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Racist Shop Clerk Tells Oprah Handbag is 'Too Expensive' for Her

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Racist Shop Clerk Tells Oprah Handbag is 'Too Expensive' for Her

You'd think someone like Oprah Winfrey wouldn't have a problem going into any shop in the world to buy whatever the hell she damn well pleases. But you'd be wrong.

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Matt Damon Can Save Humanity, But He Can't Save Elysium

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Matt Damon Can Save Humanity, But He Can't Save Elysium

Elysium, the titular utopia of District 9 writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s second film, looks like the ritziest parts of Los Angeles. Maybe it will remind you of the Hamptons or St. Tropez (does St. Tropez look like that?), but it was an L.A. ringer to me. It is home to sprawling McMansions, intensely green yards, tanned bodies lying in blissful inertia, elegant dinner parties. It's a beautiful place where no one grows old, and where healing whatever ails you is as simple as lying on a slab and pushing a button.

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Mark Zuckerberg's Newest Friend: Paul Ryan

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Zuck has dined with Barack Obama, and now his political arm in Washington is pushing for a man who very recently tried to end Obama's presidency. Politico reports FWD.us, the Silicon Valley lobbying cabal, is dropping $350,000 on pro-Ryan ads.

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J-School Teachers Are Wrong About J-School

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J-School Teachers Are Wrong About J-School

In a new survey from Poynter, 57% of actual media professionals say that a journalism school degree is very or extremely important for "understanding the values of journalism." But 96% of J-school teachers say that it is. This is all you need to know about J-school.

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Bank Fails to Read Customer's Fine Print, Gets Sued for Violating TOS

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Bank Fails to Read Customer's Fine Print, Gets Sued for Violating TOS

Tired of receiving unsolicited credit card offers from the bank, one man finally gave in and signed up — but not before drawing up his own contract and making the bank sign it.

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Amanda Bynes has been placed on an extended 30-day psychiatric hold, reportedly following an emergen

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Amanda Bynes has been placed on an extended 30-day psychiatric hold, reportedly following an emergency hearing held at her hospital. The actress was scheduled to appear in court Friday but TMZ says doctors determined she wasn't well enough to travel.

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General Wesley Clark Dating 30 Year-Old CEO of Overvalued Shopping Website

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General Wesley Clark Dating 30 Year-Old CEO of Overvalued Shopping Website

Retired Army officer, failed presidential candidate, and prolific foreword-writer Wesley Clark has a girlfriend: Ahalife.com CEO Shauna Mei, an ex-Goldman banker who graduated from MIT in 2005. Page Six reports the May-December couple (Clark is 68) recently appeared holding hands in the Hamptons. Aww.

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Kids Need More Coffee and Less Ritalin

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Kids Need More Coffee and Less Ritalin

Kids these days are straight up zooted and bouncing off the emergency room walls, thanks to copious supplies of Adderrall and Ritalin and all the other ADHD drugs that they got from you. (They learned it by watching you, okay?) If we'd simply been giving our kids Vivarin this whole time, none of this would have happened.

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Drunk Driver Who Hit Pole And Injured Passenger Can Sue Power Company

MTV Released an Alternate Ending to The Hills

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MTV Released an Alternate Ending to The Hills

When The Hills ended its six-year-run in 2010, pulling the camera back to reveal Kristen's limo slowly pulling away from Brody only to drive in circles around an MTV soundstage, it came as no surprise that the reality show was about as real as Justin Bobby's name.

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Undead Goose Haunts the Boston Sky, Refuses to Pass On

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Undead Goose Haunts the Boston Sky, Refuses to Pass On

A terrible, honking specter with a hole in his head and a heart ossified by hate will soon return to haunt the skies above Boston, taunting the mortals below and hissing in the face of their “God."

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What Can We Learn From Carrie's Notebook in the New Homeland Preview?

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What Can We Learn From Carrie's Notebook in the New Homeland Preview?

The first trailer for the new season of Homeland is here, and it features this fleeting shot of what we assume is Carrie's notebook.

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If you're inclined to run away from an Ohio State Highway Patrolman, now would be a good time, becau

Barack Obama Compares Protecting Civil Liberties to Doing the Dishes

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In a lengthy press conference this afternoon, President Obama touched on everything from Russia's codified homophobia to Edward Snowden to Al-Qaeda. The strangest moment, however, came when Obama started in on a metaphor about his wife not trusting that he did the dishes, and how that is kind of like Americans not trusting their government's surveillance programs. Maybe he just needs to show everyone the dishes, you know? See how that works? No? Well, he tried.

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Marc Andreessen (Probably) Blasts Don Graham as "Incompetent"

Juggalo Chronicles, Volume 1: The Missing Finger Gives You Superpowers

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Juggalo Chronicles, Volume 1: The Missing Finger Gives You Superpowers

Gawker's resident expert on Juggalo culture, Camille Dodero, is attending the annual Gathering of the Juggalos, a five-day music festival hosted by Detroit's horrorcore rappers Insane Clown Posse, who proudly advertise themselves as the "Most Hated Band in the World." This is the first of her dispatches.

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A Thought Catalog essay headlined "I Got Yelled At By An Inner City Kid At A YMCA Camp" begins, "I n

The Attack on the Dark Net Took Down a Lot More Than Child Porn

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The Attack on the Dark Net Took Down a Lot More Than Child Porn

On Sunday afternoon, large swaths of the so-called "dark net"—the network of web sites accessible only to people using the anonymity-enabling Tor software—went even darker than normal. The widespread blackout appears to be the result of an FBI sting, targeted at the trade of kiddie porn on the Tor Network. One cybersecurity researcher was watching the entire time, and offered Gawker a peek into one of the biggest attacks on the dark net in history.

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The Hollywood Reporter Is Totally In Love With This Fucking Pencil

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The Hollywood Reporter Is Totally In Love With This Fucking Pencil

In a 1,500 word article, titled "Why Is Hollywood Obsessed with This Pencil," we learn why the Eberhard Blackwing 602 wasn't just any old Numero Dos, it was a cult pencil. Favored by writers like Truman Capote and Vladmir Nabokov, animators, and musical legends Quincy Jones and Stephen Sondheim, the pencil was praised for its creamy writing ability and the fact that, thanks to its rectangular eraser, "it never rolled off the page."

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