Disney's The Lone Ranger is ripe with opportunity to point out the perils of putting a white dude— no, sorry, a part-something Native American dude— dressed as a white guy's interpretation of a stoic Native American nature fairy named Tonto. But you guys, Johnny Depp knows the pathetic state of the underrepresentation …

I can't stop reading this map with the literal meanings of the names of places in North America. Its easy to think of a place's name as a somewhat sterile designation (WTF is an "Idaho?") but all those names have a literal meaning. Idaho means "Light on the Mountains," which is a name more beautiful and poetic than the…

Meet Gari ROUS, short for Garibaldi, Rodent of Unusual Size, is the world's largest and also most adorable* rodentia.

Snooki and JWoww appeared at a fundraiser for the Trevor Project and talked about how committed they are to LGBT rights. So committed, in fact, that Snooki is "praying" that she gives birth to a gay son someday. Because nothing says "super committed to equality" like treating a human baby like a fashion accessory. But I'm …

The deposition from the lawsuit against Paula Deen for being the racist worst (paraphrasing) is now public — and it ain't pretty.

James Gandolfini, best known for being fucking brilliant as Tony Soprano in The Sopranos, has passed away in Italy at age 51. It is believed he suffered a heart attack.

Representative Phil Gingrey (R-GA), our resident OB/GYN Congressman and Todd Akin-sympathizer, is like the gift that keeps on giving us an active gag reflex. On the House floor last Monday, Gingrey successfully killed two progressive morals with one giant homophobic, sexist shit.

In today's edition of Tweet Beat, Geraldo Rivera continues to be outstandingly distasteful by being upset at the now-deceased Michael Hastings for writing about Stanley McChrystal, Mia Farrow comes up with a cool lifehack for freshening one's breath, and Paula Deen gets served some delicious racial epithet casserole.

I think I've made my feelings on Jurassic Park pretty clear (DINOS DINOS DINOS I AM PRO), but I wasn't certain how to feel about the announcement back in March that a Jurassic Park 4 was to be a thing. I mean, the first two sequels were sooooo garbagey—and it's such a weird progression to be like, "Yeah, we know we…