Many shows on television are stupid, but few are as flagrantly stupid as The Masked Singer. This is a good thing, I have decided, for no good reason. Whatever, gotta be looking at something when your eyes are open. On Wednesday’s second episode, we heard the phrase “sexy toothbrush,” a play on a celebrity’s name…

Imagine what the world would be like if you woke up one morning unable to hear the voices of men. That’s what happened to a woman in China, identified as Ms. Chen. The Daily Mail reports that one night, Chen went to bed after feeling nauseated and experiencing ringing in her ears. When she woke up, she couldn’t hear…

This past weekend, like any young person who loves carousing and popular music, I went to a karaoke bar. It was full of 20-somethings, the majority of whom were singing classic rock songs—tons of Queen, which I blamed partly on the success of Bohemian Rhapsody. Starting this Friday, over 750 North American theaters…

North Carolina police have charged two women with sexual battery and second-degree kidnapping in a connection to an alleged attack on a transgender woman in a North Carolina bar bathroom in December.

Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King is so racist that other Republicans, at least when they felt the pressure of getting creamed during the midterms, have denounced him for being too racist. King, who believes that only white people have made contributions to civilization, also enjoys cozying up to actual Nazis. He…

Please try and keep your morning repast down, as it brings me no pleasure to share this news with you now. There appear to be dirty texts from divorcé bajillionaire Jeff Bezos that only prove that shiny, bald, rich motherfuckers don’t really know how to sext.

There is more depressing reporting out about Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign: the latest sexual harassment allegations, reported by Politico on Wednesday night, concern Robert Becker, the campaign’s deputy national field director, who is alleged to have harassed and forcibly kissed a woman staffer who…

Earlier this week, The Cut resurfaced a 1998 Newsweek story that revealed director Peter Farrelly was infamous for whipping his dick out on set “as a joke.” Considering his body of work leading up to Green Book—like 2001's Shallow Hal, in which Gwyneth Paltrow inexplicably wears a fat suit—none of this is surprising.…

More than five years after she collaborated with R. Kelly on a song titled “Do What U Want (With My Body),” Lady Gaga has issued an apology on her decision to work with Kelly, after hearing the “absolutely horrifying and indefensible” allegations against him. She also reiterated her support of all survivors of sexual…

Beautiful person Frank Ocean recently talked about his skincare routine in GQ during a conversation with his Blonded Radio co-hosts. And if you were expecting fancy serums, LED face masks, and niche exfoliants, you might be disappointed.

A new documentary promising an unflinching examination of Michael Jackson’s child sex abuse allegations will premiere at Sundance this year.

The annual Christmastime practice of cutting down a live tree—dragging it indoors, laboriously propping it up in a living room amid a shower of fallen needles and curse words, only to haul it back outside two weeks later—is one that defies logic to begin with. If a bunch of praying mantis eggs happen to come along for…

Ohio Governor John Kasich has finally commuted the sentence of a woman who killed her habitually abusive ex-boyfriend while he attacked her—after she’d already served 15 years in prison.

Kate Mara is pregnant, and that’s great. What’s better is the way in which this information became known. From Page Six:

Today’s lessons: It takes two to tango, and Australians have more fun.

John Lasseter, the former head of Pixar and Disney Animation, who left the company last year following allegations of sexual misconduct, has a new job—he will now head up another fancy production company, Skydance Media.

In what is yet another sad and alarming piece of news, the number of monarch butterflies in California has dropped precipitously and catastrophically in the past year.