Kids These Days Are Horrible at Getting Knocked Up

Hamilton Nolan · 04/10/12 08:34AM

What are teens "screwing" up now, literally, more or less, ha ha? Teen pregnancy. Easiest god damn thing in the world. Takes nothing more than peer pressure, lax parenting, and copious amounts of "sizzurp." Still, kids these days can't even get that right.

Stephen Colbert Does Not Approve of GOP VP Hopeful Steve King

Matt Toder · 04/09/12 11:34PM

On tonight's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert gave up trying to find an alternative to Mitt Romney and instead turned his attention to helping Mitt pick a running mate. Colbert has some thoughts on potential candidate Iowa congressman Steve King, with whom Colbert has some experience. The guy hates gays and the disabled, what's not to love?

Alec Baldwin's Stalker Proposes Marriage, Abuses Caps Lock

Louis Peitzman · 04/09/12 11:15PM

Surely I'm not the only one who has jokingly replaced my surname with Alec Baldwin's — you know, just to see how it sounds. But Baldwin's stalker Genevieve Sabourin sent him "a series of annoying and unsolicited communications" that likely turned him off to any potential marriage, even though she went ahead and took his name.

Jon Stewart Weighs In on Fox News' Reaction to NBC's Manipulation of George Zimmerman's 911 Call

Matt Toder · 04/09/12 10:35PM

When it came to light last week that NBC had edited the content of George Zimmerman's 911 call the night he killed Trayvon Martin - an edit which strongly implied a racial bias via an excised question - Fox News went into full on outrage mode. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart took a survey of their coverage and found it came up quite short, especially when they claimed some sort of righteous adherence to the truth.

Maryland Mega Millions Winner Comes Forward, Coyly

Louis Peitzman · 04/09/12 10:34PM

The Mega Millions winner in Maryland has come forward to receive his or her share of the record-breaking $656 million jackpot, but the person's identity will not be released. The Maryland ticket was one of three winners in the country.

'I May Give Up Writing and Work as a Butler': Interview with John Derbyshire

Maureen O'Connor · 04/09/12 05:54PM

After publishing an article advising his children to avoid black people, writer John Derbyshire lost his column at uber-conservative magazine The National Review and weathered a firestorm of outrage this weekend. Nonetheless, after undergoing his regularly scheduled chemotherapy treatment for Chronic Lymphomatic Leukemia this morning, an unperturbed Derbyshire agreed to a Gawker Q&A. His only request: That we publish his answers exactly as he wrote them. We agreed, and have not edited him.

Today In Funny Tumblrs to Pass Around: Chandler Dances on Things

Leah Beckmann · 04/09/12 03:44PM

It's a Monday afternoon and you could use a little pick me up. You've earned it. Why not take a gander at this excellent tumblr, featuring Ms. Chanandler Bong dancing on various nouns. What fun! There he is dancing on the Pope. Now he's on Nyan Cat. Hey don't look now, but there he is on some Nutella. Ha that Chandler Bing, he's really going for it.

Today's Song: Nicki Minaj Featuring 2 Chainz 'Beez in the Trap'

Rich Juzwiak · 04/09/12 03:34PM

We wrote about Nicki Minaj last week, but I don't think I properly salivated over this little monster, which had its video debut over the weekend. Minaj's laid-back (though varied) delivery underscores the innate greatness she's claiming and the track is ferocious despite being a deceptively calm design of ricocheting sonar sounds and growling sub-bass. It's all testament to the virtue of not trying to hard, and as such, it's the first Nicki-led song that I've found compulsively listenable. Even if this is the only good thing to come out of Roman's Revenge, the otherwise underwhelming project will have been worth it.

Decoding the Beyoncé Tumblr

Anne Helen Petersen · 04/09/12 03:20PM

Earlier this week, The Beyoncé tumblr went live. And there was much rejoicing: across the web, gossip sites and news organizations alike trumpeted her decision to cultivate a web presence. Various articles figure the "release" of the site in vaguely mystical terms: Beyoncé celebrated her fourth anniversary with Jay-Z on April 4th (4/4); she was "born" onto the web on 4/5.

What Up With This 'Wall St. Jews' Flier?

Hamilton Nolan · 04/09/12 03:10PM

A bunch of us here at Gawker Media have received letters recently containing nothing but this single photocopied montage of magazine covers bearing the words, "WALL ST. JEWS."