The second annual Oscar Mayer Wienie 500 is eleven innuendo-packed minutes of giant hot dogs racing around Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which is more or less what we call fine art… Read the rest of the article: Oscar Mayer's Wienermobiles returned to Indy to haul buns

The pyramids used to be smooth, white, and blinding in the sun. Now they look like giant ancient staircases, and the usual explanation is that people stole the good bits.… Read the rest of the article: The pyramids' missing casing stones have a better story than "thieves"

San Diego's vacancy tax points to a much bigger California problem A lot of California's problems are made worse when homes and storefronts become investments rather than places where people… Read the rest of the article: California should tax empty homes and dead storefronts

Pattie Gonia is a drag queen and climate activist who raises money for environmental causes, hikes in heels, and has apparently become an existential threat to Patagonia's fleece empire. The… Read the rest of the article: Patagonia is suing Pattie Gonia, which seems off-brand

Fox News host Harris Faulkner is gamely trying to turn Trump's sanctuary city airport sabotage into a misguided travel brochure. International travelers are not interchangeable units in a national tourism… Read the rest of the article: Harris Faulkner thinks international travelers are dying to visit flyover states

Gray whales beat commercial whaling, only to run into a warmer Arctic that is quietly starving them. Gray whales were one of the great marine mammal recovery stories. Commercial whaling… Read the rest of the article: Gray whales made a comeback, and now the food is disappearing

After performing some destruction-derby tactical driving on the streets of Downtown that was especially impressive for how easily a person evading capture could escape, whichever of Los Angeles' law enforcement… Read the rest of the article: Dashcam shows Los Angeles cops dangerously lose their suspect

Continuing to bust moves, Young MC has joined Morris Day in walking away from Trump's big MAGA-palooza. The Trump-linked Freedom 250 festival, part of the planned Great American State Fair… Read the rest of the article: Morris Day and Young MC nope out of Trump-linked festival

After being canceled last year over safety concerns, Vivid Sydney's drone show returned this week and immediately dove 89 drones into the water. That is one way to answer the… Read the rest of the article: Vivid Sydney's drone show became a drone rainstorm

Thinking the show was doomed, legendary television sci-fi writer David Gerrold gave Land of the Lost an elegant series finale. Then the Marshall family got renewed, and the show promptly… Read the rest of the article: David Gerrold gave Land of the Lost an ending, then renewal ate it

Starbucks Korea apparently looked at the anniversary of soldiers using tanks to crush a democracy uprising and thought: great day to sell a "tank" tumbler. The coffee chain sparked public… Read the rest of the article: Starbucks Korea chose "Tank Day" for the anniversary of a massacre

Burning Man's Orgy Dome has survived two decades on the playa. Pumping away through the dust, the heat, and an inexhaustible human capacity for nudity in inhospitable climates. What it… Read the rest of the article: Burning Man's Orgy Dome got wrecked by 50 mph winds, now needs $30k to get properly erected again

"The Mandalorian and Grogu" is about a guy wearing a helmet and his puppet son dealing with CGI creatures. This is a galaxy long, long ago and far, far away… Read the rest of the article: "The Mandalorian and Grogu" looks incredible until you realize almost nobody is actually acting

Los Angeles residents were evacuated Wednesday after police discovered a massive cache of illegal fireworks inside a South LA home. Such a development would be alarming in any urban metro… Read the rest of the article: LAPD discovers huge fireworks cache, raising fears of another LAPD fireworks disaster

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith says Americans have made a terrible mistake by trying to eliminate hate from public life, arguing instead that the country should relearn how to hate… Read the rest of the article: Indiana Lt. Gov says America needs to rediscover the joy of hatred

As administration officials gathered for a high-stakes meeting, delicate negotiations with Iran, potentially ending the war, Grandpa Pudding Brains reportedly seized the moment for an urgent ten-minute philippic on the… Read the rest of the article: As war looms, Grandpa Pudding Brains delivers emergency remarks on decorative water features

A Florida traffic citation accusing a woman of holding her phone in her right hand collapsed under the crushing weight of a key factual complication: she does not have a… Read the rest of the article: Florida cops drop ticket for woman accused of holding phone in hand she does not have

America's ongoing experiment in handing microphones to cranks took another turn when RFK Jr. floated the thoroughly debunked claim that early circumcision doubles autism risk, prompting Donald Trump to claim… Read the rest of the article: Raising many questions, Grandpa Pudding Brains says he's "studied" circumcision for a long time

In an unsettling sign that Southern California's bear population may be entering its prep-school era, two smarter-than-average bruins were caught on video casually hopping a fence onto a Calabasas school… Read the rest of the article: Bears, smarter than average, decide to attend Calabasas school

British police are reportedly expending actual investigative resources in pursuit of the mystery artist behind a bit of graffiti reading "I fart3d in yoga," proving once again that somewhere between… Read the rest of the article: London police launch manhunt for artist behind "I farted in yoga" graffiti