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Is This a Picture of Mark Zuckerberg at a Rave?
Maybe. The picture has been making the rounds across the internet (and by rounds, I mean a British tabloid, a local NBC affiliate and a few music sites). But is it real? Probably, though there's been...
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Facebook Users Mount Campaign to Save 'Gay Dog' from Being Put Down by...
This healthy male American Bulldog mix is scheduled to be put down later today at the Rabies Control shelter in Jackson, Tennesee. "Not bc he is mean or bc he tears things up," says a Facebook user...
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Hostage-Taking 'Doomsday Prepper' Passes 30th Hour of Bunker Standoff with Cops
It's now been more than 30 hours since police began negotiating with Jimmy Lee Dykes, the 65-year-old "anti-government" "doomsday prepper" who allegedly shot and killed and a school bus driver before...
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How to Use Humor on the Internet
This week, internet website "The Awl" sparked a minor uproar when it ran an article parodying the voice of Business Insider's Henry Blodget under Blodget's byline—when, in fact, the article was...
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Student Debt Is More Subprime Than Ever
To the litany of disastrous news about our nation's huge student debt burden, we can add this: more and more of that debt is being held by the borrowers least able to pay it back. A new report says...
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Manti Te'o Hoaxer Is Trying to 'Recover from Homosexuality'
Is Ronaiah Tuiasosopo — the would-be gospel singer who crafted an elaborate fake online persona and "catfished" college football star Manti Te'o — gay? When Dr. Phil asked him for a soon-to-broadcast...
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Sacked HMV Employees Take Over Company's Official Twitter Account, Live-Tweet...
The first round of firings at HMV were confirmed today, just two weeks after the British entertainment retailer entered administration. And, judging by the company's official Twitter account, the...
View ArticleArtisanal Manliness For Fun and Profit
Do you have a Y-chromosome and also a keenly refined rustic aesthetic? Are you eager to go camping but hesitant to put yourself in a position where you could ever be out-of-doors? Do you have $40 to...
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Pastor Who Left Sanctimonious Tip Gets Waitress Fired from Applebee's, Claims...
Hell hath no fury like a pastor scorned by the Internet. After a copy of her Applebee's receipt began circulating online yesterday, Pastor Alois Bell of the St. Louis-based Truth in the World...
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Farewell to 30 Rock, the Show That Never Stopped Laughing at the Horrifying...
30 Rock ends tonight, after seven seasons on NBC, with little of the fanfare that surrounds a grand television event. Instead, it feels as if the show has already slid into the semi-obscurity of...
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I Invented a Girlfriend for Myself Because I'm Gay and Wanted to Play...
This is pertinent. I hadn't thought about this in years, but the recent Manti Te'o Catfishing scandal reminded me that I, too, had a fake girlfriend in college. And what's more, I was an aspiring...
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A Discussion with Accused CIA Agent Sabrina De Sousa
For the past decade, Sabrina De Sousa has been enmeshed in a Kafkaesque fight to clear her name in connection to an illegal CIA operation that has never officially been acknowledged to exist. Today...
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11 Photos of Chuck Hagel Blowing His Confirmation Hearing
Former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, Obama's nominee for Secretary of Defense, totally bombed his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate today. How can you tell? Just look at the photos AP and...
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Guy Who Painted God-Awful Kate Middleton Portrait Also Did a Good Version He...
The Dr. Frankenstein who wrought Kate Middleton's infamously terrible official portait upon the world has finally been negged into submission: driven mad by the endless bad press, he has created a...
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Dozens Injured in Explosion at Offices of Mexican Oil Giant Pemex [UPDATE: 14...
A number of people have reportedly been injured in an explosion at the Mexico City skyscraper that serves as the offices of Pemex, the state-owned oil monopoly. Details right now are scarce, but the...
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Watch Manti Te'o's Hoaxer Try to Convince an Incredulous Dr. Phil That He Was...
Just like Katie Couric's interview with Manti Te'o last week, Dr. Phil's session with Te'o's hoaxer Ronaiah Tuiasosopo was basically a lot of sorry explanations from Ronaiah followed by an equal...
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Pennsylvania Governor's Son-in-Law is a Very Crooked, Very Stupid Cop
Some cops play by the rules, others do not. Gerald Gibson is a narcotics officer in Philadelphia who allegedly does not play by the rules. He's also the son-in-law of Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett...
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Texas Prosecutor Gunned Down in Movie-Style Killing
Early this morning, veteran Kaufman, Tex. County prosecutor Mark E. Hasse, pictured above, was walking across an employee parking lot near the courthouse there like he probably has countless of times....
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Lena Dunham Gets New Show Picked Up Hired to Write Pilot, Is Slowly Taking...
Good news for the entirety of the internet, which it turns out is an entity solely supported by people arguing about "Girls": HBO has picked up another show to be helmed by Lena Dunham hired Dunham to...
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Ed Koch Is Dead
Ed Koch, the former New York City Mayor who took the city back from the financial brink before presiding over its crack epidemic and AIDS crisis, died of congestive heart failure early this morning. He...
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