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The Ludicrous Mythology that Christian Colleges Teach as Fact
Hamilton Nolan · 01/22/13 10:05AMCedarville University is a Baptist college in Ohio with 3,000 students. The campus is currently engulfed in a minor uproar over the way it's enforcing its ideological beliefs. Let's take this opportunity to gape and marvel at what some people who run educational institutions actually believe to be true.
Journalism, Scientology, and Manti Te'o: Finding the Leper with the Most Fingers
Mobutu Sese Seko · 01/17/13 12:00PMThis has been a fantastic week for media outrage, especially on Twitter. On Monday, a pro-Scientology ad in the Atlantic that was mocked up to faintly resemble an article generated hours of castigating tweets and countless op-eds. Then, last night, Deadspin broke the story of Notre Dame star linebacker Manti Te'o and the girlfriend who doesn't exist.
The New Girl Scout Cookie Tastes Like BULLSHIT
Caity Weaver · 01/11/13 07:02PMDoes Charlie Sheen Really Have a Lisp Or Did He Just Use a Homophobic Slur?
MTanzer · 12/30/12 04:15PMRevealed: Colleen Callahan of Boston, MA Used to Party in College
Hamilton Nolan · 11/13/12 11:04AMThink Before You Tweet: That Hurricane Picture Is Very Possibly Fake as Hell
Cord Jefferson · 10/29/12 01:40PMThe ascent of Twitter has been wonderful for the democratization and quickening of news and information. A few decades ago, it might take days for a person in California to see pictures of a disaster that took place in New York. Today, all a person needs is a smartphone and an internet connection and, with Twitter, they can be their own photojournalist, updating the site's millions of global users with up-to-the-minute images of events like Hurricane Sandy.
What Is the Best Worst Way You've Ever Lost a Phone?
Caity Weaver · 10/24/12 11:05AMHamilton Nolan · 10/11/12 03:40PM
GOP Volunteer Calling FL Voters: 'I Don't Know if You've Done Any Research on Obama... He Is a Muslim'
Hamilton Nolan · 09/28/12 01:35PMVote Todd Akin, Obama Is Lying About Benghazi, and Other Shit Newt Gingrich Says
Louis Peitzman · 09/24/12 08:25PMNuclear Sub Commander Decides to Fake His Death to End His Affair, Naturally
Hamilton Nolan · 09/18/12 04:20PMMarried 43 year-old Navy nuclear submarine commander Michael Ward was having a little affair with a younger woman that he met online. These situations are a bit tricky to navigate, as you can imagine. How did Michael Ward extricate himself from it, when he was ready to end the affair? The old fashioned way: he "sent his mistress an email from a fictitious person named Bob in July, posing as a co-worker and saying that Ward had died unexpectedly."
Is Paul Ryan Lying About Climbing 40 Mountains, Too? What Is His Deal?
Max Read · 09/05/12 04:50PMWhat is wrong with fitness infomercial "after" model Paul Ryan? Not only did the Republican vice presidential candidate claim to have a run a marathon in less than three hours — a lie for which he got busted, and bodied, by Runner's World — he's also claimed to have "made close to 40 climbs of Colorado's 'Fourteeners' (14,000-foot peaks)." Which he almost certainly hasn't. (Or maybe? See update.)
Paul Ryan's Most Egregious Lie: He Never Ran a Marathon in Under Three Hours
Louis Peitzman · 09/01/12 12:29PMSeven Inarguably True Things in Paul Ryan's Speech
Max Read · 08/30/12 12:15PMWe've heard a lot from the liberal press and so-called "fact checkers" — more like "fact chokers," am I right? — about the supposed "misleading statements" and "hypocrisies" and "outright lies" in Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan's big convention speech last night. But why won't the mainstream media report on the many different things Ryan said that were inarguably true? We've put the Gawker Fact Checking Team on the case and collected all seven of Ryan's true statements right here:
School Is Too Easy, Say America's Illiterate Incompetent Students
Hamilton Nolan · 07/10/12 09:00AMThe GOP Is Unbelievably Full of Shit on Executive Privilege
John Cook · 06/22/12 02:35PMBut Is This Area Really Safe?
Hamilton Nolan · 06/19/12 08:31AMOn the mean streets of the gritty city, nothing is as it seems. The welcoming avenues of beautiful Brooklyn host a barely-concealed ecosystem of predators, ready to attack any sign of weakness. The Brooklyn Paper's police blotter offers us the grimmest of lessons, that we may not need to learn the hard way.
Jay-Z Really Believes in [Insert Product Name Here]
Hamilton Nolan · 06/12/12 02:14PMAll Leaks Are Good Leaks
John Cook · 06/08/12 12:13PMBarack Obama's critics on the left and right are beginning to coalesce around the idea that the White House should be punished for selectively leaking flattering details about covert operations while at the same time zealously prosecuting whistleblowers who reveal less flattering secrets. This is stupid. Every leak is a good leak.