Amelia Earhart embarked on her ill-fated, round-the-world flight 80 years ago and never returned. I feel fairly confident in saying that, despite any reports otherwise, she most likely died on an island in the Pacific as a castaway. However new evidence has emerged—like it does every year!!!—that she survived.
After much controversy, Megyn Kelly’s interview with InfoWars host and sweaty conspiratorial loon Alex Jones aired on Sunday evening. It has been zealously truncated to emphasize moments when Kelly puts pressure on Jones, but the end result is largely ho-hum uneventful journalism.
Fox News allowed a private investigator who briefly worked for the family of murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich to suggest that Rich was killed because he leaked DNC emails to Wikileaks. In July 2016, the then 27-year-old was shot to death just blocks from his home in Washington, D.C. The murder remains unsolved, and the…
Shortly after “alt-right” poster boy Steve Bannon reportedly called Jared Kushner a “cuck,” signaling an escalating battle in the White House between the “Bannonites” and the “globalists,” Donald Trump bucked his isolationist promises and launched a military strike against the Syrian government. The barf-splatter of…
On Thursday night, South Korean president Park Geun-Hye was officially ousted from her office after a special Constitutional Court decision upheld her impeachment. For the majority of Koreans, it’s the end of a grueling three-month trial and a longer national scandal. But during the biggest crisis in South Korea’s…
F.B.I. director James B. Comey has asked the U.S. Justice Department to issue a public refutation of Donald Trump’s wiretapping accusations. Comey made this request on Saturday, not long after Trump tweeted a baseless claim that Barack Obama had called for this tapping.
One of the oddest things about this, the worst election in human history, is the hulking, sweating, screaming presence of Alex Jones. The conspiracy theory king of InfoWars has gone from the raving-est margins of American public life to being, by all appearances, good buddies with the Republican presidential…
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…
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…
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.
