After Ypsilanti Mystery Pooper Identified, Slide-Shitting Streak Ends
Taylor Berman · 05/14/14 01:25PMLarry Wilmore Can Save TV, if We Let Him
Patrice Evans · 05/14/14 12:42PMWatch a Morning Show Host Lose Her Shit Over the Michael Sam Kiss
Rich Juzwiak · 05/14/14 12:31PMTarget's Biggest Challenge: Employees Complaining to Gawker
Hamilton Nolan · 05/14/14 11:57AMHero Cat Rescues Toddler From Evil Dog
Taylor Berman · 05/14/14 11:25AMPomeranian Protests His Haircut By Walking on Hind Legs for Two Days
Jay Hathaway · 05/14/14 11:25AMGuidance Counselor Arrested for DUI on Her Morning Drive to School
Adam Weinstein · 05/14/14 10:57AMMitch McConnell Desperately Wants You to Think He Cares About Women
Jordan Sargent · 05/14/14 10:46AM
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will face a tough reelection fight this November against his Democratic opponent Alison Lundergan Grimes, Kentucky's secretary of state. As the New York Times reported yesterday, Grimes is expected to paint McConnell as anti-women's rights, and he's prepared to haul his wife out to prove that isn't true.
Thatz Not Okay: Can I Tell a Kid She's a Bad Singer?
Caity Weaver · 05/14/14 09:50AMGeorge R.R. Martin Is Still Writing A Song of Ice and Fire in DOS
Jay Hathaway · 05/14/14 09:38AMGeorge R.R. Martin, the man the world is counting on to bring Game of Thrones to a satisfying conclusion where Tyrion and Daenerys rule Westeros side-by-side (with Ser Pounce the cat as Hand), still writes on a DOS machine with Wordstar 4.0 (released in 1985!).
The Congressman Who Picked His Ear and Ate It Explains Himself
Taylor Berman · 05/14/14 09:33AMMichelle Dean · 05/14/14 09:14AM
At last, a victory for common sense: A federal court has affirmed the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's denial of a bid by Pamela Geller to trademark her insane slogan, "Stop the Islamization of America," because the phrase clearly disparages American Muslims. Geller, without irony, calls the decision a "whitewash."
At Amazon, Even the Part-Timers Are Miserable
Hamilton Nolan · 05/14/14 09:10AMHow Tyrion's Dramatic Game of Thrones Speech Should Have Ended
Jay Hathaway · 05/14/14 08:58AMIt's not spoiling anything about Game of Thrones to say that every time Tyrion Lannister ends up on trial, it's more because of his physical characteristics and his degenerate family than anything he's actually done wrong. If drinking, whoring, and razor-sharp retorts were illegal in Westeros, you'd have to lock up everyone but Hodor.
Beyoncé Vomited Old Solange Photos All Over Her Instagram This Morning
Caity Weaver · 05/14/14 08:27AM
Following Solange's attempt yesterday to erase Beyoncé from the historical record by apparently purging (almost) all photos of her from her Instagram account*, Beyoncé hit back in classic big sister fashion early Wednesday morning, uploading a bunch of photos of the two of them to her Instagram, and effectively commanding Solange in a calm, quiet voice to stop hitting herself, stop hitting herself.
James Franco Explains Why He Ripped Off Those Nudes of Seth Rogen
Rich Juzwiak · 05/14/14 08:10AMJames Franco's paintings of a nude Seth Rogen are not exactly his — they're based on a series of drawings by Pinups magazine editor Christopher Schulz that were released in 2011. On today's Today show, Franco admitted that the renderings were not his idea, but explained that they should have been, so he felt justified to take them for his own.
At Least 232 Dead, 200 Missing After Explosion in Turkish Mine
Taylor Berman · 05/14/14 07:15AMLAPD Investigating Justin Bieber for Attempted Robbery
Gabrielle Bluestone · 05/13/14 11:05PMMan Caught on Video Ripping Out Scuba Diver's Air Supply
Gabrielle Bluestone · 05/13/14 10:50PMVideo of a scary underwater assault went viral this week after cameras caught a male diver randomly yank out another diver's air supply more than fifty feet below the surface.










