Wait, Cliven Bundy, the freedom fighter who captured conservative hearts and almost started the Second American Revolution with his gun-toting coterie is a racist bigot? Say it ain't so!
Oh my god, this is MAGNIFICENT. Cameron Diaz and Jimmy Fallon played a ridiculous game called "roller golf" last night on The Tonight Show. The evil genius who came up with the idea of playing this bastardized version of golf on roller skates should get a Nobel prize. Do they give Nobel prizes for physically awkward…
If there's one iron-clad scientific fact I know, it's FUCK PLANK. For those of you who aren't fitness gurus like me, plank is this thing where you prop yourself up on your elbows and toes and then just hold still forever and ever until your core catches fire and devours you from the inside out.
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An elementary school in Florida has agreed to stop giving Mountain Dew to kids before tests.
Time's 100 Most Influential People issue is out, and Beyoncé is on the cover!
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Lupita Nyong'o and Scarlett Johansson are reportedly "in talks" to join the cast of a new version of The Jungle Book.
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Awoo, everybody. Welcome to the (retooled and improved) second installment of Fun with Etymology! I gave this piece a bit of a makeover since its original publication in December, the better to eat you with, my dear. Today we're going to talk about werewolves and where they come from (etymologically – we all know that…
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A restaurant owner in Norco, California celebrated an especially magnificent Good Friday last week when Jesus Christ showed up in a fresh stack of pancakes.
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One Tokyo eatery apparently feels really, really bad about people who come in and dine alone. Instead of doing the American thing and just giving them a free plate of cheesy fries, though, the restaurant has come up with an...interesting solution.
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Comic Joan Rivers said she will not apologize for a "joke" she made about the Cleveland kidnapping case, even though at least two of the victims have spoken out about it through their lawyers.
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Huffington Post's Gay Voices section has finally removed a video from a drag performer which parodies shooting a prominent transgender writer.
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This woman's story of finding and keeping true love for decades will give you a good reason to shed a few tears.
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It has recently come to my attention that most of the people in the known universe are rabid How I Met Your Mother superfans with many, many how-I-met-your-emotions. So I assume that this is a noteworthy fact for you guys: Meg Ryan has been cast as the narrator and titular father-meeter (picking up the mantle of Bob…
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In today's Tweet Beat, Roseanne Barr is all about her new hot bod, Erykah Badu is really into her new hat/would like to be pregnant and and Willow Smith has some amazingly wise advice.
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Aaron Sorkin is known for writing witty, rat-a-tat dialogue for his TV and movie characters, but unfortunately that quick paced, off-the-cuff way of talking doesn't always serve him so well in real life. Case in point, a response he recently gave during an audience Q&A for Tribeca Innovation Week that was thoughtless,…
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This is so perfectly perfect you'll rage-laugh about it for the rest of the day: Boys are more likely to get an allowance than girls. Men are literally handed more money from birth. But of course it's obviously because five-year-old boys are disproportionately working in STEM jobs and haven't opted for the "mommy track." …
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In the second part of a Daily Mail interview with Oprah Winfrey's ex-stepmother Barbara Winfrey, Barbara alleges that Oprah has had her partner Stedman followed, that Gayle is more important to Oprah than Stedman and that Oprah is obsessed with the color of her skin.
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Lily Allen has released the video from her song "Sheezus" from her new album "Sheezus" and it's... not very good. What's going on with women who released catchy pop songs in the mid-2000's this week? Did they all get together in their secret bunker and collectively decide to release all their bad stuff at once?
