Adorable Baby Twins Laugh in Unison

Blair Baxter · 04/05/11 03:15PM

The baby girl twin only laughs when her brother starts laughing and as soon as he stops she stops, and then the cycle starts again.

Indian Workers Just as Dumb as American Workers

Hamilton Nolan · 04/05/11 03:13PM

American corporations have made untold millions by shipping all their call centers and tech support jobs out to India, where you can get nice, educated workers at a fraction of the cost. Or can you?

Candie's Foundation Paid Bristol Palin $260K in 2009

Remy Stern · 04/05/11 03:13PM

The Candie's Foundation's mission is "to educate America's youth about the devastating consequences of teen pregnancy through celebrity PSA campaigns and initiatives." How do they do that? For one thing, the foundation paid Bristol Palin $262,500 last year. [Jezebel]

Is This Government Shutdown Gonna Happen or What?

Jim Newell · 04/05/11 02:30PM

Funding for the federal government will only last three more days, and leaders of both parties say they have no interest in working out a stop-gap measure for another week or two. "Secret negotiations led by Joe Biden" — which in the late '70s, at least, was Capitol Police code for late night swingers' parties in the Congressional Gym — haven't proven to be very successful. Will these dumpheads ever agree on a compromise to their $30-$60 billion in harsh social services cuts that won't have any significant effect on budgets during a time with massive unemployment and suffering and death everywhere?

Mel Blanc the Voice of All the Looney Toon Characters on Johnny Carson

Blaire Baxter · 04/05/11 02:15PM

Mel Blanc was nicknamed The Man of a Thousand Voices, he voiced majority of looney toon character like bugs bunnny and daffy duck. He passed away in 1989 and on his tombstone it reads, That's all folks!. Here is an old clip of him doing some characters on Johnny Carson.

CBS News Washington Bureau Chief Was an FBI Snitch

John Cook · 04/05/11 02:08PM

The Center for Public Integrity is reporting that an unnamed former ABC News journalist was an FBI informant during and after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, passing along tips and revealing a source. We know who it is.

Fact: Having 'New York' in Magazine Title Is Guarantee that It's Good

Hamilton Nolan · 04/05/11 02:00PM

In your dreary Tuesday media column: the National Magazine Awards announce nominees, News Corp's Shine acquisition is complete, Jeff Greenfield needs a new job, the Brit phone hacking scandal continues, content farms get aspirational, and media launches still exist.

The Parents on Pregnant In Heels Are the Worst on Television

Brian Moylan · 04/05/11 01:39PM

Bravo debuts its latest reality program tonight, Pregnant in Heels, which follows the life and work of a "baby concierge" named Rosie Pope. I was completely prepared to hate this show, but I had no idea it would be this awful.

Principal Pushes Student to the Ground to Stop Fight

Blair Baxter · 04/05/11 01:15PM

When a teacher cant stop a fight between two girls in the school yard, the assistant principal runs in and pushes the girl to the ground ending the altercation . The School board concluded that the assistant principal acted appropriately, and the girl in the purple hoody was disciplined under the district's code of conduct.

Put Your Shoes Back On, Privileged Techies

Ryan Tate · 04/05/11 01:12PM

Employees at Google and AOL are among those going barefoot today to raise awareness of shoeless poor kids. If only there were some other way rich techies could help third world children, aside from disgustingly and dangerously removing their shoes!

Girl Rides Her Cow Just Like A Horse

Blair Baxter · 04/05/11 12:45PM

Regina always wanted a horse to ride but her family could not afford it. So she did the next best thing and taught her cow Luna to jump like a show horse.

Mike Huckabee 'Physically Destroyed' All Hard Drives from Time as Governor

Jim Newell · 04/05/11 12:44PM

Do you, the average Republican presidential primary voter, have any interest in knowing how Mike Huckabee spent his long career as Governor of Arkansas? He would be the frontrunner if he even bothers running, after all, and the public must know every terrible, terrible thing about him. For example: Was he picking weird fights with Natalie Portman back then, too? Perhaps you can think of some other questions. But they won't get answered, because Mike Huckabee cleaned and "physically destroyed" the hard drives of all his staff computers when he left office.

The Scariest Car Crash Ever Was Real

Remy Stern · 04/05/11 12:33PM

Yesterday we showed you video of a scary car accident in which a two-by-four kicked up by a truck rockets through a car's windshield. The video was so amazing that people thought it had to be fake. It wasn't. [Jalopnik]

Brooklyn Farming Kids Think They're Cooler than Brooklyn Band Kids

Hamilton Nolan · 04/05/11 12:25PM

The trend of fashionable young Brooklynites either A) leaving Brooklyn to go work/ live on/ start a farm or B) participating in unlikely farming-related activities right here in the city (including, but not limited to: keeping of livestock, harvesting of chicken products, planting of gardens, or sociopathic devotion to neighborhood farmer's markets and their accoutrements) is so old, in trend years, that it's already been dissected from every possible angle by the New York Times, which is, itself, always several light years behind, in trend years. The trend has now moved to a post-trend media outlet unconcerned with being judged by those who define themselves by their participation in trends: the New York Post.