Is This Caitlyn Jenner Costume Transphobic or Is It Just Terrible?
A “Call Me Caitlyn Unisex Adult Costume” is currently for sale online, and no one is happy about it. The company responsible, Spirit Halloween, known for wearable nightmares like Sexy Ebola Nurse, says there’s nothing wrong with its latest work of art.
All Is Lost; Nightmare Man "Surprises" Wife With Her Own Pregnancy

In an age where elaborately-staged marriage proposals and tearjerking pregnancy reveals are YouTube commonplace, self-proclaimed vloggers must now go to extreme lengths to achieve maximum virality when announcing their most personal family moments online. One man brought this terrifying reality into stark relief…
A History of Bedbugs Driving Us Insane
No creature provokes such astronomical panic while presenting such infinitesimal physical danger like the bedbug, an insect linked to no diseases whatsoever. Bedbugs irritate, certainly: they bite your legs, disturb your sleep. But the extreme fear of them—the sense of shame that surrounds a bedbug infestation—stems…
Pope’s Philly Visit Causes Serious Wedding Hell
Ah, the unmitigated beauty of a September wedding on the East coast! It's a lovely time of year, the boiling stench of summer having subsided but the chill of deep fall still at arm's length. The weather is reasonably predictable and the leaves are still on the trees. For a wedding, it's a perfect canvas—until the…
More Dudes Who Will Not Be Ignored: 'Remind Me to Slap Your Momma'
Is this an epidemic? After we published a story Tuesday about men on dating sites who really really don't like it when you give them radio silence (however brief or long that silence is), we got inundated with similar stories from other women.
The Five Worst Types of Stress Dreams
My air conditioner induces nightmares. I'm serious. If I don't sleep with it on, I wake up in the middle of the night sweating, but if I do sleep with it on, I wake up in the middle of the night convinced I'm being stalked by anti-choicers who secretly implanted a dead baby inside of my womb that I'm forced to carry…
'I Just Wanted to Vomit Every Second': The Best of the Worst Carnival Cruise Quotes
Reports are trickling in from the passengers aboard the Carnival Cruise ship that was stranded for days in the Gulf of Mexico. After a fire in the engine room disabled the ship, apparently the crew started giving away booze — and then, when people went nuts, had to stop giving away booze. Meanwhile, the sanitation…
Teen Embroiled in Horrifying Joint Custody Battle With Her Rapist
A young Massachusetts woman and her family have suddenly been thrown into a nightmarish legal battle to keep her admitted rapist from seeking joint custody of the child he fathered from his crime. A probate court's decision to order the man to pay child support means that he can now also petition the court for joint…

