What's Next for Beloved Consumer Advocate Elizabeth Warren
Jim Newell · 07/18/11 01:36PM
President Obama broke some news this weekend, while he and the fam were watching ladies' soccer games. He chose to nominate Richard Cordray, a former Ohio attorney general, to be the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that was created in last year's Dodd-Frank financial reform bill. But the interesting thing about this Cordray fellow is that his name isn't "Elizabeth Warren." What gives?
Real Housewives of New Jersey: Hell's Bells
Richard Lawson · 07/18/11 01:16PMLast night's episode of The Tan Without a Face saw everyone preparing for Christmas, hanging stockings with care and trying desperately to not get in another huge family brawl. Well, actually, they weren't trying that hard at all.
Parasitic Aggregator 'Reader's Digest' Wants a Billion Dollars
Hamilton Nolan · 07/18/11 01:11PMThe Racist and Homophobic Yard Sale Posting You Won't Believe
Brian Moylan · 07/18/11 12:53PMThe News Corp. Scandal Now Has a Body Count: Whistleblower Found Dead
John Cook · 07/18/11 12:38PMYour Mark-Zuckerberg-Is-A-Robot Tale of the Day
Adrian Chen · 07/18/11 12:03PMThe Anti-Climactic Debt Ceiling Endgame Is Coming Into Focus
Jim Newell · 07/18/11 11:29AM
What will be the final budget-cuttin' number Congress agrees on before raising the debt ceiling, assuming they don't go with "the apocalypse option" instead? Two trillion? Four trillion? Nine trillion bajillion dollars? Let's go with "zero trillion but something that lets Republicans pretend to look tough anyway" as the probable end to this farce of a government negotiating process.
Whites Win Control of Nation's Capital
Hamilton Nolan · 07/18/11 11:08AMOnly You Can Save Emmy Rossum Using Facebook
Studio@Gawker · 07/18/11 11:00AMRemember the golden days of childhood, when you'd consume musty library copies of Choose Your Own Adventure books like so many Warheads, feeling like you controlled the universe? Well, here's your opportunity to recreate the magic: Inside, a legit film experiment in which you can help control the action, is premiering next Monday, July 25.
Vengeful Google Banishes Newspapers from Search Results
Adrian Chen · 07/18/11 10:37AMJustin Bieber Crashed a Wedding Because He Heard His Song Playing
Maureen O'Connor · 07/18/11 10:35AMAre Dads Cool With Their Sons Wearing Pink? An 'Investigation'
Whitney Jefferson · 07/18/11 10:30AMGood Morning America has gone ahead and created a non-issue out of a few Dads feeling weird about their sons wearing pink. We know how much GMA loves their panels, so they gathered a group of fathers and a separate group of little dudes to get some opinions on the non-matter. The series of questioning involved the interviewer raising a tiara in her hand and asking, gravely, "What would you say if your son wanted to wear this to school?" Dum-dum-DUM!
Harry Potter Is Bigger Than Ever
Richard Lawson · 07/18/11 10:26AMWhich Actress Got So Drunk She Peed Her Pants?
Brian Moylan · 07/18/11 10:06AMWhat Happened to That Girl With $200K in Student Loans?
Hamilton Nolan · 07/18/11 09:48AMMila Kunis & Justin Timberlake Discuss Embracing Marines' Balls
Dodai Stewart · 07/18/11 09:35AMThis morning on Today, while promoting Friends With Benefits, Mila and JT brought the testicular humor as they talked about the Marine Corps Ball. Mila declared, "Marines have a lot of balls." Justin agreed, "Marines got balls," and added, "we want to pay honor to our country and embrace their balls." Justin continued to ham it up even after Lester Holt ended the segment.
Parsing the Wall Street Journal's Catastrophic News Corp Defense
Hamilton Nolan · 07/18/11 08:37AM
Even in the deepest, most gloomy depths of the worst scandal of a lifetime, Rupert Murdoch cannot contain his fundamental not-giving-a-fuck-about-public-opinion nature. It permeates every level of News Corp, the company he made in his image. But it is possible—believe it or not!—for public opinion to overwhelm even the staunchest self-justification.
College Kids Injured in Molotov Cocktail Party Mishap
Jeff Neumann · 07/18/11 07:20AMSwedish Police Have a Sperm-Sniffing Dog
Jeff Neumann · 07/18/11 06:27AM
Police in southern Sweden have a new tool for fighting sex crimes — a dog named Rapports Opus that is trained to sniff out sperm at crime scenes. According to English-language newspaper The Local, police in the town of Karlskrona have arrested a 23-year-old man and charged him with rape after Rapports Opus was brought to a park in the town where a woman was sexually assaulted:











