If You Want Someone to Reply to Your Email, Be Judgy and Sad
What's the key to acquiring a quick reply to your email? Make the recipients think that if they do not reply immediately, it will be the final action that tips your day—nay, your life—into an abyss of...
View ArticleTaylor Swift Moves Magic Chair into Rhode Island Mansion
If you live in Rhode Island you may have noticed that lately all the dogs are lurching about on their hind legs and all the sparrows are circling ‘round and ‘round in endless, frantic circles and every...
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View ArticleDonald Trump Lashes Out at Jon Stewart for Revealing His Birth Name
It all started last week when Donald Trump suddenly decidedly to launch an antisemitic spitball in the direction of The Daily Show's Jon Stewart via his Twitter account. "I promise you that I'm much...
View ArticleReese Witherspoon Portrays Pregnantest Person Ever In New Arrest Video
Looks like we’ve got even more footage of proud, drunk American Reese Witherspoon to look forward to. E! News says it’s obtained unreleased video of Witherspoon really laying the expectant mom stuff on...
View ArticleSo Long, Emma
This is our pal Emma Carmichael's last day at Deadspin and Gawker Media. She's leaving us for a site that shall remain nameless for the moment. We're too drunk already to say anything more meaningful...
View ArticleNewspaper Memo Demands Staff Stop Wrecking Bathrooms Amid Layoffs
There have been some tough times recently at the Daily Gazette newspaper in Schenectady, New York. Not only did the family-owned enterprise's management cut 10 staffers in layoffs this week, including...
View ArticleHere Is Your Tasteless Muslim Terror-Bomber Birthday Greeting Card
Walking through a Chicago store, a Muslim activist spotted the perfect birthday card for the Fox News-hounds in our lives, featuring an adorable hijab-wearing doll with an explosive secret. Why is a...
View ArticleHarvard Prof Slams Keynesian Economics Because Keynes Was Gay
Harvard professor and prominent Obama-critic Niall Ferguson told more than 500 financial advisers at a conference on Thursday that Keynesian economics, an economic philosophy that advocates stimulus...
View ArticleCheck Out This Horrifying Brazilian Testicle Mascot
Buried in the photo gallery of a recent event attended by the Associação de Assistência às Pessoas com Câncer, a Brazilian non-profit that helps people with cancer, is a photo of its horrifying mascot....
View ArticleSteven Soderbergh has, unfortunately, retired from directing films.
Steven Soderbergh has, unfortunately, retired from directing films. This leaves him with a lot of free time to tweet out his terrific nation-hopping suspense novella “Glue.”
View ArticleIsrael Bombed Syria As U.S. Continues to Mull Military Options
A United States official confirmed that Israel launched an airstrike against Syria on Thursday night, escalating an already volatile situation while the United States decides whether to carry out its...
View Article"No one is opposed to using effective, constitutional means of fighting crime.
"No one is opposed to using effective, constitutional means of fighting crime. The problem is that over the last decade the Police Department has shown utter contempt for Fourth Amendment guarantees of...
View ArticleAll My Friends Are Dead
Five years off Adderall and Dexedrine and I’m still in withdrawal. Months of yoga, years of therapy, meditating each morning—everything helps, but nothing helps completely. Every time I sit down to do...
View ArticleDog Bites Woman, Man Bites Dog
A woman in Iowa is recovering from injuries sustained by a dog attack, but it could have been much worse — if her husband didn't bite back. Caren Henry was out walking her own dog when, “This dog came...
View ArticleMississippi Denies Inmate DNA Test, Set to Execute Him on Tuesday
The State of Mississippi has denied an inmate on death row the opportunity to be exonerated through DNA testing, a procedure that is almost always followed nowadays for prisoners facing capital...
View ArticleThe 80s Air Traffic Controller Strike Makes The Sequester Look Lame
Last week, air traffic controllers across the country were furloughed as a result of budget cuts by the federal government known as the sequester. Delays mounted quickly, but service was speedily...
View ArticleCemeteries Keep Rejecting Tamerlan Tsarnaev's Body
Four cemeteries in three states have refused to bury the body of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the funeral director tasked with finding a resting place has told the Daily News....
View ArticleThe Brooklyn Bridge has been closed as police deal with a possible suicide...
The Brooklyn Bridge has been closed as police deal with a possible suicide attempt. Update: The man is in police custody.
View ArticleDUI Arrestee Was Celebrating Getting License Back After Earlier DUI
Illinois resident Erin James was caught speeding early Friday morning after she spent a night out celebrating getting her driver's licence back after a DUI arrest. She was drunk this time, too. The...
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