Lawsuit: Preppy Paradise Vineyard Vines Store Ignored Employee Rape

Sam Biddle · 06/26/15 05:25PM

Americans in need of short pink khakis, lime green fleeces, and koozies of various hues, often turn to Vineyard Vines, a store that’s outfitted the young Tates and Sloanes of this country since 1998. Now, a lawsuit alleges one store covered up an ugly trail of sexual assault.

Why the SCOTUS Ruling on Gay Marriage Feels So Good

Rich Juzwiak · 06/26/15 04:04PM

Today we celebrate federal acknowledgment in the U.S. that same-sex love is love period. We celebrate the ease with which committed gay couples all over the country can fortify lives together, and that those lives will be protected under the law, just as they have been for their straight counterparts. We celebrate the act of putting into writing the assertion that gays are no longer second-class citizens. It is so ordered that gay people are people, too.

The Craziest Lines in Every Dissenting Gay Marriage Opinion

Andy Cush · 06/26/15 03:36PM

Each of the four Supreme Court justices who disagreed with today’s ruling in favor of legal same-sex marriage issued his own dissent. And each was fucking nuts in its own, special way. Here, the weirdest, craziest, and flat-out dumbest lines from each.

Alabama County Stops Issuing Marriage Licenses Altogether

Gabrielle Bluestone · 06/26/15 03:20PM

Couples, gay and straight, can get married anywhere in the country now—anywhere, that is, except Pike County, Alabama, where one judge was apparently so perturbed by the landmark Supreme Court ruling that he pulled the plug on weddings all together .

Neighbor: The New Jersey "Watcher" Struck from Newark

Sam Biddle · 06/26/15 02:42PM

After a New Jersey family says they were driven from their $1.3 million dream home by a demonic tormenter (or prankster) called “The Watcher,” we were surprised by how little anyone knew about the creepy culprit. After visiting the sleepy (haunted?) neighborhood, we know a little more.

QUIZ: Can You Tell the Sexy Gorilla From a Normal Garbage Gorilla? 

Kelly Conaboy · 06/26/15 01:36PM

Women in Japan are reportedly very horny over a sexy, barely legal 18-year-old gorilla named Shabani, currently living in the Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya. But how sexy is this gorilla, really? Is he that much sexier than an average-looking gorilla? Take our quiz and find out if you can tell which gorilla is the sexy, famous one and which gorilla is a garbage nobody like the rest of us.

God Help the Woman In a Lululemon Hoodie

Jay Hathaway · 06/26/15 01:03PM

Yoga apparel purveyor Lululemon has recalled more than 300,000 elastic drawstrings in its hoodies and jackets after the strings kept snapping back and flinging their plastic or metal tips into women’s faces. Women walking around in death traps and they don’t even know it! There have been seven reported victims of the hoodie attacks so far. Lululemon assures the public their injuries were “not serious” (but maybe stop wearing these totally safe and comfy hoodies anyway).

Scalia Is a Twitter Egg

Kept Simple · 06/26/15 12:45PM

There is a now-familiar ritual performed by liberal commentators and journalists following Supreme Court decisions that go their way: The praising of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia’s blistering dissents.

Big-Dicked Convict's Prison Guard Pal Plays in a Goofball Rock Band

Andy Cush · 06/26/15 12:30PM

New evidence suggests that Gene Palmer—the Clinton Correctional Facility guard who allegedly accepted paintings by allegedly big-dicked murderer Richard Matt as payment for aiding Matt’s escape alongside David Sweat—has spent years indulging his own artistic inclinations in addition to those of convicted felons. Just like Orange Is the New Black’s Joe Caputo, Palmer played guitar in a shitkickin’ bar band on the weekends.