Mississippi Lawmaker Found Shot to Death in Home of Former Local Politician
Mississippi state Representative Jessica Upshaw was found dead Sunday morning at the home of another Mississippi politician, according to the Clarion Ledger. Simpson County Sheriff Kenneth Lewis said...
View ArticleThe Today Show to Air Jerry Sandusky Interview Filmed by Penn State Truther
For the past several days, The Today Show has been hyping an "exclusive interview" with Jerry Sandusky set to air Monday morning. In this interview, The Today Show says, the convicted child rapist...
View ArticleSenator Claire McCaskill Announces Support of Gay Marriage
This has been a big month for prominent politicians coming out in favor of gay marriage. First, Bill Clinton publicly disavowed the anti-gay marriage bill he signed into law in 1996. One week later,...
View ArticleLast-Minute Cyprus Bailout Will Shut Down Bank and Tax Biggest Accounts
A late-night agreement between European finance ministers and the government of Cyprus will keep Cyprus in the eurozone and bail out the struggling island nation—by levying an enormous one-time tax on...
View ArticleLegendary Britpop Beef Squashed as Blur and Oasis Members Share the Stage
The musical equivalent of the Hatfields and McCoys burying the hatchet (or Itchy and Scratchy burying the butcher knife) occurred Saturday night when Oasis' Noel Gallagher joined Blur's Damon Albarn...
View ArticleWhy You Should Never Feel Bad About Not Paying the Met's 'Recommended'...
Two hero lawyers have filed a class-action lawsuit against the Metropolitan Museum of Art over the museum's attempts to make its absurd but optional $25 admission fee appear to be mandatory: The...
View ArticleNeo-Nazis Threaten Dropkick Murphys Following Beatdown of Skinhead at St....
After Dropkick Murphys bass player/singer Ken Casey made it abundantly clear that neo-Nazis are "not fucking welcome" at his band's concerts, the neo-Nazis are apparently responding in kind. Late last...
View ArticleThe Today Show Is a Den of Backstabbing and Intrigue
After Ann Curry was unceremoniously fired from The Today Show last year, nugget-headed everyman cohost Matt Lauer was demonized as the driving force behind her ouster. But did Lauer really deserve to...
View ArticleTime Magazine Identifies the Best Twitterers on Twitter of This Year
Who is your favorite Twitterer? Time magazine has assembled a list of the 140 very most important and entertaining users of the short-form social-media service. Every year, TIME recognizes those who...
View ArticleSelfish Ice Cream Guy's Greed Nets Scorned Girlfriend Free Ice Cream for a Year
Jake Moran, better known to fans of gluttony and greed as that guy who wouldn't share his ice cream with his girlfriend during last week's Pacers-Magic game, appeared on this morning's Good Morning...
View ArticleA Discussion With Tracey Thorn, Bedsit Disco Queen and Author
Last week songwriter Tracey Thorn, who's best known for her work in the musical duo Everything But the Girl, released her memoir, Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star in the...
View ArticleMother Goes Shopping, Leaves Baby Inside Car with Note Asking Passers-By to...
A photo allegedly showing an infant child locked inside a car in New Zealand has shocked many, but police say they don't intend to investigate the matter any further. Eyewitnesses say the baby was...
View ArticleWinklevoss Twins Want to Move On From Fact They Owe Entire Existence to...
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are the two identical twins from whom Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook while they were all students at Harvard, in order to get rich and have sex with women, as...
View ArticleSchool Bans Triangle-Shaped Flapjacks for Fear That Kids Will Poke Their Eyes...
A school in the UK has banned its cafeteria staff from feeding students triangle-shaped flapjacks after one pupil suffered a "sore eye" during a recent food fight. Not to be confused with their...
View ArticleFinding Light at the Black Party
When I decided last week that I'd attend Saturday's Black Party—the 34th annual iteration of it, and my first—I reached out to some friends to gauge their interest level or otherwise get their...
View ArticleBrazilian Model's Breastfeeding Photos Stir Controversy, But Not for the...
Breastfeeding photos posted on Instagram by Brazilian model, DJ, and former Pamela Anderson impersonator Sabrina Boing Boing are causing some commotion in her native country. But, for once, the...
View ArticleGeorge Zimmerman's Stupid Brother Can't Seem to Stop Tweeting About 'Black...
Let's say your brother was going to stand trial in June for shooting and killing an unarmed black teenager. What would you do? Would you keep your mouth shut? Or would you tweet at the NAACP and the...
View ArticleWest Point Housekeeper Facing As Much Jail Time as Steubenville Rapist for...
A housekeeper at West Point who was busted with a bag full of frozen meatballs that didn't belong to her is facing two years in prison on federal charges of larceny and possession of stolen property....
View ArticleNBC Reportedly Axed Tweet of Support to Very Ill Robin Roberts for Fear of...
New York magazine's lengthy dissection of the ultimate first-world problem that is morning-news drama is a good read, if you're into media navelgazing. Covering Matt Lauer's role as the villain in Ann...
View ArticleThe 20 Best Trollings in Modern History
From the Spanish-American War all the way up to the 40 Hottest Women in Tech, the past century has borne witness to some epic trolling, bro. This amoral art form—loosely defined as "the media fucking...
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