“The Carnival Dream, currently stranded on St. Maarten thanks to a generator failure, is just the latest ship in the cruise line’s fleet to be crippled by prolonged exposure to sea water. In the wake of the Carnival Triumph debacle and the sinking of the Costa Concordia — owned by …

“Here’s a good reason to always do your homework on the people renting your East Hampton vacation home, if you’re lucky enough to have one: Without the proper background check, your favorite couch might become permanently stained with semen. Such was the case, allegedly, for Brooklyn couple Stuart and Susan …

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“For anyone who’s read or seen The Hunger Games, this new recruitment video from the Tea Party Patriots might look a little familiar. And, naturally, the group premiered the elaborate promo at their Hunger Games-themed party during last weekend’s CPAC gathering in Washington, D.C.”* The Tea Party Patriots are leading …

“Leave it to the innovative hive mind of Reddit to find creative ways to get results. It started on Wednesday, when an article about a NASCAR-inspired White House petition to make congressional lawmakers wear the logos of their financial backers went viral on the social network. While it was an …

“After declaring victory in the War on Christmas, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly had another budding battle to discuss: the War on Easter. O’Reilly takes wars on various holidays quite seriously. Before Christmas last year, O’Reilly invited an atheist leader onto his program, called him a fascist, and argued that …

“Just when we thought former President George W. Bush’s artistic saga couldn’t get any better, Gawker recently revealed a whole new batch of Dubya’s paintings. The images, taken from Bush family accounts by the illustrious hacker, Guccifer, reveal a whole new spectrum of GWB subject matter, from a verdant golf …

Google Reader is on the outs, but RSS isn’t dead — so what’s next? And what does the future hold for Samsung’s new flagship Galaxy S4? Welcome to Top Shelf, a weekly show from The Verge that takes a deeper dive into the products and experiences of the technology that …

“In the past several years, scores of people living near wind farms have claimed to have been sickened by noise from the rotating blades. They have complained of everything from headaches and depression to conjunctivitis and nosebleeds. Is “wind turbine syndrome” real? Is it just another imaginary illness stoked by …

“Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Monday dismissed a recently released Republican National Committee report that encouraged the party to modernize. Limbaugh argued instead that the party is not conservative enough.”* Rush Limbaugh is in a tizzy over the RNC’s autopsy report. We’re not conservative enough! We don’t need to …