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The Inaugural Ball's Jennifer Hudson Performance Countered by Cheez-Its,...
Sure, if you go to the Inaugural Ball you get to watch Jennifer Hudson sing "Let's Stay Together" while the Obamas dance. But based on the dispatches from intrepid reporters at Obama's Inaugural Ball,...
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Lawmakers in Ireland Vote to Allow 'Moderate' Drunk-Driving
Local police in Ireland's Kerry county will be allowed to permit some residents to drive drunk if a measure passed yesterday by county councilors is approved by the Department of Justice. By a vote of...
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The Ludicrous Mythology that Christian Colleges Teach as Fact
Cedarville University is a Baptist college in Ohio with 3,000 students. The campus is currently engulfed in a minor uproar over the way it's enforcing its ideological beliefs. Let's take this...
View ArticleHeroic/Insane Cop Jumps in the Path of an Oncoming Train to Rescue Fainting...
We recently suggested that the best thing to do if you fall onto subway tracks is to run away. But let's say you fall, unconscious, onto those tracks, as this woman did in Madrid earlier this week —...
View ArticleReviewerCard Lets You Bully Businesses Into Freebies with the Threat of a Bad...
Tired of giving businesses five stars on Yelp and TripAdvisor without getting anything back? Introducing ReviewerCard. With this sleek black membership card you can finally exert some actual force on...
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Sex Survey Shocker: White Couples Don't Sleep Naked
Another day, another huge survey of American couples reinforcing the fact that you are weird, unlovable, and never getting laid, just like everyone else. We want to flag one SHOCKING sex factoid...
View ArticlePeople Are Awesome: The Sequel Is a Great Reminder That, In Spite of...
Two years and nearly 55 million views later, Dan Rice of Hadouken! returns with the long-awaited sequel to his viral sensation, "People Are Awesome." Consisting of 75 clips of people being awesome,...
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Yesterday, Prince Harry Opened His Mouth to Speak and Only Nonsense Words...
While America was busy Monday watching live video of an elaborate party Barack Obama threw Beyoncé for no apparent reason, the rest of the world was captivated by a series of interviews given by...
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Father Teaches 3-Year-Old Son How to Handle Deadly Snakes and Crocodiles, But...
Charlie Parker has been surrounded by deadly animals since the day he was born. The three-year-old son of Greg Parker, owner and operator of Ballarat Wildlife Park in Victoria, Australia, even has an...
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Beyoncé Lip-Synched 'The Star-Spangled Banner' at the Inauguration (Update)
Bad news, Bey-holes: Beyoncé's performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" yesterday was lip-synched, according to The Times: Beyoncé did not sing the national anthem live at President Obama's...
View ArticleDoes This Count As Coming Out?: Woman Admits She Isn't Transgender on Catfish
On last night's Catfish, the show that dares to ask who's zoomin' who about people who have never met but are engaged in Internet relationships, the zoomin' was particularly fervent. Rod met Ebony via...
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'Your Cat Is Not Innocent': New Zealand Man Launches Campaign to Rid Country...
If Gareth Morgan gets his way, the entire country of New Zealand could be cat-free within a matter of years. The ironically self-proclaimed environmental advoCATe has launched an online campaign...
View ArticleLost, Unaired Episode of Dexter's Laboratory Finally Comes Out of Hiding
Nearly 15 years since it put the kibosh on what would go on to become the most legendary episode of Dexter's Laboratory, Cartoon Network has finally released the foul-mouthed episode deemed too rude...
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Can Huge Man-Made Lakes Fix Our Rising Sea Levels?
Welcome to an important new Gawker feature, "Hey, Science," in which we will have our most provocative scientific questions answered by real live scientists (or related experts). Never let it be said...
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Lone Star College Locked Down after Three Wounded in Shooting
At least three people sustained multiple gunshot wounds today at Lone Star College in Houston, Texas, apparently the result of an argument in which guns were drawn. One of the two alleged shooters is...
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A History of The Word 'Wack,' by Reginald C. Dennis
Yesterday, we argued that the word "wack" is not spelled "whack," because, come on, just look at it. End of discussion. Today: we continue the discussion. Though no one in this wack ass world can...
View ArticleThis Digitally-Altered Major-Key 'Losing My Religion' Is Very Unsettling
This version — edit? remix? — of R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion," digitally processed so that it now uses a major scale, is more than a little bizarre to listen to if you're used to the original. I...
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This Is the Joke That Had Michelle Obama Rolling Her Eyes at John Boehner...
Everyone — well, nearly everyone — was enthralled by Michelle Obama's ostensible shade-throwing in the direction of John Boehner during yesterday's Inauguration Day luncheon at the Capitol. What could...
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Beyoncé Lip-Synched: Coping with the 7 Stages of Star-Spangled Grief (UPDATE)
Barack Obama is only one day into his second term as president, and already his is the most controversial, scandal-plagued tenure of any leader of any country ever. The reason: Beyoncé. As part of...
View ArticlePassive-Aggressive Neighbors Have Incredibly Polite Street Fight Over Garbage...
A mailman was making his rounds in Dover when he spotted two neighbors silently carrying bags of trash back and forth to opposite sides of the street. Upon inquiring he learned that the two men were...
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