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The Best Videos of the Week

Matt Toder · 06/02/12 11:30AM

Have you heard that video is a big thing over at Gawker Media? It's true, we watch and post a lot of videos each week. Here are some of the best videos of week, culled from an array of Gawker Media sites.

Stephen Colbert Tries To Stay Off Obama's Kill List

Matt Toder · 05/31/12 11:30PM

On tonight's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert took a look at the recent revelations surrounding Obama's "kill list," and all the logical leaps that keep down the stats about civilian deaths. Turns out these numbers are pretty easy to rig as long as you completely divorce yourself from reality first.

Jon Stewart Isn't Wild About Mike Bloomberg's Soda Ban

Matt Toder · 05/31/12 10:28PM

On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart expressed some concerns over Mayor Mike Bloomberg's soda ban. The problem, as Stewart sees it, is that killing ourselves through terrible diets is basically a New York tradition, and until someone puts a limit on the amount of roast beef we can shovel down our throats, we should at least be able to wash it all down.

Poor People Are Wasting Time on the Internet!

Hamilton Nolan · 05/30/12 09:07AM

Poor people: why are they poor and dissolute? In this modern age of electrical light-bulbs, horseless carriages, and the inter-net, what excuse hath any man for being less than prosperous? Today, even those of modest means can possess a cell phone, a television, and a "Google" machine that possesses many times the knowledge of the fabled Library of Alexandria. Why haven't our nation's paupers taken advantage of these capabilities to catapult themselves into the upper class?

Julian Assange Loses Extradition Appeal, Will Probably Be Sent on Involuntary Swedish Vacation

Adrian Chen · 05/30/12 08:31AM

Real-life The Matrix extra Julian Assange lost his extradition appeal today, as Britain's highest court ruled that he can be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault. For the past year and a half Assange has been under house arrest fighting the European arrest warrant against him because it's "invalid" and also he really, really doesn't want to go to prison.

Do These Unbelievably Horrifying Photos Show the Miami Cannibal's Victim?

Max Read · 05/29/12 12:42PM

These two really, unbelievably gruesome photos, allegedly of the Miami man whose face was partially eaten off over Memorial Day weekend, have been circulating around the internet, because the sight of rended flesh is a visceral reminder of the unbearably thin dividing line between life and death, and also because they're really fucking gross.

The Best Videos of the Week

Matt Toder · 05/26/12 11:30AM

Have you heard that video is a big thing over at Gawker Media? It's true, we watch and post a lot of videos each week. Here are some of the best videos of week, culled from an array of Gawker Media sites.

Bill Maher Wonders Why the Right Is So Mad At Obama When He Is Too

Matt Toder · 05/25/12 10:54PM

On tonight's Real Time, Bill Maher closed with a rant about the claim that President Obama is radical in his views. It makes little sense to Maher that the right has such a problem with Obama when Obama hasn't exactly been the bastion of liberal ideology some thought he would be.

Here's TBS' New Bro-tastic Sitcom Men at Work in 30 Seconds

Matt Toder · 05/25/12 12:05AM

Tonight was the premiere of a new TBS sitcom about four dudes who just hang out, get drunk and hook up. Men at Work was, believe it or not, created by actor Breckin Meyer and it shows. Here's the pilot's most bro-tactular observations about sex, drugs and friendship.