Florida is Now Hiring Python Hunters
Robert Kessler · 12/07/12 02:38PMFlorida is looking for participants in the most dangerous game. No, not that most dangerous game: python hunting. Burmese pythons are actually a major problem for Florida, specifically in the southern part of the state, where they are decimating natural flora and fauna like bugs, probably, and narwhals and unicorns, maybe (I have no idea what lives in the Everglades).
Here Is Lena Dunham's $3.7 Million Book Proposal [UPDATE]
John Cook · 12/07/12 02:05PMMontana Tourism Promoter Accidentally Posts 'F This Job' on State's Official Facebook Page, Probably Has One Less Thing to Complain About
Neetzan Zimmerman · 12/07/12 01:51PM'Kill Those Fucking Yankees Slowly and Painfully': the 'Anti-American' Past of 'Gangnam Style' Rapper Psy
Max Read · 12/07/12 01:20PM
Last night, most of us went to bed in a world where pudgy Korean rapper and viral sensation Psy was globally beloved for bringing us "Gangnam Style," the "Macarena" of 2012. But this morning we woke up to a different world — a colder, darker world — in which the internet was afire with the claim that Psy had performed at an anti-American concert in Seoul in 2004, where he rapped: "Kill those fucking Yankees who have been torturing Iraqi captives/Kill those fucking Yankees who ordered them to torture/Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law, and fathers/Kill them all slowly and painfully."
Hamilton Nolan · 12/07/12 01:12PM
Local News Anchor Pretends to Care About His Girlfriend's Job So He Can Propose to Her On the Air
Neetzan Zimmerman · 12/07/12 12:54PMHeritage, Not Hate: The Jim DeMint Adventure
Mobutu Sese Seko · 12/07/12 12:40PM
If you're one of those Democrats who's been riding a huge schadenfreude high since November 6, you probably took news of South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint's retirement in the customary way. With the online equivalent of going "WHOOOOOOOO" out of a limousine's sunroof, after doing a shooter with one of those awesome names like "Sex Intercourse with Boobs Outside."
DJs Behind the Royal Hospital Hoax Have Deleted Their Twitter Accounts; There's Speculation They've Been Fired (UPDATE)
Caity Weaver · 12/07/12 12:14PMOnline Paywalls and the Future of Media: A Few Hard Truths
Hamilton Nolan · 12/07/12 12:10PM
Yesterday, both The Daily Beast (or, more accurately, whatever Tina Brown can toss together after they've absorbed the corpse of Newsweek and laid a bunch of people off) and the Washington Post announced that they may be instituting online paywalls in the near future, making readers pay to read more than a handful of articles. In many ways, online paywalls are the future of online media. But that doesn't mean they're going to work for everyone. A few unavoidable facts that media executives should consider:
ICYMI: Bill Murray Was Abducted and Tasered and Forced to Make an Appearance on Last Night's Letterman
Neetzan Zimmerman · 12/07/12 11:42AMThe one and only Bill Murray demonstrated why there couldn't possibly be another one like him with a Late Show entrance that only he could pull off.
David Axelrod Shaves Off His 40-Year-Old Stache for Charity
Neetzan Zimmerman · 12/07/12 11:05AMGisele Bündchen Gives Birth to Daughter, Has Yet to Confirm Her Pregnancy
Caity Weaver · 12/07/12 10:25AM'Kiss and Tell' UK PR Man Arrested Over 70s-Era Sex Crimes
Hamilton Nolan · 12/07/12 10:20AM
Ever since the Jimmy Savile sex scandal brought a bunch of BBC executives tumbling down, the UK has been, shall we say, more sensitive to the fact that famous people might have committed a bunch of sex crimes back in the Good Old Days, when sex crimes were not something that famous people much worried about. The latest famous person to be arrested and questioned about sex crimes? One of the UK's most prominent PR men, who specializes in selling tawdry sex tell-alls to the tabloids.








