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Stephen Colbert Is Sick of the Bin Laden Story
Matt Cherette · 05/05/11 11:32PMOn tonight's Report, Stephen Colbert had one major complaint: The media won't talk about anything other than Osama bin Laden! After lamenting the fact that "the TV people won't let [him]" focus on anything else, Colbert gathered his thoughts long enough to bring us up to speed on a few of the stories currently trending online—including the nude pictures of Kate Middleton's brother—before making a few confessions of his own.
Seattle Cracks Down on the Scourge That is Yellow Pages
Seth Abramovitch · 05/05/11 11:00PM
Yellow Pages. I cannot throw those things in the recycle bin fast enough. And yet they keep coming! When was the last time you actually used one, and what did you use it for? As makeshift booster seats for your child's third birthday party? Under-sweater bulletproofing for driving through rough neighborhoods? All-purpose instruments of blunt force trauma? Hey, Yellow Pages: 1983 called. They would have called sooner, but they had to use a Yellow Pages to find your number! You get the point. I hate Yellow Pages. But I love Seattle, for being the first city in the country to actually take active measures to get rid of them.
Jon Stewart Checks In with Sarah Palin and Donald Trump
Matt Cherette · 05/05/11 10:44PMOn the night Republican presidential contenders duked it out in South Carolina, Jon Stewart opened The Daily Show with a segment about Sarah Palin and Donald Trump, two potential GOP candidates who didn't take part in the debate. So what are "the Tom Arnold and Roseanne Barr of the Republican field" up to? Stewart explains.
This Is Why Jennifer Lopez Did American Idol
Matt Cherette · 05/05/11 09:23PMAhmadinejad's Advisers Jailed for Practicing Witchcraft
Seth Abramovitch · 05/05/11 09:17PMLive Coverage of the First Republican Presidential Debate
Jim Newell · 05/05/11 07:57PM
Five Republicans — Herman Cain, Tim Pawlenty, Rick Santorum, Gary Johnson, and Ron Paul — are debating political stuff in South Carolina at tonight's First Republican Presidential Debate. Where are the "good candidates," you ask? They're busy, doing anything else. But that's no matter; The Pizza Man and Anal Leakage don't need Mitt Romney's help to put on a show. Let's record all the slaps in this Palmetto Punchout, right here. Turn on the Fox News Channel, now!
Don't Leak to the Wall Street Journal's New Wikileaks Knockoff
Adrian Chen · 05/05/11 06:15PMRace Horse Jumps Into Crowd of Screaming People
Maureen O'Connor · 05/05/11 05:41PMKate Middleton's Brother Pretends to Be a Lawyer to Get His Dirty Pictures Off the Internet
Brian Moylan · 05/05/11 05:04PM
Our slutty sister site Fleshbot published some shirtless (and pantless!) photos of Kate Middleton's sexy younger brother, James, earlier this week. Then they got some emails from a lawyer demanding Fleshbot take the images down. But it wasn't a real lawyer, it turns out. It seems it was James pretending to be a lawyer.
The Bold Return of Wes Bentley
Richard Lawson · 05/05/11 04:39PMSecurity Scare at Obama's Ground Zero Ceremony
Jim Newell · 05/05/11 03:59PM
New York City police officers tackled and took away for questioning a "suspicious man" outside Ground Zero today, where President Obama was leading a wreath-laying ceremony. The man was walking his bike towards the World Trade Center area and saying, "Secret Service, Secret Service coming through," after which cops tackled him and searched through his messenger bag. And according to the New Jersey Star-Ledger, "witnesses say may have pulled a gun out of a backpack as President Barack Obama's motorcade passed."
Father Says Medical Marijuana Saved His 2-Year-Old From Cancer
Brian Moylan · 05/05/11 03:08PMDavid Koch Doesn't Give 'Hardcore Socialist' Obama Credit for Killing Anything
Jim Newell · 05/05/11 02:55PM
David Koch, the right-wing billionaire who funds much of the Republican party's ideological activities and whose towering persona makes for effective left-wing performance art, gave a rare public comment to New York magazine at some gala or another last night. Does he think the president deserves any credit for the Osama bin Laden mission? Of course not! Socialists don't deserve a farthing's worth of credit for anything.
Lady Takes Baby Pictures Beside Osama Bin Laden's Hideaway
Maureen O'Connor · 05/05/11 02:50PMThe Most Meta Hack Attack Ever
Adrian Chen · 05/05/11 02:43PM
Most of us store our multitude of passwords and usernames in random emails we send to ourselves, or on used cocktail napkins. But some people use fancy password managers to organize their logins, and they think they're so smart. But what happens when hackers steal the password to your password manager?
Awesome Map Depicts Manhattan Movie Locations
Brian Moylan · 05/05/11 02:07PMBirthers Do Respond to Hard Evidence
Jim Newell · 05/05/11 01:35PM
Some considered President Obama's decision to release his birth certificate last week a fool's errand, since those who didn't think he was born in the United States wouldn't ever respond to more definitive evidence. It still may have been a silly argument to engage — that press conference of him showing his papers will always seem beyond surreal, if not plain depressing. But now a whole 70 percent of Americans believe he was born in Hawaii! You know what that means: This issue is coming dangerously close to something that we'll never have to write about again.
Cat Whisperer Cures Cat That Pees in Owner's Mouth
Maureen O'Connor · 05/05/11 12:59PMObama Lays a Wreath at Ground Zero
Jim Newell · 05/05/11 12:53PMHere's President Obama's relatively subdued appearance at Ground Zero, where he laid a wreath to honor the victims of 9/11 and then chatted up a nice police officer. No soaring speeches today, it seems. Before the ceremony he stopped at a local firehouse, and now he's meeting privately with 9/11 victims' families.





