The Ryan-Biden Debate: ‘Let’s Talk Powerpoints’ vs. ‘I’m Gonna Fuck You Up, Chief’

Mobutu Sese Seko · 10/10/12 12:45PM

Deep down, probably all of us secretly wish that The Onion's version of Vice President Joe Biden were real. Perhaps it's all those gaffes talking—the combined weight of decades of gives-no-fuck moments leading to the suspicion that maybe this is a dude who would be willing to race you for the vice presidency because, face it, your IROC-Z is bullshit. The idea that any iteration of that dude might show up is what makes tomorrow night's vice presidential debate so potentially exciting.

Hamilton Nolan · 10/10/12 12:10PM

If you're the type of consumer who seeks out "vintage vodka," you are probably dumb.

Robert Kessler · 10/10/12 12:01PM

Watch live video of a parking garage collapse at Miami-Dade College. Three are missing, none are students.

One of the Pussy Riot Grrrls Is Free

Camille Dodero · 10/10/12 11:25AM

Today, a Moscow appeals court released Yekaterina "Katya" Samutsevich, the eldest of the three imprisoned collaborators from the Russian feminist art-punk collective Pussy Riot, while upholding the two-year prison-colony sentence for her counterparts, Maria "Masha" Alyokhina and Nadezhda "Nadya" Tolokonnikova.

Dance Music Is 'Dumb,' Says Dance Music Producer Boys Noize

Rich Juzwiak · 10/10/12 11:00AM

Backstage at this year's Electric Zoo festival, which took place Labor Day weekend on New York's Randall's Island, I had one of the least pretentious discussions about music with a person who makes it for a living that I've ever experienced. The Berlin-based producer/DJ/label owner Alex Ridha (aka Boys Noize) had just played a 75-minute set to kids who wore day-glo T-shirts and Halloween costumes, kids who'd like flock to the main stage to hear Skrillex after Ridha's in-tent set. With Skrillex's selection reverberating off the wood-paneled walls of Ridha's trailer, the 30-year-old told me about "Reality," a track he'd worked on for a year, struggling "to make it sound not busy, even though it is busy."

Bain Capital Wants a Piece of Gawker

John Cook · 10/10/12 09:45AM

After we published nearly 1,000 pages of Bain Capital's confidential financial records—including audits revealing for the first time that Bain employed a potentially illegal tax dodge currently under investigation by the New York attorney general—we thought we might hear from the good folks at Mitt Romney's former private equity firm, perhaps asking us to take down the documents. Well, Bain finally got in touch yesterday. And they want to explore investing in Gawker Media.

Wall Street Pay Rises as Inevitably as the Sun

Hamilton Nolan · 10/10/12 09:20AM

Wall Street is a perfect representation of Wall Street values: a constant and ever-increasing accumulation of wealth in the hands of a smaller and smaller elite. You'll be happy to know that Wall Street is continuing perfectly down this path, by laying workers off while raising the wages of the lucky few that remain.