Zany NRA Video Attacks Media For Labeling Shootings as "Shootings"

Adam Weinstein · 06/04/14 12:22PM

Used to be when a bunch of people got murdered with a gun, it was called a "murder." But now it's a "shooting," because the leftist media lies, except it's not a lie, but whatever. The point, according to this awesome he-hulk in an NRA propaganda video is: Don't watch the news!

What Does It Take to Win Big in Las Vegas? A Q&A With Colson Whitehead

Jason Parham · 06/04/14 11:35AM

By his own admission, award-winning author Colson Whitehead went on a “strange odyssey” when he journeyed to Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker. He was on assignment for Grantland, ESPN’s culture website, and had trained for weeks with Helen Ellis, a tournament-hardened card player. But there was just one thing: the odds were, well, stacked against him.

Black Men Working at Cotton Gin Told Water Fountain Is For Whites Only

Adam Weinstein · 06/04/14 11:25AM

Two black workers in a Tennessee cotton factory just filed a federal complaint against a domineering white supervisor who called them "monkeys" and was recorded lamenting racial integration while telling them the water fountain and microwave were for whites only. Happy 2014!

There's A Restaurant in D.C. Serving Bugs Today If You're Into That

Aleksander Chan · 06/04/14 10:45AM

As part of a PR stunt for Ehrlich Pest Control, 13 restaurants, including one in D.C., will become "pestaurants" and serve you dead bugs to eat. The goal, Ehrlich claims, is "to promote the health benefits of an insect rich diet already enjoyed by billions across the globe."

Twenty-Five Years Later, It Is Always June 4, 1989

Tom Scocca · 06/04/14 10:32AM

On June 1, this past Sunday, police came to the Beijing home of the artist Guo Jian—an Australian citizen, living in Beijing with an Australian passport—and took him away. Two days before, the Financial Times had published an interview with Guo. In it, he talked about how he'd privately made an installation of a diorama of Tian'anmen Square, buried in a layer of ground pork, till the meat had rotted. Guo went on to tell the reporter about his own experience at Tianan'men in 1989: a hunger strike, tear gas, bullets, blood, "the emergency room packed with bodies."

Hilarious Teen Films Train Destroying Watermelon Truck

Aleksander Chan · 06/04/14 09:38AM

A Florida teen and his father were driving home when they came upon a semi-truck stuck on the train tracks. When it became clear that the train was going to pulverize the truck, 15-year-old Austin Broderick did as any teen would: he took out his phone and started recording. His narration is on-point: "That was not...good."

Racist Stripper Curses Out a Black Man For Starting His Car

Jay Hathaway · 06/04/14 09:13AM

Driving while black has apparently been expanded to include even starting a car while black. This Western New York man was the victim of an angry mom's racist tirade just for getting ready to leave a parking lot while she walked by with her kids.

Police Reportedly Charge Man Who Attacked V. Stiviano With Hate Crime

Aleksander Chan · 06/04/14 07:41AM

A 40-year-old New York man was reportedly arrested and charged with a hate crime for allegedly attacking former L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling's ex-girlfriend V. Stiviano as she was leaving the Gansevoort Hotel in the Meatpacking District on Sunday.