First chapter of Dan Moldea’s forgotten investigation of Reagan, the Mob, and MCA in the 80s.

Way scarier than Blackwater, just a lot less notorious.

Dept of stereotypes: fascist homosexual #324234. Played by Graham Nash, I hope.

there is no need to write crappy introductory books now; it’s been automated. hurray?

Andrew Lahde, the hedge-fund manager who quit after posting an 870 percent gain last year, said farewell to clients in a letter that thanks stupid traders for making him rich and ends with a plea to legalize marijuana.

UCLA’s willed body parts guy sold the body parts. "He was originally brought in to clean up the program after the school was accused of mixing medical waste and animal remains with the ashes of human donors."

Reporter spends some quality time with the Taliban.

WHO PUT THIS DICK ON MY BACK? The country asks.

Iran’s eccentric bid to set a world record for making the biggest-ever ostrich sandwich appeared to end in failure today after the evidence was eaten by the hungry watching crowds.

nerf assault rifle with illuminated target designator, flip-up site, clip fed

Do you have any creative fictional or non-fictional stories that include ANYONE from the Lawrence Welk Show…or anyone that has been a part of the Welk legacy? Send them…

A drunk pony was rescued from a swimming pool after gorging on fermented apples and falling into the water.

It is perhaps the last great Antarctic expedition – to find an explanation for why there is a great mountain range buried under the White Continent. And then go mad, babbling about THOSE THINGS…

These are funny. Also: I hate "brand integration" as a euphemism for product placement, which was another euphemism.

Vicious, bigoted demagogue has written an entire book about a Christmas sweater.

So while it is true that we live in a society that demands risky choices, it is one in which the powerful do the choosing, while others do the risking.

big beautiful solar pictures

These tracks and artists were most frequently deleted by the Last.fm community from their scrobbles.

Map of estimated time it would take to sell the foreclosures in each zip code in OC

So I grabbed some JavaScript "lorem ipsum" generation code from subterrane, compiled a list of made-up company names from TechCrunch’s company index, randomized the names, and whipped up this handy generator.

In 1967, Keehan changed his name to Count Juan Raphael Dante and began heavily promoting himself via comic book ads as the Deadliest Man Alive.

ENORMOUS GOONCH WILL EAT YOU

The source of "Shit, if this is gonna be that kind of party, I’m gonna stick my dick in the mashed potatoes"

coffee house in Orange

Geoff West has a well-deserved  "Best of O.C." award for his Costa Mesa political blog.

pal·in (pāl’ĭn) v. palined, palin·ing, palins 1. To flub, fail or otherwise stumble in response to simple, predictable questions in an interview; to give an off-topic and incoherent or syntactically suspect response to a simple, predictable question in an interview; to do likewise in any other human endeavor. 2. To fabricate an untruth, that is easily verifiable as such, in response to a question for which one does not know the answer.
 

DO THESE GLOWING BALLS MAKE ME LOOK FAT?

documentary about the norwegian metal churchburners

"The U.S. government is trying to force DNSSEC on the root zone file. The idea here is that DNSSEC is the only "sure" way to close the DNS cache poisoning problem that Dan Kaminsky publicized earlier this year. There’s one problem. It doesn’t completely close the hole."

MONSTERS

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