The Guy Who Played Chewbacca Really Wanted to Bang Carrie Fisher

Adam Weinstein · 01/13/14 01:30PM

We all know Peter Mayhew, even if we don't realize it: He played Chewbacca, the lovable Wookiee in the original Star Wars trilogy. And judging from his Twitter feed in the past week, he's more of a fanboy than we realized: He badly wanted to form a sexy rebel alliance with Princess Leia.

The Illusion of a Republican Anti-Poverty Platform

Hamilton Nolan · 01/13/14 01:15PM

It is a bizarre mark of progress that America's level of economic inequality has become so chronic and severe that even the Republican party realizes it must present some sort of proposal to address the economic underclass. It's like watching a gaggle of nuns plot out a sex-education curriculum.

Florida Pols Have Best Two-Timing, Roomie-Fucking Pot-Smoking Day Ever

Adam Weinstein · 01/13/14 12:30PM

How awesome is it to be a legislator in the Sunshine State this year? This awesome: You get to approve the legalization of adultery, cohabitation, and giving young children a strain of marijuana called Charlotte's Web, all in one afternoon sitting.

Adam Weinstein · 01/13/14 12:29PM

Emma Keller's controversial column on the tweets of cancer survivor Lisa Adams "has been deleted with the agreement of the subject because it is inconsistent with the Guardian editorial code," the Guardian reports. Apparently they frown upon publishing DMs without permission.

Max Read · 01/13/14 12:05PM

"[W]hen a priest is far from Jesus Christ he... ends up being smarmy. And how damaging to the Church are smarmy priests! Those who put their strength in artificial things, in vanity, in an attitude... in a cutesy language..." — Pope Francis I joins the war on smarm.

Pop Music's 'Biggest Secret' Isn't a Secret, But It Is a Big Deal

Neetzan Zimmerman · 01/13/14 10:45AM

A video from vlogger Boy in a Band that began circulating over the weekend claims to expose the music industry's "biggest secret": That a statistically significant number of the biggest pop hits of the last two decades were all written and produced by a single person you may never have heard of.