FBI Dashes American Teen Girl Trio's Dreams of Joining ISIS

Allie Jones · 10/21/14 03:42PM

ABC News reports that the FBI caught three American girls, ages 15-16, en route to Syria to join militant groups. A law enforcement official said the girls had made their way to Germany and were planning to join groups, including ISIS, "to fulfill what they believe is some vision that has been put out on a slick media campaign."

James Blunt Finally Admits "You're Beautiful" Is Garbage

Jay Hathaway · 10/21/14 03:29PM

Loyal-yet-insistent English terrier mix James Blunt regrets that he's known for just one thing: Leaving "You're Beautiful" all over the carpet back in 2005 and rolling in it until it took years to get the smell out. Blunt told Hello! this week that he's very sorry and he hopes you can forgive him.

Tom Scocca · 10/21/14 03:14PM

Novelist William Giraldi wants you to know he would appreciate it very much if everyone would stop comparing him so much to Cormac McCarthy. Such a burden, to be ceaselessly compared to Cormac McCarthy, just because Giraldi, like Cormac McCarthy, is interested in the "primitive flux and flex of violence."

Hamilton Nolan · 10/21/14 01:46PM

Here you will find an argument that the city of Miami, which is slowly being slowly eaten by the sea, should encourage more development, so it will have the tax base necessary to pay for the construction of defenses to save those developments from the rising seas. That's that Florida logic.

Matthew McConaughey: Racist Team Name "Gives Me Some Oomph"

Jay Hathaway · 10/21/14 01:12PM

Matthew McConaughey, actor, chest-thumper, and true detective, has done some serious ethical calculus regarding the name of Washington D.C.'s football team. And after weighing the history of "redskin" as an ethnic slur against the "little bit of fire and some oomph" the team's emblem brings, he's made his final decision: The name stands.

Leah Finnegan · 10/21/14 12:10PM

"Just as sex workers are shamed by society, so are the clients who see them. It's time to tell my side of the story." Finally!

No One Trusts BuzzFeed :-(

Leah Finnegan · 10/21/14 10:33AM

Here is something that Democrats and Republicans agree on, besides the fact that Ebola is coming and we are all going to die: According to a new poll of political polarization and media habits of regular folk by the Pew Research Center, BuzzFeed is the least trusted news source in media, behind the Rush Limbaugh Show.

Sasha Grey Reenacts Some of the Lamest, Grossest Sexts of All Time

Jay Hathaway · 10/21/14 10:23AM

Actress and former porn performer Sasha Grey guest stars in the latest installment of Machinima's "Creepy Text Theatre," where people reenact some of the worst sexts ever sent—full of terrible puns, abject begging for nude pics, and pick-up lines so formal that you can smell the fedora-sweat through the phone.

Here Are Some Pictures of Renée Zellweger

Caity Weaver · 10/21/14 08:58AM

On Monday night, actress and Taurus Renée Zellweger attended the 2014 ELLE Women In Hollywood Awards in elegant Beverly Hills, California. Here are some pictures of Renée Zellweger.

Sarah Jessica Parker Haunts Terrified Owners of Carrie's Brownstone

Allie Jones · 10/21/14 08:50AM

The residents of 66 Perry Street were visited by an unwelcome spirit on the night of October 7th: the cold form of Sarah Jessica Parker, dropping her stilettos like breadcrumbs along the sidewalk and stairs of Carrie Bradshaw's old address.

Hamilton Nolan · 10/21/14 08:02AM

New York mayor Bill De Blasio says JPMorgan Chase's request for $1 billion in public subsidies for its new Manhattan headquarters is "a nonstarter." He said nothing about arresting Jamie Dimon for having the temerity to even ask. De Blasio's revolutionary credentials remain an undecided topic.