Lindsay Lowdown: Restraining Orders, Conservatorships, Boyfriends, and Absolution (and Cheerleaders)
Caity Weaver · 10/22/12 01:31PMThis Is the Most Popular Video on the Internet Today — But Does it Deserve to Be?
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/22/12 01:20PMHow to Survive Interrogation Using Only Your Dick
Hamilton Nolan · 10/22/12 01:15PMPublic Service Announcements Are Advertising's Amateur Hour
Drew Magary · 10/22/12 01:05PMHere's an ad created by DDB New York for WaterIsLife, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing clean drinking water to people in developing countries. The ad features a bunch of poor Haitian people reading a bunch of #FirstWorldProblems tweets out loud: "I hate when my phone charger won't reach my bed," "I hate it when I tell them no pickles, and they still give me pickles," etc. The message of the spot is clear: You're an asshole for whining about your problems when you have clean drinking water. Now here is why this spot is fucking terrible:
Texas Church Calling Obama a 'Muslim Communist' Could Have Its Tax-Exempt Status Revoked
Cord Jefferson · 10/22/12 12:55PM
The small town of Leakey, Texas (pop. 387), is stirring with an excitement not felt since the Leakey High Eagles last won the state football championship in 1975. But this latest stir has less to do with victory and far more to do with pure ignorant hatred, compliments of Leakey's nondenominational Church in the Valley.
'Getting Punched in the Taint was Good': Even Juggalos Don’t Understand Why SNL Keeps Spoofing Them
Camille Dodero · 10/22/12 12:15PMSushi Bar Installs One-Way Mirror That Lets Men Spy on Ladies Room
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/22/12 12:00PMNow That He's Retired, What Should Felix Baumgartner's New Hobby Be?
Robert Kessler · 10/22/12 11:32AM
Felix Baumgartner sat down with Savannah Guthrie on the Today Show this morning to premier some new footage from his record-breaking free fall, filmed with a helmet camera for a National Geographic documentary. He told Guthrie that he has hung up his Red Bull™ Balloon and is retiring. "I've had enough," he told her. "I've done it all."
Looking to Get Day Off from Work, Texas Woman Tells Police She Was Kidnapped by a Drug Dealer
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/22/12 11:21AMRich Juzwiak · 10/22/12 11:10AM
Caity Weaver · 10/22/12 11:06AM
Move Over, Madagascar; Andy Serkis to Adapt Orwell's Animal Farm As Family-Friendly Barnyard Romp
Caity Weaver · 10/22/12 10:40AMStudent-Run "Fantasy Slut League" a Concern at California High School
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/22/12 10:33AMIn Defense of Being Outraged by Things that Everyone Already Knows
Hamilton Nolan · 10/22/12 10:05AM
Last March, Goldman Sachs VP Greg Smith quit his job in spectacular fashion—with a New York Times op-ed decrying the erosion of the firm's moral culture into a "toxic and destructive" state. Now, Greg Smith has a book coming out. He was on 60 Minutes last night. He has become, in mere months, the world's most famous insider critic of the go-go culture of Wall Street's biggest banks.









