End Online Panhandling Forever!

Ryan Tate · 11/10/11 03:41PM

Hey, can you spare a hundred bucks for my animé about the forces of Satan? Oh wait, no, actually how about $75 for my low-noise waterproof USB vibrator? Or maybe like $10 for my buddy's interactive ebook and film on psychedelic medicine? How about a $1 pocket grill investment? These annoying pitches all represent actual things—actual projects on Kickstarter, favored venue of filthy broke ass hippies the world over. There is just way, way too much of this shit.

Google's CEO Hates Gmail

Ryan Tate · 11/10/11 03:15PM

Larry Page is a busy man. The Google CEO wants his company moving quickly and decisively. That, in turn, means eliminating the plodding exchanges fostered by Gmail.com. Who invented that thing, anyway?

Occupiers Run Michele Bachmann Offstage

Jim Newell · 11/10/11 03:11PM

The Occupy people took to the high seas for some mischief today. 'Twas aboard the USS Yorktown where they found Michele Bachmann, who was delivering a big foreign policy speech to god knows who.

The Preposterous Plagiarism Assault on Romenesko

Hamilton Nolan · 11/10/11 02:57PM

In your ungrateful Thursday media column: we must all come together to defend Jim Romenesko, farewells at the NYDN, an election news vet dies, and Nickelodeon suffers.

Terry Richardson Fulfills His Fantasy of Making Out With Himself

Brian Moylan · 11/10/11 02:28PM

Of all the awful things you can say about sleezy fashion photographer Terry Richardson, this has to be one of the worst. Here he is fulfilling his ultimate fantasy: making out with a woman who is dressed as Terry Richardson. This is like the narcissistic snake tossing his salad before eating his own tail.

Alex Trebek Makes a Surprisingly Good Drag Queen

Maureen O'Connor · 11/10/11 02:19PM

Last night on Jeopardy!'s Tournament of Champions, a giddy Alex Trebek dressed up in Metropolitan Opera costumes for a trippy category on "Operatic Costumes." Now that we have seen America's most robotic game show host vamping in a Le Comte Ory nun costume, are we ready for the gender-bending Rapture? [Jeopardy, Esquire, @ZWoolfe]

With One Interview, Fat Joe Makes Hip Hop Safe for Gays

Hamilton Nolan · 11/10/11 02:12PM

We truly are living in a new era of sexual equality. Guanabee points us to this VLADTV interview with Fat Joe, who at least began his career as a no-joke hardcore New York gangster rapper. In response to a question about whether he think he's ever done a song with a gay rapper, he responds "Yes," and shrugs off the whole thing: "Niggas is gay. There's millions of gay people in the world. Girls too... I'm a fan of 'Yo, I'm gay. The fuck.' Like, 2011 you gotta hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying, like, be real, like 'Yo I'm gay, what the fuck.' If you gay you gay. Like that's your preference, you know? Fuck it if the people don't like it."

Vote for Putin, While Getting Laid

Jim Newell · 11/10/11 01:56PM

Here's a creepy sex video from Vladimir Putin's United Russia party, disguised as a get-out-the-vote ad. It shows two people sexing in a polling booth with the tagline, "Let's do it together." Well, this works, but perhaps the corollary would've been stronger: Don't vote, and get shot in the head by secret police.

Journey 2: The Rock Discovers Atlantis

Brian Moylan · 11/10/11 01:52PM

What the hell is Journey 2? Is it when the Glee kids sing "Don't Stop Believing?" What even was Journey 1. Oh, it was Journey to the Center of the Earth! But Brendan Frasier is gone, and so is the earth.

So You're Living Back Home With the 'Rents

Hamilton Nolan · 11/10/11 01:42PM

Happy college graduation, and welcome back home! It happens. These days, more than ever: "5.9 million Americans between 25 and 34 years of age-nearly a quarter of whom have bachelor's degrees-live with their parents, a significant increase from 4.7 million before the recession," according to the WSJ.

The Air Force Tossed Remains of Unknown Soldiers in a Garbage Dump

John Cook · 11/10/11 12:45PM

Day two of bad news for the Air Force's vaunted mortuary affairs operation at Dover, Delaware, where our nation's war dead are lovingly and respectfully welcomed home. Yesterday we learned that the Air Force is known to lose a body part or two on occasion. Today we come to find that for most of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars it disposed of loose unidentified body parts by burning them and throwing them in a landfill.

To Occupy Harvard, You Need a Valid Harvard ID

Maureen O'Connor · 11/10/11 12:02PM

Updated. Three hundred protesters marched through Cambridge, Massachusetts last night. Their goal: Occupying Harvard Yard. Arriving at the edge of campus, the protesters found the University's gates locked and guarded by a phalanx of campus police. Boston's CBS affiliate reports: