Taylor Berman · 10/17/12 07:01PM

America's best television actor is also its highest paid: Ashton Kutcher made $24 million last year.

Giving the Elephant a Pink Manicure: A Night Out With Mindy Meyer, the Internet's Candidate for Senate

Camille Dodero · 10/17/12 05:23PM

On Monday night, Mindy Meyer, the 22-year-old New York state senate candidate with a very pink website, hosted her first political fundraiser at Long Island's expansive Inwood Country Club. "It's a pink tie affair!" cried the conservative campaign's invitation to the $500-a-plate dinner a few weeks back. "Come rub elbowes [sic] with politicians and members of the press." By last Thursday, though, Mindy's Twitter account offered a kind of clearance special: $150 for dinner and a "mind blowing surprise!"

Alleged Terrorist Attempts to Audit the Fed with 1,000 Pounds of (Fake) Explosives

Max Read · 10/17/12 04:26PM

Are American right-wing terrorists no longer competitive in their own country? Fifteen years ago, any terrorist plot against the New York Federal Reserve building would surely have been the product of one of our many fine homegrown white-nationalist separatist Christians, trying to stop Barack Maobama's Jewish bankers from taxing white babies. But now foreign-born students are moving here, and beating out our terrorists for some of the best plots: Today, the FBI arrested a 21-year-old Bangladeshi student, Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, for attempting to blow up the Fed building 1,000 pounds of explosives. Where's Thomas Friedman when you need him?

Hamilton Nolan · 10/17/12 04:20PM

Available: poorly paid flight attendant jobs with bankrupt airline. Never say opportunity is dead.

Science Disproves Five Second Rule, All Bets Are Off

Robert Kessler · 10/17/12 03:15PM

For decades we have been trapped by America's tyrannical "Five Second Rule," which mandates that all food be marinated on the floor for a full five seconds before it can be consumed. But not a second more! At long last, that rule has been tested.

Today's Song: R. Kelly "Trapped in the Closet Chapter 23"

Rich Juzwiak · 10/17/12 03:05PM

Remember how "Trapped in the Closet" ended five years ago? Me neither. I barely remember what happened at all, but whatever, it's back — on Nov. 23, IFC will broadcast a bunch of new chapters. R. Kelly has released the first of the new batch, Chapter 23, in advance. I know that the series quickly unraveled into goofiness, revealing itself as intentional camp instead of the more engaging ambiguous strain of the sensibility. It went from "Is it or isn't it?" to, "Oh...it is" way too fast.

Vanderbilt Discussion

Emma Carmichael · 10/17/12 02:11PM

A discussion for Vanderbilt University students with Gawker founder Nick Denton.