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That Viral Video of Creeps Hitting on a "Drunk" Woman Was Just a Hoax
Jay Hathaway · 11/13/14 11:46AMConfirmed Fraud Jonah Lehrer Has Yet Another Book Deal
Leah Finnegan · 11/11/14 05:56PMJonah Lehrer, a disgrace and a bullshit artist, has gotten (another?) book deal, because white men fail upward. Lehrer, who was revealed to have fabricated quotations in his 2012 book about Bob Dylan, as well plagiarized himself and others for the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, Wired, the Boston Globe, and the Guardian is working on a book with a UCLA professor about "how we think and behave differently on screens." (How do we behave, Jonah?)
Gluten Is the Least of Your Problems, America
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Please Don't Be Cynical About This New Site's Huge Corporate Sponsors
Hamilton Nolan · 10/07/14 10:28AMWhy the New Anti-Abortion Ruling Is Horrible Bullshit: A Primer
Michelle Dean · 10/03/14 12:47PMMaybe Scotland Will Win Independence, Get Invaded by Russian Sailors
Adam Weinstein · 08/26/14 03:50PMScotland is tantalizingly close to declaring independence from Great Britain and setting up as a sovereign nation. But there are so many implications! Like, say, this Business Insider post's suggestion that an independent Scotland could get invaded by Russians on submarines. Let's explore, shall we?
Consultants: Consultants Are a Ripoff
Hamilton Nolan · 08/20/14 10:56AMJames O'Keefe Is Getting Desperate as Hell, Part MCMXVII
Adam Weinstein · 08/11/14 10:07AMShark Week Returns With Its Lies
Rich Juzwiak · 08/11/14 09:45AMThey aren't even trying anymore. For its 27th year of weeklong shark-oriented programming on the Discovery Channel, Shark Week returned last night with Shark of Darkness: Wrath of Submarine. Like last year's Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives, it was a bullshit mockumentary production, something the Blair Witch would have scraped off her shoe.
Here Is a List of Wars That Started Over Major Horseshit
Adam Weinstein · 08/04/14 02:55PMFifty years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson launched strikes against North Vietnam for attacking U.S. warships without provocation in the Tonkin Gulf. Six days later, Congress passed a "Gulf of Tonkin resolution" giving Johnson carte blanche to make war in Vietnam. It was a thin pretext for protracted conflict.
GOP House Report on Benghazi Concludes There Is No Benghazi Scandal
Adam Weinstein · 08/04/14 10:35AMAfter two years of recriminations and investigations, the Republican-led House intelligence committee is reportedly set to release the results of a Benghazi investigation that found no wrongdoing by the Obama administration in the lead-up and response to the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya.
Thomas Friedman Assures You He Knows About Important Stuff
Hamilton Nolan · 07/21/14 08:34AMAdam Weinstein · 07/02/14 01:02PM
In Corporate Prison at the Ford Trend Conference
Hamilton Nolan · 06/30/14 09:30AMThe day before I went to Detroit, the city imposed a curfew due to fears of violence. The city was also in the process of shutting off water to thousands of its residents. It sounds bad. But as long as you stay inside a sealed corporate bubble the whole time, you'll never even know these problems exist.
14 Non-Touristy Things Everybody Should Do in NYC
Hamilton Nolan · 05/21/14 04:44PM"Fuck Her Right in the Pussy" Is the Worst Hoax of the Next 15 Minutes
Jay Hathaway · 05/19/14 04:45PMA Cincinnati man, his face disguised by beard, sunglasses, and hoodie, has now wandered into at least two different local newscasts, grabbing the mic and screaming "fuck her right in the pussy."