The Feuding Facebook Mansions of Palo Alto
Ryan Tate · 05/09/11 02:55PMAsian Pick-Up Artist Teaches Ivy League Asians to Bed Blondes
Maureen O'Connor · 05/09/11 02:33PM
Meet J.T. Tran, "The Asian Playboy" and America's "#1 Dating Coach for Asian Men." He makes a cameo in Wesley Yang's New York magazine article about high-achieving Asian-American underdogs. As an aerospace engineer, J.T. spent his spare time studying from The Game pick-up artist Mystery. Soon, he became the Kumon math teacher of seduction.
Bristol Palin Gets Her Own Reality Show
Brian Moylan · 05/09/11 02:29PMBreaking: Twitter Is Crap
Hamilton Nolan · 05/09/11 02:21PMNow's Your Chance to Buy Thousands of Unwanted Federal Properties
Jim Newell · 05/09/11 02:16PM
The Obama administration has gone through all of the properties the federal government owns and come up with "roughly 14,000 buildings and structures currently designated as excess and thousands of others that are underutilized." It plans to sell "or get rid of" as many of these as possible over the next three years, which will supposedly save $15 billion.
Jersey Shore Gets the Academic Conference Treatment
Brian Moylan · 05/09/11 01:51PM
I have always called Jersey Shore the most important sociological experiment of our time, and it seems one intrepid University of Chicago student agrees with me because he's not only stolen my tag line, but is trying to organize an academic conference around the reality show. This is a brilliant idea.
The Best Ad of the Entire North Bergen, New Jersey Mayoral Race
Jim Newell · 05/09/11 01:21PMThe big mayoral race in North Bergen, New Jersey is coming to a close tomorrow. Are you a North Bergen resident who doesn't care who wins and will vote for whichever politician has the best TV commercial? Then longtime mayor Nick Sacco would be honored to have your vote! Watch youthful voters and old hippie ladies alike sing, "I don't know where you be from, but I be from North Bergen, son," while expressing their approval for Mayor Sacco. [via Tom Scocca]
Whitney Houston Is in Rehab Again
Brian Moylan · 05/09/11 01:12PMPastor's Fake Navy SEAL Career Based on Under Siege
Hamilton Nolan · 05/09/11 01:09PM
Everyone thought that Jim Moats, a pastor in Newville, Pennsylvania, was a retired Navy SEAL and a Vietnam war hero. He had a plaque to that effect hanging in his office, and he wore the trident medal symbolizing SEAL membership. For a profile in yesterday's local paper, Moats told of being "waterboarded" by SEAL instructors, and of being busted down to a kitchen worker after getting in a fight. "I had almost no discipline. I was as wild as they came. That was my nemesis," Moats said. "They weren't looking for a guy who brags to everyone he is a SEAL. They wanted somebody who was ready but had an inner confidence and didn't have a braggadocio attitude."
Real Housewives of Orange County: Where There's Smoke There's Dire
Richard Lawson · 05/09/11 12:57PMWhen Whimsical Beach Fun Goes Horribly Wrong
Adrian Chen · 05/09/11 12:20PMMcDonald's Seeks to Lure Hobos Away from Starbucks
Hamilton Nolan · 05/09/11 12:09PMCongressman Aaron Schock Goes Shirtless to Help America
Brian Moylan · 05/09/11 11:35AMTrump: I'm Not Racist — One Of My 'Apprentice' Winners Is Black
Jim Newell · 05/09/11 11:30AMDonald Trump wants to clarify that he's "the least racist person there is." In fact, he says, he's so not-racist that Randal Pinkett, who is black, "won on The Apprentice a little while ago, a couple years ago, and Randal's been outstanding in every way."













