Will Reese Witherspoon win an Oscar for "Wild" because she overcomes the hardship of wearing a really heavy backpack for most of the film? I sure as hell hope not, but she probably will, because Hollywood is stupid. In any case, this movie was awful, and terrible for women. Wild was by far the worst movie I saw this year—and I saw Heaven Is For Real.
In a callback to the very beginning of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert kicked off the show's final week with Formidable Opponent, a segment where he debates the only worthy adversary available: himself.
Rich: Rock Center Cafe is the ideal spot to eat if you enjoy watching people, specifically children, fall down.
For those of us who live on the East Coast, contemplating the demise of Los Angeles at the hands of Mother Nature is like watching a horror movie, rather than like being in a horror movie. Did you know one little earthquake could make the whole place dry up and blow away?
In a damning new report by the Smoking Gun, a crucial witness in the grand jury deciding whether to indict former Ferguson, Mo. police officer Darren Wilson is revealed as having fabricated her eyewitness account of the altercation between Wilson and unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9. "Witness 40," identified as 45-year-old Sandra McElroy, has a documented history of racist remarks, criminal behavior, and mental illness.
On Friday, Bill Cosby broke his silence to speak to the New York Post's Stacy Brown, telling him that the black media should be "neutral" when reporting on the multiple rape allegations against him. Today, the President of the National Association of Black Journalists Bob Butler rejected Cosby's whole premise.
In what is being described as one the deadliest attacks Pakistan has ever seen, 126 have been reported killed in a Taliban offensive on a school in Peshawar on Tuesday morning. More than 100 of the dead are students.
The New York Magazine feature on a high school kid who made $72 million trading stocks turned out to be complete bullshit. Now, in an interview with The New York Observer, the featured kid is pointing fingers at the author, who's defending the piece, arguing people should have realized it was a hoax all along.
A cow made a glorious escape from an Idaho meatpacking factory this week, only to perish in a hail of police bullets.
A young Texas cop is being investigated after using a stun gun on a 76-year-old driver with expired tags in an incident caught on the police cruiser's dash cam.
Wiz Khalifa, currently going through a divorce from model Amber Rose after she allegedly caught him in a threesome with twins, has not wasted any time hooking up. Photos showing Wiz and a topless Playboy playmate, Carla Howe, lounging around in their underwear went up (and then down) on Instagram last week, and rumor has it they're just a preview of a sex tape that Howe really wants to release.
Monday afternoon, Camille Cosby finally broke her silence on the rape controversy surrounding her husband Bill, issuing a statement in his defense. In it, she compares media coverage of the rape accusations against Bill Cosby to Rolling Stone's University of Virginia fiasco. She concludes the statement by asking, "Who is the victim?"
Are you one of the 30,000 thirsty rubes who were lucky enough to score the Cards Against Humanity Bullshit Box before it sold out on Black Friday? Congratulations: you are a reprehensible human being, and you got exactly what you deserved.
South Dakota has pulled, yanked, and/or tugged a public safety campaign warning drivers about the dangers of "jerking"while they're on the road, largely because of the behind-the-scenes machinations of the state's powerful pro-jerking lobby. Kidding! It was because some residents objected to the use of double entendre, which is more of a fancy North Dakota thing.
