Ol' Dirty Bastard's FBI File: Wu-Crimes and Tons of Guns
Hamilton Nolan · 01/11/12 12:53PMWhich Actress Is Sleeping with the Director She Supposedly Despises?
Brian Moylan · 01/11/12 11:05AMAnother Iranian Nuclear Scientist Totally Randomly Blown Up
Adrian Chen · 01/11/12 10:55AMHostess Bankrupt; Ding Dongs in Peril
Hamilton Nolan · 01/11/12 10:42AM
Hostess, the maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Ho Hos, Suzy Q's, Sno Balls, Zingers, and Donettes, among other god damn delicious products, is bankrupt. For the second time in eight years. Labor costs, debt load, flour prices, blah blah blah. What will it take to save Hostess? Will it take Hostess sending out cases of its delicious products out to various popular online media sites, to "build buzz?" Now is the time to find out.
Don't Act Like You Just Found Out Pat Buchanan Is Racist, You Hypocrites
Hamilton Nolan · 01/11/12 10:00AM
Former Nixonite and coonskin cap-wearing sometime presidential candidate Pat Buchanan has always been a racist relic who appealed mostly to those caveman-like Americans anxious for a return to the Andrew Jackson era. Always. There has never been a time, during his long career as a smiley pundit, in which he was not a racist. So. Although it's kind of nice that he's been suspended by MSNBC, it's the media equivalent of giving all the homeless people in your city a one-way bus ticket just as long as the Olympics are in town.
NYPD Wins Over Foreign Friends by Arresting Tourist for Crazy Person's Made-Up Crime
Max Read · 01/11/12 09:46AMStephen Colbert Supports Romney On His 'Firing People' Gaffe
Matt Toder · 01/11/12 12:17AMThe rest of the Republican nominees took Mitt Romney to task over his "I like firing people" remark, but Stephen Colbert is standing behind old Mitt. On tonight's Colbert Report, Stephen made his clear his feelings about Romney's words: they were taken out of context in a way that was completely different from Romney taking President Obama's words regarding John McCain out of context in November. The point is this: as long as Romney is happy firing people, Stephen Colbert is happy to see them fired.
Jon Stewart Takes a Break From the Republican Primary to Check In on Iran
Matt Toder · 01/10/12 11:44PMThere's been so much hoopla surrounding the Republican primaries, what with debates and caucuses and attack ads and Super PACs, that it's easy to forget there's a great big world out there. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart checked in on Iran and the latest news on their uranium enrichment program. They claim it is for research purposes, the United States doesn't agree, and then there's that all that nasty business about blockading the Straight of Hormuz and sentencing Iranian-Americans to death for spying. It's like living in a sweeping epic that probably won't have a Hollywood ending.
Mounting Fury Over Google's Use of Private Data
Ryan Tate · 01/10/12 09:41PMLive: The New Hampshire Primary
Jim Newell · 01/10/12 07:38PM
It's time to cover the results of the First Primary in the Nation, New Hampshire — that famous outlier among the Republican coalition that doesn't tell you much about anything! Mitt Romney is expected to win, but will he win by enough? That's how we're sucking you in tonight. If Mitt Romney doesn't get 52% of the vote, or let's say 100%, his campaign is over. Grab your assault rifle and poor a beer down your ear, as we watch — together.
Keith Olbermann Objects to 'Some Ball-less Clown' Talking About Him
Hamilton Nolan · 01/10/12 06:08PMKeith Olbermann Stories: Life With America's Most Aggrieved Man
A.J. Daulerio · 01/10/12 06:00PMChildren of the Romneys: A Horror Movie by Tagg Romney
Maureen O'Connor · 01/10/12 05:33PM
With "nothing left to do" on the campaign trail, the Romneys went to the movies this afternoon, where Tagg demonstrated the worst way for a pale-eyed family to pose for a picture: In a dim theater in front of a camera with a flash, which will turn all of their perfect blue eyes into glowing orbs of horror.
Congressmen Increasingly Pissed with Facebook
Ryan Tate · 01/10/12 05:18PMWho Wants to Buy The New Republic?
Jim Newell · 01/10/12 05:02PM
Old Arab-hating literary tycoon Marty Peretz is putting his beloved Washington treasure The New Republic — the "in-flight magazine of Air Force One," according to a movie about how much of its content was completely fabricated — on the market, again. Who should purchase this esteemed leftist journal of moderately regulated capitalism and hella warmaking?
Keith Olbermann Stories: The Good, The Bad, the Ugly Shoes
Hamilton Nolan · 01/10/12 04:30PM
Yesterday, we brought you a former Keith Olbermann employee's tale of how shitty it was to work for Keith Olbermann, as well as Keith Olbermann's multiple responses. Naturally, all of this inspired more Olbermann associates to write in. We now bring you one detractor, and one defender. [Bolding ours]
Head of ABC 'Doesn't Get' Why Work It Is History's Worst Show
Brian Moylan · 01/10/12 04:15PMA Theory on the End of the 'Shit Girls Say' Meme
Maureen O'Connor · 01/10/12 04:03PMBristol Palin Finally Gives Up on Fame
Maureen O'Connor · 01/10/12 03:31PM
Is America's plague of Palins finally ending? After approximately one year of Hollywood fameseeking—starting with a stint on Dancing with the Stars and ending with a new face, a bar brawl, and a canceled reality show—America's most successful unsuccessful abstinence advocate Bristol Palin is returning to Alaska. She explained herself to In Touch:








