SONG INTERRUPTIONS… 1977 - Elvis Costello interrupts his own intended song, launches instead into a blistering “Radio Radio” - a harsh critique of media culture. 2004 - Ashlee Simpson awkwardly dances off when the wrong prerecorded vocal track plays.

Okay, here’s my incomplete list of worse things… 1. The Holocaust
2. 9/11
3. Slavery
4. The Spanish Inquisition
5. Westboro Baptist Church
6. Abraham Lincoln Assassination
7. Mahatma Gandhi Assassination
8. JFK Assassination
9. MLK Assassination
10. RFK Assassination
11. Medgar Evers Assassination
12. Malcolm X Assassination
13. John Lennon Assassination
14. Ronald Reagan Attempted Assassination
15. Challenger Explosion
16. Chernobyl Meltdown
17. Genocide in Kosovo
18. Genocide in Armenia
19. The Trail of Tears
20. Cancer
21. AIDS
22. Rape
23. Catholic Church pedophilia scandal
24. Rabbi Weberman pedophilia scandal
25. Penn State pedophilia scandal
26. Jimmy Saville pedophilia scandal
27. Bill Buckner’s error in the 1986 World Series (if you like the Red Sox)
28. The smell of feces
29. Decapitation
30. Hiroshima
31. Nagasaki
32. Watching your child die
33. The Troubles (Northern Ireland bombings)
34. Israeli-Palestinian violence
35. My Lai massacre
36. Any plane crash
37. Titanic
38. Hindenburg There. I’ve doubled your list, and only one item on there is even debatable. There are, in fact, countless things that are “literally” worse than Beyonce being caught possibly lip syncing. Lighten the hell up, Buzzfeed. Lighten. The hell. Up.

Fourth picture down: Please welcome…Porn Star Librarian and Austin Powers!

It sounds like he’s doing his impression of a super white guy’s pronunciation of a very Spanish name.

It occurred to me that, name-wise, Dick Wolf is a more badass version of Peter Coyote.

What was it that Karl Rove said when it was the other way around in the Bush era? “You’re entitled to *your* math; we’re entitled to *the* math?”

Aaaaaand cue Tom Waits music…

Memorizing the presidents? Pointless? It gives you a framework for understanding the history of the nation, if you combine it with knowledge of each president’s accomplishments and policies. Harding-Coolidge-Hoover? Those were the business-class presidents who presided over and fueled the 1920s economic bubble that became the 1929 economic bust. Even the presidential streaks that didn’t do jack shit - Hayes thru Harrison - tells you a lot. The fact that they’re not remembered is
because they didn’t ultimately run the country - it was the robber barons - Carnegie, Rockefeller, the Vanderbilts, J. P. Morgan - who ran the show.

First noticed this one day going over the Manhattan Bridge via subway…felt so weird, like going back in time (and I’m a post-9/11 NYC transplant)

Today, Wilmer Valderrama is going to play the guitar. A guitar is a wooden structure fitted with electromagnetic pickups, over which six to twelve strings are suspended. A string is a thin, extruded piece of metal, which, when brought to tension and plucks, produces vibrations in the air that we recognize as sound.

FAAXTO.  Fuck All Acronyms, eXcept This One.  FAAXTO.

“That [bleep] is crazy…You are not supposed to take kids there. Everyone knows you are not supposed to take kids there.” —Snooki Snooki thinks she’s crazy.  SNOOKI THINKS SHE’S CRAZY. SNOOKI.  THINKS.  SHE’S.  CRAZY.

@Murphytheyeti - You’re right, that statement isn’t necessarily true, but lying with photos was pretty rampant since photography was in its childhood. In the late 19th century, when spiritualism (i.e. seances and the like) was all the rage, a lot of hucksters would photograph some sucker, have them bring a photo of a long-lost loved one, double expose the two, and give it back to them, claiming that the dead person’s spirit was with them in the room. P.T. Barnum - of all people! - debunked this at some point in the 1870s, using this technique to create a photo of himself with the “ghost” of Abraham Lincoln behind him.  You could always lie with photos. Back then, it’s not only that it was technically less efficient and limited to do so. It’s also that so many people were sure photos couldn’t possibly lie that they could be more easily duped by it.

More like “sun-viciously-raped” for her…

The mugshot: “Hello! I’m Jerri Blank, and I’m a 46-year-old high school freshman. 32 years ago I dropped out of high school. Oh, I made a lot of friends. Did a lot of time. I was a boozer, a user, and a LOSER. I stole the TV. Did some more time. But now I’m back in school! And though the faces may have changed, the hassles are just the same!”

Who knew that a tooth crossbred with the clown from It?

My god - she’s William H. Macy in blackface!

It just makes his face look all the worse.