Incredible video of a police stop in Texas where two women were pulled over by a trooper for allegedly throwing a cigarette butt out their car window, and were then subjected to a public sexual assault, vaginal and anal, by a second, female trooper, using one pair of latex gloves. The troopers also accused the women of having marijuana (not), made them take a sobriety test (passed), and stole their meds. The women have sued. May their reward be bountiful.

The end of the world was kinda a letdown. Still, Michigan closed its schools, Serbian villagers turned to their mystical mountains, The Guardian live-blogged - because somebody had to - and The Onion reported that scholars discovered the Mayan word for "apocalypse" in fact translates more accurately as "time of pale obese gun monsters." Amidst the hoopla, the Maya say the date simply marks the resetting of their calendar, and symbolizes "the beginning of good things." We sure hope so. 

A powerful new documentary about the scandal and tragedy of Haiti's cholera outbreak as seen through the eyes of a young baseball player. With the epidemic eventually traced to U.N. peacekeepers from Nepal, the filmmakers wanted to both shame an evasive U.N. into taking responsibility for the first cholera to hit Haiti in a century, and celebrate Haitians' resilience in the face of it.