New Gossiping Twitter Account Puts Britain In a Tizzy
Adrian Chen · 05/31/11 11:53AMMatt Drudge Launches Black Teen Crime News Service
John Cook · 05/31/11 11:30AM
Good afternoon! How's your Monday going? Curious about what "urban" teenagers were doing over the holiday weekend, and whether you should feel threatened by them and people who share their complexion? Then be sure to check in with the Drudge Report, which has conveniently rounded up a slew of run-of-the-mill summer crime stories that happen to involve black people and suggestively weaved them into a nationwide race riot.
Mitt Romney Is a 'Twilight' Fangirl
Jim Newell · 05/31/11 11:20AMMitt Romney had quite a scandalous revelation to share on this morning's Today show: He does, from time to time, and always while exercising great caution, participate in certain leisurely activities, like watching television and reading novels. Would Mother Mittens approve of this? Let's just say, doubtful.
Drunk Americans Display Patriotism by Buying Foreign Beer
Hamilton Nolan · 05/31/11 10:20AM
As an American, there is no greater service that you can perform for your country than to drink vast quantities of beer. Not pussy foreign "Heineken" or "Corona" beer, the purchase of which amounts to draining the faltering American economy in order to subsidize enemy (non-US) nations. We're talking about real god damn American beer. Budweiser. Miller. The shit that G.I. Joe would drink.
Suri Cruise Wears High Heels at the Beach, and Other Absurdities
Maureen O'Connor · 05/31/11 10:17AMWhich Musician Likes to Beat Up Gay Hustlers?
Brian Moylan · 05/31/11 09:49AM
This musical star isn't just hiding the fact he's gay, but also that he likes to get rough with the "hired help." These celebs were divas at Cannes, this actor likes women to beat him in bed, and this right-wing politician has a closeted spouse. It always comes back to gays and rough sex, doesn't it?
Hookahs Will Totally Kill You
Hamilton Nolan · 05/31/11 09:02AMToday in '$105M Buildings Sitting Empty'
Hamilton Nolan · 05/31/11 08:20AMGoldman Sachs Once Lost $1.3 Billion of Muammar Qaddafi's Stash
Jeff Neumann · 05/31/11 07:27AMNew Zealand Is Run By a Dangerous Planking Promoter
Jeff Neumann · 05/31/11 06:25AM
New Zealand PM John Key apparently doesn't mind the deadly, coma-inducing Australasian internet craze called planking. In fact, he supports it. In a picture posted to the Facebook group Planking New Zealand over the weekend, his son Max is seen planking in the premier's residence under the watchful eyes of his father. Just what kind of message is John Key sending to the youth of his nation?
Osama Bin Laden Offered 'Excellent HR Benefits'
Jeff Neumann · 05/31/11 05:25AM
Osama bin Laden was many things: Terrorist, mass murderer, psychopath, sociopath, chronic masturbator, poon hound. But for all of his faults, bin Laden was a pretty decent employer, in jidahi terms, at least. Much of that stems from his degree in economics and public administration. From NPR, we have more tales of Osama bin Laden as micro-managing terrorist mastermind:
All the DSK Townhouse Minutiae That You Don't Need to Know
Jeff Neumann · 05/31/11 04:15AMAlabama Mayor Finds FEMA Trailers Unsightly, Bans Them
Seth Abramovitch · 05/31/11 02:50AM
The tornado-ravaged citizens of Cordova, Alabama — about 35 miles northwest of Birmingham, pop. 2000 — have lost everything after a series of monster twisters tore through their town on April 27th. With nowhere to turn, scores of newly homeless residents were relieved when FEMA came along with a caravan of single-wide mobile homes they could use as shelter. Not so fast: Mayor Jack Scott has declared that single-wide mobile homes are illegal in Cordova.
Video Surfaces of 13-Year-Old Syrian Torture Victim
Seth Abramovitch · 05/31/11 02:21AMHow Far Would You Go To Save Your Dog?
Seth Abramovitch · 05/31/11 01:53AMBoy Crowned Prom Queen in Virginia
Seth Abramovitch · 05/31/11 12:56AM
There was once a time where a boy being crowned prom queen, as per his wishes, would have been an exciting and subversive act. Now it just feels like yet another manifestation of the Gleeing of America. Still, congratulations to Jake Boyer, a openly gay senior from Blacksburg High School in Virginia, who actually had the prom queen balls to go through with it.
Another Financier, Another Arrest For Sexual Assault on a NYC Hotel Maid
Seth Abramovitch · 05/31/11 12:19AM
As former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn spruces up his $50,000 a month Tribeca townhouse with the finest, Kevlar-reinforced patio umbrellas money can buy, we bring you yet another disturbing report of an arrest in connection with an alleged sex attack on a Manhattan luxury hotel worker by an international financier.
KKK Counter-Protests 'God Hates Fags' Church
Max Read · 05/30/11 10:49PM
Members of the delightfully quirky Westboro Baptist Church showed up at Arlington Cemetery on Memorial Day just to remind everyone, through the use of excessive signage, that God loves dead soldiers. But luckily for people who were hoped to visit the cemetery without encountering hateful bigotry, brave members of the Ku Klux Klan showed up to counter-protest.
Helicopter Cameras Catch 2,000-Foot Waterspout 'Tornado'
Max Read · 05/30/11 09:42PMBeing from New Jersey, I didn't even know waterspouts existed until today, and now, having seen this footage — captured from a helicopter by Australia's Channel 7 news — I don't think I'm ever going to go out onto the ocean again. These reportedly reached 2,000 feet, though they never touched land.








