Welcome back to Good Points, a Q&A about credit card points, the people who collect them, and where they take us.…
Though she should have stayed with Dr. Keanu in Something’s Gotta Give, Diane Keaton nonetheless thrives in role of “mature woman exasperatedly tries a young people thing only to find herself reluctantly and then wholeheartedly enjoying it.” And her new movie, Poms, looks like it’s going to be another excellent…
Details keep coming out about the allegedly staged Jussie Smollett attack; the latest being that he may have initiated plans via text message.
In case you’re busy living your life and not staring at Twitter all day, it’s Towel Week on the internet and at The…
The Boston Globe reports that multiple women have accused psychiatrist Keith Ablow of sexual misconduct, including claims by one former patient that he forced her to perform oral sex during therapy sessions and beat her with his belt, and an allegation from another patient that he forced her to get his initials…
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
On a sunny morning in early 2000, Joseph Matheny woke up to find conspiracy theorists camped out on his lawn again. He was making coffee when he noticed a face peering in a ground-floor window of the small, three-story building he rented in Santa Cruz. Past the peeper, there were three other men in their early 20s…
The most riveting thing about this week’s episode of The Masked Singer wasn’t the double elimination that unveiled some more...people who you probably predicted and whose career profile totally match those of people who would absolutely go on this show. No, the most riveting thing was the ongoing debate as to whether…
Pinterest—the social media site of choice for DIY crafters, home decor enthusiasts, and my Aunt Melanie—has banned search terms related to “vaccines” in order to curb anti-vaccination propaganda from spreading on the platform. According to the Guardian, anti-vaxxer rhetoric has been an ongoing issue on Pinterest: In…
The bond between sisters is one of the most special—and most infuriating—bonds there is. I have three sisters and I love and hate them equally, and with passion, every moment of every day. On even their worst days, when I am filled with rage such that I want to throw one of them under a bus, I would gladly throw…
Actual hero and climber of structural injustice, Therese Patricia Okoumou was arrested on Wednesday for scaling the Austin headquarters of an organization that operates 24 detention centers that detain undocumented migrant children in Arizona, California, and Texas.
Yes, boots are technically a winter shoe, but if you really look at TOMS selection of the tallest footwear, it’s…
On Sunday we’ll be basking in yet another Oscars ceremony, this one with no host, fewer awards, and probably an exponential increase in disaster. To help prepare for the schadenfreude, we’ve enlisted our beloved former Jezebel Managing Editor Madeleine Davies to walk us through the plot of every Best Picture nominee.
Conservative and misogynist wisdom often dictates that the most direct justification for curtailing women’s rights, thus perpetuating harm, is found in the body. Reactionary criticism of New York’s Reproductive Health Act, which strengthens the state’s abortion protections and passed the newly progressive state senate…
A judge in Richmond, Virginia denied an activist bail because she exposed her left breast during a protest for the Equal Rights Amendment. This feels like a sad joke, but it is not.
Update: The sleep mask and the eye gel are both out of stock. Everything else is still up for grabs.
Elizabeth Holmes, a blonde woman with an army of black turtlenecks who at least one person has described as someone who “absolutely has sociopathic tendencies,” has been known to lie. Her company Theranos—which she claimed was capable of running hundreds, if not thousands, of diagnostic medical tests with a single…
Giving gifts is a force to be reckoned with. The gifts we bestow upon others are not only revealing of our relationships and selves, they have consequences. Give the gift of attending a concert with you, for instance, and you could wind up having the time of your life… or trampled on a sticky dance floor beneath a…
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson on Thursday delivered a blistering statement to the public on the alleged hate-crime hoax perpetrated by Jussie Smollett, who has been charged with a felony of disorderly conduct for falsifying a police report, and who turned himself into police early Thursday morning.
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