The Daily Beast has followed up its retraction of Howard Kurtz's bizarrely...
The Daily Beast has followed up its retraction of Howard Kurtz's bizarrely wrong Jason Collins column by retracting Kurtz himself: editor Tina Brown announced they have "parted company."
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Meet The Dudebro Who Wants A DeLorean Because He Knows Tim Tebow
Supposedly, you can't get something for nothing. But what if you wanted that something really badly? What if you offered access to "hot bitches" to get it? What if you kissed unbelievable amounts of...
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The Week Magically Turns White Bombers Brown for Its Latest Cover
Notice anything amiss with The Week's current Tsarnaev brothers issue? I can't put my finger on it; feeling sort of in the dark. If the terrorists won't do us the courtesy of being brown, no...
View ArticleA man at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston committed suicide near the...
A man at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston committed suicide near the ticket area today, firing an AR-15 twice in the air before turning a pistol on himself. All flights have been grounded.
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Was Danny Brown Sexually Assaulted When a Woman Blew Him Onstage?
In case you missed it: Just-left-of-mainstream rapper Danny Brown received oral sex onstage at his show on Friday at Minneapolis's West Bank. This has scandalized social media for most of the week. An...
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Jim Gaffigan Made a Crack About Women's Nails and Everybody Freaked
So yesterday, stand-up-comedian-slash-fat-dad Jim Gaffigan decided to make what he thought was a mostly harmless joke about women and their nails. "Ladies I hope getting your nails done feels good...
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Westboro Baptist Got A Warm Welcome When It Protested The OKC Game
The Westboro Baptist Church's protest of last night's Rockets-Thunder game—in response to Jason Collins's coming-out, naturally—was sad and trivial, as the WBC's protests always are. Six picketers...
View ArticleThe New NRA President Fantasizes About "Whipping" Anti-Gun Opponents
Just in time for its wingnut-filled annual meeting tomorrow, the National Rifle Association is set to install a new president: an Alabama lawyer who laments "the war of Northern Aggression," calls...
View ArticleWomen Stripped Naked, Judged in Controversial Primetime TV Show [NSFW]
Thomas Blachman, award-winning jazz musician and judge on the local edition of The X Factor, has a new show on Denmark's public service TV station that's a lot like his other show. Except instead of...
View ArticleHere's a trailer for Kristen Wiig's new movie Girl Most Likely.
Here's a trailer for Kristen Wiig's new movie Girl Most Likely. It's like the depressing third quarter of Bridesmaids, but Annette Bening is her mother and Matt Dillon is her mother's boyfriend. And...
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Cop-Killing Terror Lady Is First Woman On FBI Terror List
Fugitive cop-killer Joanne Chesimard has become the first woman on America's Most Wanted Terrorists List, joining a previously all male list of super villains. Chesimard, who also goes by the aliases...
View ArticleAh, Liberty University, where upstanding evangelical students still may not...
Ah, Liberty University, where upstanding evangelical students still may not dance on a date, but that boy expelled from his high school for illegally bringing a shotgun onto campus gets a four-year...
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Women Sorry for Dressing Up As Pirates to Meet Man Abducted by Pirates
A group of women in Devon, England, thought it would be fun to dress up like pirates for a talk about piracy being given by sea captain Colin Darch. Unfortunately, some of the fun wore off when the...
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Thatz Not Okay: Having an Imaginary Boyfriend; Baby Meets a Black Man
Welcome to Thatz Not Okay, a regular column in which I school inquiring readers on what is and is not okay. Please send your questions (max: 200 words) to caity@gawker.com with the subject "Thatz Not...
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If Howard Kurtz Is Down to Only One Job, Is He Still Howard Kurtz?
The Daily Beast stage, or fraction, of the career of Howie Kurtz ended with a perfectly apt string of Twitter messages from the media reporter/Washington bureau chief: I've enjoyed my time at the Daily...
View ArticleThe New York Times is reporting Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told FBI interrogators that...
The New York Times is reporting Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told FBI interrogators that he and his brother initially considered carrying out suicide attacks on the Fourth of July. When the two finished building...
View ArticleReese Witherspoon's Amazing Arrest Video Emerges
Just hours after her first post-jail interview aired on Good Morning America, the police video taken during Reese Witherspoon's arrest has emerged. It's even better than you could have expected. In...
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Slayer Guitarist Jeff Hanneman Dead at 49
Jeff Hanneman, guitarist and founding member of legendary American metal band Slayer, died of liver failure today in California. He was 49. Hanneman's band members released the news a short while ago...
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Massive Bitcoin Business Partnership Devolves Into $75 Million Lawsuit
Bitcoin, the virtual currency libertarian geeks expect us all to use to pay for pizza in the future, has had a rough few weeks. A series of booms and busts have sent shivers down the spines of Bitcoin...
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