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Someone Adopted This Jerk! Formerly known as the “world’s worst cat,” Perdita is now known as Noel.
By Claire Lampen
Would You Adopt This Jerk? Her name is Perdita, and she’s been called the “world’s worst cat.”
By Madeleine Aggeler
humor writing
Nov. 4, 2019
Don’t Be a Jerk to Your Online Humor Editor The editor of McSweeney’s shares some helpful tips about rejection.
By Chris Monks
psychology
Sept. 20, 2017
This Stanford Professor Has a Theory on Why 2017 Is Filled With Jerks According to Robert Sutton, the problem of “disrespectful, demeaning, and downright mean-spirited behavior” is “worse than ever.”
By Jessica Pressler
super classy
Jan. 14, 2016
By Samuel Lieberman
Harvard Professor Is Now Sorry for Rude Emails In which he bullied a Chinese restaurant over four bucks.
By Katie Zavadski
Our Son, The Asshole, by Noell Wolfgram Evans My wife’s hand found its way to mine; in the corner of the overly lit room our five-year old son was blissfully unaware of cruel trick the […]
By Brian Boone
Hawaii Lawmaker to Stop Smashing Shopping Carts “I guess I shouldn’t use the sledgehammer because it’s a really loaded image.”
By Dan Amira
Ray Kelly Heckled Off Stage at Brown University He couldn’t give a lecture over constant interruptions.
By Adam Martin
‘The New Normal’ Finds a Utah Home Last week KSL-TV, a Utah NBC affiliate, refused to air The New Normal because of all its frightening gay characters. (What with their loving […]
By Jesse David Fox
crimes and misdemeanors
May 31, 2012
By Joe Coscarelli
Rush Limbaugh’s ‘Slut’ Attack Costs Him Advertisers Including two mattress-makers. But is he losing any sleep?
By Andre Tartar
Does Rush Limbaugh Owe America a Sex Tape? We might be paying for his Viagra, after all.
By Dan Amira
crimes and misdemeanors
Feb. 23, 2012
By Brett Smiley
wow terrible
Feb. 17, 2012
By Dan Amira
neighborhood news
Oct. 14, 2011
By Dan Amira
New Jersey Public School Teacher Not a Fan of the Gays She calls homosexuality “perverted” and a “cancer” and other mean things on her Facebook page.
By Dan Amira
royal robots
June 10, 2011
By Chris Rovzar
it’s science
May 21, 2011
Study Confirms: Yep, Alleged Jerks Hold Our Interest “Given a choice, people will stare longer at the faces of people they’ve heard bad things about.”
By Mike Vilensky
school gays
Apr. 14, 2011
By Mike Vilensky
inhuman humans
Apr. 5, 2011
By Nitasha Tiku
crazy in arizona
Jan. 12, 2011
Westboro Baptist Church Agrees to Be Slightly Less Obnoxious They’ve decided not to protest at a 9-year-old Tucson massacre victim’s funeral, but not because they are suddenly good people.
By Dan Amira
Why Westboro Baptist’s Plans to Picket Elizabeth Edwards’s Funeral Might Fail The First Amendment and a human counterprotest might throw off their evil plan.
By Nitasha Tiku
fi-cri fallout
Dec. 2, 2010
Incidentally, the Federal Reserve Really Did Save the World Back in 2008 Without the bailout, McDonald’s wouldn’t have opened and your phone service might have stopped.
By Jessica Pressler
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