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- A NY Times columnist claims he was impaled by an umbrella in a garbage chute at a Trump apartment building.
- Finally, we have panda cows—cows that look like pandas.
- The winner of a beer chugging contest in Spain died right after lifting his trophy.
- Real hobbits don't have growth disorders—they were just small.
- The executive director of the 92nd Street Y was fired after having an undisclosed affair with his assistant, who is the mother-in-law of an employee accused of taking kickbacks.
- The CIA is interested in controlling the weather.
- Columbia's head of public safety cc'd everyone at the school when replying to a woman concerned about a shooting.
- Joe Lhota visited Smorgasburg, possibly for the hipster foodie vote.
- And here are some thoughts about dogs by filmmaker Daniel Koren:
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