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ANN ARBOR, MI—After years of faithfully supporting every bad decision he made, a formerly dependable enabler of local man Ken Vatter reportedly betrayed him Thursday by casually suggesting he see a therapist about his problems.

To help celebrate Japan’s National Cat Day, which coincidentally is also Ninja Day, six adorable Cat Eclairs were created.

Brought to us by Caroline & Laura’s Tea Break, the cats are made to not only be totally adorbz, but they’re positioned to hold various treats. The only thing better would be ninja cat eclairs… or Burt Reynolds.

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Proving that he can dream up more than white savior stories, James Cameron is reportedly preparing to launch America’s first vegan—sorry, plant-based—elementary school this fall. That would be the MUSE School in Calabasas, California, a parody Twitter account come to life that was founded by Cameron’s wife Suzy Amis Cameron and her sister in 2005. At a fundraiser for the school at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood, Cameron said that as of fall 2015, the school would serve an all-plant cafeteria menu. But don’t call it vegan: “The average person would say vegan, but we say whole food, plant-based. It’s about raising kids who don’t think it’s strange or exotic or worthy of a pat on the back to be doing the right thing for the living biosphere,” Cameron says. Whether the Camerons got the idea from an unaired Portlandia sketch is ...

It's time, once again, to marvel at some idiots who don't know how to handle the world:

Cry-Baby #1: Sean Wilkinson

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The incident: A cat peed on a guy.

The appropriate response: Cleaning the pee off.

The actual response: He threw the cat out of a third-story window.

Last week, 20-year-old Sean Wilkinson (pictured above) was found guilty of causing suffering to a protected animal at Grimsby Magistrates Court in Grimsby, England.

The charges relate to an incident in October of last year, in which Wilkinson threw his one-year-old cat Luna from a third-story window after it urinated on him while he was watching TV.

The court heard testimony from a neighbor who saw an object being thrown from the window of Wilkinson apartment. He later saw Wilkinson walk out of the building laughing, before picking up the cat by the scruff of the neck.

Wilkinson then reportedly dumped the cat at the neighbor's feet and said, "Let your dog out."

The neighbor contacted animal welfare officials, who seized the cat from Wilkinson.

The cat was examined by vets and found to have five broken ribs and a fractured pelvis as a result of the fall.

Speaking to the court, Sean's lawyer said that Sean was "thoroughly ashamed" of what he had done, and that he had "snapped" on the day of the incident.

Sean was sentenced to 300 hours of community service, received a ten-year ban from keeping cats, and was ordered to pay back £2,500 ($3,815) in vet's bills.

Cry-Baby #2: Kermit Elementary School

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The incident: A nine-year-old boy allegedly told a classmate he was going to use the ring from the Lord of the Rings to turn him invisible.

The appropriate response: Nothing.

The actual response: The boy was suspended from school.

Last Thursday, nine-year-old Aiden Steward was in class at his school, Kermit Elementary School in Kermit, Texas.

According to his dad, Jason, Aiden told a classmate that he was going to use a ring forged in Middle Earth's Mount Doom to make him disappear. Jason says Aiden did this because he had watched one of the Hobbit films a few days earlier.

"Kids act out movies that they see," Jason told the New York Daily News. "When I watched Superman as a kid, I went outside and tried to fly."

This did not sit well with school officials, who suspended Aiden.

According to Jason, he was told that the suspension was because "threats to another child's safety [will] not be tolerated."

Jason told the local press this the third time Aiden has been suspended from the school. The first time he was suspended, according to the Odessa American was because he "referred to another student's skin color," and the second was because be brought a book to school that featured an illustration of a pregnant woman (which, unless some major detail is being left out here, seems almost as insane as suspending a child for threatening to use a Hobbit ring to make someone disappear).

The school has declined to comment on the matter, citing student confidentiality issues.

Which of these folks is the bigger cry-baby? Let us know in this poll down here:

Previously: A guy shot some kids for throwing snowballs at his car and a Hershey's took legal action against someone for importing chocolate.

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It’s my birthday next week, and I started thinking about day trips my husband can take me on, since there will be no “Life, The Universe And Everything” parties or Pan-Galactic Gargleblasters in my immediate future.

I was soon in a “visit bumfuck Montana” internet k-hole, looking up every sad little town (lookin’ at you, Deer Lodge) within conceivable driving distance of our liberal college-town oasis — where there are still only white people, and it is weird, but at least no one’s shot me yet for my Prius complete with Obamacare sticker and California plates — and then looking up hotels (maybe we would spend all our money and stay somewhere, why not!) and then, just, you know. Internet k-hole, like I said.

And that’s when I discovered the thriving internet subculture of Your Racist Uncle Having ‘Thoughts’ On Mexican Restaurants.

A note: the following screenshots are for the purpose of discussion, not the purpose of pitchforks. Your editrix — me — truly, truly believes that even weird shitty people shouldn’t be hounded for their weird shitty beliefs, and that internet pile-ons are awful, illiberal, fascist and Thought Crimey. I have had many discussions on this with youngs on Twitter, who said flat out that sexist or racist speech should be actually outlawed. If you’re going to be a dick and dox these people so you and your comrades can better harass them — or even if you’re just sending unsolicited hate to their TripAdvisor inbox — you are a BAD PERSON and you SHOULD FEEL BAD. Leave the hate to them, and be perfect, like me.

SO ANYWAY. There’s a Mexican restaurant in Salmon, Idaho, and people have Thoughts on it. Most of those thoughts are “the river deck is really great!” and “I love nachos!” But then they started getting kind of hilarious, because a common theme was that even though it was a Mexican restaurant, the customer still felt welcome anyway. You guys, people in … the West? The Plains states? WHERE AM I? … are REALLY FUCKING SCARED OF MEXICANS!

“Despite it being your typical Mexican-style restaurant, we did seem welcome.” Beanie hats. THERE IS NO TACO BELL! Or as a fellow traveler on Twitter put it:

Man, I wish I wrote that.

I kept going, of course, and that’s when I met some fucking weirdo who lives in Wyoming now, having moved from “the border regions” which means he knows Mexicans and Mexican food and really does not care for the former and is probably much, MUCH happier now.

(I have been to Wyoming and swore never to return after making the acquaintance of Roy the Bigot, who owned the only place to lay one’s head within driving distance of Devil’s Tower, and said things like “as someone self-described ‘FROM CALIFORNIA,’ when you’ve served your country, then you can have an opinion,” and screamed at me till his face was quite violet because his wife had let me use his computer to check my email, oh, and “didn’t hold with interracial marriage, but out of respect for [my young son’s ears] would leave it at that.” Roy the Bigot ruined MY WHOLE DAY. I can only imagine how he’s ruined his nice wife’s life.)

Here is our new friend from “the border regions.”

A “tinge of resentment toward the gringo patrons”; a “residue of victimization politics.” Ol’ Stormrider up there sounded like he was worth exploring further. Were all his reviews written through a rightwing talk radio filter? PROBABLY! Did he have any idea he might be either a) projecting some sort of attitude to which the Latina counter help might be responding or b) making shit up to correspond to his worldview? PROBABLY NOT!

I read all his reviews. You guys, he stormed out of a Subway sandwich shop because he didn’t like the way the counter dude wore his pants, and there was no manager to whom to complain:

And here is a taco salad review that gets so racist so fast, it’s almost unbelievable.

TACO SALADS AREN’T WORTH HAVING MEXICANS AROUND, YOU GUYS.

Jesus Fucking Christ with refried beans. Is there anything Stormrider likes? Yes! White people! (But not “bohemian” white people, who probably are “self-described as being from California.”)

The youngs are well-behaved (and white)! The town of Cody, Wyoming, is a truly great American town that doesn’t have any of those problems you get from being not white! Stormrider can get racist as fuck in a review about A COFFEE HOUSE.

I don’t have any illusions that being exposed to some nice Latinos and people of color might change Stormrider’s outlook; he seems pretty well entrenched! (Plus he is from a border region, he might have mentioned, so he already knows alllll about ‘em.) But our first reviewer up there, the one who was surprised he or she was welcome in a Mexican restaurant — the one who seemed scared he or she wouldn’t be — to that reviewer, Latinos are a strange, unknown quantity, and he’s worried they don’t like him. They are a different people, and they wear beanie hats, my, isn’t that new!

I saw a tweet yesterday complaining about a snippet of a story about prep schools getting pretty well integrated a couple of decades ago, because the well-off white parents wanted their children to go to school with children who were different than they, so they would be prepared for a multicultural country and world. The tweeter — much retweeted — objected to what she saw as the children of color being learning props for the white children on how not to be assholes.

I find that most of us are complaining a little too much, when we bitch about white parents wanting their prep schools to be opened to the poor and children of color. And don’t we want to teach our white children not to be assholes?

The alternative, it seems to me, is a state like the one where I live now, and the states around it, where the Other is scary as fuck, and people are morons.

You guys, I really miss L.A.

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Besides being the greatest writer in the history of the English language, William Shakespeare was the master of the pithy put-down. So the nervous servant who tells Macbeth his castle is under attack is dismissed as a “cream-faced loon.” Oswald in King Lear isn’t just a useless idiot, he’s a “whoreson zed,” an “unnecessary letter.” Lear’s ungrateful daughter Goneril is “a plague-sore,” an “embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.” And when Falstaff doubts something Mistress Quickly has said in Henry IV: Part 1, he claims, “there’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.” (And there’s a good chance he didn’t intend “stewed prune” to mean dried fruit.) But you don’t have to rely just on Shakespeare to spice up your vocabulary. Next time someone winds you up or you need to win an argument in fine style, why not try dropping one of these old-fashioned insults into your conversation? 

1. ABYDOCOMIST

Abydos was a city in Ancient Egypt whose inhabitants, according to one 19th century dictionary, “were famous for inventing slanders and boasting of them.” Whether that’s true or not, the name Abydos is the origin of abydocomist—a liar who brags about their lies. 

2. BEDSWERVER

An adulterer. Another of Shakespeare’s inventions that became popular in Victorian slang.

3. BESPAWLER

To bespawl means to spit or dribble. A bespawler is a slobbering person, who spits when he talks. 

4. BOBOLYNE

An old Tudor English word for a fool. Coined by the 15th-16th century poet John Skelton (who was one of Henry VIII’s schoolteachers). 

5. CUMBERWORLD

Also called a cumberground—someone who is so useless, they just serve to take up space. 

6. DALCOP

Cop is an old word for the head, making a dalcop (literally a “dull-head”) a particularly stupid person. You can also be a harecop, or a “hare-brained” person. 

7. DEW-BEATER

An 18th century word for an especially large shoe, and consequently a clumsy or awkward person.

8. DORBEL

As well as being another name for a nincompoop, a dorbel is a petty, nit-picking teacher. It’s derived from the name of an old French scholar named Nicolas d’Orbellis, who was well known as a supporter of the much-derided philosopher John Duns Scotus (whose followers were the original “dunces”).

9. DRATE-POKE

An old English dialect word for someone who drawls or speaks indistinctly.

10. DRIGGLE-DRAGGLE

An untidy woman. 

11. FOPDOODLE

An insignificant or foolish man.

12. FUSTYLUGS 

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this term for “a woman of gross or corpulent habit” is derived from fusty, in the sense of something that’s gone off or gone stale. 

13. FUSTILARIAN

Another of Shakespeare’s best put-downs, coined in Henry IV, Part 2: "Away, you scullion! You rampallion! You fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe," Falstaff exclaims. If not just a variation of fustylugs, he likely meant it to mean someone who stubbornly wastes time on worthless things. 

14. GILLIE-WET-FOOT

An old Scots word for a swindling businessman, or someone who gets into debt and then flees.

15. GNASHGAB

An 18th century northern English word for someone who only ever seems to complain. 

16. GOBERMOUCH

An old Irish word for a nosy, prying person who likes to interfere in other people’s business. 

17. GOWPENFUL-O’-ANYTHING 

A gowpen is the bowl formed by cupping your hands together, while a gowpenful-o’-anything is “a contemptuous term applied to one who is a medley of everything absurd,” according to the English Dialect Dictionary. 

18. KLAZOMANIAC

Someone who only seems able to speak by shouting. 

19. LEASING-MONGER

A leasing is an old word for an untruth or falsehood, making a leasing-monger or a leasing-maker a habitual liar. 

20. LOITER-SACK 

This is a 17th century term for a slacker. An idling, lazy good-for-nothing. Literally, someone who seems to spend all day in bed.

21. LUBBERWORT

In the 16th century, lubberwort was the name of an imaginary plant that was supposed to cause sluggishness or stupidity, and ultimately came to be used as a nickname for a lethargic, fuzzy-minded person.

22. MUCK-SPOUT

A dialect word for someone who not only talks a lot, but who seems to constantly swear. 

23. MUMBLECRUST

Derived from the name of a stock character in medieval theatrical farces, a mumblecrust is a toothless beggar. 

24. QUISBY

In Victorian English, doing quisby meant shirking from work or lazing around. A quisby was someone who did just that.

25. RAGGABRASH

A disorganized or grubby person. 

26. RAKEFIRE

A visitor who outstays his or her welcome. Originally, someone who stays so late the dying coals in the fireplace would need to be raked over just to keep it burning. 

27. ROIDERBANKS

Someone who lives beyond their means, or seems to spend extravagantly.

28. SADDLE-GOOSE

Saddling geese is a proverbially pointless exercise, so anyone who wastes their time doing it—namely, a saddle-goose—must be an imbecile. 

29. SCOBBERLOTCHER

Probably derived from scopperloit, an old English dialect word for a vacation or a break from work, a scobberlotcher is someone who never works hard. 

30. SKELPIE-LIMMER

A badly-behaved child. Coined by the Scottish poet Robert Burns from the old Scots word skelpie, meaning “misbehaving” or “deserving punishment.” 

31. SMELL-FEAST

Someone who turns up uninvited at a meal or party and expects to be fed.

32. SMELLFUNGUS

When Laurence Sterne (author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy) met the Scottish writer Tobias Smollett (author of The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle) in Italy in 1764, he was amazed by how critical Smollett was of all the places he had visited. Smollett returned home and published his Travels Through France and Italy in 1766, and in response Sterne published his Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy two years later. Part-novel, part-travelogue, Sterne’s book featured a grumblingly quarrelsome character called Smelfungus, who was modeled on Smollett. The name soon came to be used of any buzz-killing faultfinder—an in particular someone who always finds fault in the places they visit.

33. SNOUTBAND

Someone who constantly interrupts a conversation, typically only to contradict or correct someone else.

34. SORNER 

Sorning was the 16th century equivalent of mooching or sponging, and so a sorner is someone who unappreciatively lives off other people.

35. STAMPCRAB

A heavy-footed, clumsy person. 

36. STYMPHALIST

In Greek mythology, one of The Twelve Labors of Hercules was to destroy the Stymphalian birds, a flock of monstrous, man-eating birds with metal beaks and feathers, who produced a stinking and highly toxic guano. A Stymphalist is someone who smells just as unpleasant. 

37. TALLOWCATCH

Another of Shakespeare’s inventions directed at the gross, womanizing knight Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1. It’s probably derived from “tallow ketch,” literally “a barrel of fat.”

38. TRIPTAKER

A finicky, fault-finding pedant. 

39. WANDOUGHT

A weak and ineffectual man. (Wandoughty is an old word for impotence. Say no more.) 

40. WHIFFLE-WHAFFLE

An indecisive, time-wasting ditherer. 

41. YALDSON

A 15th century word literally meaning “the son of a prostitute.” 

42. ZOILIST

Zoilus was a Greek grammarian who became known as one of the most vitriolic critics of Homer, author of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Consequently, a zoilist is an overly-critical and judgmental nitpicker.

We at the Wonkette don’t like to talk about every single stupid thing Pat Robertson says, because that would be a full website in and of itself, but man oh man, once in a while, Pat brings us some wisdom that we MUST, by law, share with you. One of Pat’s viewers, Cynthia, is very excited because she is going to be a grandmommy soon, but she is worried, because all the young kids with the Facebooks and the Obama phones are constantly posting pictures of their ultrasounds, so that everybody can be confused by what they’re looking at together. Cynthia would like to know if this is a sin or not.

Pat responds that no, of course not, it is not a sin, but it could open your unborn baby up to DEMONS. You see, the way it works, apparently, is that there are demons in the world, and they all have Facebook, and probably also Pinterest, but instead of using it to share uplifting memes and cat pictures and recipes, they are apparently scouring it for all the delicious ultrasound pictures they can find. And then, a “cultist or a coven,” of witches or Dungeons and Dragons players (same thing), might get ahold of the picture, because apparently young conservative Christian families don’t know how to use Facebook privacy settings. Then the coven will possess the fetus baby, in thine own mother’s womb, by “muttering curses against an unborn child.” Always muttering, those covens.

Also, why do people post the “most intimate part of their body” on Facebook, wonders Pat? Did you know, ladies, that your uterus is the most intimate part of your body? Why, when you post your ultrasound pictures, might as well post pictures of the parents’ genitals too, geez you kids these days, why you gotta share EVERYTHING?

So, to sum up, the baby’s parents are not sinning and thus will get to go to heaven with Pat Robertson, but the baby’s ultrasound fetus picture has been cursed by a coven of demons from Facebook and is now their property, and this is why you really should tinker around with your Facebook privacy settings if you don’t want to encounter the same fate. We DO hope Editrix Rebecca is listening to Pat’s advice, as we cannot have the Wonkette Baby being owned by witches.

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Miss P is a four-year-old beagle from British Colombia—a fully grown adult, by dog standards. On Tuesday, she won the top honor in her field, the Westminster Dog Award for Best in Show. A legacy attendee—her granduncle, Uno, won the prize in 2005—Miss P was considered an outlier nonetheless, and statistically speaking the odds were stacked against her: Uno was the only other beagle to be chosen in history. And, crucially, most of the dogs the dogs pitted up against her were men.

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Finally some Nice Time from the War On Advanced Placement U.S. History! The Jefferson County school board in Colorado has decided to cancel its plans to review the APUSH framework, apparently deciding that it didn’t want to be in the same anti-education club as Georgia and Oklahoma. Jefferson County had made news four months ago when students walked out of several Denver-area schools to protest the board’s plan to review all curricular material to make sure it would “promote patriotic material, respect for authority, and the free-market system.” That proposal was eventually watered down to eliminate the more censorship-y parts, and now the board has decided to drop even that review. It will go ahead and implement the College Board’s revised framework for APUSH, which became a rightwing Culture War fetish in several states after the Republican National Committee decided the new standards didn’t love America enough.

Board President Ken Witt announced the AP framework had magically become acceptable, thanks to Patriotic Americans everywhere:

“I’m confident that the public outcry both locally and nationally, pressured the college board to correctly take a view of their own framework and revise it appropriately and we’re delighted that they chose to do that.”

In reality, the College Board hasn’t made any changes to the new framework, but if proclaiming victory helps Witt and other conservatives on the school board feel better about things, we’re all for that.

So congratulations to all the kids who walked out and protested — looks like you won a round, and learned that despite the original proposal’s plan to quash lessons about “civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law,” sometimes a lot can be accomplished by raising a little hell. Good on ya. Now put away your damn snapchat and study, will you?

Meanwhile, over on Fox News, the Brain Trust that is the cast of Outnumbered had some thoughts on Advanced Placement U.S. History, too, ranging from Judge Andrew Ferrer’s heretical view that students should learn American history, warts and all, to Kennedy Montgomery’s perfectly mainstream suggestion that public schools be abolished altogether, to Andrea Tantaros’s centrist (relatively speaking) view that the pernicious influence of liberals must be rooted out of the curriculum:

[It] seems to me that the universities have always taught this sort of “Let’s apologize for all of the wrongdoing and the boar-headedness — boorish behavior of the United States of America” … It seems that’s trickling down to our kids’ level. And that is a problem.

We are so behind so many countries in math and science. They are not even getting the basic education because they are getting this meaningless liberal crap everyday!

So that sounds like a reasonable plan, too — no apologies, more math and science, and no boars’ heads, which we take to be either an objection to the use of Lord of the Flies in English classes or a call for the elimination of premium lunchmeats. Masochists can watch the video if they are so inclined:

On a more cheerful note, Yr Dok Zoom was pretty darn chuffed Wednesday evening to see that MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes had borrowed (with credit, even) our very own dopey “Tea Party Crossing the Delaware” graphic for their segment on Oklahoma’s anti-APUSH bill. Lookie!

That was even better than getting our name in the paper for organizing the 8th grade carnival! (It was kind of a lousy carnival.)

[CBS Denver / TPM / RawStory]

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Coming up with the perfect, unique gift for one person is difficult, let alone finding a gift for a couple. To help us figure out the best wedding gifts, tell us what presents from your wedding you and your partner use the most.

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It's the United Kingdom's first Children's Mental Health Week, and so Kate Middleton sat down and recorded this video encouraging adults to seek help on behalf of kids in their lives and specifically touting the offerings of Place2Be, a charity she and Will support. Is it just me, or is it weird seeing Kate Middleton talk?

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Montreal-based candy shop La Confiserie CandyLabs makes adorable hard candies with red hearts in the center right in front of its customers. If you don't live in Canada, that doesn't mean you have to feel left out—Stereokroma took a behind-the-scenes tour of the process. It takes about 3 hours to craft the little pink treats, but the 9-minute video shows all of the highlights. A worker walks through the process and explains each step as he does it. There are few things more satisfying than watching the candy get stretched out on the hook, or the red goo getting squished into shape.

Passengers in an Oregon-bound flight got a creepy-crawly surprise this weekend: a scorpion

It’s a tale as old as time: You don’t feel like paying astronomically high prices for booze and snacks at an official sporting/concert event, so you try to stealthily sneak some in yourself. This involves stashing the contraband anywhere on your person to the point that you’re a walking vending machine. (Bonus points if you are and/or with with a woman with a big purse.)

Still, as thought-through as your plans might’ve been, all it takes is one particularly mindful security guy to ruin it all. That’s exactly the lesson this Turkish guy learned when he attempted to smuggle beer into a soccer match. Though he was unsuccessful, holy sh*t, you got to give him credit for being able to hold that many bottles.

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Anyone who has ever caught an episode of Boardwalk Empire knows the extreme—and sometimes violent—lengths to which bootleggers went to keep the alcohol flowing during America’s Prohibition years. But 20th century lawmen and teetotalers were just as committed to their cause, as evidenced by these vintage photos of people wasting perfectly good alcohol.

1. Dismantling a still

Agents in San Francisco ensure that the hooch would stop flowing from this particular still by dismantling it altogether.

2. Orange County Sheriff dumps bootleg booze

In California’s Orange County, Sheriff Sam Jernigan, Undersheriff Ed McClellan, and Santa Ana Constable Jesse Elliott oversee the destruction of some bootlegged booze.

3. Prohibition agents destroy barrels of alcohol

This photo, which shows Prohibition agents emptying several barrels of alcohol, first appeared in the Chicago Daily News in 1921.

4. RUM RUNNERS SET THEIR BOAT ON FIRE

With a deck full of contraband, the crew of the Linwood—a rum-running ship—opted to set their boat afire in order to destroy the evidence when they were pursued by a patrol boat in 1923.

5. Zion City, Ill. destroys 80,000 pint bottles of beer

Mrs. Graze Knippen holds up one of the 80,000 pint bottles of beer she helped to get rid of in Zion City, Ill.

6. THE MAYOR OF ZION CITY GETS IN ON THE ACTION, TOO

Zion City Mayor Hurd Clendinen made sure the press was on hand to witness—and photograph—his city’s commitment to the Prohibition movement.

7. Smashing Barrels

An axe makes a perfect took for smashing barrels full of alcohol, as this man discovers in 1921.

8. Pouring It Away

A well-placed sewer drain could be a teetotaler’s best friend.

9. Bottle throwing in Boston

Bottles of wine and spirits are hurled at a brick wall in Boston in 1920.

10. Wine flush

In February 1920, just after the start of Prohibition in America, a crowd of excited onlookers watch as 33,100 gallons of vino are flushed into the gutter outside of the North Cucamonga Winery in Los Angeles.

11. Beer street

Barrels of suds are spilled into the streets, forming a river of beer in 1925.

12. Down the drain

A thirsty drain is the final resting place for this barrel of liquid contraband.

13. SANTA ANA DUMP

In 1932, a year before Prohibition was repealed, deputies in Orange County, Calif. rid the city of an impressive stash of illegal booze.

14. Nine men smashing bottles in dump

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Taking a cue from Zion City, 18,000 bottles of beer made their way from Philadelphia to Washington, DC—only to be smashed to smithereens at the local dump.

15. Drink poured down the sewer

A group of officials look on as a barrel of alcohol is poured down a New York manhole.

A report on AL.com points to the alarming fact that only 17 out of 54 counties in Alabama contain hospitals where a woman can deliver a baby. This is a sharp decrease from 1980, when 46 out of 54 counties in the state offered L&D services.

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Man, imagine the John Cena jokez if anyone other than John Cena was doing this. 

John Cena is a huge superstar. Whether you LOVE ‘IM OR HATE ‘IM, every minor thing Cena does attracts a huge amount of attention, with one exception: Did you know that John Cena has a cooking show? Neither WWE or Cena himself ever promoted it, but Cena is spokesman for the BodyChange weight loss system, and as part of that, Cena is now hitting YouTube to whip up healthy, easy-to-make meals like a giant, veiny Rachael Ray.

You’d think the sight of John Cena in an apron, chopping veggies like he’s never seen a knife or food other than a chicken breast before would be a viral sensation, but his current cooking video only has around 250 views. So, let’s try to make the one part of John Cena’s life that isn’t a wild success a little more popular, shall we?

Here’s our boy John “cooking” up a ham and avocado platter, AKA a bunch of deli ham and avocado just sitting in a pile on a plate. It takes him seven minutes to teach us how to do this, largely because John seems to be terrified that he’s going to break the food with his T-800 arms…

Nikki Bella, your special Valentine’s Day dinner is ready.

Did you AA that food onto the plate, John?

While we’re at it, here’s Cena describing the new Cenation-approved four food groups and the magical weight loss powers of LIMES!

I really never expected that I’d have to type these words one day, but I think Cena could take some tips from Gene Snitsky.

KETTERING, OH—Caught totally off-guard by the sudden onset of unease, local woman Mary Inglewood confirmed to reporters Monday that her usual wave of dread had made an extremely rare daytime visit.

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Before they were famous faces, these actors popped up on The Office.

1. Amy Adams // "Katy"

A few months before her Academy Award-nominated breakout performance in Junebug, Amy Adams appeared as Katy, a young purse saleswoman, in the season one finale episode "The Hot Girl." She also popped up in two season two episodes—"The Fire" and "Booze Cruise"—playing Jim Halpert's girlfriend.

In an interview with Advocate.com, Amy Adams expressed her admiration for The Office, saying that it "was the best work experience. I loved that show and that cast so much. I don't know if they believe me, but every time I see them I'm like, 'Oh my gosh, I'll do anything to come back.'" BJ Novak wanted to include Amy Adams in a cameo appearance in "Threat Level Midnight" in season seven, but she was unable to appear because of a scheduling conflict.

2. Ken Jeong // "Bill"

Early in his career, Ken Jeong appeared briefly as Bill, a member of Michael Scott's improv group in "E-Mail Surveillance," the ninth episode of season two. Jeong would later star in Knocked Up, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and The Hangover film trilogy.

3. Kevin McHale // "Delivery Kid"

In "Launch Party," the third episode of season four, Glee's Kevin McHale played the young pizza delivery kid from Pizza by Alfredo. Michael Scott kidnapped the delivery boy when he refused honor a coupon.

4. Melissa Rauch // "Cathy"

Melissa Rauch played Cathy, the young mother who shares a hospital room with Pam Beesly after she gives birth to her first child, in the sixth season episode "The Delivery." Rauch would later land a series regular spot as Dr. Bernadette Rostenkowski on The Big Bang Theory.

5. Yvette Nicole Brown // "Paris"

In the season three episode "The Return," Yvette Nicole Brown played Paris, Dwight Schrute's co-worker at Staples. Brown is best known as Shirley Bennett on Community on NBC (and now Yahoo! Screen).

6. Scott Adsit // "The Photographer"

Scott Adsit is best known as the fictional TGS producer Pete Hornberger on NBC's 30 Rock. But before he landed the role, he played a photographer in the season two episode "Conflict Resolution."

7. John Gemberling // "Caterer Greeting Guests"

In a very brief appearance during the show's two-part series finale, John Gemberling played a caterer greeting guests at Angela and Dwight's wedding on the farm. Gemberling is best known for his main cast role as Gil on NBC's Marry Me and his recurring role as Abbi's roommate's freeloading boyfriend Bevers on Broad City on Comedy Central. 

8. Evan Peters // "Luke"

Before he starred on American Horror Story and X-Men: Days of Future Past, Evan Peters appeared as the new office assistant Luke in the season seven premiere episode "Nepotism." The Dunder Mifflin workers didn't like Luke because he was an incompetent slacker, but Michael Scott was reluctant to fire him because he was his nephew.

9. Tim Kang // "Koh"

In the fourth season episode "Local Ad," Tim Kang played Koh, one of the ad executives in charge of making a commercial for the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. Kang is best known for playing Agent Kimball Cho on The Mentalist on CBS.

10. Randall Park // "Steve"

Before playing Kim Jong-Un in The Interview, Randall Park played Steve, a.k.a. "Asian Jim Halpert," in the season nine premiere. Jim tries to convince Dwight that he was Asian the whole time they knew each other during the episode's cold open. Park is also the co-lead in the new sitcom Fresh off the Boat on ABC.

For as long as I can remember, I've been immediately skeptical of men who use the word "female" to describe women. Before I was able to put my finger on what exactly bothered me about their use of the word, I simply relied on historical record: The men I liked and respected weren't running around talking about females this, females that.

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