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Cop Gets Pissed Off When Bar Plays N.W.A.'s "Fuck tha Police"
The Town Manager of Provincetown is looking into an incident involving its police chief, who became very upset when the bar he was drinking in began to play N.W.A.'s protest anthem "Fuck tha Police."...
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Secret Service Will Pretend To Be Farmers, Drive Tractors At G8
The Secret Service will reportedly be dressing up as farmers during the G8 summit, which begins tomorrow. The summit, scheduled to take place at the Lough Erne, a five-star lakeside resort in Northern...
View ArticleTwo more anti-polio workers were shot to death in Pakistan on Sunday, just...
Two more anti-polio workers were shot to death in Pakistan on Sunday, just weeks after another high-profile fatal shooting. The death toll in the past year for anti-polio health workers in Pakistan now...
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Boy Scout Leaders Could Lose Memberships for March in Gay Pride Parade
Three weeks after the Boy Scouts of America voted to continue its ban on gay scout leaders, two Utah scout leaders were warned by council members of the BSA that they face potential banishment from the...
View ArticleNew York Senator Chuck Schumer thinks there's an Adderall problem on college...
New York Senator Chuck Schumer thinks there's an Adderall problem on college campuses. Instead of amphetamine-based “academic doping,” Schumer has a few other suggestions for pulling all-nighters:...
View ArticleWhy Won't Edward Snowden Answer Cosmo's PRISM Question?
@guardian Can't help but wonder abt the interpersonal repercussions of your decision. What msg would you send your girlfriend? #AskSnowden — Cosmopolitan (@Cosmopolitan) June 17, 2013
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JLo to Star in Chilean Miner Movie, Hopefully in Role of Chilean Mine
Remember back in 2010 when 33 Chilean miners spent 69 days trapped just a few yards above Hell in a caved-in desert mine, sacrificing their health and sanity so that the world might have hilarious...
View ArticleMiss USA Contestant Gives Orwellian Response to Question on NSA Scandal
During last night's Miss USA competition, eventual first runner-up Miss Alabama Mary Margaret McCord was asked to weigh in on the NSA's PRISM scandal that "has been in the news lately." "Is this an...
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Snowden: No Higher Honor Than Being Called a Traitor by Dick Cheney
NSA leaker Edward Snowden, still hidden somewhere in Hong Kong, emerged briefly for a live Guardian chat today, accusing tech companies of issuing "misleading" statements and re-asserting previous...
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"EAT SHIT AND DIE!": A Very Special Episode of Tom Tips Back
We get tips. Lots of them. Sometimes Gawker deputy editor Tom Scocca responds to them. These conversations are memorialized here in an occasional feature we call Tom Tips Back. Tony Caputo...
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The Future of Civil Disobedience Online
Familiar political tools like petitions, fundraisers, mass letter-writing, call-in campaigns now have online equivalents. But what about protest tactics like street marches, picket lines, sit-ins, and...
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Canadians of Canada: Where Should the Crackstarter Money Go?
As you may have read, Gawker recently raised $184,689.81 from readers (that's $200,000, less fees extracted by Indiegogo and Paypal) in an effort to purchase and publish a video of Toronto mayor Rob...
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Macadamias Are the Best Nut
"Don't blame me," most people say. "I'm just a squirrel trying to get a nut." If you were a squirrel trying to get a nut, why not go for the Cadillac of nuts? The macadamia nut. It comes from Hawai'i....
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This Yearbook Typo Is Only Terrible If It's a Typo, Otherwise It's Worse
As far as yearbook typos go, we've certainly seen worse. What makes this one noteworthy is the distinct possibility that it's not a typo at all. That is to say, either this young lady is casually...
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Silicon Valley Housing Explosion Means This Cottage Costs $1.1 Million
The little 7o-year-old house at 353 Carmelita Drive is about as unspectacular as American real estate gets: two bedrooms, one and a half baths, and a modest 960 square feet. Elsewhere in the country...
View ArticleVICE Is Sitting on a Blockbuster Exclusive Interview With Kim Jong Un
We were all excited for the season finale of HBO's VICE on Friday, since we were promised it contained a rare exclusive interview with North Korea's reclusive Boy King, Kim Jong Un. At least that's...
View ArticleThis Lazy Airplane Loader is the Living Embodiment of Monday
Footage of an incredibly inept cargo loader at China's Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport haphazardly hurling boxes onto a conveyor belt suddenly took off today, almost exactly a year after it was...
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Cory and Topanga Smile Upon Child They Created via Sex (for TV)
Proving once and for all that people who pray for Boy Meets World sequels pray harder than people who pray for an end to world hunger, God has answered the cry of His most highly favored children: the...
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Everything Is Different Now In Our Amazing New Economic Paradigm
Yesterday, the front page of the New York Times brought joyous news: "Even Pessimists Feel Optimistic About the American Economy." Indeed, some of our most prominent economic pundits are telling us...
View ArticleA man who caused a scare on a flight from Hong Kong today was taken into FBI...
A man who caused a scare on a flight from Hong Kong today was taken into FBI custody after telling fellow passengers "he was poisoned, had secrets from the CIA and mentioned Edward Snowden's name a...
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