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What's the Naughtiest Thing You've Done on the High Line?
Seth Abramovitch · 12/12/11 09:19PMA report in the NY Post says the city's Parks Department has issued 113 summonses between January and November to people they've caught drinking alcohol on the High Line, the mile-long public park installed in an abandoned, elevated freight railroad that runs along Manhattan's west side. That's by far the most tickets of any park in the five boroughs.
Nate Berkus to Induce Afternoon Naps No Longer
Seth Abramovitch · 12/12/11 08:22PMNate Berkus — the window-treatmenting savante crafted out of a spare Ugg boot by the Great Goddess Oprah herself — is having a bad week. Harpo and Sony TV have confirmed that The Nate Berkus Show will cease production after two snore-inducing seasons of tween bedroom renovations and dollar-store fashion shows for unfabulous women.
Even Babies Can Tell You're Full of Shit
Max Read · 12/12/11 06:02PMNobody Wants Todd Palin's Snowmobile Reality Show
Maureen O'Connor · 12/12/11 05:33PMBogus Emergency Alert Leads New Jersey to Think the World is Ending
Seth Abramovitch · 12/12/11 05:11PMThe FBI Took Secret Intelligence from Creepy Cell-Phone Tappers
Ryan Tate · 12/12/11 05:11PMThe FBI has files from a phone-monitoring company whose notorious software was on iPhones, Android phones, Nokias and BlackBerries. But since the files are being used "for law enforcement purposes," the feds won't talk about their contents. So you can't know what secrets the feds have gleaned from your phone, because that's a secret.
Fox News Chartmakers Continue to Poorly Redefine Mathematics
Jim Newell · 12/12/11 04:30PMThe junior high school students who run the Fox News Charts Shop during detention have produced this latest visual explosion showcasing the unemployment rate's fluctuations under our current president, Obama. Some interesting findings here, specifically that the number 8.6 is the same thing as the number 9.0. If Obama can just get the unemployment rate down from 8.6% to 8.8% or 8.9%, then he'll be in the clear.
A New Word for 'Bro:' The Final Three
Hamilton Nolan · 12/12/11 04:15PMRoger Ailes to Craft Book-Length Cascade of Lies
John Cook · 12/12/11 04:05PMFat dick and Fox News chief Roger Ailes is shopping a memoir, New York's Gabriel Sherman reports. It looks like the man who devoted his life to building a multibillion-dollar platform from which to attack his political and personal enemies wants to sum it all up in a book attacking his political and personal enemies.
Ron Paul's Campaign Gets to Have All the Fun
Jim Newell · 12/12/11 03:40PMNewsweek's Creepy Obama Fan Fiction Doesn't Go Far Enough
Max Read · 12/12/11 03:30PMNewsweek, the nation's premiere publisher of fan fiction, has followed up its charmingly hideous "What if Diana Were Alive?" cover story with a brand new exploration of hypotheticals: What will Barack Obama do if he loses, and also, what will he look like? Alas: this one doesn't go far enough. We have some ideas, though!
Machine Gun Your Neighborhood in This Psychotic New Game
Ryan Tate · 12/12/11 03:19PMThe Mixed Blessing of Being the Next 'Money Honey'
Hamilton Nolan · 12/12/11 02:35PMKelly Evans is a financial columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Unlike most columnists, she arrives at work at 6:45 a.m. That's because Kelly Evans has a second job: she's the co-anchor for the Journal's 8:30 a.m. video newscast, the "News Hub," which plays on the WSJ's homepage just as thousands upon thousands of readers are reading their morning financial news. How many of those traders and brokers and analysts and corporate office drones have fallen in love?
'Elvis Monkey' Has a Michael Jackson Nose
Maureen O'Connor · 12/12/11 02:27PMGreat strides in the field of anthropomorphically amusing animals: Among 208 new species discovered in the Mekong River region of Southeast Asia is an "Elvis monkey" that "looks like it wears a pompadour." The Elvis monkey has no nose (Michael Jackson monkey?) and lives in the Himalayan forests of Myanmar, a World Wildlife Fund report explains:
Mitt Romney's Chat with a Gay Veteran About as Awkward as It Sounds
Jim Newell · 12/12/11 01:57PMOh Christ, someone on Team Romney is going to get fired today: Poor old Mittens was forced to talk to a human, one-on-one, with cameras rolling. And not just any human, but a gay one. Who was a veteran. In Vietnam. Which was a war. And so on. Yikes.
The Only Time Glenn Beck Is Right Is When He's Fighting With Andrew Breitbart
Max Read · 12/12/11 01:05PM'Not Going Negative,' the Most Meaningless Campaign Pledge
Jim Newell · 12/12/11 12:55PMJust as Newt Gingrich was rising to his spot as the nearly prohibitive favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination, he made a pledge not to "go negative" on his political opponents. Or, in cocksure Newt-speak: "They're not going to be the nominee. I don't have to go around and point out the inconsistencies of people who aren't going to be the nominee. They're not going to be the nominee." But guess who's pointing out his opponents' "inconsistencies today, and always, very negatively? This is the worst pledge ever.
Trillion-Dollar Bank Is No Longer Amused By Occupy Wall Street
Adrian Chen · 12/12/11 12:45PMBNY Mellon is the investment bank that used Occupy Wall Street in a hilarious gag at a financial comedy (?) night last month. Bet they cackled all the way to the courthouse in Pittsburgh, where they filed a lawsuit to evict Occupy Pittsburgh from the park they've been camping out in for the past two weeks.
The Following Things Have Been Deemed 'Hip'
Hamilton Nolan · 12/12/11 11:48AMAn ironclad rule of hipness is that if you're looking for hipness, the best place to start your search is within the paragraphs of a newspaper article with the word "Hip" featured prominently in the headline. Mainstream newspaper stories explaining phenomena deemed "Hip" by mainstream newspaper editors: where hipness lives.