The Hagfish Strikes Again
John Cook · 10/18/12 01:00PM
Well, that's it for Newsweek. Celebu-editor and royal gravedigger Tina Brown announced this morning on the web site of the Daily Beast that the magazine's print edition will not survive the year. That's not all Brown's fault, of course. Newsweek is not the first magazine to abandon print, and it will by no means be the last. Tina Brown didn't kill Newsweek. She just killed its credibility.
This Guy's Scalp Looks Like the Surface of a Brain
Max Read · 10/18/12 12:36PMAmerican Horror Story: Asylum Is Less Batshit Insane Than Its Predecessor
Rich Juzwiak · 10/18/12 12:30PMMaybe the craziest thing about American Horror Story's second season, which premiered last night on FX, is that it isn't a second season, really. The series is an anthology, meaning that despite the likes of Jessica Lange, Lily Rabe, Zachary Quinto and Evan Peters returning, we're getting a whole new set of characters in a whole new storyline that (supposedly) has nothing to do with what happened in the haunted-house-based first season.
Robert Kessler · 10/18/12 11:35AM
Website Counting Down to 'October Surprise' Has the Internet Guessing [UPDATE x3]
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/18/12 11:30AMBilly Graham Bought a Whole Page in the Wall Street Journal to Tell You What He Thinks About Gays and Women
Robert Kessler · 10/18/12 11:25AMAlways Bet on Me: Mitt Romney's Order to the Bosses of Wage Slaves
Mobutu Sese Seko · 10/18/12 11:00AMEven the Good News on College Debt Is Bad
Hamilton Nolan · 10/18/12 10:42AM
The University of Phoenix is shutting down 115 of its bloodsucking fake college locations in the U.S., about half of the total number of centers of flimflammery. This may be seen as part of the larger trend of the decline of so-called "for profit colleges," which is a good thing, in the sense that these schools are best not at education, but at sucking money out of desperate people who can scarcely afford it.
Doing Gay Porn Doesn’t Make Reese Rideout Gay, But It Does Make His Wife Look Miserable
Rich Juzwiak · 10/18/12 10:30AMReese Rideout aka Cletus Van Damm aka Nicholas Ryan aka Nick Dent (the last being his real name...maybe) has a complicated life: He is supposedly straight but gets paid to have sex with men on film and then gets asked to talk about this to various media outlets. He and his wife, Becki, have appeared in the British Marie Claire, on The Bill Cunningham Show and, as of last night, on VH1 for a one-off special called I'm Married To A... In this case, the "A...," is a self-identified heterosexual man who regularly ejaculates in the arms (and in the other things) of another dude.
Elderly Woman Faces Jail Time for Removing Campaign Signs Featuring Obama with Hitler Mustache
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/18/12 10:26AMWho Is This Nude Woman Posing for Subway Riders in the Vienna Underground? [NSFW]
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/18/12 09:45AMFancy Liberal Brooklyn Is Full of Hypocrites
Hamilton Nolan · 10/18/12 09:20AM
Brooklyn—the expensive parts of Brooklyn, the parts of Brooklyn you read about in higher-end trend stories—prides itself on being a great bastion of liberalism and diversity, a place where the intelligentsia can be proud to live. In fact, many of the proud liberals in these parts of Brooklyn are full of shit.
Caught Stealing a Television From a Sports Bar Bathroom, Brother and Sister Try the Old 'We Were Just Having Sex' Excuse [UPDATE]
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/18/12 08:51AMCaity Weaver · 10/18/12 08:41AM
This Daring Baby Elephant Rescue Will Make You Weep Like a Baby Human
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/18/12 08:10AM'Too Small for Women': Amazon Flooded With Hilarious Reviews of Binders in Wake of Debate
Max Read · 10/18/12 07:52AMNewsweek Pulling Plug on Print, Will Be Digital-Only Starting Next Year
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/18/12 07:41AM
While the entire world that cares about this stuff had its attention trained on a Daily Telegraph report that The Guardian was in "serious" discussions about ending its print edition (a report the Guardian denies), Newsweek's editor-in-chief Tina Brown was busy penning an announcement that her publication was past the point of discussion and on to the implementation stage.
Twitter Officially Censored Its First Account Today
Taylor Berman · 10/18/12 12:00AM
Earlier today, Twitter blocked its first account, a German neo-Nazi group that German police say is a "criminal organization." This is the first time Twitter has ever censored a user's account. Unless, of course, you count Guy Adams, who was temporarily banned after NBC complained to Twitter about Adams's criticism of their Olympic coverage.








