There’s suddenly a storm of outburts about a week-old interview that George Lucas had with Charlie Rose. It’s the one where he compared selling Lucasfilm to Disney as selling his children to “white slavers.” This was a stupid thing to say, but not really a new note for Lucas to hit.
Captions, please: Vice President Joe Biden tours a dredging barge, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, at Penn's Landing along the Delaware River in Philadelphia. Biden discussed the importance of investing in the nation's infrastructure during his visit to the waterfront.
Petaluma, California has held a "World's Ugliest Dog" contest for the past 26 years. This year, the masses have crowned Peanut, an ugly-adorable 2-year-old mutt "whose wild white and brown hair, bulging eyes and protruding teeth belie his sweet, energetic personality."
According to a new report from the AP, pregnant teenagers are being seriously let down by a web of uneven education support programs that have been decimated by funding cuts in states such as Wisconsin and California. Though many public schools insist that they cannot afford "costly support programs," those programs…
Are you a non-unionized, female, Caucasian, ethnically ambiguous, 30-45-year-old actor looking to break through with a timely role in a mock sex tape? If you are, then Funny or Die wants you to audition for a role in what will surely be a hilarious General Petraeus sex tape, which you'd star in alongside a…
According to the latest report from the CDC, U.S. abortions fell by five percent during the recession and its aftermath, a phenomenon that most likely, insist some researchers, owing to the greater diligence with which women use contraception during tough economic times. Though many states have unfortunately and…
What do you, the most unabashedly selfish and inconsiderate member of your friend group, buy this holiday season for that one person in your life whose giving is not restricted by our Gregorian calendar? To defeat the charitable people in the world, we must first understand the charitable people in the world, and the…
Remember those good old days when we all used to sit around in the parlor and snipe cleverly to each other's faces? Remember when we used to spend hours (and $$) making long-distance calls to our far flung loved ones? Remember when we used to leave each other voicemails? Man, those were the days. But now it is all…
It's Sunday, the day, if you believe in supernatural phenomena like a fairy that collects human teeth or a morbidly obese saint that delivers toys each winter to all the illegitimate children he fathered, that a patriarchal Old Testament God with a capital "G" gave up on making Earth out of intergalactic clay because…
Ben Romney, the snarl-smile son of Mitt and Ann Romney, has insisted that, despite what professional noise-maker Hilary Rosen said about Ann having "never worked a day in her life," his mom did too work — she raised five little Romneys all by herself while Mittens feasted on jobs and money at Bain Capital.
Well, ladies and gentleman, we seem to have reached that special time that comes once ever two years or so when we again become aware that having gray hair is a "thing." A silly trend piece is written about how some women have made the bold decision not to hide the deeply shameful sign that they are basically decrepit…
When it comes to worst nightmares, there are so many options that it can be hard to decide what's the actual worst case scenario. But this experience ranks right up there: An 80-year-old woman was a passenger in the small twin-engine plane her husband was flying near their home in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Suddenly her…
In an example of globalism at its finest, anti-choice advocates across the Atlantic are using tried-and-true U.S. tactics to intimidate women seeking abortions. The British Pregnancy Advisory Service, the country's largest abortion provider, told the Guardian that it's facing a "new era" in terms of anti-choice…
London, July 31: Models present outfits from Pearl Lowe's Autumn 2011 Peacocks vintage-inspired fashion collection. (AP Photo/Jonathan Short)
Bucharest, Romania, July 31: Romanian brides pose for pictures at the Triumph Arch. The arch, a replica of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the French capital, is a rendezvous place for brides after midnight on the wedding night during the stealing of the bride ritual. The ritual, of ancient origin, is performed by…
It's not hard to see that Playboy, the new NBC show, is taking a cue from the retro-sexism of Mad Men. But can they pull it off?
[Mumbai, November 6: The first lady busts a move, much to the delight of underprivileged children at the Mumbai University. Image via AP.]
Remember that weird, embarrassing Tina Fey/Vogue email that went out earlier today? Well, someone at the Associated Press just basically rewrote it as a news story...spelling errors and all. [AP]
A 47-year-old man from New York and former AIDS center volunteer forged an HIV test to convince his girlfriend to have unprotected sex with him. The man stole an HIV test from the AIDS Center for Queens County, where he worked, and wrote that he was "negative/nonreactive" for HIV. After a few months of having…
Did you know that belly button-less model Karolina Kurkova is fat? Raakhee Mirchandani, a reporter for the NY Post heard a woman bemoan how "porked out" Kurkova has become while watching the taping of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in Miami. Aren't fashion industry insiders supposed to be quelling fears that they…
