Times of London (owned by Murdoch & co.) ran a bit of a psychotic self-indulgence on Thursday, but they might be right. The newspaper ran (see post-jump) a cartoon entitled “Priorities…” in which a starving African child says, “I’ve had a bellyful of phone-hacking.” Saying that …

Part two of the story of a Tibetan immigrant trying to make it in America. Check out part one here.

In case you haven’t heard yet, Charlie Sheen is making his return to television. The new show, Anger Management, is based on the 2003 movie with Adam Sandler. Lionsgate Television Group, one of the shows producers, claimed that they “always look for series ideas that are noisy, …

The first part of  the story of Jamphel, a Tibetan who fled his homeland, running from Chinese oppression. Now living in New York, he struggles to make ends meet as he runs a small café in Queens.

The Got Milk campaign has a new said of ads out, based on the claim that milk can lessen the symptoms of PMS. Funny or sexist? I’m not totally sure; click on the image to enlarge

The trailer for the new Sherlock Holmes is out. It has plenty of asskicking, kung fu, and explosions, most of which we don’t think existed in Victorian England, but it makes a good story.

Mila Kunis, the bombshell of Black Swan, is dating a regular ol’ joe Marine. Well not really. But after a video was posted by Sgt. Scott Moore, who is in Iraq, asking Kunis to the Marine Ball in Greenville, North Carolina, Kunis agreed to attend. As Justin …

Rupert Murdoch announced the closing of his News of the World, a newspaper that has allegedly been involved in the tapping of the phones of British royalty. The former Editor of the Paper, along with several other members, including high ranking editors, have also been linked to …

Sorry dude. A pet store in Greenwich Village has banned drunk puppy buying, according to the Associated Press. The store is surrounded by several bars, and the owners have begun instructing visibly drunk customers to come back the next day. They can’t even hold them, as the …

  How lucky did she get?  

Many Americans assume that the law is infallible, and that people who are in jail deserve to be there. While the U.S. legal system is among the best in the world, untold numbers of innocent people are wrongfully convicted each year. Thankfully, the growing forensic science field (thanks, …