New York Times media columnist David Carr has a lot of friends. I'm one of them. I would generally agree that, as the Wire put it this morning, he is "well-loved and respected," and that his column is often "one of the most thoughtful and critical perspectives into journalism." Likewise with the Boston Globe's assessment that he is a "star." These encomia were delivered on the occasion of Carr's ascent to an endowed chair at Boston University's College of Communication, from which chair he will continue to cover the media beat in his weekly Times column. That chair is endowed to the tune of $1.66 million by the chairman of a media company that Carr purports to cover. There's probably a column in that.

Thousands of canceled flights and endless dreary delays awaited Americans who attempted to travel by passenger jet during this never-ending arctic monster storm, proving once again that none of us have any common sense at all. Why do we bother? Because we have been brainwashed to accept daylong episodes of prison-style abuse, as long as we eventually land somewhere else.

This is a captivating story, but do we really want to adopt as a standard of morality the idea that bystanders are obligated to jump in when they see someone being held up at gunpoint? Cause uh, I'm happy to call the cops for you, but...

Authorities in Florida arrested a 26-year-old woman on arson charges after she reportedly set fire to her ex-boyfriend's front door while searching for closure.

There are plenty of reasons to be cross with President Barack H. Obama. Glad-handing with Raul Castro—the Fredo Corleone of Cuba's ruling Castro family—isn't one of them.

Women are paid less than men. Besides spontaneous castrations, one way to engage this problem is through higher education. And now, a study which shows ladies exactly what to do in college in order to smash the patriarchy.

A six-year-old boy from Cañon City, Colorado, will have the words "sexual harassment" stamped on his permanent record after he was suspended for playfully pecking a female classmate cheek and hand.

[Sad evidence of the dreadful New York weather is seen in this Yonkers Police Department photograph of an early morning pileup of SUVs, at least one taxi cab and a light pole. Photo via Associated Press.]

Someone at CNN fucked up. Mid-way through a taped interview, anchor Brooke Baldwin interrupted Jake Tapper – "Hang on, hang on, Tapper"— and restarted the entire segment. Somehow, the botched—and, again, entirely prerecorded—segment made it onto the air last night. Great job, everyone.

The first official trailer for the second American reboot of the Godzilla franchise landed on the Internet's shores today, bringing with it the promise of the first successful homage to Toho's creature feature classic.

A new study released this week purports to show that more attractive high-school students tend to make better grades. As if high school weren't hard enough.

An extremely loyal Walmart customer has been banned from every Walmart store on the planet for life after taking advantage of the store's price-matching policy one too many times.

Detroit is bankrupt. The once-great city languishes deep in debt, unable to provide basic city services, as it debates cutting pensions and selling off the city's art collection. What's the right move? We, the writers of Gawker, have very strong opinions.

Not content to let some silly South Carolina sheriff have all the fun, Maricopa County Sheriff and proud 'Murcan Joe Arpaio announced he would not lower his agencies' flags to half-staff to honor Nelson Mandela, as President Obama had requested.

In America in 2013, a news story on a new record cold temperature in Antarctica (-135.8!) finds it necessary to include this explanation from a prominent scientist: "Just because one spot on Earth has set records for cold that has little to do with global warming because it is one spot in one place." Jesus we're dumb.

This is not for the faint of heart. But if you eat frozen pizza, you might owe it to yourself to see where the cheese came from.

A photo from today's Mandela memorial of President Obama snapping a funeral selfie alongside UK PM David Cameron and Danish PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt while an unamused Michelle scowls nearby is making the rounds right now, but it only tells a fragment of the full story.

A new study that traces the effect of government programs on poverty all the way back to 1967 finds unequivocally that the money the government spends to help the poor does, in fact, reduce poverty. Suck it, Republicans.

Last night, in an interview broadcast on a Canadian "multi-faith religious" cable station, crack-smoking Toronto Mayor Rob Ford suggested to disgraced media baron and convicted felon Conrad Black that a Toronto Star reporter was a pedophile.

For some evil reason, E! devoted an hour of programming to Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt last night. The where-are-they-now special After Shock: Heidi & Spencer caught us up on two people we never wanted to hear from again (he gained 50 lbs., from eating pie and is in law school, she wants babies and is still distracted by shiny things).