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Headlines matching 'pre'
Mon May 28, 2012
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(Last Angry Fan) Cool Zimbabwean rugby player nicknamed "Beast" performs clean-and-jerk with 247-pound teammate to make impressive catch  (lastangryfan.com) (6)
(CNN) Florida Tropical Storm Beryl enters Florida, immediately becomes depressed. Farkers fully understand why  (cnn.com) (25)
(The Hollywood Reporter) Cool Upcoming CBGB movie is assembling a pretty cool cast. Bonus: Estelle Costanza  (hollywoodreporter.com) (22)
(WorldNetDaily) Fail Sheriff Joe not buying Hawaii's story, presumably due to spending all his money on chickens  (wnd.com) (123)
(American Magazine) Scary The telephone-like process of transforming scientific paper on prebiotic Earth into popular science article "Do Intelligent Dinosaurs Really Rule Alien Worlds?" which makes Palin-Americans laugh at science  (american.com) (18)
(Paleofuture) Obvious 1944 Science and Mechanics predicts big things in the future, warns not to expect personal helicopters anytime soon. "The neighbors may not care if you crack your own skull, but they won't want you doing it on their sun porches"  (blogs.smithsonianmag.com) (5)
(Las Vegas Review-Journal) Amusing Mitt Romney and Donald Trump to host a campaign fundraiser in Las Vegas. People expected toupée at least $2500, presumably to hear two idiots talk about nothing  (lvrj.com) (61)
(Abc.net.au) Unlikely Female displays non-standard interests. Scientist (male) prescribes a boyfriend and some hot boinking to cure her. Bonus: Pics of said female with pointy knees  (abc.net.au) (7)
(TheSpec.com) Dumbass Man disappears in Niagara Falls whirlpool; presumed to be spinning in his grave  (thespec.com) (67)


Sun May 27, 2012
(Some Guy) Photoshop Photoshop this Passing President  (whitehouse.gov) (28)
(Huffington Post) Dumbass Romney: "Obama is 'naive' for saying exactly when we're leaving Afghanistan." Leon Panetta: "Uhm, 50 NATO nations, President Obama and President Bush all agree that you're an idiot"  (huffingtonpost.com) (160)
(Orange County Register) Spiffy German model shows up on the red carpet at the premier of "Men In Black III" wearing a dress made out of VHS tape. "She also happens to be the owner of some of the most plastic looking breasts we've ever seen"  (ocregister.com) (61)


Sat May 26, 2012
(With Leather) Interesting Will Junior dos Santos KO Alistair Overeem? Oh, wait, drug testing already KOed Overeem. Well, anyway, it's dos Santo vs. Frank Mir at UFC 146, prelims begin at 6:45 PM on Facebook, 8 PM on FX, with the main card at 10 PM ET on PPV  (withleather.uproxx.com) (818)
(The New York Times) Unlikely Paleoanthropologist predicts that evolution deniers will become extinct within 30 years  (nytimes.com) (124)
(ESPN) Unlikely The Seattle Sounders are outdrawing 12 English Premier League teams. But they'll totally give that soccer thing up once the Mariners or Seahawks get good again, right? RIGHT?  (espn.go.com) (140)
(ABC) Asinine What happens when a precious little snowflake get his JD and goes to work on Wall Street? He sues his health spa for $500k for not receiving his "full complimentary breakfast"  (abcnews.go.com) (86)
(Entertainment Weekly) Fail Entertainment Weekly's readers have voted for the best Saturday Night Live host of the past season, and it proves one thing: we should not let them vote in the presidential election  (popwatch.ew.com) (39)
(io9) Obvious Jurassic Park was built by prisoners in Cuba, with obligatory pics of prehistoric Cubans fighting cave-bears  (io9.com) (27)


Fri May 25, 2012
(News.com.au) Obvious STOP THE PRESSES: Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am admits he can't sing  (news.com.au) (32)
(Slate) Silly White people from Portland prefer Tumblr, white people from Tulsa prefer Pinterest. Everyone else, apparently, has better things to do with their time that use digital corkboards  (slate.com) (45)
(Slate) Obvious Liberal People Problems: It's tiresome to hear someone preach about tolerance while only being tolerant toward those with whom they agree  (slate.com) (193)
(Houston Chronicle) Cool Seniors "flash mob" to the music of "The Wobble." To be fair though that's pretty much the way they move anyway. Bonus: Cute video  (blog.chron.com) (11)
(Yahoo) Strange In a publicity stunt that could be in no way misinterpreted, the Daily Caller blog will be giving away one a gun a week to its readers--but only through Election Day  (news.yahoo.com) (128)
(Some Guy) Obvious Marco Rubio insists he's not interested in becoming the Vice President. It's pure coincidence that he's going on a book tour, through swing states, on July 4th  (mega949.com) (27)
(bend bulletin) Unlikely President Obama tells graduating cadets that the military will withstand budget cuts. Promises to keep it down to just one war at a time  (bendbulletin.com) (132)
(Michigan State 247.sports) Amusing Michigan State 247 Sports loves FARK's headline prediction about their national title game  (michiganstate.247sports.com) (0)


Thu May 24, 2012
(Paste Magazine) Interesting Need an excuse to waste more of your time online? Paste presents the 50 best movies on Netflix Instant  (pastemagazine.com) (235)
(CNBC) Asinine If you want a preview of what rich Americans will do while their country burns, look no further than Greece  (cnbc.com) (197)
(LiveLeak) PSA The filth saved on your hard drive can spread throughout the entire PC  (liveleak.com) (59)
(SeattlePI) Interesting Chris Hansen wants a new arena built in Seattle, preferably somewhere over there  (blog.seattlepi.com) (125)
(Womc.com) Weird Amy Winehouse, Whitney Houston, Robin Gibb. Is Glee Predicting Musicians' Deaths Like A "Musical Nostradamus?"  (womc.cbslocal.com) (46)
(Pravda) Interesting Russia tests new missile with previously unachievable performance as a response to USA missile defense system  (english.pravda.ru) (61)
(Some Guy) Scary Final proof that president's war room picture was faked  (balloon-juice.com) (74)
(Politico) Amusing Presidential candidate Romney afraid to be linked with policies of a moderate Republican, Governor Mitt Romney  (politico.com) (29)
(Guardian) Ironic Google says government cybercrime is the greatest threat to the internet; helping governments repress their own citizens and pushing for a tiered internet greatest ideals  (guardian.co.uk) (12)
(Celebitchy) Sappy Megan Fox, now 5 months pregnant, is expecting a girl. Publicist confirms she's excited, nervous, all thumbs  (celebitchy.com) (34)
(New York Daily News) Obvious Undoubtedly the coolest picture of a pair of porn stars hanging with President Clinton that you will see all day  (nydailynews.com) (79)
(Topless Robot) Silly The twenty lamest-looking villains from all of Star Trek. Pretty accurate list, but it's missing the Borg and Suliban  (toplessrobot.com) (158)
(SeattlePI) Spiffy Nut Liquor is pretty good except it sometimes feels like it's sticking to the roof of your mouth  (blog.seattlepi.com) (44)


Wed May 23, 2012
(The New York Times) Interesting Alas, the vetting of Mitt Romney's Mormonism by the mainstream press has begun  (nytimes.com) (111)
(The New York Times) Followup Undoubtedly the coolest picture of a 5 year old boy patting President Obama on the head that you will see all day  (nytimes.com) (69)
(Architizer) Strange Korean artist constructs "Type City", a leaden miniature city made out of movable type from junked printing press. Meanwhile, in Comic Sansville, you are advised not to drink from public fontains  (architizer.com) (16)
(Telegraph) Interesting Greece could slip out of the Euro and we'd feel a little pressure, but it won't be painful if we do it right. Trust me  (telegraph.co.uk) (21)
(St. Petersburg Times) Amusing Duckie, Andie and Blane renew Pretty in Pink rivalry on Twitter  (tampabay.com) (33)
(Breitbart.com) Interesting Blogger claims that Roger Ailes claims that Jon Stewart once admitted to him in a bar that he was a socialist, so that means Sarah Palin is automatically president and Stewart has to dig a hole and sit in it  (breitbart.com) (178)
(Wonkette) Obvious Why won't you libs leave the Palin family alone? They just want to fade back into the obscurity of normal life by sending out press releases about their new reality TV shows  (wonkette.com) (45)
(Yahoo) Followup Hawaii provides Arizona with President Obama's birth records to finally put to rest the question of his citizenship. No wait, this is Arizona.. scratch that  (news.yahoo.com) (109)
(Reason Magazine) Fail "Why would a president who gave America vast unemployment, soaring inflation, a moribund economy, record deficits, and a manically ill-conceived energy policy be coasting toward re-election?"  (reason.com) (163)
(MSNBC) Followup MSNBC asks the questions we all want to know: "Painting over a presidential penis, respect or vandalism?"  (worldnews.msnbc.msn.com) (9)
(Yahoo) Video Barry Ritholz: Facebook, led by the man-child Zuck screwed this up pretty badly. They were pigs about this  (finance.yahoo.com) (9)
(Oregon Live) Strange This summer's road construction delays are brought to you by a pregnant elephant. This is not a euphemism for the fat guys anxiously waiting for the roach coach to deliver their donuts  (blog.oregonlive.com) (11)
(UPI) Followup The power of the "bully pulpit" - Opposition to same-sex marriage fell to a record low after President Obama's announced support. Fabulous  (upi.com) (280)
(USA Today) Interesting United Airlines addresses traveler inequality by ending pre-boarding for families with children  (travel.usatoday.com) (112)
(Tea Party Tribune) Obvious The fact that, un-vetted, "Barak Hussein Obama" was just elected the President of the United States of America and that we landed a man on the moon, sent spacecraft to the outer regions of space, etc., makes this strategy possible  (teapartytribune.com) (97)
(The Atlantic Wire) News "Uncommitted" beat President Obama in 67 of Kentucky's 120 counties. This is good for everybody, except President Obama  (theatlanticwire.com) (221)
(Hot Air) Unlikely AFL-CIO president beats a piñata with Gov. Nikki Haley's face on it. Thankfully in our post-Giffords assassination attempt era, the mainstream media is quick to report this and Democrats are distancing themselves them the union  (hotair.com) (71)


Tue May 22, 2012
(Some Guy) Sad Americans elected Obama as president but they did not know that in reality they were giving the keys of our country to America's worst enemy  (rightsidenews.info) (100)
(Slate) Obvious Why are stay-at-home mothers more depressed? You would be too if you have to spend 24/7 with your own screaming brats  (slate.com) (93)
(Jezebel) Obvious In what was not at all an idiotic waste of time, the Supreme Court rules unanimously that children born from the frozen sperm of a dead man are not entitled to Social Security survivor benefits  (jezebel.com) (91)
(The New York Times) Interesting The New York Times endorses the return of dueling pistol. No really, that & nine other (mostly long) defunct summer Olympic competitions. It's actually a pretty good list with lots of potential for modern implementation   (london2012.blogs.nytimes.com) (37)
(News.com.au) Silly LeBron gets fired up by reading "The Hunger Games." Peeta, Tebow unimpressed  (news.com.au) (18)
(Some Guy) Scary ...and at night, the meth fairy flies through your window to spread her gift of love and joy (with fairy mugshot)  (kirotv.com) (60)
(Sun Sentinel) Spiffy Broward County officials purge 5000 dead people from voter rolls. Chicago residents struggling to comprehend the headline  (sun-sentinel.com) (35)
(The Hollywood Reporter) Asinine Kardashian's 7th season premiere brings in some big ass ratings  (hollywoodreporter.com) (25)


Mon May 21, 2012
(TSN) Cool Game four of the ECF tonight at 8pm Eastern. Will the Rangers go up 3-1 or will the Devils go on the road tied at 2-2? After the weekend's daytime games the karaoke drought will also be over. Good times for all pretty much assured  (tsn.ca) (584)
(Some Guy) Hero 15 year old wins prize for inventing cheap urine test that identifies early stage pancreatic cancer with 90% accuracy  (societyforscience.org) (127)
(Chicago Tribune) Interesting Steve Jobs played a key role in developing the next iPhone, presumably when he wasn't recording an album with Tupac  (chicagotribune.com) (48)
(WBUR) Interesting Poor girls are more likely to get pregnant if there are rich men around  (wbur.org) (127)
(NYPost) Dumbass London Olympic hurdler sets personal best time. Clean start? Okay. Prevailing wind speed? Okay. Number of hurdles placed on the track? Oops  (nypost.com) (22)
(3 News New Zealand) Obvious Everybody says they're in favor of artistic expression, but you can be sure you've got their attention when they ask you to remove the pic of the president with his penis hanging out (Not safe for work: political penis)  (3news.co.nz) (56)


Sun May 20, 2012
(LA Times) Amusing Kid Rock's "Chillin' The Most" cruise ship pretty much a floating Waffle House  (latimes.com) (69)
(US News) Obvious I realize that I'm going out on a limb here, but breathing smog while you're pregnant *PROBABLY* isn't good for your offspring  (health.usnews.com) (11)
(Some Guy) Obvious So it seems that treating your precious snow-flake as a uniquely talented creative successful wunderkind can cause a complete meltdown when they hit the real word. Who could possibly have predicted that?  (pjmedia.com) (269)
(Comics Alliance) Cool The Legend of Zelda, Mega Man, and Metroid reinterpreted as Japanese wood block art. WANT  (comicsalliance.com) (15)
(Deadline) Followup The Avengers reigns supreme for the third week in a row, while What to Expect When You're Expecting, Battleship, and the Dictator all bomb  (deadline.com) (206)


Sat May 19, 2012
(Washington Monthly) Interesting How an angler and two government bureaucrats may have saved the Atlantic Ocean. And by "saved" they mean preventing the primary source of food for most fish in the sea from going extinct  (washingtonmonthly.com) (67)
(Chicago Tribune) Stupid Naked man fleeing police falls through ceiling, breaks through glass door and then it gets interesti.... No, actually that's pretty much it. Ta Da  (chicagotribune.com) (14)
(Boston Herald) Stupid Obama is the first to go negative in the presidential election, says Romney top strategist who has apparently not listened to a single Romney speech this election season  (news.bostonherald.com) (99)
(MSNBC) Spiffy It's your 2012 Preakness discussion thread. Can the Bodemeister run away from the field? Can you run away from your wife when she realizes you lost $500 and are fall-down drunk? Make your picks  (nbcsports.msnbc.com) (83)
(Buzzfeed) Scary Amendment to a defense authorization bill seeks to overturn a longstanding ban on the US government using propaganda on its own people. In sports, President Obama has won Wimbledon for a 6th time  (buzzfeed.com) (120)
(The Sun) Silly RAF pilot lands helicopter on beach... to pick up ice cream. What flavor did Prince Harry prefer?  (thesun.co.uk) (32)
(Some Guy) Scary FDA releases little page on their web site stating that within the past ten years 1,000,000 people have been killed by drugs the FDA had previously deemed "safe"  (infowars.com) (164)
(Atlanta Journal Constitution) Spiffy SEC and Big 12 champions to play in New Year's Day bowl. Big 10 still preferring to go with grossly overrated preseason rankings and nostalgia to build their reputation  (ajc.com) (51)
(io9) Sad The 10 most depressing alternate realities from Marvel Comics  (io9.com) (94)
(Daily Mail) Obvious Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan party at Hollywood home until 7am with predictable results  (dailymail.co.uk) (46)
(Jezebel) Interesting Italian actor unable to attend premiere of his highly acclaimed film at Cannes as he has to return to prison to continue serving a life sentence for double murder  (jezebel.com) (15)


Fri May 18, 2012
(WFAA) Asinine Obamunists, Paulterians, Mittenfreaks, and maybe even Johnsoners can all agree on something: arresting a WWII veteran for "electioneering" from wearing an Obama t-shirt in a room next to a poll is pretty farked up  (wfaa.com) (154)
(Chicago Tribune) Interesting MTV cancels "I Just Want My Pants Back" presumably to make room for "Ow, My Balls" on the fall line-up  (chicagotribune.com) (40)
(Crain's) Dumbass Not news: Chicago Cubs owner seeking $100 million in tax breaks. Fark: Apparently so he can spend more of his own money on a PAC attacking Obama. Dumbass: Apparently he's also forgotten what Chicago's mayor's previous job was  (chicagobusiness.com) (55)
(Some Guy) Strange It's easy to think UFO 'summoner' Robert Bingham is a crackpot for predicting a mass sighting on Saturday in LA. Except, he's done it before. And it worked  (news.gather.com) (64)
(Media Matters) Dumbass Radio host and easy prey Rush Limbaugh wonders when the environmentalist wackos are going to start doing something about all the pollution and environmental damage being caused by lions, tigers, and sharks  (mediamatters.org) (143)
(Yahoo) Scary Six shot, three dead in Louisville. If only there had been an armed citizen nearby we could have prevented this tragedy  (news.yahoo.com) (276)
(Washington Post) Obvious Republican committee, many of whose members live hundreds of miles from DC, hold meeting to discuss DC abortion rights. Bonus: Do not allow DC's only (non-voting) representative to speak. Super bonus: She's a woman  (washingtonpost.com) (154)
(Indecision Forever) Silly Comedy Central pretty upset that lefty attempts at Twitter hashtag memes are quickly usurped by conservatives mocking them. Why it's almost as if Twitter favored short, pithy comments and silly hashtags #dishiatoutbutcanttakeitin   (indecisionforever.com) (83)
(YouTube) Spiffy Pretty much the coolest Star Wars Lego toy store display ever  (youtube.com) (10)
(Atlanta Journal Constitution) Fail Fulton County 911 center is pro-choice. Female employees have the choice to get pregnant, or keep their jobs  (ajc.com) (80)
(Yahoo) Unlikely Support for President Obama amongst the U.S. prison population expected to rise, as the administration ordered federal, state and local officials to adopt zero tolerance for prison rape  (news.yahoo.com) (118)


Thu May 17, 2012
(The New York Times) Sad New York State Supreme Court Justice, suffering from pancreatic cancer, begs state legislature to legalize medical marijuana: "It is barbaric to deny us access to one substance that has proved to ameliorate our suffering"  (nytimes.com) (320)
(Mother Jones) Scary Potential Vice President nominee, Bobby Jindal, did what in college? c) Preformed an exorcism on his girlfriend  (motherjones.com) (295)
(YouTube) Amusing In the final 90 seconds of the season Manchester City win the English Premier League for first time in 44 years. Home video of entirely unbiased and disinterested Manchester United and Manchester City fans reaction  (youtube.com) (33)
(Some Guy) Obvious Blizzard: "We were not prepared"  (vg247.com) (360)
(Townhall) Obvious The president says he is a "practicing Christian." It is difficult to be one while simultaneously holding a low view of the Bible, which his position on several social issues might suggest  (townhall.com) (250)
(Entertainment Weekly) Amusing Will Smith's kung fu son gets right to the point and asks President Obama about the space aliens  (popwatch.ew.com) (83)
(The New York Times) Scary Azithromycin may increase the likelihood of sudden death in adults, especially those who have heart issues. Hey, my dentist prescribes that for me, because of my heart operation. Seriously she does. THUD  (nytimes.com) (46)
(The New York Times) Stupid GOP plan "calls for hiring an 'extremely literate conservative African-American' to accuse Obama of lying in presenting himself as a 'metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln.'" No, seriously  (nytimes.com) (191)
(NewsBusters) Asinine Did you know? President Zaphod Beeblebrox once said, "If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now." Today, the Obama administration carries on that philosophy in a more tech-savvy way  (newsbusters.org) (67)
(Deadspin) Video May 13, 2012: the most exciting day in EPL soccer history, compressed to less than 8 minutes of mind-blowing split-screen action  (deadspin.com) (28)


Wed May 16, 2012
(ABC) Asinine Okay, now this is getting ridiculous. Apparently Obama is America's first "Amish President" as well because he won't let his daughters use Facebook or cell phones  (abcnews.go.com) (137)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Snooki promises to give up tanning while pregnant, will name the baby Mel ... for melanoma  (usmagazine.com) (25)
(CNN) Followup Real Americans in Nebraska GOP take a hard right turn into Palin country. Democratic nominee and former Senator, Bob Kerrey, last seen dancing a jig and preparing his victory speech  (cnn.com) (84)
(USA Today) Silly Hey, remember those first steps President Obama took beside Neil Armstrong on the moon? And when he guest-lectured with Albert Einstein? Oh man, good times, good times  (content.usatoday.com) (82)
(CNN) Silly Mitt Romney awkwardly avoids referring to George W. Bush by name, presumably because his name has been removed from his programming   (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (40)
(C|Net) Followup Facebook discovers there's a lot more suckers out there than previously thought  (news.cnet.com) (8)
(Talking Points Memo) Obvious Old and busted: Obama was born in Kenya. New hotness: Obama's grandfather was a CIA agent who convinced Barack Obama Sr. to marry his daughter to hide the fact that she was impregnated by a 55-year-old communist named Frank Marshall Davis   (tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com) (77)
(Quad City Times) Fail "Well, we can't give the $72 million it would take to build a new bridge because the old one is unsafe. But we can spend $10 million to paint the old one and make it look prettier"  (qctimes.com) (39)
(The New York Times) Interesting Take-home HIV test approved by FDA in unanimous vote could prevent thousands of transmissions, frat house gang bangs, annually  (nytimes.com) (34)
(MSNBC) Cool Has YOUR President scored the game-winning goal against a team of Russian Hockey Legends? Pootie-Poot has  (video.msnbc.msn.com) (37)
(YouTube) Cool Smoking Hot/Ex-IDF/KILLER Smile/ *wrecks* a drum kit. I present to you, Meytal Cohen. Let the kittens hit the floor, Let the kittens hit the floor, LET the KITTENS Hit the FLOOR, LET THE KITTENS HIT THE, FLOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRR  (youtube.com) (68)
(LoanSafe) Obvious LoanSafe sees the reality in FARK's prediction of future social security benefits (2nd paragraph)  (loansafe.org) (0)
(Buzzfeed) Amusing 30 years from now: some predictions  (buzzfeed.com) (67)
(Some Player) Asinine Church Softball team dropped from league because preacher plays for both teams  (ksdk.com) (85)
(Hot Air) Interesting Voting. So easy a someone pretending to be a non-citizen who can't vote under US law can do it  (hotair.com) (212)
(CNN) Interesting Black Jewish rapper Y-Love comes out of the closet, is only one square away from Oppressed Minority Bingo  (marquee.blogs.cnn.com) (47)


Tue May 15, 2012
(Salon) Stupid Rust Belt cities like Detroit and Cleveland are becoming more popular with young people eager to live in the present-day equivalent of "Blade Runner"  (salon.com) (74)
(Telegraph) Spiffy RAF performs perfect 'ER II' formation in skies over North Wales in preparation for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee  (telegraph.co.uk) (57)
(UFC) Cool It's UFC on FUEL TV 3: The Korean Zombie vs. Dustin Poirier. Preliminary action starts at 5:30 ET on Facebook, Main card at 8:30 ET on Fuel TV  (ufc.com) (269)
(CNN) Obvious Romney: Debt is like a prairie fire. Scientists: Prairie Fires are actually an important part of the ecosystem that prevented the prairie from becoming forest. Also, American Prairie is almost non-existent these days  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (115)
(Grantland) Cool ESPN relaunches 30 for 30, this time with short films instead of full length documentaries. They start out with the most depressing goddamn film they have - a day in the life of Pete Rose  (grantland.com) (183)
(Bloomberg) Spiffy 12 year old hands Bank of Canada its ass back to them cleaned and pressed  (bloomberg.com) (37)
(New York Daily News) Amusing When a movie opens by dedicating itself "In loving memory of Kim Jong-Il," it's pretty safe to say all bets are off  (nydailynews.com) (71)
(AP) Obvious President Obama: Economy, not gay marriage, will decide the vote. You Sir, are out of here  (hosted.ap.org) (193)
(Washington Post) Hero The filibuster is unconstitutional, and the best lawyer in America is suing to get the Supreme Court to abolish it  (washingtonpost.com) (181)
(Gawker) Spiffy Just when you thought President Obama couldn't get any gayer  (gawker.com) (118)
(My Fox DC) Interesting "I predict in the year 2020, New York and other enlightened states will decriminalize the world's oldest profession, namely prostitution. And I'd like to give a shout-out to Billy Ray Cyrus"  (myfoxdc.com) (37)
(Fark) FarkBlog First appearance of the Judean People's Front, high school students succumb to pier pressure, and Oden keeps his alcohol problems loki: some of Fark's favorite Headlines of the Week for 5/6 - 5/12  (fark.com) (7)
(Business Insider) Interesting The President is not eligible to serve. No, not that one. This one  (businessinsider.com) (12)
(Huffington Post) Ironic Rush Limbaugh inducted into "The Hall Of Famous Missourians". Predictably, Democrats get wadded panties over this. Chill, guys, he really IS famous. It's not like he got the Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing, after all  (huffingtonpost.com) (121)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Fark-ready headline: "Labor board says Boner retaliated against pair" Bonus: Boss says he wouldn't have sexually harassed fired workers because they weren't "young and pretty" enough  (dnj.com) (23)
(Guardian) Followup Greece chooses to continue not collecting taxes, rather than pay their debts. Germany seen preparing das boot  (guardian.co.uk) (119)
(Washington Post) Unlikely Barack Obama, the first female president  (washingtonpost.com) (40)
(The Sun) Stupid Nanny state sends police to a toddler's birthday party because. A) Parents got in a fight. B) Pedophile was present. C) Mom tried to light the candles  (thesun.co.uk) (49)
(io9) Cool Comic art legend Neal Adams to draw X-Men prequel mini-series starring Wolverine and a Nazi-hunting Magneto. No word yet whether the Expanding Earth Theory will be involved  (io9.com) (26)


Mon May 14, 2012
(The Sun) Spiffy Eighteen-year-old hottie makes incredible recovery from brain tumor operation which left her unable to walk, talk or eat. She's now studying to be a teacher, presumably to have sex with her students (w/pics)  (thesun.co.uk) (85)
(CNN) Amusing You have chosen to be on the wrong side of history and I do not support your run for president any longer   (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (230)
(Salon) Followup Newsweek: Obama is our first gay president. Salon: Not so fast there  (salon.com) (198)
(Politicker) Amusing President Obama didn't feel like doing the Moonwalk today. HEE HEE  (politicker.com) (70)
(The New York Times) Obvious Finally, with student debt topping $1 trillion, college presidents are waking up and recognizing that they might have to handle education costs through methods other than tuition increases. Maybe think about following a budget and things  (nytimes.com) (405)
(New Musical Express) Sappy Noel Gallagher: "I cried like a baby when Manchester City won the Premier League." Here comes Liam Gallagher to give him a noogie and a swirlie  (nme.com) (15)
(Yahoo) Scary Time-travelling plane crashed in prehistoric Canada. It's a good thing they brought their own weapons  (news.yahoo.com) (46)
(Yahoo) Cool Can you keep a secret? American veterans prefer a Muslim over a Mormon  (news.yahoo.com) (157)
(Slate) Interesting Eight times that a Vice President did something that really mattered  (slate.com) (25)
(Talking Points Memo) Florida Mainstream republicans got a preview last weekend of how much chaos and trouble Ron Paul could cause at the RNC, and it's scaring the crap out of them. RON PAUL  (2012.talkingpointsmemo.com) (110)
(NYPost) Fail "After the media went ballistic on me, I received an e-mail offering me money not to preach at all until the November presidential election."; Wright said, "Barack wanted to meet me in secret, in a secure place"  (nypost.com) (143)
(Some Guy) Followup One of the most winning F1 drivers in history is punished for not being able to comprehend how bad an F1 purchased-seat driver can be  (planetf1.com) (45)
(PCWorld) Scary Facebook to become even more creepy, but it's okay because they'll be giving your data to people who want to stalk you for your own good. With pic of what Zuck might look like if he were receiving oral pleasure from the technology press  (pcworld.com) (71)
(CNBC) Interesting Contraceptive implants may prevent repeat teen pregnancies. Finally, something to offset the effects that breast implants had on getting them pregnant in the first place  (cnbc.com) (44)
(BBC) Silly "For any passengers who've not visited London before, do please prepare yourselves for the capital's overwhelmingly calm and relaxing pace of life"  (bbc.co.uk) (24)


Sun May 13, 2012
(ABC) Strange Newsweek declares Obama the first gay President, which makes sense considering that Bill Clinton was the first black President  (abcnews.go.com) (166)
(USA Today) Sad Lesbian couple faces hurdles raising quadruplets, presumably because their lesbian hotness causes them to have nonstop hot lesbian sex  (usatoday.com) (124)
(UPI) Interesting Brits prefer to hoist a pint with a mate within stumbling distance of home to hoisting one at home while having a little sherman tank/ barclay bank/ peddle and crank/Thomas Tank in front of the telly  (upi.com) (58)
(Some Guy) Spiffy If Engelbert Humperdinck can win the prestigious Eurovision Song Contest crown, it will be Britain's first victory since Katrina and the Waves did it in 1997  (asiaone.com) (33)
(AZCentral) Strange Sao Paolo has 31 life-size human silhouettes appearing tense, perched on the edges of high-rises, prepared to dive to their deaths below. Wall Street has none. Can't explain that  (azcentral.com) (42)


Sat May 12, 2012
(Some Guy) Cool Pretty cool video on the history / philosophy of the 404 error  (machineslikeus.com) (23)
(Fox News) Interesting Gary Johnson could catch presidential race by surprise sex. Ok, I added the last word  (foxnews.com) (142)
(Some Guy) Misc President Obama's own doctor claims Obamacare is a failure, and that Obama lacks "passion, feeling and humanity." A good doctor would have cured him  (humanevents.com) (260)
(io9) Scary Almost all spiders are solitary, and very few hunt together in groups of thousands, cooperating to kill and eat prey thousands of times their own size. Very few  (io9.com) (108)


Fri May 11, 2012
(Some Guy) Asinine Greene County, Va., Republicans distribute newsletter decrying a living wage, the biblically hostile president, and calling for armed insurrection. Oh, and they also have a killer "conservative potato and egg delight" recipe  (volokh.com) (90)
(Forbes) Fail HBO co-president thinks internet-based TV is on the way out. Also expects dinosaurs to make a comeback  (forbes.com) (68)
(Huffington Post) Strange To prepare for the Mother's Day weekend, let's stop random pedestrians on a city street and ask "have you ever seen your mother naked?"  (huffingtonpost.com) (28)
(The Atlantic) Photoshop Photoshop these pretend pandas  (cdn.theatlantic.com) (13)
(NPR) Obvious Why do some Christians say the Bible is explicitly against gay marriage and others say the Bible supports it? Why, it's almost as if words and language can be interpreted different ways  (npr.org) (218)
(Daily Mail) Interesting WWII fighter found perfectly preserved in the Sahara 70 years after it disappeared. Pilot unaccounted for but is likely somewhere nearby making a scale model of Devil's Tower out of mashed potatoes  (dailymail.co.uk) (155)
(Fox News) Unlikely Bill O'Reilly on same-sex marriage: "I agree with President Obama" (with poll that makes just as much sense)  (foxnews.com) (155)
(Wired) Scary Defense Department Joint Forces Staff College advocates 'total war' on Islam using "the historical precedents of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki" to Makkah and Medinah  (wired.com) (156)
(Orange County Register) Fail Most US students fail at science, don't understand that if they aren't part of the solution....they are part of the precipitate  (ocregister.com) (107)
(Courier Mail) Strange I'm no Biblical scholar, but I'm pretty sure Jesus never ripped off a chunk of someone's earlobe for not doing the dishes  (couriermail.com.au) (25)


Thu May 10, 2012
(I Heart Chaos) Cool You remember that time in the 10th to 12th centuries when the Christian church had no problem marrying gay couples? Yeah, that was a pretty cool time  (iheartchaos.com) (211)
(ESPN) Cool Will the Bulls realize they're playing the Sixers? Will the Lakers fall prey to the altitude? Will Rondo make up for his butterfingers? Will anyone force a Game 7? It's today's NBA Playoffs Thread. First tipoff is at 7 pm Eastern  (scores.espn.go.com) (246)
(cfnews13.com) Florida "I'm not racist," says leader of white supremacist group accused of hate crime plot  (cfnews13.com) (180)
(Uproxx) Dumbass Believe it or not, there are actually people out there who interpret President Obama's support for gay marriage to mean that he's secretly gay. It's like the world is full of idiots or something  (uproxx.com) (163)
(Gawker) Weird Mom puts boob in giant preschool son's mouth on cover of Time and you've clicked the link waka waka waka  (gawker.com) (435)
(Gamma Squad) Cool The Amazing Spider-Man is releasing "super previews" now  (gammasquad.uproxx.com) (57)
(Huffington Post) Asinine The GOP now wants pre-1790s census surveys to go with their pre-1960s health care system, pre-1930s finance laws, and pre-1900s campaigning rules  (huffingtonpost.com) (103)
(Forbes) Asinine Republicans: Hey Dems, we want to keep student loan interest rates low too, we just want to take the money from preventative cancer screening programs instead of the wealthy, why are you so obstructionist?  (forbes.com) (105)
(Some Guy) Interesting Why computers are awesome: Medicare inspectors were able to uncover $5.6 billion in potential fraud by running a statistical analysis on all 1 billion prescriptions filled at retail pharmacies that were billed to Medicare last year  (kens5.com) (77)
(Talking Points Memo) Unlikely Iowa Governor: Obama is changing his stance on gay marriage to get the Hollywood money that, were it not for the President's gay marriage stance, would have been going to Mitt Romney   (livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com) (109)
(Some Guy Who Believes) Unlikely Obama is the "small government president." No, he says so himself. So you just know it's true  (sayanythingblog.com) (135)
(Some Guy) Scary On May 5th President Barack Obama officially launched his re-election campaign. What is the significance of May 5th? As Obama and his friends undoubtedly know, it is Karl Marx's birthday  (christianconceptsdaily.com) (82)
(Daily Mail) Obvious Network to air political drama about a philandering former President of the United States and his Secretary of State ex-wife. Fark: Network insists the series is fictional  (dailymail.co.uk) (15)
(ABC) Interesting A new drug, Truvada has been shown to 94% effective in preventing AIDS infections in healthy people - which is why AIDS prevention advocates fear it will be a disastrous to their efforts to prevent the spread of AIDS  (abcnews.go.com) (76)
(MSNBC) Obvious Obama will forever be remembered as the "Washington, AC/DC President"  (msnbc.msn.com) (84)
(The Daily Beast) Weird "Same sex marriage does nothing to prevent the deterioration of marriage among non-affluent Americans." With bonus insult: "flagging liberal enthusiasm for the president"  (thedailybeast.com) (61)
(Mother Nature Network) Scary A new species of spiders that create trapdoors to catch their prey is discovered in: A) the Amazon, B) the Congo, or C) Auburn University  (mnn.com) (31)
(Chicago Tribune) Florida The US Supreme Court is once again ready to elect the president this November  (chicagotribune.com) (41)
(Yahoo) Interesting Vegas now has point spreads for 240 of the 256 games of the upcoming NFL season. See how many wins Vegas predicts your team to have (or not, if you're a Browns fan)  (sports.yahoo.com) (92)
(io9) Interesting Medical predictions for the 21st century from 1955 are in many cases not that far off  (io9.com) (13)
(UPI) Sad Sofia Vergara and boyfriend break up, presumably because of communication issues  (upi.com) (104)


Wed May 09, 2012
(Smh.com.au) Obvious Merkel won't swallow the new French president's economic plan. (w/ won't-swallow pic that you can't unsee)  (smh.com.au) (91)
(wdtn.com) Fail Dock collapses during prom photo shoot due to pier pressure  (wdtn.com) (47)
(WorldNetDaily) Hero Leftists' oppressive seatbelt laws must end now  (wnd.com) (214)
(UPI) Interesting National survey indicates six percent of Canadians prefer Internet to sex -- results that seem counter-Inuitive  (upi.com) (10)
(Ars Technica) Interesting DDR4 memory is coming soon. I'm pretty sure that no one wants memories of my Dance Dance Revolution moves  (arstechnica.com) (36)
(Boing Boing) Cool Coffee shop also provides paternity tests, urine tests, notary, and tax prep. I assume that it's inside a TARDIS  (boingboing.net) (3)
(Fox News) Dumbass Because everyone knows that Bush was president in 1978  (foxnews.com) (75)
(Colbert Nation) Hero It takes a great man to honor greatness, and none more greater than Stephen Colbert to honor the late Maurice Sendak with these previously unaired segments of their time together (May contain some naughty words)  (colbertnation.com) (17)
(With Leather) Silly Because nothing represents Habitat for Humanity quite like the Phillie Phanatic  (withleather.uproxx.com) (11)
(The Onion) Satire "President Obama's inability to simply state he's for or against gay marriage is unacceptable." - President Obama  (theonion.com) (73)
(FilmDrunk) Spiffy Filmdrunk was so impressed by Fark's 'Avengers' headline that they featured it in their morning roundup. No... it's down a ways... further... further... well maybe they weren't *that* impressed  (filmdrunk.uproxx.com) (1)
(BBC) Silly Some days, being a scientist is pretty dull. On other days, you come up with a plan to air-drop poisoned mice by parachute to wipe out an army of two million snakes  (bbc.co.uk) (102)
(ESPN) Asinine Cris Carter admits he used to put bounties on players who were trying to injure him, which means the Saints are to be awarded three Super Bowls and Jonathan Vilma is automatically President  (espn.go.com) (177)
(Washington Times) Stupid Unborn fetuses are not people. Unless their pregnant mother is visiting the White House, then they count as people  (washingtontimes.com) (78)
(Atlanta Journal Constitution) Amusing The Catholic League attempts to bully sponsors of The Daily Show for the show's use of "vagina mangers" to express a point. Kellogg responds by "telling Christians to shove it", presumably right in the vagina manger  (blogs.ajc.com) (372)


Tue May 08, 2012
(Deadspin) Amusing Home run bounces off man's crotch, hits woman in face, impregnates hot dog vendor  (deadspin.com) (20)
(News Hounds) Asinine Fox News: "Women make less than men by choice." Preposterous. Everyone knows that women make more sandwiches than men  (newshounds.us) (104)
(Hot Air) Interesting Industries dependent on massive government handouts to even pretend that they make a profit, upset at these Tea Party people think that the government shouldn't prop up failing industries in favor of successful companies  (hotair.com) (73)
(Neatorama) Hero "The Greatest Canadian" was a poor Baptist preacher that decided health care should be a fundamental right and then did something about it. Had he born in America, the US might be in better shape  (neatorama.com) (141)
(Washington Post) Followup From now on, when asked a question you don't want to answer, just give a presidential response: "My views on this are evolving.". Bonus: Biden gaffes that make Bush look like a rocket surgeon  (washingtonpost.com) (265)
(CNN) Unlikely Are the Democrats considering an unprecedented rich, white people ticket for 2016?  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (48)
(ABC) Interesting Vice President Biden claims Mitt Romney can't beat Obama. Did I say Biden? Sorry, I meant Michele Bachmann  (abcnews.go.com) (27)
(Entertainment Weekly) Interesting Will Smith supports President Obama's call for higher taxes on the wealthy, says that more taxes should be paid by the rich people of Earf  (insidemovies.ew.com) (39)
(Fox News) Ironic Vanderbilt robs Christian student groups of their religious freedom to not spread their faith to unbelievers  (foxnews.com) (177)
(CNN) Followup Someone in talks to buy the Phoenix Coyotes. Presumably by accident  (sportsillustrated.cnn.com) (154)
(YouTube) Amusing You have to admit, it's pretty funny when it's other people's children being scarred for life. RUUUUUN ....Runnn ..... runnnnn  (youtube.com) (35)
(Reuters) Amusing Playboy model mistakes Mexican presidential debate for every other show on Mexican TV. w/ SFW pic, unless you work at a convent  (reuters.com) (69)
(UPI) Followup Dad pulls son out of school rather than have him attend a forum about how to express one's religious beliefs respectfully  (upi.com) (189)
(Fox 5 Atlanta) Interesting "I guess I could understand people who aren't twins are like, you have 12 sets? But since we're twins, we're like, nope, it's pretty mainstream over here." High school, like, about to graduate 12 sets of twins  (myfoxatlanta.com) (94)


Mon May 07, 2012
(ESPN) Obvious Spurs prepare to put the Jazz out of their misery, while the Clippers hope they can keep Memphis from leveling the series. It's your NBA playoffs discussion thread. Games begin at 8PM EST on TNT  (scores.espn.go.com) (86)
(Bleacher Report) Interesting Which old, retired guy will beat up John Cena this week? Will it be The Rock? Brock Lesnar? Johnny Ace? Baron Von Raschke? Lou Thesz? Georg Hackenschmidt? Find out when Senile Vince presents WWE Monday Night Raw, 9 PM on USA  (bleacherreport.com) (½)
(Buzzfeed) Cool Ladies and gentlemen of Fark, I present the pizza cupcake  (buzzfeed.com) (52)
(WTOP) Scary The modern-day parent's dilemma: do you allow your precious offspring to go down that big, scary, gleaming slide by himself (and possibly die), or do you slide down with him and risk snapping his leg in half when it gets caught on the side?  (wtop.com) (117)
(Breitbart.com) Cool Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx says he no longer supports Obama, so that means Lemmy Kilmister is automatically president and Obama is demoted to Minister of Misplaced Umlauts  (breitbart.com) (175)
(IBD) Obvious Right-wing blogodome outrage du jour for Monday, May 7: Obama congratulated newly elected French President Francois Hollande after his victory yesterday instead of nuking Paris and killing Jerry Lewis  (news.investors.com) (285)
(Fox News) Fail How dare President Taxbama make the United States more appealing to immigrate to?  (foxnews.com) (43)
(New York Daily News) Obvious President Obama is fooling no one with his positive spin on limp job numbers. That's why we had to write this editorial begging people not to be fooled...because he's not fooling anyone  (nydailynews.com) (94)
(Business Insider) Obvious If you throw out the two bad years, under Bush the economy created 130K jobs per month. If you throw out Obama's first year, the economy created 131K jobs per month. It's almost as if the president has no real control over job creation   (articles.businessinsider.com) (112)
(The Newspaper) Interesting Police use sloppy parking as pretext for drug bust, lose case because parking over the line is not a crime in Maryland  (thenewspaper.com) (119)
(Chicago Tribune) Dumbass Romney finally reveals his economic plan: "I say, well, look at what the president's done, and do the opposite"  (chicagotribune.com) (175)
(Some Guy) Followup The empty arena during the Obama rally? Yeah, about that  (politicususa.com) (147)
(Fiscal Times) Fail Economists now predicting a "lost decade" in the U.S., characterized by high unemployment, sluggish growth and rising inequality. Welcome to the Obama Economy  (thefiscaltimes.com) (399)


Sun May 06, 2012
(Some Guy) Asinine Candidate Johnson, formerly Governor Johnson, finds his effort to become President Johnson opposed by Secretary of State Johnson  (ballot-access.org) (84)
(Kotaku) Spiffy With Diablo 3 less than 2 weeks away, most people would decide to preorder the game. Then you have this guy  (kotaku.com) (205)
(Daily Mail) Stupid Pregnant woman gets called a 'selfish cow' because she was: A) smoking, B) drinking, or C) exercising  (dailymail.co.uk) (148)
(France 24) News Socialist François Hollande elected French president with 51.9% of the vote. Commence with the surrender jokes  (france24.com) (559)
(Some Guy) Spiffy "John Doe #29's counsel represents that his client is an octogenarian with neither the wherewithal nor the interest in using BitTorrent to download Gang Bang Virgins"  (dailytech.com) (56)


Sat May 05, 2012
(Some Guy) Interesting Oldest .com domain in existence has been turned into a preservation Museum for Internet factoids and other idiotic information  (symbolics.com) (64)
(With Leather) Interesting With Nate Diaz vs. Jim Miller headlining, will UFC's third outing on FOX offer a one round knockout or a five round decision? It's UFC on FOX 3, Prelims begin at 4 PM ET on Facebook, 5 PM ET on Fuel, with the main card at 8 PM on FOX  (withleather.uproxx.com) (551)
(NPR) Amusing Why don't men wear hats anymore? Presidential socialism (with painstakingly to scale illustrations to prove the point)  (npr.org) (175)
(Fox News) Dumbass Romney: "I know what it's like to be poor because I talk to poor people all the time". Press: "Who specifically do you talk to?" Romney: "Noneya"  (foxnews.com) (250)
(Hartford Courant) Cool We can buy beer on Sundays, and now can get a prescription for marijuana in Connecticut. FINALLY there's reasons to stay in the Nutmeg state  (courantblogs.com) (40)
(YouTube) Dumbass Two rival bands of college kids prepare to battle with foam swords. The winner is... the bus  (youtube.com) (49)
(CBC) Followup Meanwhile in Canada: "Mathews had previously traced the false calls to a phone registered to "Pierre Poutine," which he determined is likely a fake name"  (cbc.ca) (95)


Fri May 04, 2012
(Contact Music) Weird How talented is Noel Gallagher? A male fan insists that Noel impregnated him  (contactmusic.com) (15)
(GJSentinel.com) Weird Headless chicken announces presidential campaign. Figures he has as much brains as the other guys  (gjsentinel.com) (10)
(Economist) Sad SpaceX prepares for the first private sector mission to resupply the Coca Cola International Space Station. Brought to you by Carl's Jr  (economist.com) (72)
(The Daily Show) Interesting Missouri state rep passes bill preventing gun owners for being fired for owning guns. So surely she's against people being fired for their sexual orientation, right? Aasif Mandvi investigates  (thedailyshow.com) (165)
(Neatorama) Video Who was the best Obi-Wan? Alec Guiness? Evan McGregor? Then you haven't seen the Redd Foxx interpretation. Bonus: Marie Osmond as Leia and Paul Lynde as Grand Moff Tarkin  (neatorama.com) (56)
(Metro) Cool The first preview of Elder Scrolls Online is FRIGGIN' AWESOME  (metro.co.uk) (95)
(Some Guy) PSA If you live in AR, CO, FL, KY, LA, MO, NV, OH, TN or WV, it will suck to be you this fall. Prepare to be ground zero in the upcoming Citizens United-fueled presidential ad onslaught  (electoral-vote.com) (126)
(Fox News) Stupid Stop me if you've heard this one before: A group of veterans, acting totally on their own of course and not as an arm of any political campaign, has organized to express their outrage over how the president is handling his military record  (politics.blogs.foxnews.com) (170)
(SacBee) Dumbass California GOP calls press conference to advertise itself as "Party of Yes". Then immediately calls for "no" vote on tax proposition  (blogs.sacbee.com) (271)


Thu May 03, 2012
(Celebslam) Stupid "She is by far the most difficult. She's constantly demanding, never appreciative of anything and just plain nasty." If you guessed that this was said about Christina Aguilera, step forward and claim your prize  (celebslam.celebuzz.com) (38)
(SacBee) Cool The going price for rock in the Sierra foothills: $1000/gram. The catch: it has to fall from the sky and contain materials that predate our solar system  (sacbee.com) (27)
(Yahoo) Stupid Jennifer Lopez holds press conference to announce she gave a beau job  (music.yahoo.com) (7)
(Washington Times) Cool Gingrich, Schmingrich. Who cares? THERE ARE STILL 380 PEOPLE WHO ARE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT  (washingtontimes.com) (34)
(MSNBC) Amusing "Wouldn't it be awesome though if [suspending a campaign] did mean suspending citizenship? Like if you lose a presidential primary, you're deported. Wouldn't that be awesome?"   (entertainment.msnbc.msn.com) (64)
(Yahoo) Amusing Hot Nashville Predator's ice girl scoops up a catfish off the ice last night. If you're looking at the fish to see if it's alive you're doing it wrong. (w/ video)  (sports.yahoo.com) (47)
(FOX Charlotte) Fail Woman faked pregnancy, even had her family throw her a baby shower, before she beat a woman with a tire iron and kidnapped her baby  (foxcharlotte.com) (44)
(Some Guy) Interesting Reducing calories may preserve memory by reducing calories to preserve memory. Mmmmmm preserves  (1035superx.com) (25)
(Some Guy) Fail Horrifying: 1200 people receive the same jury summons for the same day causing a massive traffic jam. Fark: Courthouse clerk failed to update the system causing the "glitch". Milton Waddams said to be unimpressed  (sacramento.cbslocal.com) (55)
(Boing Boing) Fail A comprehensive summary of all the good things the TSA has been up to the last few weeks  (boingboing.net) (65)
(CNN) Sad Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng had this idea about how in America, human rights take precedence over cheap drywall. Which is nuts, because any moron knows re-election takes precedence over human rights and drywall  (cnn.com) (60)
(NW Florida Daily News) Florida The bartender's first mistake was serving five beers and 13 shots of Jagermeister to a man and his pregnant girlfriend  (nwfdailynews.com) (45)
(Some Guy) Followup Apparently feeling it is undeserving of the Worst Company in America title, EA claimed Rock Band disabling message was just an error, totally not true. Also, let's just pretend the FAQ update which confirmed the said error didn't exist  (computerandvideogames.com) (58)
(Short List) Cool This is pretty much exactly what the word geekgasm was created for  (shortlist.com) (19)
(BBC) Cool Jason Statham has now head-butted, auto-electrocuted, incomprehensibly-growled and chest-pounded his way to a billion-dollar career. Not bad for a street hawker from the streets of London  (bbc.co.uk) (111)
(AP) Unlikely Russia threatens to preemptively strike NATO missile defense sites if NATO does not agree to their demands  (hosted.ap.org) (73)
(Daily Star) Dumbass After five years, taxi driver suddenly decides to tell the world's media he remembers taking missing girl in the back of his car (with bonus pic of him pointing to precisely where she sat)  (dailystar.co.uk) (16)
(Short List) Video Apparently Newcastle United scored one of the English Premier league's best ever goals last night. I scored one like this once. On the Playstation  (shortlist.com) (33)
(Engadget) Cool Prepare to be slaughtered by an army of robot birds  (engadget.com) (13)
(The Daily Beast) Asinine Munch's "The Scream" sells for $119 million. If only there were an apt visual metaphor which expressed the extreme consternation and surprise appropriate for such a sum being offered for a bit of pigment squiggled onto paper  (thedailybeast.com) (120)


Wed May 02, 2012
(Huffington Post) Unlikely Presenting the most outlandish sentence in the English language: "Kim Kardashian -- who is thinking of getting into politics -- has high praise for former GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum"  (huffingtonpost.com) (112)
(Talking Points Memo) Followup Wife of NC state senator sponsoring anti-gay amendment clarifies her previous remark by implying that only Caucasians are gay  (2012.talkingpointsmemo.com) (203)
(CSMonitor) Obvious Newt Gingrich suspends his campaign. In other news, Newt Gingrich was still running for president  (csmonitor.com) (59)
(Yahoo) Cool 'Iceman' mummy holds world's oldest blood cells, which experts predict will lead to either a Michael Crichton book or a Pauly Shore movie  (news.yahoo.com) (96)
(Mental Floss) Obvious New research from the Romero Institute seeks to find out what causes that "fresh-cut grass smell." Preliminary findings indicate cut grass  (mentalfloss.com) (26)
(AZCentral) Dumbass Two players for the Nashville Predators suspended because they stayed out late partying the night before a playoff game. If the whole NHL thing doesn't work out for them they could always get a job with the Secret Service  (azcentral.com) (33)
(Townhall) Obvious Anyone who understands economics knows that President Obama's green jobs initiative is snake oil  (townhall.com) (356)
(The Daily Beast) Obvious GOP fell victim to one of the classic blunders: Never criticize a perfectly legitimate attack ad when the presidency is on the line  (thedailybeast.com) (336)
(Atlanta Journal Constitution) Interesting Tyler Perry presents Tyler Perry's Tyler Perry Studio is on fire  (ajc.com) (50)
(Daily Mail) Sick Note To pedophiles: When preparing for a routine home inspection by the police, don't forget to release the 12 year old boy locked-in the cabinet  (dailymail.co.uk) (113)


Tue May 01, 2012
(kdvr.com) Sad I don't know whether the chicken or the egg came first, but I'm pretty sure that the egg farm fire came before 500,000 chicken deaths  (kdvr.com) (91)
(Funny Or Die) Amusing President Jed Bartlet and the cast of The West Wing reunite for a silly pro-walking PSA  (funnyordie.com) (31)
(CNN) Obvious 90% of moms would prefer an iPad to flowers on Mother's Day. No word as to whether showing her a picture of flowers on your iPad is acceptable or not  (tech.fortune.cnn.com) (42)
(Wired) Weird Post-traumatic stress flashbacks can be prevented--with Tetris. Apparently it blocks out bad memories  (wired.com) (34)
(Some Guy) Obvious Liberals know that Voter ID will stand constitutional muster. This is just a means of preventing those laws from having an impact on the 2012 election  (philadelphia.cbslocal.com) (196)
(Daily Express) Scary This crab may only be a baby, but judging by his expression...you're lunch  (express.co.uk) (51)
(USA Today) Silly "Funky Winkerbean" takes a break from cancer and soul-crushing depression to send a couple of boys to the prom together  (usatoday.com) (45)


Mon April 30, 2012
(NHL) Amusing Caps at Rangers 7:30 -- Kings at St. Louis 9:00 PM -- Farkers at Drinking... pretty mush all the time. Today's NHL playoff thread  (nhl.com) (664)
(CBS News Detroit) Spiffy In the greatest example of viral marketing to date, BMW gets sued because its motorcycle seats cause 20 month erections, prepares to sell 10 million bikes next month  (detroit.cbslocal.com) (191)
(Some Guy) Weird Not News: UFO Guru predicts a UFO will appear on Sunday over an LA park. News: Enough people show up to make it a story. Fark: It actually happens  (news.gather.com) (64)
(NYPost) Obvious What do former presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush have in common? Their disdain for Jimmy Carter, because he went rogue and conducted foreign policy after leaving office without any authority from the White House  (nypost.com) (141)


Sun April 29, 2012
(Daily Mail) Obvious When Obama goes fundraising, liberals defend him by saying "politicians have to raise money." When he goes fundraising more than the last five presidents COMBINED, they defend him by saying that "it's much harder for him"  (dailymail.co.uk) (342)
(NewsBusters) Interesting Foreign countries with a financial stake in seeing the US oil and gas industries fail are funding left-wing groups and documentaries to spread lies against 'big energy'. Oh, and the media is in on it too  (newsbusters.org) (119)
(ESPN) Spiffy First match of the Mid-Atlantic: Devils at Flyers 3:00 - Cats and Dogs: Preds at Yotes (with Yotes up 1-0) 8:00 -- What's not to like  (games.espn.go.com) (1032)
(WorldNetDaily) Fail Stop the presses: BARACK OBAMA WINKED WHEN HE SAID HE WAS BORN IN HAWAII SO THE BIRTHERS WERE RIGHT  (wnd.com) (182)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Spiffy President Obama mocked everyone from the Secret Service to Mitt Romney to the GOP as a whole at last night's Correspondent's Dinner. "We both have degrees from Harvard. I have one, he has two. What a snob"  (suntimes.com) (449)
(Fox News) Amusing Have a few more potato chips, some popcorn, and maybe a couple pretzels. It's good for the sweat bees  (foxnews.com) (11)
(Rolling Stone) Cool Bob Dylan will receive the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, for his contributions to the arts as both a singer and songwriter. Smart move, President Obama  (rollingstone.com) (95)


Sat April 28, 2012
(AlterNet) Dumbass "I tasted a beer once...and never did it again", says Mr. Will Not Even Come Close To Becoming President  (alternet.org) (238)
(National Review) Amusing "It seems President Obama is the first male in his line not to be a polygamist"  (nationalreview.com) (214)
(Mother Nature Network) Cool New high-tech cat door will scan your cat's face in order to prevent raccoons, squirrels, and very very small burglars from getting inside your home  (mnn.com) (55)
(ABC) Scary S.F. Giants' Aubrey Huff placed on DL for anxiety attacks. Doctors suggest a trade back to the Orioles where there is absolutely no pressure to win  (abcnews.go.com) (12)
(CNN) Unlikely Analyst predicts the cult of Steve Jobs will decline now that he's dead. Apparently he's never heard of Jesus  (cnn.com) (81)
(Daily Mail) Dumbass Mother of the Year candidate has seventh child taken away by health services, admits to using cocaine, marijuana and alcohol every day during latest pregnancy (w/pics)  (dailymail.co.uk) (117)


Fri April 27, 2012
(ESPN) Followup Will Andrew Luck and Coby Fleener be reunited in Indy? Will the Seahawks continue to do their best Stretch Armstrong impression? Will Ernest Borgnine go to the Browns? NFL Draft: Rounds Two & Three (7 PM ET)  (espn.go.com) (564)
(The Weekly Standard) Obvious Just in case you were losing sleep over the thought, Michelle Obama says she won't run for president  (weeklystandard.com) (263)
(Slate) Amusing Back in the day, a stoned projectionist could allow a film to get jammed and melt in front of the bulb. Nowadays, he can accidentally delete an entire film, even if it's at a vital press screening of "The Avengers"  (slate.com) (69)
(Yahoo) Asinine And the newest media-created word guaranteed to make you punch the first person you hear using it? "Mompreneur"  (news.yahoo.com) (92)
(Deadspin) Fail After preparing for 12 months, the NFL Network's draft coverage gets off to a roaring start with 30 seconds of dead air (w/video)  (deadspin.com) (36)
(Yahoo) Interesting Must Be Election Time: Al-Qaida may be looking to avenge bin Laden's death, says a spokesman for President Obama  (news.yahoo.com) (100)


Thu April 26, 2012
(Talking Points Memo) Amusing Biden: "I promise you, the president has a big stick"   (livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com) (161)
(SCOTUS Blog) Dumbass Justice Department regrets getting caught lying to Supreme Court  (scotusblog.com) (80)
(Breitbart.com) Dumbass Troy McGreggor say Obama's appearance on Jimmy Fallon violated campaign finance law, so that means Sarah Palin is automatically president and Obama has to wear Zap Rowsdower's Canadian tuxedo and fight Larry Csonka to the death  (breitbart.com) (145)
(Palm Beach Post) Florida Even in a first-degree murder case, everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty. But you're not helping things if you're the one arrested and you have a tattoo of a gun between your eyebrows  (palmbeachpost.com) (72)
(USA Today) Obvious Vice President Romero lays out the simplest re-election strategy so far: Osama is dead, General Motors is alive  (content.usatoday.com) (211)
(NFL) Spiffy NFL, NFLPA keep working to finalize method to prevent JaMarcus from ever happening again  (nfl.com) (14)


Wed April 25, 2012
(Onion AV Club) Fail The premiere of the CW's "The L.A. Complex" literally got the worst ratings in the history of history  (avclub.com) (41)
(LA Weekly) Followup The original Southern California Darts Association hits the mark with a Federal injunction preventing Dino "Pebbles" Zaffina from using their 30 year old trademark  (blogs.laweekly.com) (144)
(Huffington Post) Silly Fox & Friends wonder why President Obama didn't "soft rock" the news instead  (huffingtonpost.com) (234)
(Politico) Fail Obama's lawyer farks up his argument to the Supreme Court against Arizona's immigration law so badly--even Justice Sotomayor isn't buying it  (politico.com) (561)
(Uproxx) Cool President Obama wandered into a college bar in Boulder, Colorado last night and this picture happened  (uproxx.com) (269)
(ESPN) Spiffy Finally some good news for Mets fans: Not only does Jason Bay's injury spare them from having to watch him flail at the plate every day, it may also prevent his $17 million option from vesting next year  (espn.go.com) (15)
(NPR) Spiffy Girl makes prom dress out of corrugated cardboard. For previous proms, she's worn dresses she made from soda can pull-tabs and empty Doritos packets. And, yes, you should have a seat over there  (npr.org) (194)
(GamesRadar) Silly Nineteen rage-inducing videogames, presented in calm relaxing slideshow format  (gamesradar.com) (261)
(YouTube) Cool Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy and Guy Pearce in the first trailer for 'Lawless'. This looks so good, not even Shia LaBeouf's presence can ruin it  (youtube.com) (33)


Tue April 24, 2012
(Orlando Predators) Ironic Fark-ready sports headline: "Predators Announce First-Ever Child Abuse Prevention Night"  (orlandopredators.com) (27)
(Yahoo) Asinine AZ legislature passes law demanding the federal government turn over title to 48,000 sq miles of federally owned land in the state. Federal government promises to get right on that the second the Federal Supremacy Clause is repealed  (news.yahoo.com) (198)
(The Daily Beast) Interesting Should an American citizen who translates Al-Qaeda propaganda for the purposes of spreading it be charged with treason? Or is it a valid expression of his first amendment rights? Difficulty: Not hypothetical   (andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com) (237)
(LA Times) Interesting Arizona's immigration law goes to Supreme Court. Supreme Court expected to ask to see immigration law's papers  (latimes.com) (26)
(Some Guy) Scary Working in a brewery must be pretty cool. Except for the exploding kegs, of course  (wmur.com) (89)
(ABC) Misc Megan Fox pregnant. The infestation of the Toe Thumbs is upon us  (abcnews.go.com) (37)
(LA Times) Obvious Report shows that effect of antidepressants on autism has been overstated by 39.4823474572 percent  (latimes.com) (11)
(Huffington Post) Obvious When members of the armed forces eliminate public enemy #1, that has nothing to do with the President. But when they hire hookers, it's proof of his failure as a leader  (huffingtonpost.com) (65)
(CNN) Interesting Is geekiness just a sign of autism? Subby doesn't know, but would love to sit down and explain to you in minute detail the history of the Pre-Crisis DC Universe  (geekout.blogs.cnn.com) (35)
(Huffington Post) Dumbass If you're trying to trick Planned Parenthood using phony pregnant women seeking gender-based abortions, they're on to you  (huffingtonpost.com) (259)


Mon April 23, 2012
(q13) Spiffy Aside from the seven-month winters, douchebag cyclists, crappy interstate, useless sports teams, liberal politics and water, Seattle is pretty popular  (q13fox.com) (124)
(Talking Points Memo) Spiffy Rudy Giuliani endorses Mitt Romney, increasing his odds of winning the Presidency 9-11%   (livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com) (26)
(Daily Kos) Stupid After a month of dodging the press, Romney finally finds some time to field some tough questions...Questions like "Got any fond memories about vacationing in France?"  (dailykos.com) (71)
(Google) Scary North Korea threatens to turn Seoul into "ashes in three or four minutes" using "unprecedented peculiar means and methods of our own style"  (google.com) (238)
(Some Flattened Frog) Scary Sacré bleu: Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen gets 18% of the vote in the first-round of France's presidential election, vows to crush any ultra-liberal opposition with her far-right bootstrappy boots  (france24.com) (87)
(Cracked) Interesting Remember Highlights magazine? Here are 5 Depressing Lessons you may have learned from it  (cracked.com) (120)
(CNN) Obvious Economists predict continued sluggish economy. In related news, the South Pole is going to be cold for awhile longer  (money.cnn.com) (25)
(The Sun) Hero What's that Lassie? Timmy's been impaled on an eight-foot fence? And you prefer to be called Spike?  (thesun.co.uk) (42)
(Yahoo) Sad Obama's top campaign strategist says that he thinks many Republicans want to work with the president but they are too afraid of House Minority Whip Robespierre and Senate Minority Leader Saint-Just to do so  (news.yahoo.com) (78)
(ABC) Obvious Keith Olberman says the media's coverage of the duelling dog stories about the presidential candidates increases the "absurdity" of this campaign. And if there's one guy who knows "absurd"..,  (abcnews.go.com) (26)
(Outside the Beltway) Obvious Senator Barack Obama railed about President Bush's abuses of power. President Barack Obama has seen the light  (outsidethebeltway.com) (75)
(Politico) Hero President Obama's closest shadow advisor? The greatest president of the 20th Century  (politico.com) (108)


Sun April 22, 2012
(BBC) Spiffy Bob Marley: Coolest dad at my prep school  (bbc.co.uk) (29)
(SlashFilm) Unlikely The "Lobo" character works on the page precisely because of the way in which he satirized the serious superhero trends of the mid to late '80s. Will the film studios have the balls to use him in a similar manner?  (slashfilm.com) (108)
(Some Lefty) Interesting Socialist presidential candidate urges voters to shun the far right in a push for working-class voter support  (montrealgazette.com) (63)


Sat April 21, 2012
(Slate) Obvious Levon Helm hated The Last Waltz, aka "Martin Scorcese Presents The Robbie Robertson Show, Starring Robbie Robertson with music by Robbie Robertson, a Tyler Perry Production"  (slate.com) (40)
(Yahoo) Spiffy New curbs on voter registration could hurt President Obama, make sense  (news.yahoo.com) (359)
(With Leather) Interesting Can young Rory Calhoun McDonald KO Che Mills? Will the Martian Manhunter take down Rashad Evans? It's UFC 145, Prelims begin at 6:30 PM ET on Facebook, 8 PM ET on FX, Main card at 10 PM ET on PPV  (withleather.uproxx.com) (690)
(Huffington Post) Amusing To get your prepped four Arrested Development Season 4, here's video featuring all of Gob's failed magic tricks--ILLUSIONS, Michael. A trick is something a whore does for money....or cocaine  (huffingtonpost.com) (26)
(UPI) Fail Liquid concrete accidentally floods upscale New York hotel. Officials predict that removing it will only get harder and harder  (upi.com) (28)
(SLTrib) Strange Student-body president at BYU campus says hanging around all those Mormons has made him a better Muslim. Wait, what?  (sltrib.com) (71)
(MSNBC) Dumbass California State university student gets a head start on his career as a politician by stealing 700 voter IDs to win President of Student Government  (technolog.msnbc.msn.com) (30)
(Daily Mail) Stupid Woman "shocked" to find duck-shaped potato in her kitchen. You'll be less shocked when you see photos of how often potatoes turn into ducks, which is pretty much all the goddamn time  (dailymail.co.uk) (57)


Fri April 20, 2012
(ESPN) Obvious Bud Selig says that the A's and Rays need new ballparks. Preferably far away from any troublesome bridges  (espn.go.com) (104)
(Some Guy) Interesting "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...". Pelosi: "Meh"  (mega949.com) (542)
(Some Guy) Dumbass SC Governor Nikki Haley says she's tired of all the attention people pay to her looks rather than her ideas and policies. Which, of course, explains why she just posed for a photo spread for Vogue  (washingtonexaminer.com) (68)
(Twitchy) Asinine Meghan McCain is under the impression that she's written another book  (twitchy.com) (80)
(Some Guy) Obvious HTC to announce that since October, its Android phones have been shipping with ad-blockers turned on by default, making ad-impression measurements of market share meaningless. Yeah, that's the ticket  (electronista.com) (28)
(Some Guy) Cool Virgin bachelors have time and money for conspicuous gaming consumption, crippling depression  (geekosystem.com) (16)
(Newser) Followup Pregnant man becomes single mother  (newser.com) (240)
(Talking Points Memo) Fail Romney in Ohio: "Had the president's economic plans worked, this factory would be open right now." Reality: The plant closed in 2008  (2012.talkingpointsmemo.com) (238)


Thu April 19, 2012
(Talking Points Memo) Followup George Zimmerman wants a private meeting with the parents of Trayvon Martin. Preferably in a dark alley on a cool, rainy day  (livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com) (551)
(MSNBC) Followup FCC asks Supreme Court to take another look at Janet Jackson's nipple so they can wring CBS  (entertainment.msnbc.msn.com) (106)
(Cracked) Interesting "You Can Call Me Al" may sound upbeat, but it's included in the 6 Popular Upbeat Songs You Didn't Realize Are Depressing  (cracked.com) (246)
(The Atlantic) Obvious President Obama is in trouble with young voters, less than half of 18-to-24-year-old voters want Obama to win reelection  (theatlantic.com) (279)
(The New York Times) Obvious Michelle Obama's claim that poor urban neighborhoods are food deserts, bereft of fresh fruits and vegetables has been found to be pretty much bullshiat by the right wing fascists at the New York Times  (nytimes.com) (310)
(Some Guy) Amusing NY Subway cars are bastions of good will, especially for pregnant women. Unless they're Red Sox fans  (940winz.com) (109)
(Media Matters) Scary The only thing more crazy than crazy at NRA conventions are the number of Obama assassination jokes -"which is another word for extreme, and in the gun context, possibly insane - interpretation of the Second Amendment"  (mediamatters.org) (302)
(Talking Points Memo) Cool President Obama sits on the bus where Rosa Parks refu-OMG, IS HE GOING BALD?   (livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com) (145)
(Chicago Tribune) Fail Sales of Ford's $39,000 Electric Focus have been less than two dozen, or in Chrysler terms, a pretty good year  (chicagotribune.com) (252)
(Some Guy) Scary Neither rain nor snow, heat nor darkness can prevent the mail from being delivered, unless the post office is infested with poisonous spiders, in which case you'll have to come pick it up  (1035superx.com) (75)
(Slate) Silly Finally, someone takes a look at the big mystery surrounding politicians: why, in the past 100 years, was Michele Bachmann the only bearded presidential candidate?  (slate.com) (54)
(Independent) Interesting Right wing in despair as Socialist leads Presidential Race by 14%, France on verge of surrendering Palais d'Elysée to Hollande  (independent.co.uk) (122)
(Winnipeg Free Press) Cool Winnipeg Free Press tells of the Canadian writer who got a boost in readership and page views per day after his 'awesome' story was picked up by FARK (12th section)  (winnipegfreepress.com) (0)
(MSNBC) Interesting Blood test could identify depression in teens, samples are easily collected after they finish cutting themselves  (vitals.msnbc.msn.com) (52)


Wed April 18, 2012
(Wired) Amusing Best Korea spends upwards of $15 to launch its powerful presence on the Interwebs  (wired.com) (128)
(Boston Herald) Spiffy Sen. Scott Brown fully embraces the Dark Side by taking donations from Yankees president Randy Levine, hopes to learn how to force choke his opponent before November  (bostonherald.com) (43)
(Daily Kos) Asinine 15% of all laws passed by this Congress have been to name post offices and other Federal buildings. It's nice to know there's nothing pressing that needs Congressional attention  (dailykos.com) (64)
(Time) Strange Critics note that his style is impetuous, and his defense is impregnable, but Mike Tyson's one-man show in Las Vegas is more discombobulating than devastating  (entertainment.time.com) (20)
(Yahoo) Obvious Study shows that the precentage of people believing in God increases dramatically with age. Statisticians call this phenomenon "hedging your bets"  (news.yahoo.com) (554)
(Daily Mail) Spiffy How do you get press coverage of your new ad campaign? Have Miranda Kerr demonstrate how flexible she is in your workout clothes in front of reporters  (dailymail.co.uk) (37)
(IndyChannel) Asinine Woman allergic to paprika brings service dog to work where coworker allergic to dogs files complaint to prevent dog in the workplace thus causing woman to file lawsuit. The allergy Aristocrats  (theindychannel.com) (231)


Tue April 17, 2012
(The Atlantic) Scary Is predicting crime before it happens: (a) something out of Philip K. Dick's "Minority Report," (b) a DHS research project, (c) a terrible and dangerous idea, (d) all of the above?  (theatlantic.com) (123)
(The Daily Caller) Amusing Herman Cain pretty much sums up the Newt Gingrich campaign in the most clear and succinct way possible  (dailycaller.com) (62)
(Telegraph) Fail As Europe prepares for the next round of bailouts, officials promise yet again that this time will be different  (telegraph.co.uk) (77)
(Salon) Followup Crusading hero of the people, Mitch McConnell, scores a win for disenfranchised and oppressed millionaires everywhere  (salon.com) (201)
(CNN) Obvious A new CNN poll shows most Americans think the tax system favors the wealthy. Also they're pretty sure the sky is blue and water is wet  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (370)
(Some Guy) Followup The wife of the man who threw her out of the car, kidnapped his children, led police on a chase, and is still wanted? She's pregnant. She's also a fugitive  (1035superx.com) (27)
(BBC) Interesting Researchers find evidence that "helicopter parenting" pre-dates the invention of the actual helicopter by nearly 2,000 years  (bbc.co.uk) (28)
(Entertainment Weekly) Spiffy New trailer for "Tron: Uprising". Master Control Program unimpressed  (insidetv.ew.com) (111)
(Huffington Post) Interesting How German electro-pop pioneers Kraftwerk predicted the future of the world's technology  (huffingtonpost.com) (97)


Mon April 16, 2012
(Fark) FarkBlog North American predator loss leaves Aliens unchecked, Santorum pulls out, and Best Buy CEO bones something other than his company: some of Fark's favorite Headlines of the Week for 4/8 - 4/14  (fark.com) (8)
(Salon) Obvious GOP Representative, who has "little tolerance" for people with student loans, involved in huge student loan scam  (salon.com) (314)
(Ars Technica) Asinine In the case against MegaUpload, the government is denying the accused A. The ability to pay lawyers. B. The right to hire experienced copyright litigators. C. The right to present any evidence in its defense. D. All of the above  (arstechnica.com) (116)
(Detroit Free Press) Followup President Obama says something that every man, woman, and child in this nation can agree with, will now win 2012 election by a landslide  (freep.com) (189)
(Huffington Post) Sad Ann Romney likes the worst birthday presents ever  (huffingtonpost.com) (311)
(Buzzfeed) Amusing Romney offering "preferred status" to Inauguration for donors who cough up $50,000. Still unsure where the party tent will be set up to get a good view of Obama's swearing in, though  (buzzfeed.com) (98)
(SFGate) Spiffy Seven miles of the California coastline to be preserved from development. Public to have unlimited access to all oil spills, sewage leaks, discarded medical waste  (sfgate.com) (23)
(Entertainment Weekly) Amusing The New York Times ran a wedding announcement for two characters from My Little Pony. Subby won't trust the story until he reads it in the Foal Free Press  (popwatch.ew.com) (70)
(Yahoo) Scary The fact that global warming is "an unproven theory pushed by tree-huggers" hasn't stopped the five nations bordering the Arctic from preparing their militaries to seize the Northwest Passage the moment it thaws  (news.yahoo.com) (354)
(Deadspin) Amusing Television coverage of Penguins/Flyers pregame hockey playoff analysis focuses on two new NBC visual aids  (deadspin.com) (167)


Sun April 15, 2012
(Omaha World Herald) Stupid The new pregnancy fad: belly painting  (omaha.com) (110)
(Twitchy) Amusing Obama adviser David Axelrod just unintentionally endorsed Mitt Romney for President  (twitchy.com) (69)
(CBS News) Asinine In 2010, President Obama and Vice President Biden broke ground at two Michigan plants. The plants were getting a combined $300 million in stimulus money to build electric car batteries. Korean workers got most of the jobs  (cbsnews.com) (109)
(ESPN) Cool Can Dixon finally stop finishing second? Will Lotus' new hamster policy prevail? It's the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach (coverage starts 3:30 EDT on NBC Sports Network)  (espn.go.com) (314)
(Some Weaver) Asinine Not News: DUI Checkpoint. Holy FARK: The use of specialized flashlights with ethanol sensors to detect the presence of alcohol on a driver's breath  (centredaily.com) (738)
(Newser) Interesting While the media was obsessed with #Occupy's antics, the tea party was busy with the -really- freaky shiat: meetings. Going over legislative records, following debates, arguing with each other, preparing candidates. And no drum circles. Ew  (newser.com) (280)
(Seattle Times) Cool In 1962, third-graders predicted that in the future people would have their own rockets, drive flying cars, and eat paste from tubes  (seattletimes.nwsource.com) (69)


Sat April 14, 2012
(Some Guy) Amusing When asked if she would consider running for President, Dolly Parton responds, "We've had enough boobs in the White House"  (foxnewsinsider.com) (130)
(The Daily Beast) Cool This inviting syrah presents a forward nose, unobtrusive tannins, legs are good...and, um...pairs well with...Cheetos maybe...holds its own against their cheddary...mmm...say, let's uncork another and watch Adult Swim  (thedailybeast.com) (48)
(Some Guy) Photoshop Photoshop this preflight  (panos.co.uk) (23)
(Detroit Free Press) Sad Purple produce purveyors petulantly proclaim premature primavera preemptively prevented personal prosperity, postponing packaged product premiere, prompting product pusillanimity  (freep.com) (40)
(Fark) Survey Top Ramen or Maruchan Ramen. Which noodle reigns supreme?  (fark.com) (325)
(Some Guy) Strange Cool: Teacher prevents kid from getting beat up. Fark: Kid tries to hug the teacher and gets written up for it. UltraFark: Teacher grabbed student so roughly to avoid getting hugged that a police report was filed for the marks she left on him  (charlotte.cbslocal.com) (162)
(Mental Floss) Interesting Nineteen regional US slang words to work into your vocabulary. Some of these are kinda buffleheaded, a couple are pretty whoopensocker  (mentalfloss.com) (297)


Fri April 13, 2012
(WWSB ABC 7) Florida The Presidential motorcade is a highly trained and organized unit designed to keep the Commander In Chief safe....unless there are speed bumps. They're highly susceptible to speed bumps  (mysuncoast.com) (51)
(Some Guy) Interesting Joss Whedon uses Avengers movie premiere to shoot the final scene of Avengers. Meta  (filmschoolrejects.com) (82)
(Talking Points Memo) Silly Google is set to be the official social platform for the GOP Convention, replacing the previous social platform, the bulletin board at a local country club  (livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com) (62)


Thu April 12, 2012
(NHL) Cool Following last night's preliminary skirmishes, tonight it devolves into open warfare. Sens/Rags @ 7:00, Caps/Bruins @ 7:30, Sharks/Blues @ 7:30, and Blackhawks/Coyotes @ 10:30 (EDT). Day 2 Stanley Cup Playoff Discussion Thread  (nhl.com) (1612)
(Sun Sentinel) Florida Woman steals towel from hotel. And a bedspread. And picture frames, an iron, the ironing board, some rugs, a trash can and the curtains. Oh yeah, and a TV  (weblogs.sun-sentinel.com) (64)
(New York Daily News) Dumbass Heartless creep zips six puppies into his suitcase and throws it in the garbage. Fortunately for the puppies, he seems to be about as intelligent as President Skroob when it comes to his luggage  (nydailynews.com) (60)
(WRCB-TV) Stupid Vote down jobs bill that benefits women, blame President for female unemployment: it's not just the best of both political worlds, it's the sort of "logic" we'll have to get used to for the next several months  (wrcbtv.com) (161)
(ABC) Obvious Shockingly, actual archaelogists and scholars ain't buying the latest claims from the guy who plays an archaeologist on TV and who previously claimed to have found the bodies of Jesus and his wife and child  (abcnews.go.com) (45)
(Gizmodo) Cool Meet the Chork: The unholy lovechild of a fork and chopsticks that will prevent WWIII  (gizmodo.com) (52)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Interesting "It's pretty cool to have a woman brewing," the brewery's head brewer says. "It's like seeing a black unicorn." Wait... what?  (suntimes.com) (157)
(Yahoo) Dumbass President Obama's second-term agenda is the missing piece in his re-election plan. We could start with.. Where are the Farking Jobs?  (news.yahoo.com) (273)


Wed April 11, 2012
(Network World) Cool Japanese officials prepare for a wave of hand thefts as bank rolls out palm reading ATMs  (networkworld.com) (26)
(610 WIOD) Stupid "Coach of the Year" fired for becoming "Unwed pregnant teacher of the year"  (610wiod.com) (301)
(YouTube) Interesting Not News: Average guy goes to the mall. News: Pretends to be a nonexistent celebrity. Fark.com: It works  (youtube.com) (67)
(NJ.com) Amusing Rutgers University web site accidentally its new president  (nj.com) (40)
(Washington Examiner) Dumbass No no no. You misunderstood me. When I said "spread the wealth around" I didn't mean that I wanted to "redistribute wealth"   (campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com) (228)
(SanDiegoUnionTribune) Obvious California had the most layoffs last month as job creators went somewhere where they would be appreciated  (utsandiego.com) (27)
(Marketwatch) Spiffy Alcoa foils analysts' dismal prediction  (marketwatch.com) (8)
(USGS) News Indonesia's geophysical agency says earthquake of 8.9 on Richter scale off Aceh. USGS Shows 8.7 Prelim  (earthquake.usgs.gov) (286)
(The New York Times) Followup Prepare yourself: The Special Prosecutor in the Trayvon Martin case will release new information on the case within 72 hours  (nytimes.com) (892)
(My San Antonio) Amusing Gun shop that Rick Perry once praised for "entrepreneurship and service to the state of Texas" raided by the Department of Homeland Security for knowingly selling guns and ammo to smugglers  (mysanantonio.com) (111)
(Telegraph) Interesting Certifiably batshiat Malawian dictator Bingu wa Mutharika dies at 78 after blowing $100m on a presidential palace, then abandoning it because it was haunted. Then he got stupid. Better luck next time, Zimbabwe  (telegraph.co.uk) (69)


Tue April 10, 2012
(The Atlantic) Obvious Pretty soon, it's going to be easier to find common interests between Israel and Palestine than between the congressional Republicans and Democrats  (theatlantic.com) (68)
(CNN) Dumbass If you ask George W. Bush what he regrets about his presidency, it isn't the failure to capture or kill Bin Laden, or starting two drawn out wars. No, he regrets his name being attached to some deficit driving tax cuts  (money.cnn.com) (148)
(Omaha World Herald) Dumbass Nebraska Gov. Dave Heinemann: Prenatal care a magnet for illegal immigrants. Researchers: About that  (omaha.com) (55)
(Townhall) Obvious If we care about poverty, income mobility, health, education, and welfare, we need to support true marriage. Barack Obama is the most anti-marriage president in our history  (townhall.com) (194)
(Ballpark Digest) Amusing Myrtle Beach Pelicans sign stadium naming-rights deal with Ticketmaster wannabe, proclaiming them "pioneer company that represents the best in American ingenuity" at charging extortionate fees for ordinary products  (ballparkdigest.com) (5)
(Science Daily) Obvious North American predator loss affects ecosystems, leaves Aliens totally unchecked  (sciencedaily.com) (118)
(JSOnline) Stupid Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker signs bill to take DNA from felony arrests pre-conviction and create a DNA database. No word on how this will create jobs and make government smaller  (jsonline.com) (171)
(Mental Floss) Interesting No one ever appreciates pus  (mentalfloss.com) (47)
(Road Biker Review) Obvious Road Biker Review comes to the realization that "pretty soon Arizona is going to need its own FARK tag"  (forums.roadbikereview.com) (0)


Mon April 09, 2012
(Rolling Stone) Cool An interview with Darwyn Cooke, the man who will make the Watchmen prequels better than the original story  (rollingstone.com) (103)
(Telegraph) Dumbass If you're stupid enough to deliberately stand in the jet wash of a plane, be prepared to be blown away  (telegraph.co.uk) (128)
(Examiner) Asinine The Three Stooges are hosting WWE Monday Night Raw, because that's the best way to follow up the return of Brock Lesnar. Hopefully, Bret Hart will smack Will Sasso around again and tell him to quit pretending to be Curly. 9 PM on USA  (examiner.com) (1687)
(Charlotte Observer) Obvious Citing her job, Hillary Clinton will skip the National Democratic Convention. Presumably, she's referring to her job as president in 2016  (charlotteobserver.com) (72)
(Some Guy) Obvious Having ended unemployment, now that it is 11%, School systems that are bankrupt, murders, gangs, and corruption. RI decides to attack the Clear and Present Danger. Fido on your lap in the car. Things stay safe for Caturday  (www2.turnto10.com) (65)
(Some Guy) Asinine Arizona: "You can't have an abortion" Women: "Wat we aren't even pregnant" Arizona: "LOL THINK AGAIN"  (rt.com) (606)
(TMZ) Obvious Girl from '16 & Pregnant' is happy to be pregnant with another paycheck despite losing her toddler to CPS  (tmz.com) (96)


Sun April 08, 2012
(KATU) Stupid Hot chick quits Facebook because "peer pressure". *hands out jars* Come Farkers, let us collect her tears and savor their sweet, savory salty taste  (katu.com) (243)
(Huffington Post) Obvious Senator Kent Conrad: "I asked President Obama not to publicly support Bowles-Simpson because I knew that House Republicans reflexively oppose everything he supports"  (huffingtonpost.com) (139)
(BBC) Scary Drug-resistant malaria is spreading rapidly. It's enough to make you shiver  (bbc.co.uk) (36)
(Some Guy) Amusing Not news: resident discovers a peeping tom and calls police. News: officers arrive and apprehend suspect. Fark: peeping tom is a deer  (news-sentinel.com) (19)
(MSNBC) Dumbass Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-eally bad grammar), via Twitter: "Constituents askd why i am not outraged at PresO attack on supreme court independence. Bcause Am ppl r not stupid as this x prof of con law"  (firstread.msnbc.msn.com) (284)
(Yahoo) Misc Sergio Garcia guarantees Masters win. Just kidding. In post-round press conference, he said "I'm not good enough...The conclusion is I need to play for second or third place. In any major I'm not good enough"  (sports.yahoo.com) (10)
(TMZ) Spiffy Thanks to an ironclad prenup, Ruben Studdard only has to give his ex-wife $12,000 and a 2006 BMW. Bonus: no alimony, and he gets the engagement ring back  (tmz.com) (129)
(ESPN) Cool For the second year in a row, the Vancouver Canucks take the Presidents trophy. Now that the rules change the reasons why they won't win the cup will be to the right  (sports.espn.go.com) (85)
(BBC) Cool Can Tottenham close the gap on third? Can Liverpool break out of their downward slide? Can Blackburn keep away from relegation? All this plus United and City both in action for the title race in this week's Premier League thread  (bbc.co.uk) (343)
(SeattlePI) Obvious Does espresso made by a bikini barista get you all hot and frothy? You might want to check for security cameras before you act on that impulse  (seattlepi.com) (120)
(Chicago Tribune) Dumbass Miami is a good place for Ozzie Guillen because he can pretty much say any stupid thing he wants and no one will pay any attention. Unless, of course, he were to speak of his love for Fidel Castro - but even he's not that stupid, right?  (chicagotribune.com) (29)
(Some Guy) Cool Ten gorgeous vixens pose for foxy photo spread in the great outdoors (probably safe for work)  (blog.nwf.org) (56)


Sat April 07, 2012
(Wired) Cool The best precious snowflake art of space you're going to see today  (wired.com) (23)
(Newser) Amusing I don't know what the hell a Phyllis Schlafly is, but she is telling young men "Don't date feminists", even though "some of them are pretty"  (newser.com) (251)
(Yahoo) Spiffy Iraq Veteran's Amazing Job: Nick White served his country, first as a Marine, where he saw heavy combat in Iraq, and then as a Secret Service agent. Now he's kicking ass as an entrepreneur  (news.yahoo.com) (23)
(web md) Interesting CDC finds that sex education is less prevalent in grades 6-12 ... because at that point half the kids are already parents  (teens.webmd.com) (11)
(LiveLeak) Video If your previous attempts were foiled, here's how to melt aluminum cans at home  (liveleak.com) (31)
(PsychCentral) Photoshop Fast food directly linked to depression. Photoshop a prize for an Unhappy Meal  (psychcentral.com) (37)
(LA Times) Dumbass I'm sure the poor will definitely appreciate cosmetics instead of food  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (27)
(YouTube) Cool It doesn't matter whether or not you like RC planes, this is impressive  (youtube.com) (30)
(Tulsa World) Followup Meth head fuel tanker driver who led cops on 20 mile long, high speed chase, gets sentenced to doing 55. In other news: Apparently you can get a job driving a fuel tanker with 5 previous felony convictions. w/ meth head mugshot goodness  (tulsaworld.com) (36)
(Yahoo) Dumbass Bicyclist who ran down SF pedestrian fails to impress the internet by telling his side of the story  (news.yahoo.com) (317)
(Discovery) Interesting Astrophysicists say the Universe is precisely 13.75 billion years old, However, they failed to factor in Daylight Savings Time  (news.discovery.com) (144)


Fri April 06, 2012
(Chicago Tribune) Followup Marine who bashed President Obama given less than honorable discharge, job at Fox News  (chicagotribune.com) (110)
(ABC) Interesting Fired executive with bi-polar disorder wins protection under the ADA, says he's really excited to have set the precedent, plans on starting a national organization for fellow suffers,or not, because that's just too hard  (abcnews.go.com) (73)
(The Atlantic Wire) Interesting Europe's reaction to the Supreme Court fight over Obamacare is: "WTF? Seriously, WTF?"  (theatlanticwire.com) (441)
(Some Creosote) Spiffy Tiny new silicon110 GHz phased array transmitter developed. Scienticians say it's wahffer-thin, won't bust budgets or explode under pressure  (phys.org) (26)
(RI Tag) Asinine From the state that brought us "The Prayer Banner" comes "this mural is totally inappropriate because the man and woman standing together 'may not represent the live experience of all students'"  (www2.turnto10.com) (106)
(Fox News) Obvious Astronauts from International Space Station take one millionth photo, promising to be different from the previous 999,999 views of earth  (foxnews.com) (13)
(Hartford Courant) Interesting Guard donkey protects sheep from predators, delivers a mean punch  (courant.com) (20)


Thu April 05, 2012
(Hot Air) Obvious DOJ: Requiring an ID so we know the person voting is who they say they are to prevent fraud is racist, but requiring an ID to enter our building, totally OK  (hotair.com) (543)
(Some Sad Guy) Misc NBC enhances Zimmerman 911 call: "Coons". CNN enhances Zimmerman 911 call: "Cold". Tune in for the next installment of pre-race war Florida  (theblaze.com) (974)
(Yahoo) Dumbass Terror leader dares the US to come and get him, at a public press conference: "I will be in Lahore tomorrow. America can contact me whenever it wants to," US Special Forces: "Challenge accepted"  (news.yahoo.com) (134)
(Some Guy) Scary Threatening the president will get you a $250,000 fine, five years in jail, no bail, a mental exam, and funny lips  (thedaleygator.wordpress.com) (80)
(Some Guy) Interesting You thought I was crazy to build an anti-Russia bunker. You thought I was crazy to prepare to fight zombies. Well, who's crazy now?  (heraldsun.com.au) (42)
(Salon) Amusing "I'm not sure what Ann Romney sees when she 'unzips' her husband, but the man who's running for president is a turn-off"  (salon.com) (57)
(NewsBusters) Dumbass Newsweek writer wants to impeach the Supreme Court for doing its job as decided in Marbury V Madison. Also wants the wizard to grant him a brain  (newsbusters.org) (111)
(YouTube) Followup Pre-game locker room audio from Saints v 49ers. Before final game, Gregg Williams urged Saints to injure 49ers. This is more than just a pep talk folks. (Not safe for work Language)  (youtube.com) (512)
(Some Guy) Hero President Obama: "Do you really want to know where your tax dollars go? Do you? OK then here you go"  (whitehouse.gov) (480)


Wed April 04, 2012
(Kansas.com) Strange Kansas Supreme Court rules repeat dog molester won't have to register as a sex offender  (blogs.kansas.com) (89)
(Media Matters) Followup Fox News anchor who tweeted claim that Obama threatened Chelsea Clinton's life over Hillary's birth certificate investigation is sorry and assures us that she respects the legitimacy of "President" Bongfart Insane O'Taxus  (mediamatters.org) (174)
(610 WIOD) Amusing PETA purchases personalized brick at new baseball stadium that contains hidden message. Subby can't believe he's actually impressed by something PETA did  (610wiod.com) (251)
(PC Magazine) Obvious 550,000 infections later, Apple decides it's time to pretend to care about security again. Minimisation and Wharrgarble to the right  (securitywatch.pcmag.com) (196)
(Huffington Post) Fail Presenting 21 people who had no idea that the movie Titanic was based on a real event. And shockingly, none of them are named Palin or Simpson  (huffingtonpost.com) (148)
(Yahoo) Asinine The players of the Fantasy Supreme Court League are split on which way the justices will rule on Obamacare. In other news, there are people with nothing better to do with their time than play in a Fantasy Supreme Court League  (news.yahoo.com) (114)
(ESPN) Followup ESPN's "experts" again show their obvious East Coast bias with their World Series predictions. A whole 3 out of 49 picked the Yankees, and a whopping 1 picked the Red Sox. For shame, guys  (espn.go.com) (236)
(Poynter) Hero Obama to reporters convention : That whole "presenting two sides of a story" is fine and well, but sometimes, one side is clearly wrong. So, stop treating it like it's valid  (poynter.org) (386)
(Telegraph) Fail Not News: Man breaks into game preserve. News: Cannot get cash so he saws off a Rhino horn. FARK: It was a fiberglass Rhino head  (telegraph.co.uk) (43)
(The Smithsonian) Scary So yeah, we're pretty much boned  (smithsonianmag.com) (143)
(RealClearPolitics) Strange President Obama instructs the press how to properly cover his policies. Because they were so biased before, you know  (realclearpolitics.com) (204)
(Detroit Free Press) Dumbass It is not even pre-season yet, and the Detroit Lions are imploding. Did I say imploding? I meant inhaling  (freep.com) (40)
(Politico) Obvious Because we've all been waiting with eager anticipation. Sarah Palin finally announces her pick for the GOP vice-presidential candidate  (politico.com) (87)
(CSMonitor) Ironic Moderate president says former moderate president wouldn't fit in with the current far-from-moderates  (csmonitor.com) (89)
(CBS News) Amusing Federal Appeals Court orders the Obama Administration to have the Constitutional Law Professor President give the judges a teaching moment to explain why 200+ years of precedent is wrong  (cbsnews.com) (425)
(Jezebel) Hero Ryan Gosling just saved a woman's life, presumably while playing piano, searing a perfect piece of tuna, and without moving a single hair out of its perfect place  (jezebel.com) (118)


Tue April 03, 2012
(Radar Magazine) Obvious Paula Deen bashes Bourdain's cruelty toward her condition, admires Kristin Wiig's impression of her on SNL and announces she'd like to host show herself  (radaronline.com) (179)
(USA Today) Scary As the seas continuously rise due to global warming, architects and city planners are exploring creative ways to prepare us all for life in Waterworld  (usatoday.com) (116)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Rick Perry didn't lose the Presidential nomination because of his out-of-touch policies or the liberal press or his multiple public gaffes. He lost because he was hopped up on goofballs. Yeah. That's the ticket  (tmdailypost.com) (57)
(Yahoo) Interesting Obama warns the "unelected" Supreme Court not to take the "extraordinary" and "unprecedented" step of overturning his health reform law. Supremes: *shivers* Dude, we're not up for re-election, you are  (ca.news.yahoo.com) (630)
(C|Net) Interesting It's going to be a great apple picking year. Forecast predicts 2012 sales of 138.2 million iPhones and 69.6 million iPads. People now spend more on Apples than on apples  (news.cnet.com) (22)
(ABC) Amusing Don't you hate it when, running for President, someone quotes Book of Mormon scripture, then asks if you believe in interracial marriage?  (abcnews.go.com) (260)
(Townhall) Obvious Barack Obama has little in common with any president our country has ever had. Hopefully, this Obama hiccup in history will be of short duration  (townhall.com) (245)
(The Hollywood Reporter) Stupid Adam Sandler prepping a remake of the Mark Harmon classic Summer School  (hollywoodreporter.com) (89)


Mon April 02, 2012
(Slate) Unlikely Can a presidential campaign make news if no one's there to cover it? Let's ask Newt Gingrich...um, hold on, does anyone know where he is?  (slate.com) (41)
(Aint-It-Cool-News) Silly The Red Band trailer for Ted is pretty damn funny  (aintitcool.com) (54)
(Some Guy) Sappy Mikey was a runner, Molly was a jumper, and he and his friends used to watch her. They took a little trip, he pretended not to zip, and that's how the diamond left the locker  (siouxcityjournal.com) (37)
(Politico) Interesting Romneybot3000 prepares to load betterhalf.exe which adds a better GUI and more lifelike animations  (politico.com) (53)
(MSNBC) Sad Supreme Court rules that everyone can get strip searched because 9/11  (usnews.msnbc.msn.com) (325)
(Some Responsible Adult) Dumbass School bus driver gets 2 DUIs in 17 hours, eats thirty sack lunches, threatens to turn bus around, end precious field trip  (wtae.com) (27)
(Independent) Cool French presidential candidate whose ideas include a 100% tax on all income above €360,000 receiving surprising levels of support. Meanwhile in America, debate continues over whether it's possible to raise taxes on people with no money  (independent.co.uk) (168)


Sun April 01, 2012
(Some Guy) Asinine Apparently, SC state troopers get pretty grumpy and vengeful when you try to protest the traffic tickets they give you  (wsoctv.com) (150)
(LA Times) Interesting Administration lawyers are concerned about an activist Supreme Court. Reagan Administration lawyers. And they are worried that an activist court will throw out Obamacare  (latimes.com) (225)
(YouTube) Spiffy Watch this 13-year-old kid play Emerson, Lake and Palmer's "Trilogy", devoting more expression to three and a half minutes than you've ever managed to squeeze out of your entire, miserable, self-absorbed life  (youtube.com) (26)
(National Post) Spiffy In the U.S., political foes pretend they're tough. In Canada, they get into the ring and prove it  (news.nationalpost.com) (53)
(Des Moines Register) Cool The unseasonably warm weather has one small Iowa town fearing its annual Tulip Festival may get canceled because of premature blooming. But they have a solution: spray the plants with whiskey to delay the process  (desmoinesregister.com) (31)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Victoria Beckham says that she represents the average woman. However, she forgot to mention that the average woman she's representing is post-Zombie Apocalypse   (todayentertainment.today.msnbc.msn.com) (33)


Sat March 31, 2012
(Corbin News Journal) Unlikely Couple busted for burglarizing a vacant home claim they were "looking for a pregnant horse" and "peat moss in order to decorate for a wedding"  (thenewsjournal.net) (15)
(FOX Charlotte) Dumbass Smoking hot 31-year-old English teacher arrested for giving anxiety pills to student, presumably to have sex with them (w/mugshot)  (foxcharlotte.com) (116)
(Some It's Real To Him Guy) Interesting Presenting a list of the 20 worst Wrestlemania matches of all time. Come for the spray-painted body suit, stay for the sumo  (bluebarcage.blogspot.com) (110)
(Yahoo) Obvious Ladies and gentlemen, it's official. The drunker you are, the prettier you become - to yourself. This would explain why most Farkers "feel sexier, smarter and funnier, even when others privately think you are a turkey"  (ca.news.yahoo.com) (44)


Fri March 30, 2012
(Some Guy) Cool Bellator 63: Welterweight tourney quarterfinals at the Mohegan Sun. Who will get cut in Connecticut? Prelims start at 7 ET  (bellator.com) (196)
(The Register) Strange Today's incomprehensible headline: "Disappearing bees mystery: Boffins finger regicide pesticides." Translated from English to American: "I'm covered in beeeeeeeees"  (theregister.co.uk) (39)
(USA Today) Obvious You know how GOP comentators have been ragging on the ladies pretty hard lately? Well, something kinda predictable has happened  (content.usatoday.com) (393)
(YouTube) Dumbass He said the President is an anti-war government ni-BONG (fast forward to 34:20)  (youtube.com) (684)


Thu March 29, 2012
(Chud) Cool Kenneth Branagh might be the clear and present director for Jack Ryan  (chud.com) (36)
(Some Guy) Obvious Canada is the preferred destination for American sex tourists, according to survey of 101 johns from Boston  (blogs.vancouversun.com) (111)
(Houston Chronicle) Interesting Doomed Man's last words: 'Go Cowboys'. Which pretty much sums up their upcoming season  (chron.com) (40)
(The Atlantic) Sad Some of the coolest (and most depressing) photos you'll see all week. Also, for some reason, the Stanley Cup  (theatlantic.com) (47)
(Inquirer) Dumbass Catholic school prevents girl from joining her class graduation after she burned down the entire school while doing meth and having sex with two teachers. Just kidding, it's because she posted pics of herself in a bikini on Facebook  (newsinfo.inquirer.net) (112)
(TMZ) Followup Spike Lee presents: Mea Culpa  (tmz.com) (413)


Wed March 28, 2012
(The Smoking Gun) Asinine Rock guitarist applies for trademark to fill niche for "Justice For Trayvon" hoodies. With Jimi-Hendrix-wannabe album cover pic of the entrepreneur  (thesmokinggun.com) (45)
(Slanch Report) Dumbass Jose Canseco preaches the good word about global warming and the plight of polar bears. Oh yeah, and apparently he thinks Al Gore is dead  (slanchreport.com) (20)
(The Consumerist) Stupid Atheist orders custom Capitol One card with a red "A" on it. It's rejected, since they don't allow "religious imagery." Except, of course, for any of the pre-approved Jesus images available in their online gallery  (consumerist.com) (283)
(Deadline) Amusing News Corp. shopping an all-sports network to rival ESPN. No word yet on how they plan to present stats and scores in such a way so that it always looks like the team they like is the one that's winning  (deadline.com) (54)
(Some Guy) Dumbass The mainstream press is really doing a number on this Trayvon Martin thing, but I'll bet that the bastions of journalistic integrity at big state school newspapers are... oh my  (blogs.houstonpress.com) (162)
(Talking Points Memo) Amusing Megadeth's Dave Mustaine confirms he "knows" President Obama wasn't born in America and Rick Santorum could be a "really cool president, kinda like a JFK-type guy"  (2012.talkingpointsmemo.com) (209)
(Some Guy) Asinine Supreme Court rules that the Federal government can tell the world about your HIV status if it wants to  (fox8.com) (77)
(Some Guy) Interesting If Obamacare is struck down in its entirety by the Supreme Court, it could mean the end of unemployment benefits and the Civil Rights Act, and all beer will now be Heineken  (hereandnow.wbur.org) (187)
(Think Progress) Amusing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says the GOP should check their clocks from time to time, "it's 2012, not the mid-1970s"  (thinkprogress.org) (120)
(io9) Interesting Man undergoes full facial transplant. Nicholas Cage, John Travolta reportedly unimpressed. (pics)  (io9.com) (58)
(Some Guy) Amusing Some pretty creative Mad Men poster graffiti  (huffingtonpost.co.uk) (61)


Tue March 27, 2012
(Some Guy) Interesting Zombie Reagan burn: "I just can't bring myself to vote for that kid, I knew what he was like when I had his dad as my vice president, and I couldn't allow for a man like that to lead the nation"  (freewoodpost.com) (122)
(Some Guy) Weird Torani rolls out Chicken 'n' Waffles flavored syrup, so you can have pretty much the weirdest lattes ever  (theimpulsivebuy.com) (38)
(AP) Strange South African rugby team which liked to practice on the beach gets into fatal scrum with strong currents; six tackled and presumed drowned  (hosted2.ap.org) (14)
(NPR) Interesting Basically today's Supreme Court arguments are going to come down to if you believe there is a difference between forcing someone to buy health insurance or broccoli  (npr.org) (503)
(Miami Herald) Fail Colts' Dwight Freeney finally gets first preseason sack ... his financial advisors  (miamiherald.com) (4)
(Salon) Interesting How Obama can turn a defeat for Obamacare in the Supreme Court into Medicare for All, a single payer, national health care system  (salon.com) (257)
(Daily Mail) Followup 'Octomom' poses topless three years after eight-baby pregnancy and OH GOD, MY EYES (Not safe for work pics)  (dailymail.co.uk) (151)


Mon March 26, 2012
(Huffington Post) Interesting Gang of Blondes: "Six really pretty blondes who wreak havoc around the city by robbing and assuming the identity of fellow beautiful blondes." With helpful pic of what a gang of blondes might look like  (huffingtonpost.com) (53)
(Wonkette) Asinine Ladies & Gentlemen I present to your left a review and links to the hot new magazine "Conservative Teen" & to your right a column of "wtfamireading. jpg" pics  (wonkette.com) (330)
(Some Guy) Florida Governor Rick Scott decides the state isn't losing enough money on frivolous drug tests, decides to press his advantage and add a First Amendment violation to his record  (floridaindependent.com) (134)
(Some Guy) Unlikely "It's deeply ironic that Zynga, the new king of gaming, has its San Francisco offices in those previously inhabited by Atari, the great games king of the 1970s"  (timeslive.co.za) (67)
(Cracked) Fail Five creepy modern parenting fads: Want to worship your child as part of the coming of a new, superior race? Maybe you'd prefer to "train up" your less-than-one year old baby with a tree branch? Truly something for everyone  (cracked.com) (145)
(USA Today) Stupid New York City retro-hipsters aren't going to let the fact that Mad Men is filmed in Canada prevent them from hanging out in Don Draper's favorite watering holes  (travel.usatoday.com) (37)
(NPR) Fail Helicopter parents force cancellation of annual Easter egg hunt. Due to their "aggressive actions" when they swarmed the park last year, determined to get their precious snowflakes the most goodies  (npr.org) (89)
(CNN) Followup Today begins the day in which the Supreme Court shall hear arguments to decide if giving up a little freedom for a bit of safety is constitutional  (cnn.com) (308)
(Huffington Post) Stupid GOP files suit to prevent Democratic candidate from claiming to be an astronaut. Difficulty: he actually used to be an astronaut  (huffingtonpost.com) (180)


Sun March 25, 2012
(Washington Post) Florida After determining that tomatoes aren't fruits, and professional baseball isn't a business, US Supreme Court to decide whether a houseboat is a house or a boat  (washingtonpost.com) (60)
(YouTube) Video The legends return. SHMHC presents Cannibal Corpse with Encased in Concrete  (youtube.com) (59)
(Boomstick Comics) Cool Did Joan have her baby? Did Don and Megan tie the knot? Did Sterling, Cooper, Draper, Price finally get a big account? Here's your Mad Men season 5 premiere discussion thread. The thrills begin at 8 central on AMC  (boomstickcomics.com) (147)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Tag is for MHSAA rules that prevent high school student with Down Syndrome from playing on his school's basketball team  (uppermichiganssource.com) (132)
(Bozeman Comical) Dumbass Not content with convincing parents not to vaccinate their kids, blithering idiots are now trying to stop cities from fluoridating drinking water in an effort to preserve their precious bodily fluids  (bozemandailychronicle.com) (504)
(Correlated.org) Silly In general, 72 percent of people are fans of the serial comma. But among those who prefer Tau as the circle constant over Pi, 90 percent are fans of the serial comma  (correlated.org) (71)


Sat March 24, 2012
(Scientific American) Silly I was going to take my little nephew to DisneyLand, but I drove him to a burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said, "DisneyLand burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke  (blogs.scientificamerican.com) (72)
(The Raw Story) Amusing Barack Obama meets Hawaiian women on the rope line while campaigning, asks to see her birth certificate. Barack Obama, president, statesmen, King of the Trolls  (rawstory.com) (195)
(Yahoo) Sad Not news: Kid has food allergy. News: Will kill him if he even smells it. Fark: He's allergic to pretty much ALL food  (shine.yahoo.com) (140)
(Some Guy) Spiffy While the motorsport press was worried how Danca Patrick's latest crash will effect her latest GoDaddy advert they failed to notice that 18yo Elena Myers became the first woman to win a race at Daytona. On a motorbike. Why yes, she is hot  (bikesportnews.com) (51)
(Fox News) Unlikely Strip club industry prepares once again for customers needing to find a slot to deposit a $1 coin  (foxnews.com) (313)
(Some Tacos) Amusing "The U.S. government is single-handedly preventing you from ordering a taco and having it delivered to you by a totally sweet pilot-less helicopter"  (marginalrevolution.com) (39)
(Daily Yomiuri) Strange Nearly bankrupt municipality of Izumi-Sano, Osaka Prefecture, plans to lease naming rights for city, city slogan, city hall, and public roads to interested applicants. Farkers see vacation to Izumi-Sano Boston Garden in their future  (yomiuri.co.jp) (30)
(The Weekly Standard) Stupid The Weekly Standard notes that Obama used the same metaphor to praise three different allies. Obviously this makes Ernest Hemingway retroactively president, and Obama has to take remedial Creative Writing at community college in Kenya  (weeklystandard.com) (113)
(The Atlantic Wire) Cool Previously unpublished Kurt Vonnegut novella to be released exclusively on the Amazon Kindle. So it goes  (theatlanticwire.com) (33)


Fri March 23, 2012
(WHP 21) Dumbass Sheesh. It's getting to be you can't spread the word of the Lord to kids by abducting them, putting pillow cases over their heads, taking them to your van and interrogating them anymore without their parents getting all pissy  (whptv.com) (134)
(Some Guy) Interesting I'm pregnant and I know it  (blogs.babycenter.com) (34)
(Yahoo) Cool 19-year old entrepreneur has developed a thriving business selling a product that retails for hundreds of dollars and ounce, but unlike most people who fit this description, he has no fear of the DEA kicking in his front door  (news.yahoo.com) (117)
(some dummkopf cop) Fail Motorcycle cop purposely rear-ends convertible, ends up face-down/boots-up in back seat, and presses charges against driver -- but didn't count on witnesses and incriminating video turning up (bonus: not his first deliberate rear-ending)  (laweekly.com) (158)
(Some Anti-Wags-ers) PSA Medical doctors of India would like to take this moment to reassure you that despite Janani Mukherjee's claims, getting bitten by a dog does not put your child at risk of becoming pregnant with puppies  (voanews.com) (35)
(Daily Mail) Interesting Not News: Fight outside of school. News: Prearranged on Facebook. FARK: Between two Moms  (dailymail.co.uk) (28)


Thu March 22, 2012
(Irritable Bowel Disorder) Asinine I've read this three times and still have absolutely no idea why I'm supposed to be outraged, but rest assured it means Sarah Palin is automatically president and Obama has to perform some Herculean or embarrassing task  (news.investors.com) (61)
(ABC) Amusing In a Roswell, New Mexico visit by President Obama, he opens with "I come in peace." Clearly, Mr. Obama's home planet is much further away than Kenya  (abcnews.go.com) (123)
(Daily Mail) Followup Snooki's pregnancy cravings still include eating wieners. Oh c'mon ... that was just too easy  (dailymail.co.uk) (30)
(Bloomberg) Followup Remember how Wall Street abandoned President Obama because of his "class warfare" and Nazisocialism? Yeah, no they didn't. They always back the winner  (bloomberg.com) (50)
(MSNBC) Interesting Coup topples "incompetent" regime in Mali--presumably by kicking the regime's leg while it was walking  (worldnews.msnbc.msn.com) (44)
(BBC) Obvious Toulouse siege enters second day. Press denial enters phase 2 (Phases - 1: "He's right-wing." 2: "He's just a lone wolf." 3: "His connections aren't Islamic." 4: "Local Muslims fear backlash")  (bbc.co.uk) (107)


Wed March 21, 2012
(The Raw Story) Dumbass Romney: Bush saved U.S. from another Great Depression, Godzilla  (rawstory.com) (185)
(Huffington Post) Interesting In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court affirms that your constitutional right to a lawyer actually guarantees you someone vaguely competent at their job, and not some random idiot who barely passed the Bar Exam  (huffingtonpost.com) (138)
(News.com.au) Stupid Teenagers are learning how to iron, sew and make the bed as part of a school curriculum designed to turn boys into "men". Pretty men with soft hands and delicate smiles that we know get all the girls  (news.com.au) (280)
(Daily Kos) Amusing "Newt gave the etch-a-sketch to a kid in the front row and said, 'You can now be a presidential candidate.'"  (dailykos.com) (84)
(MSNBC) Interesting While only giving your children bottled water may prevent Obama from controlling their minds through the neuro-socialist transmitters contained within fluoride, it can also make them more susceptible to cavities. Ah, well, life's a balance  (vitals.msnbc.msn.com) (133)
(Reuters) Obvious Goldman's sudden -- and prescient -- shift to reducing subprime risk supports the inference that it possessed some unique insight  (reuters.com) (34)
(Boston.com) Followup Idaho lawmaker sponsoring anti-abortion bill can't figure out why everyone's so upset by his suggestion that doctors should call bullshiat on women claiming their pregnancy was caused by rape  (boston.com) (123)
(The Hill) Obvious President Obama has no plans to mark the two-year anniversary of Obamacare this Friday. Wonder why he'd ignore a chance to celebrate such a momentous, historic event?  (thehill.com) (103)
(Some Caveman) Dumbass Kirk Cameron's board game: "True or False? Prehistoric man may have sometimes lived in caves." "False. [...] Since the first man is mentioned in the Bible's historical record, there has never been a prehistoric man"  (ncse.com) (323)
(NPR) Scary The Supreme Court is about to decide on whether a man can go to prison for insulting Dick Cheney  (npr.org) (141)
(Crooks & Liars) Followup The Debt has increased more under Obama than under Bush. And if you stop reading right there, you'll have a pretty good fw:fw:fw:fw email from your nutty uncle  (crooksandliars.com) (73)
(YouTube) Amusing Watch a blond try to reason through how long it will take to travel 80 miles while driving at a rate of 80 mph. Difficulty: involve running time, vehicle weight, tire pressure and "whacking it in half"  (youtube.com) (100)
(Daily Kos) Asinine Son of former House of Representatives gets 14 year old drunk, rapes her, has a friend video tape the event, drops her off in the lawn, and walks away with a midemeanor charge two months later. For some reason people have a problem with this  (dailykos.com) (183)


Tue March 20, 2012
(Some Guy) Misc PGA set to announce massive, unprecedented changes, including essentially scrapping Q-School and starting the golf season in October  (cbssports.com) (66)
(Talking Points Memo) Asinine Intent on going down in the biggest blaze of glory ever, Rick Santorum now taking shots at President Obama's parenting skills  (2012.talkingpointsmemo.com) (166)
(NJ.com) Obvious Public employee unions fear political shift in N.J. Supreme Court. Alternative headline: Public employee unions fear political shift in N.J. Supreme Court will not kowtow to their every whim and give away the statehouse  (nj.com) (74)
(Breitbart.com) Obvious Heroic blogger-patriot determines that there are not enough anti-Obama comments on You Tube, so that means Sarah Palin is automatically president and Obama has to watch the 108-hour Nyan Cat loop until he goes insane  (breitbart.com) (129)
(Washington Free Beacon) Asinine Watch congressman Markey say the President has nothing to do with rising gas prices and then watch him blame a different President a few years ago for rising gas prices  (freebeacon.com) (127)
(Yahoo) Amusing How over is it for Ron Paul? In Puerto Rico, he lost to Fred Karger, a former actor who bills himself as "The first openly gay Republican presidential candidate"  (news.yahoo.com) (54)
(Digital Spy) Silly I present to you: Ratatouille, the snowboarding opossum  (digitalspy.com) (10)
(GQ) Obvious Republican presidential candidates' Secret Service code names revealed; Romney's is "Javelin", Santorum's is...what? Ew. I thought the word Cleveland went before that, but whatever  (gq.com) (150)
(SlashFilm) Followup Chris Pine's Jack Ryan reboot hit with clear and present danger  (slashfilm.com) (72)
(Some Guy) Cool Aaron Paul tweets that "Breaking Bad" will return in July. "Make sure u wear your diapers because I'm pretty sure u will (bleep) yourself"   (theclicker.today.msnbc.msn.com) (145)


Mon March 19, 2012
(Minneapolis Star Tribune) Dumbass Idiot leaves his $40,000 cello in unlocked car with predictable results  (startribune.com) (125)
(Townhall) Obvious "Yes, Mr. President, that makes a lot of sense. Your regulations and unconstitutional executive orders have caused the price of gas to skyrocket. So, you do control gas prices. Want examples? I'll give you five"  (townhall.com) (277)
(Hartford Courant) Dumbass In unprecedented act of alcohol abuse, man beats wife with six pack  (courant.com) (35)
(Kansas.com) Obvious If you've been killing people in video games since you were 2 it will help prepare you for the cutthroat world of Corporate America  (kansas.com) (53)
(Huffington Post) Asinine Tennessee GOP lawmakers say that women who get abortions should have their age, race, county, marital status, education, # of children, and # of pregnancies made public. Presumably for economic growth and jobs  (huffingtonpost.com) (552)
(MSNBC) Scary Drug resistant "white plague" spreading. Victims reportedly develop fevers, and urges to listen to Pat Boone, wear socks with sandals, argue about the designated hitter rule  (msnbc.msn.com) (119)
(Daily Mail) Interesting Richard Gere regrets Pretty Woman because it glorifies bankers. Hookers are cool though  (dailymail.co.uk) (84)
(Huffington Post) Obvious Peacetime martial law now OK. Which guy was going to suspend elections for an indefinite presidency again? Hope, Change, etc  (huffingtonpost.com) (111)
(USA Today) Spiffy ObamaCare saved nearly 4-million seniors $2.16-billion in prescription medication costs last year. Praise be to Socialism  (yourlife.usatoday.com) (193)
(Politico) Interesting Sen. Marco Rubio's (R-FL) memoir, "An American Son," will now be published on June 19 instead of in October, as previously planned. Why ever would he do such a thing?  (politico.com) (136)
(Gamma Squad) Cool Three new videos released for Prometheus, the movie Charlize Theron says is "the prequel to Thelma and Louise"  (gammasquad.uproxx.com) (97)
(Wimp) Video Jimmy Fallon does 12 comedy impressions in 2 minutes. Amazingly dead on  (wimp.com) (84)
(USA Today) Interesting You've been dying to know, so here's what's happened to all the original "21 Jump Street" cast members. Oh, you haven't been curious at all? Well, here it is, anyway, just pretend to be interested  (usatoday.com) (59)
(Huffington Post) Obvious John McCain says Republicans need to "get off" the issue of birth control and "respect the right of women to make choices." If only this guy would run for President, or something  (huffingtonpost.com) (101)
(The Atlantic) Ironic Who was the most fiscally conservative president in the last 30 years? Hint: It's not any of the ones who talked the most about fiscal responsibility  (theatlantic.com) (273)


Sun March 18, 2012
(Daily Mail) Fail Meanwhile on the Bizarroternet: Girls pretending to be boys to pick up underage girls. "...he was the very image of her teen idol, Justin Bieber"  (dailymail.co.uk) (77)
(Iowa City Press-Citizen) Interesting When it comes to comic books, what's the preferred medium, digital or print? One graphic novelist has finally realized digital is actually as good as, if not better, than print  (press-citizen.com) (105)
(BBC) Unlikely Lutheran pastor elected to German presidency, describes himself as a "liberal left conservative." Yeah, and Subby is a Blue Dog Log Cabin Distributist  (bbc.co.uk) (48)
(Science Daily) Obvious I bet we'll see this on Fark. COME ON, I HAVE TO MAKE THE SPREAD  (sciencedaily.com) (14)
(Some Guy) Cool Very impressive new GIF format. You haven't seen anything like this before  (cinemagraphs.com) (122)
(Chicago Tribune) Fail Cubs lose their sixth game in a row and it's only the pre-season. BOOK IT DONE  (chicagotribune.com) (37)
(Slate) Obvious Did Leprechauns start off scary or cute? And really, aren't they just downright terrifying, whether they're killing Jennifer Aniston or shilling marshmallow cereal?  (slate.com) (51)


Sat March 17, 2012
(Yahoo) Fail It's probably best not to criticize the president's record on promoting human rights in China when you have substantial holdings in a Chinese video surveillance company that helps their government constantly monitor its citizens  (news.yahoo.com) (54)
(YouTube) Video Pretty song, in the vein of Portishead. Bonus: Cousin Itt cameo  (youtube.com) (18)
(The New York Times) Obvious Why won't one of the elder statesmen of the GOP talk Newt into giving up his quest for president? Because most of them know it would be bad for Romney  (thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com) (73)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Obvious Roger Ebert finally bows to blogosphere pressure, pans a Nicolas Cage movie. "Attempting to find something to praise, I am reduced to this: Cage's performance is not boring"  (rogerebert.suntimes.com) (36)


Fri March 16, 2012
(Indecision Forever) Amusing Florida democrats honor Supreme Leader Barack Obama (sponsored link)  (indecisionforever.com) (149)
(Big 1059) Obvious "Joe Biden is TOTALLY unprepared for the Presidency" according to: (a) Romney (b) Gingrich (c) Osama bin Laden  (big1059.com) (163)
(PhysOrg.com) Silly Futurama predicted it  (physorg.com) (52)
(Yahoo) Asinine Arizona GOP pushing a bill that would bar women from purchasing birth control for the purpose of preventing pregnancy. Acne prevention though? Go right ahead  (news.yahoo.com) (501)
(Variety) Silly WWE gets into the movie business. First up: a "Leprechaun" reboot. It's still real to me dammit  (variety.com) (82)
(US Constitutional Free Press) Silly US Constitutional Free Press discusses the importance of news aggregators and mentions FARK as "fulfilling a very specific need among a news-hungry public"   (usconstitutionalfreepress.wordpress.com) (2)
(YouTube) Cool Coolest time lapse video you'll see all day. Yeah, it's a couple months old, but I'm pretty sure it'll be the best two minutes you've ever spent watching something other than porn online  (youtube.com) (25)


Thu March 15, 2012
(The Daily Caller) Asinine The internet under President Santorum would have one site called, "Bring back the porn"  (dailycaller.com) (199)
(Science Daily) Unlikely Cell phone radiation during pregnancy causes ADHD and ... what was the other thing?  (sciencedaily.com) (39)
(Some Welder) Asinine Of the two candidates for election as Alabama's Supreme Court Chief Justice, one said execution is acceptable to prevent gay couples from having children. And then there's the crazy one  (weldbham.com) (136)
(The Register) Interesting A new hominid species, or just a prehistoric Zach Galifianiakis? Your call, Science  (theregister.co.uk) (40)
(Fox News) Asinine Gingrich learns to speak Romney... "What a crowd. I'm really impressed. There must be no one left at Wal-Mart this afternoon"   (politics.blogs.foxnews.com) (169)


Wed March 14, 2012
(Some Guy) PSA After your debit card theft spree, avoid choosing a store where the clerk knows you by name. And don't use a card belonging to the clerk's own mother  (abc27.com) (18)
(Daily Kos) Unlikely Rush Limbaugh was set up by President Obama and forced to call Sandra Fluke a slut because HBO had a movie coming out about Sarah Palin  (dailykos.com) (224)
(RWW) Stupid Family Research Council to hold discussion lamenting 40 year-old Supreme Court decision sanctioning "non-procreative sexual intimacy"  (rightwingwatch.org) (224)
(Think Progress) Unlikely Rep. Allen West (R-FL) says the stock market is strong because it has the foresight that a Republican will be elected president in six months  (thinkprogress.org) (137)
(Dayton Daily News) Sad From now on if you run over a leprechaun in Las Vegas you will receive a citation  (daytondailynews.com) (64)
(Some Guy) Cool Back in 1994, unknown film director gives unknown talk show host a great interview and preview of his unknown movie  (slyoyster.com) (145)
(Pressconnects) Interesting "Gloom, despair, and agony." It's not Detroit, it's Binghamton, NY: America's #5 most depressing, #2 most obese, and #1 most pessimistic city  (pressconnects.com) (141)
(Some Guy) Interesting "Microgravity-induced intracranial hypertension represents a hypothetical risk factor and a potential limitation to long-duration space travel." In other words, your eyeballs stretch out of shape and your brain deforms  (huffingtonpost.co.uk) (39)


Tue March 13, 2012
(Bloomberg) Asinine Stop me if you've heard this one before: Bi-partisan bill promising economic growth aims to roll back depression-era regulatory safeguards and disclosure requirements  (bloomberg.com) (53)
(WebProNews) Interesting "Websites such as the indispensable Drudge Report, Times 24/7, Real Clear Politics, Digg, Fark and Reddit collect news from sources spread across the Web." Wait... are we indispensable now? (4th paragraph)  (webpronews.com) (15)
(Uproxx) Cool One Farker's mashup of The Walking Dead and Office Space "has been deemed the preferred choice of the internet," according to Uproxx (not-safe-for-work)  (uproxx.com) (5)
(Ars Technica) Strange Midwest facing epidemic of exploding prebacon  (arstechnica.com) (82)
(CNN) Interesting Spiffy: President Obama is taking British Prime Minister David Cameron to experience an NCAA March Madness game. Sad: Western Kentucky vs. Mississippi Valley State  (cnn.com) (98)
(Guardian) Dumbass Republicans upset Obama is destroying Iran's economy. Presumably because they'd rather he sell them weapons  (guardian.co.uk) (36)
(Yahoo) Followup Revealed: what Dennis Kucinich whispered to President Bush, just before the 2007 State of the Union. And no, it wasn't "You may be President, but I get to tap THAT every night"  (news.yahoo.com) (42)
(Washington Post) Sad Sarah Palin's deliberate ignorance did more than scuttle John McCain's presidential hopes -- it destroyed American politics, too  (washingtonpost.com) (213)
(Salon) Obvious When it comes to student loan debt, today's high school and college students are more screwed than pretty much any other college graduate  (salon.com) (224)


Mon March 12, 2012
(MSNBC) Silly How top level predators in nature lost their taste for cookies and sweets  (msnbc.msn.com) (24)
(WorldNetDaily) Amusing Barack Obama is the most "biblically hostile" U.S. president ever. Even more than James Monroe, who used them as booster seats at the dining room table  (wnd.com) (272)
(SFGate) Obvious Obama campaign posts its own NCAA tournament pool. Winner predicted from left hand bracket  (sfgate.com) (21)
(Some Guy in Tights) Misc Sherwood Forest resident rings NASDAQ bell, demands wallets and valuables of all present  (midtown.patch.com) (3)


Sun March 11, 2012
(Some Guy) Sick Did you know that the New Deal prolonged the Great Depression and made life harder on poor people?  (addictinginfo.org) (449)


Sat March 10, 2012
(The New York Times) PSA In coach, passengers are reduced to scrounging stale peanuts and tiny pretzels out of the seat cushion, while up front, racks of lamb, fine wines, and exquisite desserts are standard fare. Here comes the science of how they do it  (nytimes.com) (118)
(CSMonitor) Interesting When Netanyahu gave Obama the Book of Esther as a gift, the message was only slightly less subtle than if he had constructed a massive neon billboard with the message "Mr. President, please help me destroy Iran before they destroy us"  (csmonitor.com) (235)
(The New York Times) Unlikely Illegal immigrant runs for president. This is not a repeat from 2008  (nytimes.com) (99)
(Entertainment Weekly) Interesting Twenty-six instances where the book was better than the movie. Watchmen isn't on the list, presumably because the movie was just as good as the book  (ew.com) (196)
(YouTube) Amusing The Texas Rangers will no longer play the video of Nolan Ryan pummeling Robin Ventura on the Jumbotron. In other news, the Rangers have been playing the video of team president Nolan Ryan pummeling Robin Ventura for the past 20 years. LGT video  (youtube.com) (84)
(The Raw Story) Asinine Republican party finally sees the error of their ways and quietly lets the war against women drop... JUST KIDDING, a Georgia State Representative compares pregnant women to cattle and pigs  (rawstory.com) (334)


Fri March 09, 2012
(The Atlantic Wire) Followup Fred Armisen's greatest impression is "that of a normal person"  (theatlanticwire.com) (63)
(WXYZ Detroit) Cool Ford announces it will help the recent victims of tornadoes in the Midwest, presumably by giving them reliable vehicles like a Camry or 4Runner  (wxyz.com) (48)
(Rolling Stone) Fail According to record companies and the RIAA, file sharing has been the big villain in ripping off musicians, preventing them from being paid their deserved royalties while the record companies have been perfect angels... Yeah, well, about that  (rollingstone.com) (47)
(Art Info) Spiffy ArtInfo.com thanks FARK for the tip about the three "Star Wars" prequels and lists it as one of the 5 important film events of the week  (artinfo.com) (0)
(Yahoo) Followup This last solar storm was pretty much a dud. But don't worry, there will be plenty to panic about soon enough  (ca.news.yahoo.com) (17)
(ESPN) Obvious Jonathan Papelbon says his new fans in Philly are smarter than his old fans in Boston. Prettier, well-dressed Yankee fans agree  (espn.go.com) (75)
(Bitten and Bound) Dumbass According to an old proverb 'He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.' Kris Humphries is about to put it to the test ... representing himself in divorce court. #dumbasaboxofrocks   (bittenandbound.com) (20)
(Some Guy) Amusing Police on peaceful 30 sq mile island in the English Channel spend $280,000 on missile proof armed car. Residents less than impressed with their tax dollars at work  (thisisguernsey.com) (50)
(Some Idiots in Utah) Fail It's so obvious; if we just teach kids not to have sex then the teen pregnancy rate will drop. Why has no one ever thought of this before?  (theblaze.com) (202)


Thu March 08, 2012
(WorldNetDaily) Sad The Derrick Bell smear campaign begins. Did you know that this man wanted to eradicate white supremacy? What a monster  (wnd.com) (263)
(Some Guy) Spiffy President Bartlet endorses President Obama  (huffingtonpost.ca) (11)
(Red State) Obvious $3.4 billion annually in tax preferences to "Big Oil": A horrible drain on the federal treasury that should be investigated. $24 billion IN ONE YEAR to "Green Industries": Nothing to see here, Mr. Taxpayer  (redstate.com) (186)
(Pajiba) Amusing Yeah, pretty much: 10 Actors We Wish Were More Talented Than They Are  (pajiba.com) (142)
(Yahoo) Obvious Ron Paul's presidential campaign is the "Snakes on a Plane" of politics  (news.yahoo.com) (42)
(Smithsonian) Interesting Top pics from the 9th annual Smithsonian photo contest. (Prepare for slideshow rage)  (smithsonianmag.com) (18)
(Some Guy) Interesting Remember when Snow Crash predicted hotels made of shipping containers? This brings the score to Neal Stephenson: ∞, Every other futurist: 0  (ecomagination.com) (90)
(Hollyscoop) Stupid Chunky reality TV star finds out she's pregnant during all-day drinking binge. Difficulty - not Snooki  (hollyscoop.com) (17)
(MSNBC) Obvious Fox reporter pretty much sums up the feeling of the 2012 GOP field  (entertainment.msnbc.msn.com) (63)
(Daily Mail) Dumbass Pregnant Snooki learns three new words: Fetal alcohol syndrome  (dailymail.co.uk) (164)
(USA Today) Interesting New study shows that marriage can keep your heart healthier after surgery. Unless, you know, it's the marriage that put you there in the first place. Then you're pretty much screwed  (yourlife.usatoday.com) (10)
(Some Guy) Silly Louis CK made some inappropriate tweets about Sarah Palin, so that means Rush Limbaugh is automatically President and everyone gets a free "Just Because" bouquet from Pro Flowers.com  (the950.com) (265)
(Washington Post) Interesting Not surprising: "Game Change," HBO's new movie about Sarah Palin's run as vice president, is excellent. Surprising: And it might make you even feel a little sorry for Sarah Palin, too  (washingtonpost.com) (119)
(WWSB ABC 7) Florida Florida finally does something about a huge problem plaguing society. No, not prescription drug abuse. Imprisoned pregnant women in labor making a break for it  (mysuncoast.com) (23)


Wed March 07, 2012
(SlashFilm) Cool Topher Grace edited the 'Star Wars' prequels into one 85-Minute movie and it is probably the best possible edit of the prequels given the footage released and available  (slashfilm.com) (102)
(The Blemish) Amusing Vagina bedazzler and preemptive wedding ring picker Jennifer Love Hewitt isn't sure why men don't hit on her  (theblemish.com) (131)
(Huffington Post) Obvious Pre-kids: My snowflakes will have no TV, no fast food, no disposable diapers, and no temper tantrums unlike YOUR unruly kids. Post-kids: LOL J/K  (huffingtonpost.com) (236)
(Al Jazeera) Sad Truck in Guinea plunges into ravine, killing fifty passengers, injuring another twenty seven and impressing the hell out of faculty at Clown Car University  (aljazeera.com) (39)
(CNN) Unlikely CNN goes out on a limb, predicting Obama-Romney contest this fall  (cnn.com) (111)
(Some Guy) Asinine The Wisconsin Senator who wants to make single parenting illegal wishes to clarify his stance. He is only doing it because women are "trained to lie about planned pregnancies" and need to be held accountable  (rightwingwatch.org) (737)
(Some Guy) Interesting Latest cover of Elle magazine features a nude pregnant Jessica Simpson. In related news, airbrushing supplies are on backorder due to nationwide shortage   (todayentertainment.today.msnbc.msn.com) (54)
(CBS News) Interesting Les étrangers prennent nos jorbs  (cbsnews.com) (90)
(Forbes) Interesting I prefer extortion. The "X" makes it sound cool  (forbes.com) (25)
(Politico) Obvious Super Tuesday decided exactly nothing in the GOP presidential race. This is my shocked face, o_O  (politico.com) (192)
(Democratic Underground) Obvious Imagine a country where there's: No Obamacare, No income tax, A complete free market, No Unions, No Govt involved in Business, Health Care, Labor matters or pretty much anything else except national security. Here's the Tea Party Heaven  (democraticunderground.com) (226)
(Gawker) Stupid If Fark had thumbnail previews this would be an easy greenlight, unfortunately  (gawker.com) (55)
(Starpulse) Obvious Something called a Kreayshawn has revealed that it is bisexual. Presumably in order to help inform you about said Kreayshawn  (starpulse.com) (69)
(Wired) Fail If you are a rapper or famous athlete, Bentley has got the SUV for you. If you are pretty much anyone else, get your barf bag ready  (wired.com) (158)
(Seattle Times) Cool Microsoft TechFest reveals holographic mirror, predator shoulder mount, virtual lamp (w/vids)  (seattletimes.nwsource.com) (18)


Tue March 06, 2012
(Daily Mail) Amusing "Melvin Webb, 54, told Reading Crown Court he was not pleasuring himself in front of a female commuter, merely playing a pretend banjo"  (dailymail.co.uk) (51)
(WRAL) Asinine North Carolina GOP spends over $650k for redistricting, four times previous round. Voter disenfranchisement must be expensive these days  (wral.com) (40)
(YouTube) Obvious Fair and Balanced Fox News in 2008, making sure Americans understand the president has no control over gas prices, United States oil production makes little difference, and we should be promoting mass transit  (youtube.com) (128)
(MSNBC) Fail Gee, wasn't privacy guaranteed by the Supreme Court? Hmmm, maybe not  (redtape.msnbc.msn.com) (107)
(Omaha World Herald) Strange Subby never thought he would see the phrase "steps to prevent battery ingestion" but dammit, there it is  (omaha.com) (20)
(Some Guy) Sad 12 extremely depressing facts about popular music. Number 12 should be number 1  (eatliver.com) (161)
(TMZ) Misc Elizabeth Berkley is so excited to announce that she is pregnant. So I guess she stopped taking her pills  (tmz.com) (53)


Mon March 05, 2012
(Talking Points Memo) Asinine Have you had pre-marital sex? Have you committed adultery? Do you support same-sex civil unions? Will you look at porn in the future? If you answered yes to any of these, congratulations, you can't join the GOP   (tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com) (228)
(SportsChump) Asinine SportsChump not so proudly presents the Danica Patrick Chart of Ever-Increasing Annoyance  (sportschump.net) (90)
(Breitbart.com) Asinine Barack Obama once attended a play about Saul Alinsky. That automatically makes Sarah Palin President and Obama has to go play cornerback for the Chicago Bears  (breitbart.com) (216)
(AL.com) Unlikely Huntsville, AL to reduce fluoride in drinking water to prevent "cancer, Alzheimer's, ADHD, reduced IQ in children, dental and skeletal fluorosis, as well as hypothyroidism"  (blog.al.com) (151)
(New York Daily News) Dumbass Pregnant drug mule caught at JFK. Customs agents expecting $20,000 worth of heroin  (nydailynews.com) (30)


Sun March 04, 2012
(Deadspin) Interesting Two young, blond twins twins to race in the Iditarod. Yup, there's a pic. Pretty sure the headline doesn't need anything more than that  (deadspin.com) (37)
(YouTube) Video First Grammy Awards announced this day in 1959. "Tequila" wins R&B performance, leaving lasting impression on 7-year-old Pee-wee Herman  (youtube.com) (19)


Sat March 03, 2012
(Star-Advertiser) Scary The bad news: your kids' teeth are in horrible shape. The good news: we're pretty sure they don't have breast cancer  (staradvertiser.com) (46)
(My Fox NY) Unlikely Lawmakers seek to restore February 22nd as actual holiday for Washington's birthday. Consumers brace for midweek President's Day mattress sale  (myfoxny.com) (58)
(RealClearPolitics) Dumbass President Obama likens himself to Gandhi and Nelson Mandela  (realclearpolitics.com) (267)


Fri March 02, 2012
(Talking Points Memo) Hero President Obama calls up Sandra Fluke, the woman whom Rush Limbaugh maligned, telling her that she should and her parents "should be proud"  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (511)
(Time) Asinine For $86,500, you can buy a one bedroom house that will be missing two screws, take forever to build with incomprehensible instructions, and fall apart after one year  (newsfeed.time.com) (175)
(TMZ) Obvious 16 and Pregnant "star" arrested for stealing pregnancy test. FARK: and using it before she left the store  (tmz.com) (89)
(Hot Air) Followup Ghost of Andrew Breitbart to release the tapes of Obama's college years in the next 10 days, offering definitive proof the President was once a young, stupid college kid  (hotair.com) (301)
(Marketwatch) Spiffy Bold 1995 prediction of Dow hitting 116,200 by 2040 is actually still on track to being correct  (marketwatch.com) (44)
(Mental Floss) Cool 10 computer screensavers from the 90s which you thought impressed your co-workers  (mentalfloss.com) (159)
(Local10) Florida High school valedictorian receives early graduation present from state of Florida .... deportation  (local10.com) (364)
(YouTube) Weird Presenting the love children of ZZ Top, The Beards. Bonus: includes sex and nudity (Not safe for work)  (youtube.com) (42)
(Some Not Worried Guy) Unlikely Surprising everyone who lives there, everyone who's passed through & pretty much anyone who's ever heard of it, Cincinnati, OH is considered a 'hotspot of terrorism'  (wcpo.com) (129)
(WorldNetDaily) Amusing NEWS: GOP former Louisiana governor ponders presidential run as independent -- FARK: It's Obama's fault  (wnd.com) (95)


Thu March 01, 2012
(The Hollywood Reporter) Obvious You say "grimly depressing, glumly unfunny teensploitation comedy about an epic all-night party that devolves into anarchy" like it's a bad thing  (hollywoodreporter.com) (77)
(Yahoo) Scary News: extreme roller-coaster opening in England; FARK: stunt-pilot after preview ride: "even as a pilot used to G-force there were some gut-wrenching moments"; Ultra-FARK: test runs with crash-test dummies have them return dismembered  (news.yahoo.com) (59)
(WorldNetDaily) Interesting Sheriff Joe discovers that the President of the United States is, in fact, black  (wnd.com) (511)
(Buzzfeed) Dumbass 25 people who think President Obama killed Andrew Breitbart  (buzzfeed.com) (343)
(Yahoo) Asinine Koch Brothers: we pledge $200 million to try to defeat Obama. Obama: billionaires like the Koch brothers are trying to run me out of office. Koch spokesman: How dare the president attack private citizens like that?  (news.yahoo.com) (103)
(Huffington Post) Dumbass University of Georgia soccer player charged with stealing hash browns by stuffing them down her pants. Napoleon Dynamite reportedly unimpressed. Bonus: Hash browns recipe video  (huffingtonpost.com) (70)
(Think Progress) Obvious Newt Gingrich on why he didn't criticize Bush when he apologized for a 2008 Quran desecration incident: "I wasn't a presidential candidate then"  (thinkprogress.org) (61)
(Abc.net.au) Obvious Mid 2000s: Climate change scientists predicted water near Australian dam would dry up. 2012: The area around that same dam is being evacuated due to flood risk  (abc.net.au) (504)


Wed February 29, 2012
(Chicago Tribune) Florida Ozzie Guillen is on the cover of Sports Illustrated for the first time, which pretty much seals The Marlins' fate at this point  (chicagotribune.com) (8)
(CTV) Asinine "Parents' Voice says someone needs to watch out for students who aren't represented in Gaga's message about inclusiveness, such as children who can't dance or are obese"  (ctvbc.ctv.ca) (118)
(Some Guy) Florida Would-be Obama assassin tweets his prediction that he will not be arrested. Secret Service: Challenge accepted  (blogs.miaminewtimes.com) (110)
(CNN) Unlikely US Secretary of homeland security says the War on Drugs in Mexico is not a failure, presumably while sitting in a pool of water so her pants don't spontaneously combust  (cnn.com) (36)
(Yahoo) Obvious Santorum reaches out to women, presumably so he can yank them back into the kitchen  (news.yahoo.com) (100)
(Sun Sentinel) Interesting Experts predict less intense hurricane seasons for the next few years. EVERYBODY PANIC downgraded to everybody panic  (sun-sentinel.com) (57)
(NYPost) Scary Snooki's pregnant. Lovecraft quotes, Farnsworth images to the right  (nypost.com) (108)


Tue February 28, 2012
(Some Guy) Dumbass Birther: "I'm not racist or anything, but Obama can't be president because he's black"  (care2.com) (230)
(YouTube) PSA The bears know kung-fu, I REPEAT, the bears know kung-fu. Prepare battlestations  (youtube.com) (25)
(Click Orlando) Scary Just when you've come to grips with rising gas prices, prepare yourself for water tripling in price  (clickorlando.com) (159)
(Cracked) Interesting E.T. 2: Nocturnal Fears actually looked like a pretty cool idea, if you ask me  (cracked.com) (55)
(LA Times) Followup Paramount Pictures is suing to stop the publication of a Godfather prequel novel, claiming they want to protect the integrity and reputation of the franchise. Obviously, they forgot that they made Godfather 3  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (61)
(Some Guy) Cool Remember the Cigarette Smoking man from X-Files? Turns out he is also pretty badass water skier  (geekosystem.com) (34)
(Short List) Cool First new SNES game since 1998 now available for pre-order, Subby's already bought his and he doesn't even know where his SNES is  (shortlist.com) (48)
(Some Happy Guy) Spiffy Study finds optimism is the greatest predictor of entrepreneurial success because it allows the brain to perceive more possibilities, which is why everyone on the Top 100 Submitters list has lives filled with rainbows and sunshine  (inc.com) (15)
(YouTube) Amusing Jimmy Kimmel presents 'Movie:The Movie' So much win  (youtube.com) (29)
(MSNBC) Interesting Well, let's say this Penguin represents the normal size of penguins in the current era. Based on this fossil, the penguin would be... four point two feet tall, weighing approximately twenty-six pounds  (msnbc.msn.com) (33)
(TED) Interesting Danny Hillis predicts Facebook in 1994  (ted.com) (5)
(Some Omicronian) Asinine Single female lawyer who pretended her entire career to be a doctor is suspended for two whole years from wearing sexy miniskirts and being self-reliant  (newburyportnews.com) (85)
(Washington Post) Strange "Hello jet engine on a truck. My name is Juan Pablo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die"  (washingtonpost.com) (162)
(io9) Sad George Lucas doesn't approve every single piece of Star Wars merchandise; here are some rejected ideas that would actually be pretty cool. Who wouldn't want an inflatable replica of Emperor's throne?  (io9.com) (94)


Mon February 27, 2012
(USA Today) Obvious Three economists predict gloomy apocalyptic economic future...sadly, without Mel Gibson driving the last of the V8 Interceptors  (usatoday.com) (74)
(CNN) Obvious Imagine Helm's Deep at the end, breached and about to be overrun by orcs, and you've got a pretty good idea of what the GOP now looks like. Except, this time, Gandalf ain't gonna show  (cnn.com) (175)
(Some Guy) Florida Not news: Former TV news presenter files whistleblower lawsuit against TV station. Florida: Over the studio being dirty  (news-press.com) (18)
(Daily Mail) Interesting Vatican asks to borrow 1,500 year old copy of the Bible in which Jesus predicts the coming of Muhammed in order to burn it...STUDY, I meant to study it. Yeah, that's the ticket  (dailymail.co.uk) (175)
(Deadline) Followup The complete list of Oscar wins by film. No word on when Republicans will express outrage for statues going to Iranian and French films  (deadline.com) (55)
(USA Today) Interesting There's a new trend sweeping the nation: Little free libraries. Though you've probably never seen one. That's too bad, because they seem pretty cool. Keep looking, but they'll probably be old news by the time you find one  (usatoday.com) (66)
(Oregon Live) Dumbass Man on trial for hiring an undercover cop to attack a judge wears his prison uniform in court, is belligerent with the judge, and talks freely about wanting to see the judge writhe in pain. Why yes, he is representing himself  (oregonlive.com) (13)
(LiveLeak) Video It's so rewarding when those downtown city security cameras actually work and the right person is apprehended  (liveleak.com) (65)
(AZCentral) Followup Arizona Governor Jan Brewer gives the finger to President Obama's White House dinner invitation  (azcentral.com) (108)


Sun February 26, 2012
(io9) Interesting Not news: Oscar winner predictions. Fark: For the next five years  (io9.com) (22)
(Hot Air) Dumbass Man who shot President Reagan upset that everyone thinks of him as the guy who shot President Reagan  (hotair.com) (121)
(LiveLeak) Spiffy It started out pretty good, but then descended into an orgy of upskirt photos  (liveleak.com) (27)
(CNN) Followup BP's Deepwater Horizon trial set to begin Monday, reach the U.S. Supreme court by 2047  (money.cnn.com) (72)
(Stuff.co.nz) Obvious New Zealand scientist launches three year study to find out why female$ prefer older male$  (stuff.co.nz) (60)
(CNN) Interesting Here's a list of five things not to do on airplanes. Since "stewardesses" aren't on the list, subby presumes they're fair game  (cnn.com) (129)


Sat February 25, 2012
(USA Today) Dumbass Pope Benedict XVI tells infertile families that they are sinners for trying to get pregnant without sex  (usatoday.com) (568)
(St. Petersburg Times) Florida Employees of child-care agency call police after discovering mysterious oil spread around their offices. Turns out it was just the boss performing an exorcism on a demonic community activist after he asked her too many questions  (tampabay.com) (177)
(Yahoo) Spiffy Bill Pullman to play the President of the United States. This is not a repeat from 1996  (news.yahoo.com) (54)


Fri February 24, 2012
(Guardian) Cool The best street food on Earth. Not a pretzel or hot dog in sight  (guardian.co.uk) (214)
(HitFix) Scary Some folks won't prep their kids for Doomsday by training them to fight with tomahawks made from railroad spikes, but then again some folk'll  (hitfix.com) (51)
(Cracked) Dumbass Ha ha, what if the entire crew of a naval destroyer were secretly replaced by the cast of Police Academy and asked to escort the President to a secret meeting? Great movie? No. It happened. And hilarity DID ensue  (cracked.com) (102)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Apple is trying to deal with the always depressing issue of having way too much cash  (dailytech.com) (28)
(Yahoo) Amusing While the Republican presidential candidates seem to have a monopoly on eccentric billionaire supporters, the Obama campaign fights back with a powerful secret weapon: Merchandising. The Schwartz is strong in this one  (news.yahoo.com) (54)
(Yahoo) Obvious Press release: White House corporate tax plan closes loopholes for favored businesses. Reality: White House corporate tax plan creates loopholes for favored businesses  (finance.yahoo.com) (28)
(Omaha World Herald) Cool Now you too can prepare for the non existent zombie threat with real Hornady bullets. Subby is waiting for cherry PIE ammo  (omaha.com) (122)
(Huffington Post) Fail The Utah House votes 45-28 to have the highest teen pregnancy rate in the US by 2018  (huffingtonpost.com) (115)
(Some Guy) Amusing "14.4k modems are on the way out and 28.8 is in. I'd tend toward 28.8 for about an extra $100, but a 14.4 is pretty quick and will capably handle email." And you thought you Comcast connection was bad   (therelativelyinterestingblog.blogspot.com) (118)
(Digital Trends) Cool Okay, it may not be hoverboard cool, but you have to admit a "mind-controlled skatebaord" is still pretty damn cool  (digitaltrends.com) (19)


Thu February 23, 2012
(Spinner) PSA Meat Loaf wants you to know two things: he prefers being called Meat, not Mr. Loaf; and he has had several paranormal encounters in his lifetime  (spinner.com) (67)
(Fox 4 KC) Hero Woman with brass ovaries captures rapist running from the scene by pretending to help him get away  (fox4kc.com) (54)
(ESPN) Dumbass Pittsburgh Pirates president facing four counts of DUI. If you were running the Pirates you'd drink too  (espn.go.com) (36)
(LA Times) Followup After reporting a $2.4 billion fourth-quarter loss, Sears Holdings announces plans to again rearrange the metaphorical Titanic deck chairs, says it will sell off its hardware outlets and preexisting stores in malls nationwide  (latimes.com) (48)
(USA Today) Spiffy President Obama steps out of his Magical Time Machine for a speech on immigration: "I've got another five years coming up. We're going to get this done"  (content.usatoday.com) (129)
(Philly.com) Dumbass US rice farmer livid that after we destroyed their country, Iraqis won't buy our product at a premium price  (philly.com) (38)
(YouTube) Amusing DEFCON presenter walks through a presentation on why to not buy stolen computer goods, with some epic pwnage of "a man so incompetent that he misspells his own name on Facebook"  (youtube.com) (48)
(Some Guy) Interesting U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency director: China is preparing for space warfare and they've copied the plans for a Death Star from a Lego kit  (freebeacon.com) (59)
(Some Table-Turner) Hero Gay judge announces she won't perform straight marriages until everyone, regardless of gender preference, is allowed to marry  (nbcdfw.com) (307)
(3 News New Zealand) Scary Scientists reveal list of foods that are essentially useless, including pretty much everything you've eaten in the last decade  (3news.co.nz) (163)
(St. Petersburg Times) Florida Marco Rubio: "Yo soy un Mormon, y quiero ser Vice Presidente"  (tampabay.com) (39)
(Think Progress) Dumbass Good Idea: Citing existing scientific evidence to back up your claims about contraceptives and pregnancy rates. Bad idea: Citing a racist loon to back up your claims about contraceptives and pregnancy rates. The End  (thinkprogress.org) (245)
(Some Guy) Cool You don't have to like her, but Ann Coulter pretty much called BS on all the other GOP commentators that Romney is the "establishment choice". You hear that Rush, Hannity? She called you the establishment...and hypocrites  (anncoulter.com) (96)
(Forbes) Sad Today Forbes takes a pretty good argument for gun rights and promptly empties the magazine into the void between correlation and causation  (forbes.com) (149)
(The Daily Beast) Obvious One truth emerged from the 20th Republican blatherfest: Gingrich has pretty much thrown in the towel. Stick a fork in him, folks  (thedailybeast.com) (32)
(CBS News) Fail Buddy Roemer quits GOP presidential race. In case you are wondering who he is, he's the former Louisiana governor, who lost a primary to David Duke back in 1991  (cbsnews.com) (44)


Wed February 22, 2012
(Washington Times) Asinine Former DNC chair to buy the two most prestigious and influential newspapers in a critical swing-state with funds provided by Democratic donors. Of course the newspapers will remain legit and non-parti..Ok I couldn't not laugh  (washingtontimes.com) (80)
(SacBee) Asinine Want season club seats in the new 49ers stadium? Prepare to cough up between $20,000 - $80,000 for a seat license. Hopefully you won't want a pair of seats  (sacbee.com) (17)
(Some Guy) Florida THIS DAY IN HISTORY: On February 22, 1819, Spain prevented Ohio from getting its own tag by selling Florida to the United States  (theepochtimes.com) (31)
(Huffington Post) Ironic Georgia Dems propose vasectomy ban in response to anti-abortion bill. Republican men look prepared to start a "My vas deferens, my choice" movement  (huffingtonpost.com) (147)
(MSNBC) Dumbass Continuing his war on women, Rick Santorum claims that prenatal testing is just a liberal mindtrick to get women to abort as many babies as they possibly can  (nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com) (157)
(Buzzfeed) Sad President Obama once again caught on camera checking out an attractive woman  (buzzfeed.com) (142)
(Washington Post) Misc Sales of pre-existing homes rise all the way to 2010 levels  (washingtonpost.com) (12)
(Yahoo) Interesting The Supreme Court is hearing arguments on the constitutionality of the Stolen Valor act, which makes it a crime to falsely claim military service. Subby should be given a greenlight in honor of his service in Vietnam, Iraq, and the Eugenics War  (news.yahoo.com) (122)
(Science Daily) Obvious Science has already proven the dangers of smoking, alcohol, and Chinese food, but it can still ruin soft drinks for pregnant women. Not to mention coffee, tea and chocolate  (sciencedaily.com) (16)
(Yahoo) Weird With all other crime taken care of, Rio de Janeiro takes aim at Carnival urinators. Fark: The first part of that sentence is actually close to being pretty accurate  (news.yahoo.com) (24)
(St. Petersburg Times) Asinine Actor sneaked cocaine into the White House Correspondent's Dinner, so Obama's a junkie and Sarah Palin is automatically president. Fark: Source is not Fox News  (tampabay.com) (35)
(SeattlePI) Obvious Columnist asks "are the Republicans running on a platform of keeping women barefoot and pregnant?" Also wonders if bears crap in the woods, if the Pope is Catholic  (seattlepi.com) (104)
(Bloomberg) Misc Ford increases pay for directors 25% WARNING LOW OIL PRESSURE  (bloomberg.com) (12)
(RealClearPolitics) Unlikely Professional liar...um...White House press secretary, says that Obama did not turn down the Keystone Pipeline. It was reverse vampires  (realclearpolitics.com) (154)
(WRCB-TV) Amusing City sued for not approving a new IHOP. They take their pancakes pretty damn seriously down south  (wrcbtv.com) (43)
(NPR) Interesting Supreme Court decides limit of men's pickup lines in bars  (npr.org) (121)
(kabc) Interesting While celebrating the 50th anniversary of John Glenn's space flight, NASA admits they weren't sure where he would come down or if he would survive ... pretty much like flying Delta  (kabc.com) (19)
(Some Guy) Photoshop Photoshop Theme: Fark Vegas World Party 2012 predictions  (pledgebank.com) (24)
(Yahoo) Interesting Canadian writer weighs the possibility of a brokered GOP convention, then nails precisely why it won't be  (news.yahoo.com) (71)


Tue February 21, 2012
(NHL) Cool Will Detroit bring their magic home win streak fairy on the road? Will Lundqvist's manish good looks prevent a Staal in Pittsburgh? Will Edmonton or Calgary figure out who's the better Canadian? It's your Tuesday night hockey thread  (nhl.com) (334)
(BBC) Sad "Mummified man was heavy drinker" - presumably of formaldehyde  (bbc.co.uk) (11)
(Daily Kos) Dumbass Republican strategist Frank Luntz suggests running over the president would be funny  (dailykos.com) (159)
(Boing Boing) Followup Climate scientist lied to obtain Heartland documents, so global warming is false and Sarah Palin is automatically President  (boingboing.net) (309)
(Fark) Survey We've got lots of Louisiana transplants here in Texas, so Fat Tuesday is a pretty big deal. How are you celebrating Fat Tuesday?  (fark.com) (154)
(MSNBC) Asinine Iran threatens pre-emptive strike if tensions do not ease. What sort of savage, barbaric, war-mongering super villain would attack another country pre-emptively? We really need to ... oh, wait  (msnbc.msn.com) (174)
(Patch) Interesting Odd presidential trivia leaves one wondering which makes a president greater: being a licensed bartender, or swimming naked in the Potomac?  (plainfield.patch.com) (9)
(New York Daily News) Fail Apparently former VP Dan Qualye has taken a new gig at the White House press office  (nydailynews.com) (31)
(Herald-Leader) Photoshop Photoshop theme: Drew is going to mentor entrepreneurs and help startup companies. Photoshop some of the ideas he'll be pitched. LGT article  (kentucky.com) (12)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting Why is quantum theory so misunderstood? Brian Cox stands majestically upon a mountain top to pre-troll the trolls, and explain why  (blogs.wsj.com) (82)
(Fox News) Hero Newt Gingrich proclaims Barack Obama is "the most dangerous president in American history." Jefferson Davis weeps  (politics.blogs.foxnews.com) (300)
(The Superficial) Fail "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" ... Love, Courtney Stodden  (thesuperficial.com) (92)
(Boston.com) Unlikely President Gingrich will bring us $2 per gallon gas. Book it. Done  (boston.com) (100)
(Salon) Misc In the American healthcare system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the TV shows which write plots about diseases, and the viewers who diagnose themselves from them. These are their stories  (salon.com) (24)


Mon February 20, 2012
(Deadspin) Interesting How they made the greatest Simpsons episode of all-time, "Homer At The Bat," which premiered 20 years ago tonight  (deadspin.com) (247)
(Chicago Tribune) Dumbass Indiana Republican warns that the Girl Scouts are "radicalized" as proven by the fact that Michelle Obama is their honorary President  (chicagotribune.com) (217)
(Greater Fails) Fail Jimmy John's sub shop gets Yellow Page listing in Kosher section--which comes as a bit of a surprise to its owner, who's busy prepping a couple of Ultimate Porkers and a JJBLT  (greaterfalls.com) (45)
(BBC) Interesting International Space Station to become much more polite, cleanly. Station spatiale internationale à devenir beaucoup plus polis, proprement  (bbc.co.uk) (36)
(NewsBusters) Interesting Media: Income inequality is soaring and hitting new highs. Facts: Inequality peaked in 2000 and has been decreasing ever since, with the greatest decrease when Bush was president and the GOP controlled both houses  (newsbusters.org) (207)
(Fox News) Interesting Celebrate President's Day the way Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln would have... with whiskey  (foxnews.com) (61)
(AlterNet) Interesting Four pending 'Barefoot and Pregnant' laws, from abolishing the Hippocratic Oath to just making getting an abortion felony worth 10 years in prison  (alternet.org) (292)
(Think Progress) Dumbass CNN contributor defends Virginia's bill requiring women to receive an ultrasound before an abortion claiming that they "had no problem having a similar procedure when they engaged in the act that resulted in the pregnancy"  (thinkprogress.org) (471)
(USA Today) Unlikely Gallup poll finds that picking the two best Presidents of the past four decades is about the same as picking the two greatest players in the history of the Charlotte Bobcats  (content.usatoday.com) (114)
(Mental Floss) Interesting 10 things you didn't know about the president's secret army, like that he even had one, and that they can reconstruct burned documents  (mentalfloss.com) (91)
(A Theater Near You) Sappy Richard is a white supremacist down on his luck. Robert is a black inner-city gang member just looking to make it big. But this February, these enemies are about to learn some wacky new lessons about meth-cooking... and friendship  (newstribune.com) (42)
(Washington Post) Spiffy Inventor of e-mail honored by Smithsonian. Was given special presentation at gala luncheon featuring seafood, poultry, Spam  (washingtonpost.com) (15)


Sun February 19, 2012
(AnnArbor.com) Cool Would you scale a 22,000-foot peak in the Andes, with notoriously unpredictable weather, with a tent you made yourself?  (annarbor.com) (29)
(Daily Kos) Silly Rick Santorum wants a federal commissar to ensure enough conservative professors are hired by universities. That seems pretty reasonable  (dailykos.com) (411)
(Some Guy) Asinine I keep seeing enormous squirrels around my neighborhood. They keep eating in preparation for a winter that hasn't materialized. Will there be a big problem with diabetic squirrels soon? Can squirrels get diabetes? Where's Brimley?  (mn.gov) (163)
(LiveLeak) Obvious New footage, presumably from Fox News, reveals results of an Obama 2012 win  (liveleak.com) (130)
(Some Guy) Obvious Columnist believes that a My Little Pony episode was a thinly veiled metaphor for teaching children to appreciate waiting for high quality Apple products  (gottabemobile.com) (106)
(Boston.com) Photoshop Photoshop this precision practice  (inapcache.boston.com) (22)
(MSNBC) Obvious (Insert party out of power) ready to hit (insert President) on the soaring price of gas. Not a repeat from every election year in the 21st century  (msnbc.msn.com) (239)
(YouTube) Video David Haye hits Derrick Chisora with a glass bottle at the post fight presser for Chisora/Klitschko. A new meme of "HE GLASSED ME" is instantly born (includes profanity)  (youtube.com) (64)


Sat February 18, 2012
(Chicago Sun-Times) Amusing Yo dawg, I herd you like firefighters. So why don't you take the firefighter test and have a heart attack so you can be rescued by firefighters so you can pretend to be a firefighter while getting rescued by firefighters  (suntimes.com) (27)
(Yahoo) Sad Red Sox star pitcher Tim Wakefield finally knuckles under the pressure to retire  (sports.yahoo.com) (64)
(YouTube) Obvious President Obama Announces the 2012 Launch of African Americans for Obama. Of course if a white candidate did this, it would be racist  (youtube.com) (269)
(Orlando Sentinel) Stupid Do you think your precocious kindergartener is ready for college but being discriminated against for her age? Don't worry, the Feds have your back  (orlandosentinel.com) (138)
(Yahoo) Cool The goggles, do something-something pretty cool actually  (news.yahoo.com) (61)
(Denver Channel) Caturday Hey Ceiling Cat, the Denver airport - really? Hey mods, how about spreading the Sherpies around a bit and giving me the green this week?  (thedenverchannel.com) (lots)
(BBC) Interesting Two hundred thousand years ago, the world's most powerful predator arrived: Humans. So why haven't animals evolved effective defenses against us? Here's why  (bbc.co.uk) (200)


Fri February 17, 2012
(Fox News) Obvious In fact, global warming is the most widespread mass hysteria in our species' history  (foxnews.com) (802)
(Cincinnati Enquirer) Asinine Mom upset when her precious snowflake gets a little plastic beer stein at preschool. Well of course she is. How much beer can you even get in that thing?  (news.cincinnati.com) (165)
(USA Today) Stupid Danica Patrick says she would rather be "pretty" than "sexy." Nothing about being a good race car driver, though  (usatoday.com) (73)
(Some Guy) Fail Here, let me explain to you how the economy isn't really recovering with this series of increasingly nonsensical and uninterpretable graphs (accomplishment unlocked: Tears of Tufte)  (minyanville.com) (82)
(MSNBC) Sad "Immortal devil girl" spreads face-destroying cancer, will affect whole population in 30 years. Surprisingly, this is not a story about subby's ex  (msnbc.msn.com) (72)
(BBC) Followup UN approves Arab-backed resolution against Syria and asking president to resign. Since they asked nicely, President Bashar al-Assad should stop killing his own people any moment now  (bbc.co.uk) (93)
(LiveLeak) Amusing Husband of Finnish president royally busted while checking out Danish princess' royal bust during state dinner  (liveleak.com) (35)
(Forbes) Scary Target learns that women tend to get a little creeped out when you start sending them coupon booklets congratulating them on their first pregnancy when they haven't even told their parents yet  (forbes.com) (67)
(FilmDrunk) Sad The top-selling DVD titles of 2012 are expected, depressing  (filmdrunk.uproxx.com) (79)
(The Consumerist) Fail Because downhill skiing in California isn't pretentious enough, Starbucks has opened up a ski-thru store  (consumerist.com) (60)
(Some Guy) Fail If you are flying in a Cessna with 40 pounds of pot, you should try to stay out of the same air space as the President of the United States  (losangeles.cbslocal.com) (47)


Thu February 16, 2012
(Daily Mail) Stupid IT worker orders Starbucks coffee with 16 espresso shots. Daily Mail reporters are eager to ask him about the experience, but are still waiting for him to leave the bathroom  (dailymail.co.uk) (118)
(Some Guy) Ironic Trolling the long game: Write death penalty law in 1982. Attempt to eliminate death penalty law as state supreme court justice in 2012  (cleveland.cbslocal.com) (59)
(ESPN) Followup Egyptian Premiere League to resume behind closed doors...must be a small field  (soccernet.espn.go.com) (2)
(MSNBC) Cool 1 in 12 marriages in the United States are more open minded than President and Mrs. Obama's  (msnbc.msn.com) (151)
(Independent) Obvious Greece spiraling toward "catastrophic depression." Huh, maybe it needs more austerity  (independent.co.uk) (205)
(SLTrib) Fail A BYU student gets "Valentine's" note from a fellow student, presumably one with a penis, kindly asking her to not dress all sexy sexy. With picture of sexy sexy BYU student almost out of uniform  (sltrib.com) (345)


Wed February 15, 2012
(ESPN) Dumbass TCU continues its preparations for joining big time college football by having four players arrested on drug charges  (espn.go.com) (27)
(CNN) Scary By the end of his first term, Pres. Obama will have added $5 trillion to the national debt. This is $1.6 trillion more than Bush did in eight years  (caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com) (414)
(USA Today) Fail New technology promises to predict tornadoes. But the models aren't ready yet, so there will be no predictions this year. But the predictions will come with frozen yogurt, which I like to call frogurt  (usatoday.com) (51)
(USA Today) Interesting The demographics of the home-schooled continue to evolve and grow, from religious nutballs and the big ol' teeth in the past to the modern-day secular helo-mommy who never wants her precious baby out of her sight  (usatoday.com) (344)
(red reporter) Spiffy A modernized version of the "Who's on First" routine, using today's names. Impressive  (redreporter.com) (22)
(Pravda) Interesting Ukrainian president flies luxury gold-plated jetliner that has a sink made of pink marble  (english.pravda.ru) (51)
(TwinCities.com) Followup When pressured by the mayor and his constituents to remove the Confederate flag from his porch, he said no. When the corporate president of the pizza company of which he's a franchisee pressured him, down it came  (twincities.com) (140)
(Some Guy) Strange Some people like flowers for Valentine's Day. Others prefer a quiet, romantic dinner. Still others like to strip their girlfriend naked, bind her up in duct tape and throw her in the back seat for later  (ktvb.com) (76)


Tue February 14, 2012
(HelenaIR.com) Scary It's time to lay off the booze when your own nine-year-old daughter has to leap from the car you're driving expressly for the purpose of calling the cops on you  (helenair.com) (55)
(Some Guy) Asinine Food police reject preschooler's homemade lunch, says she must eat cafeteria nuggets  (myfox8.com) (305)
(WPXI) Sick Man rejects girlfriend's noodles, says toodles by leaving her in poodle of blood. Oodles of boodle will not prevent the doodle he'll be given in court  (wpxi.com) (67)
(Think Progress) Amusing While liberals love him and wish they had him in office, when you get right down to it, Jed Bartlet was not a very good liberal president  (thinkprogress.org) (173)
(WRCB-TV) Interesting A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon we're talking about real money  (wrcbtv.com) (32)
(BBC) Sad NASA budget slashes Mars funding, leaving future exploration prospects up to a duck with a speech impediment and a predilection for high-powered weaponry  (bbc.co.uk) (233)
(Slate) Ironic Apparently, it's good for democracy that billionaires can buy the president with a few million dollar super PAC contributions  (slate.com) (57)
(Yahoo) Unlikely "Sarah Palin Is The Most Powerful Female Politician In The World" Pretty loose definition of powerful you got there  (news.yahoo.com) (122)
(Bitten and Bound) Cool Jen Aniston and Paul Rudd got all sexy in a GQ photo spread that is suppose to lure you to check out their hippie flick 'Wanderlust' ... we're in. (pics, trailer)  (bittenandbound.com) (73)
(The Daily Beast) Interesting Susan G. Komen founder Nancy Brinker billed the foundation $133,507 in expenses while she was working full-time for President Bush. So send more money. You know, for breast cancer  (thedailybeast.com) (199)
(TMZ) Followup TMZ Presents: Death Tub: The tub that kills pop divas. I presume this is a sequel to the 1977 film "Death Bed: The Bed That Eats"  (tmz.com) (56)
(Boston.com) Unlikely Airline almost nobody even remembers, and nobody misses, prepares to return from the dead  (boston.com) (37)


Mon February 13, 2012
(Google) Scary Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer robbed by machete-wielding intruder in the home he owns on the Caribbean island of Nevis  (google.com) (139)
(ESPN) Misc Scottish Premier League to consider downgrading current two-horse race to a one-horse race  (soccernet.espn.go.com) (51)
(Some Ticked Off Neighbor) Amusing Anonymous notes left on doors can make for some pretty funny reading. Behold, a tribute to the creativity of your neighbors  (happyplace.com) (202)
(KSTU FOX 13) Dumbass GOP state representative introduces bill banning DUI checkpoints to protect your civil right to drive while shiatfaced. Must be a closet Libertarian  (fox13now.com) (371)
(Some Numismatist) Interesting Due to unpopular demand, the US Mint will make but not circulate Presidential $1 coins beginning with the coveted Chester A. Arthur coin  (usmint.gov) (120)
(Daily Mail) Scary Val Kilmer preparing to play Axl Rose. Ben and Jerry's stock skyrockets  (dailymail.co.uk) (82)
(Huffington Post) Followup Ellen Degeneres' recent controversy over her partnership with JC Penney is prompting protests from the LGBT community, presumably over one of their own wearing clothes from JC Penney  (huffingtonpost.com) (138)
(MSNBC) Dumbass Sarah Palin says long, competitive battle for GOP presidential nomination will result in a Republican victory in November, and that a brokered convention could be a good thing. This is what Sarah Palin really believes  (firstread.msnbc.msn.com) (134)
(Slashdot) Strange Slashdot covers Something Awful attacking Reddit over pseudo-child pornography. Subby sad at being unable to work 4Chan, Digg, icanhascheezburger and Fark into previous sentence  (yro.slashdot.org) (123)
(BBC) Spiffy Puny Europeans launch Vega rocket for the first time. Morbo is not impressed  (bbc.co.uk) (12)
(LiveLeak) Cool Even if you're not interested in cruises, you have to admit playing pool on a 2-axis gyrostabilized table would be pretty cool  (liveleak.com) (45)


Sun February 12, 2012
(Entertainment Weekly) Spiffy The BAFTA winners have been announced, giving us a preview of the Academy Awards  (insidemovies.ew.com) (26)
(The Daily Caller) Obvious Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer: Israel 'will strike' Iran to 'prevent a second holocaust'. From the video, it's almost like he's cheering for it  (dailycaller.com) (329)
(Yahoo) Interesting A Minnesota City Councilman has a Confederate flag hanging outside his home and says he's not taking it down. "It represents true sovereignty"  (news.yahoo.com) (278)
(News.com.au) Dumbass Teens attack police at rowdy party, with predictable results  (news.com.au) (32)


Sat February 11, 2012
(Yahoo) Stupid I've seen some trolling in my time but when a Yahoo Movie columnist writes that the Star Wars prequels are superior to the original trilogy well that's, that's just his opinion man  (movies.yahoo.com) (127)
(WRCB-TV) Spiffy Small group of poorly funded rebels organize to fight against extremely wealthy and powerful empire to prevent imperialist land grab. And if you think the Star Wars references are just Fark being Fark, think again  (wrcbtv.com) (77)
(CBC) Cool It's Hockey Day In Canada. For Americans: it's like the Super Bowl, but with 9 hours of hockey instead of 9 hours of pre-game shows  (cbc.ca) (97)
(Breitbart.com) Silly "Star Trek: The Original Series is the one time Hollywood got conservative ideas right." Yeah, pretty sure Republicans weren't too happy about the interracial kiss or sparing the Halkans  (bighollywood.breitbart.com) (186)
(Short List) Cool The world's 10 best sandwiches. Presented without comment  (shortlist.com) (187)


Fri February 10, 2012
(Telegram) Cool 11-year-old girl designs video game, earns trip to the White House (with impressive video)  (telegram.com) (42)
(NBC Chicago) Hero Cop pulls gun on woman for taking too many items through the self-check out at WalMart, because 9 months pregnant or not, rules are rules  (nbcchicago.com) (617)
(Some Guy) Cool Farker spidermann named a video game and gets his own press release. Suggest better game names to the right  (futurlab.co.uk) (28)
(Chicago Tribune) PSA Suffering from iPad envy? Well, Apple is prepping a 7" version that will be a cheap knock-off and inferior to the wonderful Kindle Fire  (chicagotribune.com) (79)
(Washington Post) Dumbass Rick Santorum believes that women should not be in combat because combat is stressful and they might, like, get all hysterical and emotional and maybe break a nail or something. Also, it's hard to get them pregnant in body armor  (washingtonpost.com) (113)
(Guardian) Amusing Falkland Islands newspaper editor calls Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner a biatch. With picture showing what the real issue might be  (guardian.co.uk) (78)
(The Local (Germany)) Interesting List of Germany's best actors, past and present. Wait until Hitler hears about this  (thelocal.de) (26)
(Daily Mail) Weird Kris Jenner promotes new female sex aid, leaving Bruce with bewildered frozen expression  (dailymail.co.uk) (10)
(Some Guy) Scary National Geographic misrepresented 'Doomsday Prepper' Megan Hurwitt. Producer even offered her $1,000 to shoot her cat on camera  (freethoughtblogs.com) (104)
(Des Moines Register) Stupid The good news is girls are no longer dumber than boys when it comes to math and science. The bad news: Both sexes are pretty dumb when it comes to math and science  (desmoinesregister.com) (32)
(BBC) Interesting Dear policy holder: Our computers have detected your car moving at an actuarially imprudent speed. Your credit card has been billed for the resulting insurance premium increase  (bbc.co.uk) (100)
(BBC) Weird Those keen football fans Kermit and Miss Piggy give their opinion on this weekend's English Premier League action  (bbc.co.uk) (11)


Thu February 09, 2012
(IGN) Asinine George Lucas says it's all YOUR fault you couldn't get the Han/Greedo cantina scene right. Greedo ALWAYS shot first, camera angles just prevented you from seeing it that way the first time  (movies.ign.com) (186)
(YouTube) Cool Republican state representative makes eloquent argument in favor of gay marriage  (youtube.com) (325)
(NJ.com) Obvious NJ DOT committee presents recommendations on ways to reduce train-related deaths. #1: Stop getting hit by trains  (nj.com) (40)
(CNN) Followup Arizona court forces potential candidate off of city council ballot because her English isn't good enough, setting a dangerous precedent that may leave the entirety of the south ungoverned  (news.blogs.cnn.com) (412)
(CNBC) Obvious Bank of England announces the failure of conservative financial austerity by firing up the printing presses  (cnbc.com) (37)
(USA Today) Interesting Coca-Cola revenue increases, net income drops. Wall Street: That's not soda pressing  (usatoday.com) (9)
(Short List) Cool A dog shows off impressive goal-saving skills. Meanwhile, your cat shows off less impressive evil stare-producing skills  (shortlist.com) (12)
(AmeriCOUNT) Amusing Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) to Newt: You want to hear about the Food Stamp President? He added 18 million people to the program and increased spending in it by $19 Billion. Oh, and by the way, his name was George W. Bush  (americount.org) (146)


Wed February 08, 2012
(Some Guy) Obvious Winning: The American public's dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in just two years under President Obama, with 67 million now relying on some federal program  (news.investors.com) (157)
(Some Skins' Fan) Followup Everyone knows the Patriots' NFL Champion stuff is going to poor countries, but there's also plenty of Ravens' NFL Champion stuff headed places actually more depressing than Baltimore  (thepostgame.com) (61)
(Washington Post) Spiffy "While Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are making each other unelectable, the president is singing Al Green, congratulating Super Bowl winners, raising obscene amounts of campaign cash and watching his poll numbers soar"  (washingtonpost.com) (323)
(Nine MSN) Obvious Courtney Stodden's new casual commercial video looks pretty fishy  (celebrities.ninemsn.com.au) (85)
(Some Guy) Interesting Former Republican candidate Gary Johnson says "FARK YEAH" when referring to the 9th's gay marriage decision. In other news, he is still running for President under the (L) label  (garyjohnson2012.com) (129)
(Washington Post) Stupid American public with Bush as president: WE OPPOSE TORTURE. STOP ENDLESS WARS. CLOSE GITMO. American public with Obama as president: Can we get some torture drones with our Gitmo?  (washingtonpost.com) (429)
(YouTube) Cool President Obama helps launch a marshmallow across the State Dining Room. SCIENCE  (youtube.com) (131)
(Vator.tv) Cool Fark.com gets a shoutout in an article about replicating Silicon Valley entrepreneurship  (vator.tv) (0)
(The Hindu) Unlikely TV cameramen zoom in to bust a politician in session watching porn on his cell phone. He claims in a press conference since the House was discussing rave parties at the time, he was just studying an example of 4 women dancing, being gang-raped  (thehindu.com) (60)


Tue February 07, 2012
(YouTube) Amusing Our friends in Taiwan pretty much nailed the entire Superbowl. Including the Halftime show  (youtube.com) (32)
(Some Guy) Amusing According to Canada Free Press, this is the U.S. Constitution's last chance unless constitutionalists rally behind Rick Santorum  (canadafreepress.com) (81)
(Yahoo) Caption Caption the President getting tough with a marshmallow cannon  (news.yahoo.com) (83)
(Some Guy) Stupid Since it is now technically the pre-season, here is your official 2012 NFL Power Rankings  (cbssports.com) (207)
(Politico) Asinine So just how bad was Pete Hoekstra's "yellow menace" Superbowl ad? Let's put it this way: John Pinnette's famous impression of a Chinese buffet owner was probably more culturally sensitive  (politico.com) (98)
(Yahoo) Interesting Q: How much impact does a president have on an economy? A: Not much at all  (finance.yahoo.com) (98)
(Prop8trialtracker) Misc Will gays be allowed to marry? Can gays legally preside over gay marriage trials? Do proponents of propositions have Federal standing? It's your official 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Prop. 8 thread (Ruling expected 10 am PST)  (prop8trialtracker.com) (189)


Mon February 06, 2012
(Fox News) Interesting Good News: Researchers invent vaccines to prevent heroin, cocaine, and meth addiction. Bad News: It's in Mexico  (latino.foxnews.com) (112)
(411Mania) Interesting Latest ABCNews poll has President Obama leading Mitt Romney 51-45%, and by more than 2 to 1, voters say that the more they learn about Romney, the less they like him. This is bad news...for Obama  (411mania.com) (172)
(The Hill) Fail Having seen the successes of the past decade, 49% of Americans support bombing Iran to prevent them from gaining nukes  (thehill.com) (271)
(Daily Mail) Spiffy Daredevil, who obviously has a death wish, is preparing to break the sound barrier with a leap from the edge of space from 23 miles high, not deploying his parachute until he's 5000 feet from the ground  (dailymail.co.uk) (198)
(Some Guy) Interesting NJ bill would require kids to stay in school until age 18, leaving those who actually graduate when they are 17 in an awkward predicament  (nbcphiladelphia.com) (171)
(RealClearPolitics) Fail Question: Why have college tuitions gone up? Joe Biden Answer: Government subsidies like the ones President Obama wants to expand  (realclearpolitics.com) (149)
(Digital Spy) Strange Ke$ha: "When I'm depressed I make my assistant put on a penis outfit and dance around"  (digitalspy.com) (52)
(RealClearPolitics) PSA The RCP average of President Obama's job approval rating is now positive for the first time since right after Osama Bin Laden was killed. This is bad news... for Obama  (realclearpolitics.com) (114)
(BattleSwarm) Spiffy Remember unrepentant SOPA sponsor Lamar Smith (R-MPAA)? He now has a primary challenger. Prepare to taste the fury of a fully operational Internet  (battleswarmblog.com) (43)
(Washington Times) Obvious As predicted in 2011, the Obama administration revises the rules on how to calculate the jobless rates, just in time to kickoff his reelection campaign  (washingtontimes.com) (299)
(Sci Mag) Cool News: Scientists accidentally make a sheet of glass only three atoms thick, analyze its structure. Fark: It exactly matches a prediction made by a glass theorist in 1932  (news.sciencemag.org) (45)
(Yahoo) Interesting In Nevada victory speech, Romney says his mission is to "save the soul of America" - presumably by letting America die and then retroactively baptising it  (news.yahoo.com) (117)
(Uproxx) Dumbass M.I.A. flipped America off during Madonna's 2012 Super Bowl halftime show, just as the Mayans predicted she would  (uproxx.com) (250)


Sun February 05, 2012
(Salon) Sick Remember how Obama said that US drone attacks have "not caused a huge number of civilian casualties?" Yeah, turns out they've been targeting rescuers at the scenes of previous attacks. And firing on mourners at funerals  (salon.com) (449)
(Talking Points Memo) Silly The new GOP talking point on the improving economy: "It's because of what Republican governors are doing in their states." So, economy up -- GOP governors. Economy down -- President's fault. Got it?  (livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com) (142)
(Fark) Advice Bacon - Best prepared via pan fried, baked or microwaved?  (fark.com) (396)
(Fox News) Amusing Enterprising young entrepreneur sells pot brownies to her 8th grade classmates for three dollars per brownie. That's even cheaper than Pepperidge Farms  (foxnews.com) (80)
(Daily Kos) Asinine Republican Congressman walks out of Obama's prayer breakfast speech, offended that the President was quoting Jesus' teachings  (dailykos.com) (336)


Sat February 04, 2012
(Nola.com) Obvious One writer gets it right about National Signing Day. Of course his press privileges will be revoked for all LSU games  (nola.com) (44)
(Some mma fan) Cool UFC 143 ppv discussion thread Will a Nick Diaz win over Carlos Condit make him seem like less of a douche or more ? Will Roy Nelson find Fabricio Werdum more than he can stomach or find him delicious? Prelims on FX 8pm EST  (mmamania.com) (832)
(Mediabistro) Fail New York Times post $40 million loss in 2011. However, it was spread out liberally among all its media businesses  (mediabistro.com) (53)
(Some easily amused Guy) Cool Just remember that you're standing on a planet .... The Size of the Universe and everything in it, simply and elegantly expressed in flash game format  (onemorelevel.com) (112)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Ron Paul tells CNN there is a "Zero chance" that he will drop out of the GOP presidential race. It's still better odds than him actually being elected President  (thehollywoodgossip.com) (147)
(Daily Mail) Fail Michael Cera tries to grow a mustache. With results that are pretty much just what you'd expect  (dailymail.co.uk) (94)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Interesting After seeing The Grey, Ebert walks out of the next film: "It was the first time I've ever walked out of a film because of the previous film. The way I was feeling in my gut, it just wouldn't have been fair to the next film"  (rogerebert.suntimes.com) (166)
(USA Today) Cool Presenting the chicken wing cupcake. You're welcome  (content.usatoday.com) (68)


Fri February 03, 2012
(YouTube) Strange A-Ha's Take On Me, as interpreted by a quintet of North Korean accordionists  (youtube.com) (50)
(Japan Times) Weird University hires top ninja chief as business-school professor, researching how to apply ninja precepts to business world  (japantimes.co.jp) (42)
(BBC) Asinine As you can see. A completely ordinary Greek debt. Now, if I just cover it with a handkerchief & say, "Abracadabra".... Hey presto All gone  (bbc.co.uk) (70)
(Stuff.co.nz) Unlikely Roseanne Barr for president. No, really ....STOP LAUGHING  (stuff.co.nz) (46)
(vindy.com) Strange Alec Baldwin is getting scary good at impressions  (vindy.com) (37)
(Talking Points Memo) Asinine In a shocking and totally unpredictable move, GOP leaders look to renege on the defense limit cuts called for in last years sequester deal. Obama and Democrats flabbergasted   (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (121)
(Slate) Spiffy The true hero in the grassroots fight against the Supreme Court's ridiculous Citizens United decision? That would be the one and only Stephen Colbert, of course  (slate.com) (83)
(Telegraph) Followup The violence is spreading across Egypt as the football riots continue. Here is a timeline of the events  (telegraph.co.uk) (30)
(Wimp) Video Since the field is pretty narrow, I'll just go ahead and call this guy a feather duster virtuoso  (wimp.com) (30)
(Gizmodo) Cool Scientists use deadly plant to create a cancer-killing grenade. But your Skyrim character is pretty impressive, too  (gizmodo.com) (32)
(Stroked Out Daddy) Weird Yeah, that's pretty much my exact reaction upon hearing Kenny Chesney, too  (theboot.com) (23)
(Ocala Star Banner) Florida Deputy's attempt to apprehend suspect results in foot chase, pitbull attack, Tasering, and a bystander stabbing himself twice  (ocala.com) (24)


Thu February 02, 2012
(Washington Post) Amusing Retired Supreme Court Justice O'Connor on the two leading Republican candidates, "one is a practicing polygamist, and he's not even the Mormon." Please deposit "Oh Snap" images to the right  (washingtonpost.com) (68)
(Wired) Ironic Hipsters, already fans of expensive pre-distressed skinny jeans, flock to expensive belts made from pre-shredded fixie tires  (wired.com) (64)
(Engadget) Interesting Leaked plan from Microsoft details the next version of Windows Phone. It's pretty much full of win  (engadget.com) (86)
(News.com.au) Fail Facebook will soon offer a "Premium Subscription Service" that will offer you more, and better ads. Now who wouldn't want that?  (news.com.au) (73)
(Buzzfeed) Cool A look at how classic cereal boxes have changed over the years. The Lucky Charms Leprechaun was even creepier in 1963 than he is today  (buzzfeed.com) (333)
(Sum Gai) Obvious Chinese restaurant catches fire. Fortunately there were no injuries, as everyone had prepared for such an event by running around their cars at red lights  (woodtv.com) (32)
(Anonymous) Interesting Anonymous exposes Ron Paul's ties to white supremacists, Nazis, Zuul, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria  (pirasec.com) (358)
(Think Progress) Dumbass Sen. Mike Lee thinks President Obama using his constitutional power to make recess appointments is exactly like the Japanese attacking Pearl Harbor and killing 2400 Americans  (thinkprogress.org) (97)
(LA Times) Fail For sale. One US Presidency. Asking $1 billion. Serious rich buyers only, please  (latimes.com) (153)
(WTSP) Florida Apparently, the idea of pretending to be a federal agent and pulling people with Ontario plates who visit strip clubs so you can check their car for bombs hasn't gotten old in Hudson  (newportrichey.wtsp.com) (37)
(Some Guy) Dumbass The Republican rhetoric about the president is going to cause his assassination, according to Punxsatawnee Jackson  (wiod.com) (85)
(ABC) Amusing So what happens if two "unelectable" candidates, Obama and Romney, square off in the 2012 presidential election? Oh, dear god, the Mayans were right weren't they?  (abcnews.go.com) (80)
(Fox News) Fail Obama: Look, Taliban. I'm a tough war president. I'll negotiate an end to war, but I'm no pushover. Taliban: Okay. Do us a favor first and release these top five leaders from Gitmo. You know, as a gesture. Obama: Super-dooper, guys  (foxnews.com) (72)
(USA Today) Obvious Mr. President, after very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new green jobs initiative sucks  (usatoday.com) (50)
(SeattlePI) Amusing Seattle library lets man watch internet porn, presumably because it's easier to clean the computer screen than to unstick book pages  (seattlepi.com) (47)
(Boomstick Comics) Cool A prequel to Jackie Brown is in our near future. Sam Jackson does not get eaten by a shark this time  (boomstickcomics.com) (59)
(Fark) Unlikely You've traveled in time from the present to 1985. Paradoxes aside, how would you explain the world of 2012 to a group of high school kids?  (fark.com) (402)


Wed February 01, 2012
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting Repulsive gravity, previously thought by physicists to only emanate from your mom, may be key to understanding dark matter  (physorg.com) (55)
(The Raw Story) Asinine 14-year old girl testifying before MD lawmakers tells them that they should vote to deny people their basic civil rights because it would be "my best birthday present ever"  (rawstory.com) (257)
(Some Guy) Fail We must go back in time to 1983 and prevent George Lucas from making any changes to Star Wars. You must bring your own weapon. Safety not guaranteed. (spoilers)  (nerdbastards.com) (83)
(Denver Post) Sad Colorado's biggest embarrassment since the 1997 Denver Nuggets endorses Rick Santorum. In other news, Rick Santorum is evidently still running for president  (denverpost.com) (40)
(The Atlantic Wire) Unlikely Tanning beds PREVENT cancer. And treat lupus and fibromyalgia. And skin cancer comes from sunscreen, anyway  (theatlanticwire.com) (84)
(MSNBC) Scary I'm not a doctor, but I think you died after inhaling carbon monoxide at a Holiday Inn Express last night  (msnbc.msn.com) (53)
(Starpulse) Amusing Harry Potter prefers a Hairy Pooter  (starpulse.com) (138)
(The New York Times) Silly DC plans Watchmen prequels. When asked for comment, Alan Moore said: I can write characters created by Jules Verne, HG Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle and Frank Baum, but it's wrong for anyone else to write my characters  (nytimes.com) (123)
(Politico) Stupid WSJ publishes opinion piece which states Obama has an enemies list headed Charles and David Koch, written by... the lawyer for Charles and David Koch. Fox News smiles as its apprentice finally becomes a Sith  (politico.com) (60)
(The Superficial) Dumbass Miley Cyrus broke her tailbone 'doing flips', which is a pretty dumb nickname for her boyfriend, but whatever  (thesuperficial.com) (31)
(The Hollywood Reporter) Stupid Hasbro negotiating to move their Candy Land movie starring Adam Sandler from Universal to Sony. I don't think there's a single part of the previous statement that doesn't fill me with rage  (hollywoodreporter.com) (52)
(Yahoo) Interesting Women abandon Newt for a younger and prettier candidate  (news.yahoo.com) (37)
(Stars and Stripes) Dumbass Claiming you fought in Vietnam War to the press while serving in Afghan War is double daft  (stripes.com) (45)
(The Superficial) Cool Steve-O prepares for his next stunt ... to see how fast he can nail Elisabetta Canalis  (thesuperficial.com) (31)
(Guardian) Interesting Prince William deploys for six-week tour of the Falklands. Presumably Harry is busy infiltrating Argentina, because one more person in a Nazi uniform over there wouldn't stand out  (guardian.co.uk) (45)
(Telegraph) Unlikely REM's Everybody Hurts voted most depressing song of all time. Would you agree?  (telegraph.co.uk) (425)


Tue January 31, 2012
(The Daily Beast) Spiffy Stocks post their best January since '97. So it must be the Bush recovery. Or the anticipation of a Romney presidency. Or the Jet Stream. Or a celestial convergence. What else could it be?  (thedailybeast.com) (88)
(NewsMax) Obvious Economist who created the Laffer curve says Gingrich's tax plan is better than Romney's, in much the same way being hit by a Kenworth is preferable to being hit by a Peterbilt  (newsmax.com) (178)
(Chicago Tribune) Interesting Phil Jackson's memoir to be titled "Eleven Rings", but which one does he consider most precious?  (chicagotribune.com) (47)
(Rolling Stone) Interesting Comedian from popular, news-savvy TV show launches Presidential campaign to expose foibles of the political process. No, we're not talking about Stephen Colbert. Come upon my lawn and let me tell you about Pat Paulsen  (rollingstone.com) (67)
(Some Guy) Ironic The top 10 colleges where kids in America pretend to be wizards and compete in Harry Potter Quidditch...is this really higher education?  (collegemagazine.com) (125)
(Den Of Geek) Interesting Best interview question ever? "When you're doing fight scenes with Ewan McGregor, did you ever start to think about a Star Wars prequel? You know, 'I could punch him in the face now and it would be called an accident'"  (denofgeek.com) (41)
(Mother Jones) Scary Defense Security: "The President decides who is a terrorist and if they should be killed". Keyboard commandos outraged, delete any pre-2009 comments agreeing with this concept  (motherjones.com) (335)
(Some Guy) Obvious How rich is Mitt Romney? Take all the wealth from every president from Nixon to Obama. Then double it  (starhq.com) (265)
(Daily Mail) Spiffy Alec Baldwin lost 30 pounds after discovering he was prediabetic. Or postdiabetic, Dr. Spaceman always gets those two confused  (dailymail.co.uk) (48)
(CNN) Amusing Top Obama campaign official David Axelrod tweets picture of the President with his dog in the presidential limousine in a jab at Romney: "How loving owners transport their dogs"  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (115)
(Huffington Post) Ironic Obama passes on taking 18 of the 20 highest questions offered to him by voters via YouTube during recent Google hangout, but does address the pressing issues of dancing, gaming, and getting the late night munchies  (huffingtonpost.com) (145)
(NPR) Unlikely Don't let their oppressive shyness, lack of collaboration skills, unwillingness to speak up, and self-imposed isolation fool you -- introverts can be a real benefit to the workplace  (npr.org) (291)


Mon January 30, 2012
(NPR) Obvious "Could a club drug offer almost immediate relief from depression?" Um...isn't that the whole point of taking it?  (npr.org) (45)
(BBC) Obvious President Obama admits bombing Pakistan on numerous occasions  (bbc.co.uk) (70)
(The New York Times) Obvious "Austerity in the face of depression is a very bad idea." By N. S. Sherlock  (nytimes.com) (279)
(Beatcalls) Florida You have a fight with your pregnant girlfriend - do you a) take the blame even if it's not your fault. b) walk away and come back when things cool down. c) rip off all of her clothes and leave her naked in the street. HINT: Florida Tag  (beatcalls.com) (64)
(ABC) Interesting Meet the guy who turned down a founding role in Facebook to work for the 2004 John Kerry campaign instead. Things have actually worked out pretty well for him  (abcnews.go.com) (19)
(YouTube) Video Cute chick can talk backwards. This is pretty ypeerc  (youtube.com) (66)
(Smh.com.au) Followup Facebook IPO predicted to raise $10 billion. Mark Zuckerberg immediately eyes 25 million new acres of fake farm land  (smh.com.au) (42)
(CTV) Scary Not saying there is any need to panic or anything, but apparently just using one arm to measure blood pressure COULD END UP KILLING YOU  (edmonton.ctv.ca) (61)
(IOL) Interesting Muslim preacher arrested in Kenya, Secret Service plans rescue mission  (iol.co.za) (33)
(Daily Mail) Asinine Supermarket IDs woman buying pack of spoons, because spoons can be used to shoot heroin. With helpful instructions on how to prepare heroin with a spoon  (dailymail.co.uk) (68)
(Yahoo) Amusing Gingrich denounces the "pro-abortion, pro-gun-control, pro-tax-increase liberal" running for president and he wasn't talking about Obama  (news.yahoo.com) (184)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Embattled Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho tired of drama in Spain, allegedly has decided to return to English Premier League this summer. Immortal quote: "It's not about the money"  (adifferentleague.co.uk) (39)


Sun January 29, 2012
(io9) Scary George Washington may have been America's first president, but was he nearly America's first zombie-in-chief?  (io9.com) (44)
(Some Guy) Florida Herman Cain endorses Newt: "I also know Speaker Gingrich is running for president and going through this sausage grinder, and I know what this sausage grinder is all about." Wut?  (postonpolitics.com) (107)

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