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Everyone Is Ominously Calm About This Planetary Alignment
Adrian Chen · 05/10/11 04:21PMWould a Moat With Alligators Solve Our Illegal Immigration Problems?
Jim Newell · 05/10/11 04:11PMBarack Obama visited El Paso, Texas today to jump start the case for comprehensive immigration reform, yet again, as well as to make fun of Republicans. He mocks the party's ever-moving goalposts on border security, such as wanting more and more troops on the border and demanding an even "higher" fence. "Maybe they'll need a moat," he went on. "Maybe they'll want alligators in the moat." You mean we haven't even tried this yet? Well, now it's too late; alligator prices are through the roof these days.
An Annotated Guide to Dov Charney's Desktop and 'Good Hookers'
Maureen O'Connor · 05/10/11 04:08PM
During a web conference with American Apparel store managers today (topic: "store summer-ization and shitty sales in the Midwest") Dov Charney opened the browser on his personal computer. One participant took a screengrab and sent it to us. Above, an annotated guide to Dov Charney's desktop, featuring the following:
The Video of Las Vegas Might Make You Want to Cry
Brian Moylan · 05/10/11 03:46PMRoger Ailes Continues to Ruin His Adopted Home
John Cook · 05/10/11 03:41PM
The effort by Fox News chief Roger Ailes and his wife, Elizabeth, to transform their bucolic weekend retreat in upstate New York into the sort of paranoid swamp they're more at home in continues apace: Spy on reporters for the charming small-town newspapers they own? Check. Compulsively call the local cops because you're convinced people are out to get you? Check. Start physical confrontations with the aging owner of a competing tiny newspaper and threaten to sue him? Check.
Oprah Determined to Save, Destroy Broadway Forever
Richard Lawson · 05/10/11 03:15PMConservatives Terrified of the Rapper 'Common'
Jim Newell · 05/10/11 03:10PMThe White House is holding an event celebrating American Poetry tonight, and guess what? You're not invited. Which, according to Fox News, Sarah Palin, The Daily Caller and associated forces, is great news for you! Because one of the poetry readers will be the rapper Common, the most evil and dangerous man alive.
Lady Gaga Might Join Google's Next Spectacular Failure
Ryan Tate · 05/10/11 03:04PMPrincess Diana Death Photo to Debut at Cannes
Maureen O'Connor · 05/10/11 02:58PMA documentary about the death of Princess Diana will debut next week at the Cannes Film Festival—and will feature a graphic paparazzi photo of the princess as she lay dying after a car crash in Paris.
Bin Laden's Dead, But the War on Terror Expands
Jim Newell · 05/10/11 02:31PM
Some of us naive folk thought that the death of Osama bin Laden, combined with the supposedly crippled state of Al Qaeda in the last few years, might induce political leaders to consider something they've rarely, if ever, considered before: An actual plan to end the War on Terror. Instead, congressional leaders may just fundamentally expand terror-fighting authority to a new high, forever.
Watch Apple Get Mocked By Al Franken
Ryan Tate · 05/10/11 02:19PMHow to Talk to a Dolphin with an Underwater Translation Machine
Maureen O'Connor · 05/10/11 01:47PMJersey Shore Won't Get to Party with Italian Prime Minister
Brian Moylan · 05/10/11 01:42PM
After having to postpone their trip to film season four of Jersey Shore in Italy late last week because the no-good mayor of Florence yanked their filming permits, the cast is scheduled to go back to their spiritual homeland once again, but they'll just miss the country's hard-partying prime minister.
Facebook Is Swarming With Little Kids
Adrian Chen · 05/10/11 01:21PMArizona Liberals Want Their Own State
Jim Newell · 05/10/11 01:08PM
What's the latest terrible news from Arizona, America's dirt backyard? Not much has changed, really. People want as many guns as possible, to make up for the lack of jobs and sustainable mortgages, while Steven Seagal rides around in tanks attacking chickens. Also, penis certificates. There's very little to complain about. So leave it to the liberals to not appreciate how good they have it and demand their own state.
The Hypnotic Hilarity of a Woman Falling Down in the Ocean
Brian Moylan · 05/10/11 12:57PMThere is nothing funnier than watching people fall down. Here's a woman who falls down again and again while trying to get out of the ocean. Add the pummeling of the waves, and you have a comedy classic. Yes, I hate myself a little bit for laughing so much at a poor woman who is either drunk, ill, or so uncoordinated that she mustn't leave the house very often. But you have to admit it's funny. And, yes, you will watch the whole three minutes. How could you not? You can't cut out early or you might miss another fall—and another laugh.









