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eldelfraval/flickrA police officer in Chicago was charged today with a felony count of aggravated discharge of a firearm, nearly a year after the alleged incident, where the officer, John Gorman, off-duty and allegedly drunk, shot at a local off-duty officer in Merrionette Park, Illinois, and the driver of the pick-up truck the Marionette officer was…
What’s the best way to hide your illegally-built castle? Behind hay bales, of course. And what’s the best way to keep the council from knocking it down? Say it’s got bats in it! These are the lessons we have learned from Robert Fidler, who is in the process of doing just that with a property…
google_ad_section_start (Universal) Generally, 2015 has been an incredible year for Universal. It’s responsible for three of the top five earners in the country: “Jurassic World,” “Furious 7,” and “Minions.” But no one is bulletproof in Hollywood, and that’s evident with one of the studio’s most recent releases. “Jem and the Holograms,” the movie reboot of the…
The plight of the single New Yorker View Full Caption MANHATTAN — If you’re planning to live alone and rent a one-bedroom in Manhattan, you’ll have to earn roughly $130,800 a year. That’s 40 times the amount of September’s median monthly asking rent, which was a record $3,271, according to real estate search…
Source: Most of the material from this comic came from this book It’s going to be okay. – The Oatmeal.
The 109th Precinct’s Deputy Inspector Thomas Conforti stands with elected officials in Flushing Monday to announce a new enforcement for pedestrians following the death of a woman last week. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Katie Honan FLUSHING — NYPD officers plan to increase ticketing against jaywalkers — a move supported by local politicians who say pedestrians who…
On the Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night, Senator Claire McCaskill dropped by to make an instructive video about all the subjects on which men should “shut the hell up.” We’re listening. We’re right here with you. McCaskill noted that “as one of just 20 women serving in the Senate,” it’s important to her…
Australian Essena O’Neill caused a stir when she quit her Instagram modeling career and lambasted the vainglorious “industry.” Even compared to the horror stories about abuse and exploitation in traditional modeling, this sounds exhausting and thankless. And yet it’s typical for New Media and for industries that have been “disrupted” by tech. I found Essena…
Comcast is one of the most hated companies in America. What’s worse is that it can’t stop doing infuriating things. This week in Reasons Comcast Sucks, an apparent hack led about 200,000 customers accounts showing up for sale online. Comcast says it was not hacked. Rather, the company is “blaming the incident instead on unsuspecting…
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke out about our culture of police violence. Above, she speaks at the Museo del Barrio in New York, Jan. 19, 2013.Photo by Keith Bedford/Reuters On the night of March 23, 2010, trooper Chadrin Mullenix of the Texas Department of Public Safety stood on an overpass debating what…