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Punch-Drunk Jonathan Chait Takes On the Entire Internet
So, here is sad white man Jonathan Chait's essay about the difficulty of being a white man in the second age of "political correctness." In a neat bit of editorial trolling, New York teased the column...
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Students' Stories of Depressingly Common Run-Ins with Campus Cops
Saturday night, after reading Times columnist Charles Blow's account of his son's detainment at gunpoint by Yale campus police, I was transported back to my own run-in with UCLA campus police in 2009....
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Bowe Bergdahl Isn't Charged With Desertion, But He's Still Fucked
Bowe Bergdahl, the eccentric Army enlistee and final Afghanistan P.O.W. whose release from Taliban custody left detractors screaming for his corpse, may face desertion charges soon. Or maybe not. No...
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The United States of Inequality
Economic inequality in America has been steadily increasing for three decades. Since the recession, only the very rich have made out well. Now, we have data on the individual U.S. states where the...
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Elderly Couple Murdered Buying Dream Car From Craigslist: Cops
An elderly Georgia couple's plan to buy their dream car off Craigslist ended in tragedy last week. Three days after they went missing, the couple's car was found in a lake. Their bodies were discovered...
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Check Out Jared Leto's FLAAAME CAAAAAAAAAAR
Don't call the fire dept.—it's just a car! Jared Leto's flame car! TMZ caught Jared Leto, actor who promised over a month ago that he would get a haircut and who has yet to make good on that promise,...
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Defamer Katie Holmes' Clothes Died | Internet Criticize GamerGate as a Woman, and Your Twitter Mentions Look Like This | Newsfeed Zombie Cat Claws Way Out of Grave Five Days After Being Buried...
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Would You Swing With These Geeks?
In a new series, CNN explores all the crazy drug use and sexy sex stuff taking place in Silicon Valley, where people like Greg and Stella, above, go to swingers parties and apparently convince other...
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Vanderbilt Football Players Found Guilty of Raping Unconscious Student
It only took a few hours for a Nashville jury to convict two former football players accused of raping an unconscious Vanderbilt student in a sickening attack captured on a cell phone video. Brandon...
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Georgia Executes Mentally Disabled Man
On Tuesday night, Georgia executed Warren Lee Hill—an inmate with an IQ of 70—who was unable to prove he had a mental disability under Georgia's strict legal standard.Georgia is the only state that...
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Whatever Amanda Peet Tells You to Do, Do the Opposite
Laugh with Amanda Peet. Love with Amanda Peet. But if Amanda Peet gives you advice on something, you do the goddamn opposite.The uninitiated might think Amanda Peet—a famous actress who I really liked...
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James Caan's Divorce Attorney Doomed to Repeat Same Day Over and Over
Say a prayer for James Caan's divorce attorney, who is rapidly carving out a highly specialized niche for himself—James Caan divorces.This week, Caan filed for divorce from his fourth wife, Linda,...
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Prosecutors: Stanford Swimmer Raped Unconscious Woman in Public
A Stanford University swimmer was caught raping a drunk, unconscious woman near a fraternity house earlier this month, Santa Clara county prosecutors say.According to reports, 19-year-old Brock Allen...
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Warning: CEO Of Elite Dating Site Can Ban You Douchebags For Life
Amanda Bradford just launched a dating app called The League, which is designed to be used by beautiful, ambitious, intelligent people — you know who you are! — while keeping out the riffraff. Are you...
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The 50 Best First Sentences in Fiction
In a 2013 interview with Joe Fassler, horror fiction maestro Stephen King reflected on the magnitude of a novel's introductory sentence. "An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story,"...
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Discuss: Tim Cook Is A Way Better CEO Than Steve Jobs Was
Apple just earned more profit in a single quarter than any company, ever, and the hacks in Silicon Valley press are fawning all over CEO Tim Cook and praising his genius. But you know what? They're...
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Emile Hirsch Allegedly Put a Female Film Exec In a Headlock at Sundance
Page Six reports that an incident involving Emile Hirsch is under investigation after the actor allegedly assaulted Paramount exec Dani Bernfeld at Park City's Tao Nightclub early Sunday morning. The...
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Rich Colleges Get Richer and Richer
The 1%-vs-99% inequality dynamic that plagues America's economy as a whole extends to the world of higher education. And the richest universities in America had a great year last year. This is not all...
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Don't forget: Gawker is publishing less often to the front page. Read about the change here. Happening elsewhere: TKTK At the Times, Race Beat Exchanged for Bronx Courts | Defamer Tom DeLonge Pens Note...
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Dangerous Style: How Wearing the Wrong Jewelry Can Get You Locked Up
Andre Perry is 32 years old. He's a commercial photographer, lives in Brooklyn, and loves fashion. He's also black. A month ago, Perry was stopped at a subway station by an undercover officer with the...
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