Bean Sprouts Acquitted in Deadly E. Coli Outbreak
Brian Moylan · 06/06/11 04:31PMLady Gaga Criticizes Steve Jobs To His Face
Ryan Tate · 06/06/11 04:15PMWoman Faints During Santorum's Presidential Announcement
Maureen O'Connor · 06/06/11 04:12PMEvery time Sen. Rick Santorum mentions his presidential run, something ominous happens. This morning, a balloon spontaneously exploded while Santorum was yammering about his plan for Medicare. Then, while announcing his candidacy this afternoon, an onlooker collapsed a couple feet away from Santorum's podium. Next, Rick Santorum will summon plagues of locust and lice to announce how he will deal with the debt ceiling. [ABC News]
The Totally Awesome View from Inside a Hula Hoop
Brian Moylan · 06/06/11 04:07PM
Ever wonder what a hula hoop sees while it winds around and around its undulating subject? Well wonder no more! Someone attached a camera to the semi-ironic-totally-nostalgic fauxhemian toy of the moment and filmed the results. It's actually a very cool and interesting shot that might give you quite a bit of vertigo. Does this mean the Greenpoint set will be moving on to yo-yos any day now? [BuzzFeed]
Your Best And/Or Worst Summer Job Horror Stories
Brian Moylan · 06/06/11 03:51PMAnthony Weiner Admits to Sending Crotch Shot
Adrian Chen · 06/06/11 03:43PMIn a tearful statement to the media, Rep. Anthony Weiner this afternoon admitted he posted a picture of his own dick to Twitter. Not only that, he says he's engaged in "inappropriate" online communications with at least six other women.
Andrew Breitbart Inexplicably Crashes Anthony Weiner Press Conference
Adrian Chen · 06/06/11 03:24PMAnthony Weiner was scheduled to hold a press conference at 4pm to address Weinergate. Well, four o'clock came around and Weiner didn't show up. But Andrew Breitbart, whose Big Government website first published the original Weinergate photo, did.
Newt Gingrich Discovered Off the Coast of Greece
Jim Newell · 06/06/11 03:16PMThe Vow: Who Could Forget Channing Tatum?
Richard Lawson · 06/06/11 03:14PMHere's a trailer for The Vow, a Nicholas Sparksian drama that, shockingly, Nicholas Sparks had nothing to do with. The film is actually based on the true story of a woman with amnesia struggling to learn to love her husband again.
Online Drug Market Vows to Fight U.S. Government Attacks
Adrian Chen · 06/06/11 02:51PMKorean Susan Boyle Is the Most Hard Knock Susan Boyle Yet
Maureen O'Connor · 06/06/11 02:46PMJust when you thought you were immune to the Susan Boyles of the world, along comes Korea's Got Talent's Sung-Bong Choi. With downcast eyes, 22-year-old Choi says he was abandoned at the age of three, then ran away from his orphanage at the age five and lived as a street kid for the next ten years, peddling chewing gum and sleeping outside public restrooms "like a dayfly." Now he's a manual laborer with a penchant for Italian opera. Here he is performing his debut aria, while every single female in the audience sobs uncontrollably.
This Is iCloud
Remy Stern · 06/06/11 02:42PMRoger Ailes Wants You to Throw a Rock Through His Window
John Cook · 06/06/11 02:35PM
Roger Ailes, the totally paranoid chairman of Fox News, called up Newsweek/The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz over the weekend to fight back against some of the bad press he's seen over the last couple weeks. Kurtz dutifully wrote down the things Ailes said irrespective of their truth value, and then published them online.
Bill Keller: I Should Have Put Judy Miller 'On a Leash' Sooner
Hamilton Nolan · 06/06/11 02:00PMHow Are Critics Liking the Hot New Sarah Palin Documentary?
Jim Newell · 06/06/11 01:49PM
The documentary about herself that Sarah Palin secretly commissioned, The Undefeated — a.k.a. Triumph of the Grift — will debut in Iowa at some point later this month. And some lucky film connoisseurs, mostly all for conservative publications, have already viewed advance copies! So does it give Errol Morris a run for his money, or is it undiluted shite? Critics are torn.
Anthony Weiner Is Your New Topless Congressman
Adrian Chen · 06/06/11 01:15PM
Here's a new picture of a bare-chested Anthony Weiner, which a young woman says he emailed her on May 20, 2011. If you look closely, you can see Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, cuddling in a picture in the background. You can also see Weiner with Bill Clinton in the picture over his left shoulder. If only Weiner had caught Clinton's stare in the mirror's reflection—he may have reconsidered what he was about to do!
The Real Housewives of Orange County Finale: The Cyst and the Deceased
Richard Lawson · 06/06/11 12:55PMLast night was the season finale of American Sun Fart, and boy was it a doozy. A corker! A real ho-down showdown. Tears were shed, insults were hurled, and drinks were thrown into people's big stupid faces. Let's recap!
Catholics Take on the Republican Cult of Ayn Rand
Jim Newell · 06/06/11 12:50PMRight-wingers have long been fascinated by Ayn Rand, the mid-century pop philosopher who defined moral behavior as doing whatever will make you, the individual, happy, and opposed any government intervention in the economy or charitable giving. Based on her economic beliefs, you can understand why, for example, Rep. Paul Ryan makes each of his staff members read her most famous novel Atlas Shrugged. But shouldn't it bother some of these right-wingers that she was, to use their own language, a "radical atheist," too?








