The Bernie rally in Washington Square Park was as lit as we all knew it would be! Unfortunately, Bwog was too lazy to go all the way down to the park just to smoke a jay with Bernie… (CNN) Scientists found a 1,500-year-old mummy wearing shoes that resemble Adidas sneakers. Normcore is #forever. (IFL Science) […]
The Cage enters temporary retirement today, so today we honor housing, in all its senselessness. Brazen Brooklyn bank robbers drilled a hole into the ceiling of an HSBC bank, stealing more than $280,000 and content from safety deposit boxes—much like your lottery number stole all your chances of happiness for next year. (Pix 11) Scientists have […]
Brazil’s Congressional Committee voted in favor of a motion which proceed with a vote for or against impeaching President Dilma Rousseff. President Rousseff effectively leads a minority government and was placed in the midst of a corruption scandal and investigations over the past year or so. (The Guardian) CNN streamed a town hall event with […]
Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, the prime minister of Ukraine, announced his resignation yesterday, only two years after taking power. He’s allegedly stepping down because of disagreements with President Poroshenko, as well as various scandals and mistakes that lowered his regard in public opinion. (NY Times) Secretary of State John F. Kerry is currently visiting Hiroshima, Japan. […]
Jennifer Lawrence spoke to Harper’s Bazaar about a “new normal body type,” saying that we’re so used to underweight bodies that we deem normal ones “curvy.” (The Guardian) In the continuation of their hilarious responses to anti-LGBT legislation, Funny or Die has released a new video mocking Mississippi’s tourism. (Funny or Die) Despite the fact […]
First “dog café” opens in California, offering customers an opportunity to interact with adoptable dogs in the same style as popular cat cafés. (UPI) Kansas boy in serious condition after octopus removed from throat. (NBC) Stuffed dog carried to stratosphere by high-altitude balloon. (ABC) Despite its liberal policies on some issues, Colorado remains the only […]
Get ready to feel a little more mediocre than you already did: New York high school senior Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna is the second student from her school to be accepted to all eight Ivy League Schools. Oh, and she got into MIT. (CBS) John Stamos as a crazy French Chef? The upcoming production of The Little Mermaid at the Hollywood Bowl […]
The Statue takes the New York Times: news of our sit-ins and petitions over a hunk of metal has reached that intellectual bastion. The point of the piece: Columbians don’t not protest something when they can protest something. (New York Times) Iceland’s prime minister proves not so cool under pressure—he’s resigned after the leaked Panama Papers […]
A coronal mass ejection, a storm of charged particles and radiation unleashed by the sun, will hit the Earth over the next few days. Aside from the Northern Lights extending in visibility to Illinois and Oregon, the storm may affect power systems, radio transmissions, and even GPS devices. (Albany Daily Star) The new EU migrant […]
Yesterday, an enormous information leak that Edward Snowden himself called the “biggest leak in the history of data journalism” went live. The leak, called the “Panama Papers,” reveals a global network of off-shore countries holding the assets of world leaders, businessmen, criminals, and celebrities – and, perhaps unsurprisingly, Putin isn’t pleased about it. (USA Today) The Brussels […]
A follow up on last week’s news of North Carolina’s anti-LGBT legislation: more backlash! Now the state may lose federal funding. (The NY Times) Taylor Swift appears unprecedentedly white in this new video of her running, dancing, rapping, and falling to Drake, released as an ad for Apple Music. (Hollywood Life) Two skydivers collided in mid-air. […]
Pioneering architect Zaha Hadid died yesterday of a heart attack in Miami. She left unfinished a luxury apartment building near the High Line, and we also kind of wish she’d been able to re-design Lerner. (New York Times) New satellite imagery shows evidence that the Vikings reached the southern coast of Newfoundland. We only needed […]
The human embodiment of Cathedral Gardens, our potential President Hillary Clinton, was just a few blocks away yesterday for a rally at Harlem’s Apollo Theater. Bwog was too lazy to go. (C-SPAN) Want to spend a night surrounded by 35 sharks? Neither do we, but the masochists out there can delight in Airbnb’s newest contest that […]
An innocent napper on the 7 train was awakened when a GIANT RAT crawled up his LEG and onto his NECK. All of this was caught on video, because people care more about views on YouTube than maintaining the dignity of a fellow human being. Excuse us while we never go downtown ever again. (PzFeed) […]
Our favourite obtuse dictator from the Hermit Kingdom has been a little riled up. Revitalized military exercises with South Korea, on top of China’s seeming distant posture, has pushed Kim Jong Un into releasing a slew of missiles and propaganda. (BBC) Tragedy struck Pakistan yesterday when a splinter group of the Taliban, Jamat-ul-Ahrar, claimed responsibility […]
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