Another Man Has Died After Being Pushed in Front of a Subway Train in New York
Well, this is starting to get a bit weird. For the second time in the span of a month, a man in New York City has been killed after being pushed in front of a subway train. The image above is the now...
View ArticleDon't Cry For George Zimmerman, Who Got Screwed By a Security Firm That is...
George Zimmerman — who you may remember as the man who accosted and then shot a teen named Trayvon Martin for the crime of being black and wearing a hoodie — is in a bad place as the calendar slides...
View ArticleAdorable Toddler Flubs the Word 'Banana' Rather Spectacularly
Little Payton has the word "apple" pretty down pat, but "banana" might take a while longer. In the meantime, the two-year-old should probably stick to doing what she does best: Initiating her...
View ArticleThree Officers Shot Inside New Jersey Police Station by Person in Custody
A man being booked on domestic violence charges at the Gloucester Township police station in New Jersey this morning managed to shoot and injure three police officers before being killed when other...
View ArticleThe Year We Found Goatse and Visited the KKK: The Best of Gawker's 2012...
Sometimes, instead of writing 40 words to go along with a viral Internet video, we write many words. Thousands of words, even. Since we do this somewhat frequently, those pieces can be easy to miss....
View ArticleThis Is the Woman Who Fatally Shoved a Man Onto Subway Tracks in Queens
The NYPD is still searching for the woman suspected of shoving a man in front of a Flushing-bound 7 train at the 40th Street station in Sunnyside. To help with their manhunt, the police have released...
View ArticleWill This Latest Violent Incident Make Humans Stop Liking Violent Entertainment?
The Washington Post bills Ann Hornaday's essay on movies today ("I don't know where this national discussion will wind up," is her unproductive conclusion) on the front page of its website like so:...
View Article'PIZZA, BRO! DO THE PIZZA': Is This Ski Bro Flinging a Child Down a Mountain...
There comes a time in every parent's life when he must thrust his child from the comforts of home into the cruel real world. For some people that means requiring your teenager to get a job for pocket...
View ArticleWhat Were the Year's Best Podcast Episodes?
You're all too forthcoming with your BEST OF 2012 OR FIGHT ME ✌ Spotify playlists, but can you offer us something actually useful, like a working list of podcast episodes that were pretty great this...
View ArticleJapanese Porn Star Solicits Bottles of Semen from Twitter Followers for...
So you're making a sequel to the seminal porn film Semen Collection, but you just don't seem to have enough semen on hand to justify calling it a "collection." What do you do? Solicit your Twitter...
View ArticleThe Grierson & Leitch Best Films of 2012: Nos. 5-1
It's the final week of 2012, so we're wrapping the year up the way movie people are supposed to wrap the year up: Lists! Wednesday, we each gave our five worst movies of 2012. Yesterday, we each...
View ArticleCop Who Busted Fred Willard in Adult Theater Catches Nick Stahl 'Committing...
Nick Stahl was arrested last night after LAPD vice officers working undercover allegedly caught him pleasuring himself inside a sex shop in Hollywood. Police say the actor was inside the store's...
View ArticleAmerica's Strategic Supply of Million-Dollar Homes Is Dwindling
The Great Recession of the past several years took many things from America: our jobs. Our financial resources. Our pride. But as the economy returns to its former glory, we now face a new peril: our...
View ArticleCurrent Congress Is the Laziest in a Lifetime
Sure, the U.S. Congress is the butt of its fair share of jokes. People call it corrupt, out of touch, and a plague on the very concept of democracy. But give Congress its due: it's also incredibly...
View ArticleThe Story Behind the Stories You Loved This Year: Jay-Z Meets an Adorable Old...
What happens behind the scenes at Gawker? We know you ask yourselves this question every single hour of every single day, and we don't blame you. We are fascinating. Sometimes we order sandwiches for...
View ArticleIt All Makes Sense Now: Kate Winslet's Marriage to the Man with a Clown Name...
Remember when elegant British superstar Kate Winslet married a man who, like an idiot, changed his name to "Ned RocknRoll," and the whole world let out a collective, "Huh?" Today comes news that...
View ArticleAs If Dentists Weren't Scary Enough: Dental Drill Comes Loose, Falls Down...
A 60-year-old woman undergoing dental implant surgery at a Swedish hospital learned the hard way that visits to the dentists never end well when the dental drill being used on her came loose and slid...
View ArticleHobby Lobby Willing to Pay a Million Dollars a Day to Avoid Providing...
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the craft store chain Hobby Lobby and its sister-company Mardel must provide employees with access to copay-free contraception as part of its health-care plan...
View ArticleWoman at Center of India's Gang-Rape Scandal Dies in Hospital
The 23-year-old woman who was savagely gang-raped by a group of men aboard a bus in South Delhi died early Saturday morning at a hospital in Singapore. The victim — nicknamed "India's Daughter" by the...
View ArticleBoobs, Feuds, Freakouts and Fahts: 2012 In Trashy TV
Above is a five-minute clip reel of many of the things that aired on TV this year that made me almost pee myself. These are over-the-top and entirely out of context, so if you want a little more...
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