What If Little Red Riding Hood Had a Gun? Story Time With the NRA's Family Blog
Brendan O'Connor · 03/26/16 11:50AM
NRA Family, the National Rifle Association’s blog for families, recently began publishing a series of classic fairy tales, reimagined to include guns: “Red felt the reassuring weight of the rifle on her shoulder and continued down the path, scanning the trees, knowing that their shadows could provide a hiding place.”
The Humans of New York Guy Has Such a Strong Sense of Humility That He Told the New York Times All About It
Brendan O'Connor · 03/26/16 10:10AM
Brandon Stanton, the guy who runs the digital empathy farm “Humans of New York,” recently decided to go public with his very brave belief that Donald Trump is bad. He was reluctant to do so, however, because he doesn’t like to be political—so reluctant, in fact, that he talked to the New York Times all about it.
Another Georgia Teen Has Been Arrested for Threatening Donald Trump Online
Brendan O'Connor · 03/26/16 08:55AMVideo Shows NYPD Zipping Live Man in Body Bag, Which Is a Normal Thing They Do All the Time
Gabrielle Bluestone · 03/25/16 04:41PMHere is a video of the NYPD zipping a live man into a body bag and dropping it on the side of the street. But don’t be alarmed, the NYPD says: That’s just their normal bag for disturbed individuals.
Hamilton Nolan · 03/25/16 04:00PM
The National Enquirer Has Been Right Before
Sam Biddle · 03/25/16 03:50PM
It’s easy to dismiss today’s National Enquirer story about the alleged secret, highly active extramarital sex life of Ted Cruz, because, hey, it’s just some crappy tabloid that makes up all of its stories, right? And it’s true: They’ve printed a lot of fantasy and nonsense. But on some stories—including some huge ones—the Enquirer has been very right.
Listen to the Full Conversation About Sex and Love Between Alabama Governor Robert Bentley and His Alleged Mistress
Jordan Sargent · 03/25/16 03:35PMIn 2014, when he was still married to his now-ex wife Dianne, Alabama governor Robert Bentley was secretly recorded talking to his alleged mistress Rebekah Caldwell-Mason, who is also one of his closest advisors. Earlier this week, after months of public speculation regarding his alleged infidelity, Bentley held a press conference to address an excerpt of a recording of a phone call between he and Mason that was leaked to AL.com. The two-minute long snippet posted by the newspaper captured Bentley describing both physical and emotional intimacy with Mason, who currently serves as the governor’s senior political advisor. Above, you can hear relevant parts of the entire 14-minute recording obtained by Gawker, the full contents of which have not been previously published.
Robert De Niro Is Doing a Convincing Portrayal of an Anti-Vaccination Kook
Tom Scocca · 03/25/16 02:38PM
Robert De Niro’s upcoming Tribeca Film Festival is in trouble for including the movie Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe, directed by Andrew Wakefield, the disgraced physician turned anti-vaccination activist. The festival site describes the film as “[d]igging into the long-debated link between autism and vaccines,” a description that avoids the official conclusion of that debate, which is that Wakefield was a fraud peddling destructive lies to desperate parents.
Ted Cruz Implies He'd Fuck a Rat As Long As It Wasn't Donald Trump
Gabrielle Bluestone · 03/25/16 02:04PMPeople Have Been Talking About "The Thing" With Ted Cruz For Some Time Now
Gabrielle Bluestone · 03/25/16 01:36PMAutomation and Basic Income
Hamilton Nolan · 03/25/16 12:46PMA Trump Supporter Just Accused Amanda Carpenter of Sleeping With Ted Cruz on CNN
Andy Cush · 03/25/16 12:38PMOn CNN this morning, former Ted Cruz communications director Amanda Carpenter and pro-Trump newspaper columnist Adriana Cohen were asked to discuss the two candidates’ ridiculous feud over their wives. As soon as Cohen began speaking, talk turned to...something else.
Who's the Most UFO-Friendly Presidential Candidate?
Rhett Jones · 03/25/16 12:16PMHamilton Nolan · 03/25/16 11:41AM
Stop-and-Frisk Is Bad in Philly, Too
Andy Cush · 03/25/16 11:01AM
The NYPD’s use of stop-and-frisk, and the subsequent federal lawsuit against the department, became a big enough news story over the last several years that the practice is virtually synonymous with New York’s Finest. Stop-and-frisk is used in plenty of cities, however, and it’s bad in other places, too. Take Philly, for example.