As the country whips itself up into an embarrassing frenzy over Hillary Clinton’s pneumonia diagnosis, Trump fans, emboldened by the exciting prospect of an actual illness, have treated themselves to a brand new conspiracy theory: The woman who exited Chelsea Clinton’s apartment on Sunday, feeling “great” after…

Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-Texas) feels terrible, just terrible about that time earlier this week on Fox and Friends when he said Hillary Clinton’s brain was in a blender. That was so rude of him! Because “I’m making fun of the mentally impaired, and that’s not right,” Gohmert clarified in a speech at the Values Voters…

CLEVELAND — Earlier this week, Infowars radio host Alex Jones slammed Karl Rove for refusing to answer a few simple questions. Except now, Alex Jones is using the same shameful evasive maneuvers that so sickened him before. Alex—why are you so scared of Gawker’s questions about Pokémon Go?

Welcome to Would U?, an academic forum in which I share my gross crush of the week and ask if you, too, would bang that person.

Who among us can say what a bay leaf tastes like? Not me, although I dutifully throw a leaf or two into a braise whenever the recipe dictates, and to consistently mysterious effect. Kelly Conaboy, formerly of Gawker, writing at the Awl, suggests that this is not due to the bay leaf’s gustatory subtlety being beyond…

Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Paul Ryan recently grew a very short beard. Soon after that, he gently denounced Islamophobia. Hello, it’s pretty obvious that you can’t do those two things at the same time, Ry guy!

If you assumed there was some kind of underground society of female meteorologists scheming to make all forecasts look exactly the same, you would be right.

A lot of important people died in 2004: Ray Charles, Jerry Orbach, ODB, Avril Lavigne.

You may have heard the news today that NASA discovered flowing water on the surface of Mars. Fascinating discovery, right? Not according to conservative talk show host and delusional pork dumpling Rush Limbaugh. As far as he’s concerned, this announcement is but a mere portion of the larger “leftist agenda.”

Megyn Kelly—host of Fox News’ The Kelly File and recently appointed nemesis of Donald Trump—announced last week that she was taking a much-needed vacation. “Well, it’s been an interesting week—and a long six months without a vacation for yours truly,” Kelly told viewers on Wednesday. “So I’ll be taking the next week…

Megyn Kelly—host of Fox News’ The Kelly File and Black Santa truther—has announced that she’s taking an abrupt two week vacation after sparring with Cheeto-dusted bloviator Donald Trump during (and in the aftermath of) the Republican presidential debate. Is Kelly just taking a much needed break (probably to deal—as we…

I didn’t wake up this morning knowing that I was about to stumble on the biggest pop culture conspiracy of our time, but—as the old saying goes—some were born great, some have greatness thrust upon them, and others (Harry Styles, specifically) are actually Bill Hader in a wig.

Last January, Rob Bricken at our sister site io9 wrote about Game of Thrones’ Jon Snow and what it means when Kit Harington, the actor who portrays Jon, appears on the red carpet without his trademark silky locks.