You know who is not good at stealing stuff? The two Monmouth University students who were charged with car theft in Long Branch, NJ, last week after one of them dropped his wallet, according to police, in the process of stealing a 2009 Audi. They crashed that car at 6:40 a.m. Wednesday, police say, ran from the scene of the accident and then stole another car. When police contacted the owner of the original car, the Audi, and went to the house from where it was stolen, they found the wallet in the driveway where it had been parked. Identification cards in the wallet led them to the [...]

Here is a very important video that you may not have seen. Produced by Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, based on a 62-page report about sustainability and self-sufficiency in national food production and consumption, it's way more fun than it has any right to be. Animated in delightful, Lego-colored graphics, set to a bouncy little electronic number, it features full meals raining from the sky like in Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, line-dancing livestock, and neatly-dressed workmen engaged in a tug-of-war with an ear of corn. If Washington had an A.V. department this good in the '90s, The Starr Report would have been like [...]

Do you want to read "a full-on Marxist critique" of Grand Theft Auto IV? One which sees the game as "a powerful statement on the immigrant experience, and the violent process of assimilation"? You actually might! I mean, I did. Here's a sample to help you decide.