Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are Excited to Host the 'Sloppy, Loud Party' That is...
Another promo for this year's Golden Globes has made its way to YouTube. This video features co-hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in the same glitzy dresses from their last one, answering questions about...
View ArticleAmerican Eagle Pilot Fails Breathalyzer Test Before Takeoff
A pilot employed by American Eagle was removed for his plane this morning by airport police after failing an alcohol breath test. The unidentified captain was in the process of preparing Flight 4590...
View ArticleBUCKWILD's Shain Is a Trash Collector Who Loves His Job
Last night, MTV's redneck version of Jersey Shore, BUCKWILD, debuted and The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia it ain't. Nor is it Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. Shit, the third season of Jersey...
View ArticleWatch a Firefighter Fight a Year's Worth of Metro Detroit Fires in Eight Minutes
A Highland Park firefighter who spent last year posting helmet cam footage of his Detroit-area firefights to YouTube concluded 2012 by uploading an 8-minute highlight reel of his better action shots....
View ArticleWho Should Play 'Young Hillary Clinton' in the Sexy New Biopic about Her...
Zero Dark Thirty has already shown us how al-Quaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed at the hands of U.S. Navy SEALs…now America is ready for a movie about how Hillary Clinton fell in love! A...
View ArticlePredicting 2013: Don't Worry, The Tea Party Will Be Fine
If you wait long enough without any expectation of regular victories in politics, it's not surprising that you eventually go searching for them in narrative. Which makes it understandable that...
View ArticleRacial Segregation in Colleges: Well, It Still Exists
A new study of racial segregation in American colleges (covering only black and white students) shows that progress has been made in the past 40 years (one should hope so), but also that higher...
View ArticleConfessions of a Teenage Word-Bully
It is 1986. We are 13- and 14-year-olds, rank-smelling in unwashed teenager jeans, unsupervised and latch-keyed after school, huddled around the face of the future: The screen of a first-generation...
View ArticleWildlife Filmmaker Has Scary Close Encounter with Hungry Polar Bear
In a scene from his upcoming BBC nature documentary The Polar Bear Family & Me, wildlife filmmaker Gordon Buchanan finds himself staring at the salivating end of a hungry polar bear from inside a...
View ArticleEverything Hilarious in Texas Chainsaw 3D
Here is how stupid John Luessenhop's incompetent sixth installment in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise is: An alternate sequel, the film picks up where the 1974 original left off (literally with...
View ArticleHere Are the Republicans Who Voted 'No' on Hurricane Sandy Relief Funds
Friday, Congress finally approved a $9.7 billion package to pay flood insurance claims from Hurricane Sandy. The measure was supposed to come to a vote earlier in the week, but was tabled by House...
View ArticleFlorida Judge Doesn't Buy Stripper's Claim that She Assaulted Two Strangers...
A woman who was arrested for attacking two people in Hallandale Beach, Florida, told a bond court judge she was merely a misunderstood street artist who was "trying to do some artwork." 25-year-old...
View ArticleEat Like the Stars: A Course-by-Course Golden Globes Menu Analysis
The best thing about Golden Globes night is that it provides dinner to a roomful of stars who otherwise could not afford to feed themselves. The celebs sit smushed elbow-to-elbow at round dinner tables...
View ArticleListen to a Pastor's Slightly Sexy, Very Polite Ball-Gagged 911 Call: 'Hi...
The Illinois Times reports that a Springfield pastor has taken a leave of absence after making a polite but oh-dear-so-nervous-sounding call to local police, seeking help after he mysteriously managed...
View ArticleAzealia Banks Called Perez Hilton a "Faggot," But That Doesn't Make Her a...
For the better part of the past 48 hours, 21-year-old New York rapper Azealia Banks (best known for her 2011 viral hit "212") has been holding the attention of her Twitter followers hostage. First it...
View ArticleGunman in Aurora, Colo. Has Multiple Hostages, According to Police [UPDATE: 4...
This month was supposed to represent some sort of closure for Aurora, Colo., with the Cinemark that was the site of last summer's mass shooting set to reopen on Jan. 17 in a ceremony attended by the...
View ArticlePink Slip Pilgrimage: A Broke Writer Needs a Loan
There are as many roads to penury as there are paupers to follow them. As a writer, I always tried to see my own journey as material for nostalgic anecdotes to be delivered during acceptance speeches...
View ArticleLondon's First Atheist Church Opens Tomorrow
The first comedian-founded atheist church in England is set to hold its first monthly service tomorrow. Pippa Evans (a "musical improv comedian") and Sanderson Jones (just a regular talking comedian)...
View ArticleRick Ross Poses in Fur Coat Holding Baby Leopard (?), is Very Much the Boss
Say what you will about Rick Ross, but the man knows how to construct a character and then live out that lifestyle. His Instagram feed — username "richforever" — is an unending succession of expensive...
View ArticleThe Forbes-College Professor War Is So On
How could a Forbes article that opened with "university professors have a lot less stress than most of us" go so wrong? Unless [professors] teach summer school, they are off between May and September...
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