CNN’s resident conservative menace, Rick Santorum, had some advice for the Parkland teens following their successful March for Our Lives rallies: Stop whining about guns and learn CPR!
In an interview with MSNBC, Representative Buddy Carter (R-GA) defended Donald Trump’s Wednesday morning Twitter attacks on Senator Lisa Murkowski saying that, “Somebody needs to go over to the Senate and snatch a knot in their ass.” (For those of you who are not fluent in the lingo of the deep south, to “snatch a…
Alex Jones, the radio personality and conspiracy theorist who may be wider than he is long, is currently involved in a child custody trial in Austin, Texas with his ex-wife Kelly Jones. In the trial, Jones has been forced to reckon with his career of dangerous misinformation and pseudo-cult leadership, and he has…
A Trump-supporting airline passenger has been charged with multiple hate crimes for allegedly kicking and harassing a hijab-wearing Delta airport worker at JFK airport.
Jordan Brown, the asshole who claimed an Austin, TX Whole Foods employee wrote “FAG” on his custom single layer chocolate cake has dropped his lawsuit against the grocery store chain, and admitted that no one at the company did anything wrong. In response to the apology, Whole Foods has dropped their $100,000…
“In July of 2002, two years before Donald Trump became engaged to the Slovenian model Melania Knauss, he visited her native country for three hours,” writes Lauren Collins at the New Yorker, as the lede of an essay on the parallels between the Trump brand of marriage and the Trump brand of politics—which puts Collins’…
Jane O’Meara Sanders—social worker, academic, wife of Bernie—took a trip yesterday to see the infamous “tent city” jail where Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has somehow been allowed to house inmates since 1993. Arpaio says he gave her a tour; Sanders says the sheriff “showed up unexpectedly” while she was there…
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.
What would the world be like without some terrible Bill Cosby news? We’ve forgotten. This week, the fallen comedian is suing Andrea Constand, a woman he’s currently charged with drugging and raping, for repayment of a civil settlement sum he paid her in 2005—which stipulated that she remain quiet about his alleged…
The unfortunate tech bro insurgency in San Francisco continues with a guy named Justin Keller, who has lived in the Bay Area for all of three years (that means we can still return him, right?) and recently felt entitled enough to write the mayor and police chief about his distaste for the homeless. Cool, cool.
Ethan Couch, the Texas teen who supposedly suffered from a severe “affluenza,” has violated his probation. In case you’ve forgotten about the curious case of Couch, a teen who single-handedly united the internet in rage, he was given ten years of juvenile probation after killing four people in a drunk driving…
Days before CNN is scheduled to air The Hunting Ground, a well-received documentary about campus rape, Jameis Winston is alleging that the film is defamatory.
Madonna appears to be Living For Former Love because the always-accurate, never-been-wrong Radar Online reports she and ex-husband Sean Penn have been “shacking up together.”
In the embarrassing wake of two scandals involving two different Missouri lawmakers who have both been forced to quit after accusations that they sexually harassed their interns, the Missouri House is discussing instituting a new dress code. For the interns. That’s it. That’ll do it.
Walter Palmer, the pea-brained humanoid who forked over $55,000 (possibly in bribes) for the privilege of killing Cecil, a famed Zimbabwean lion, is really sorry for the “disruption” caused by all this media fuss.
Walter Palmer, a dentist and all-around piece of shit from Minnesota, is said to have paid $55,000 to kill a beloved 13-year-old Zimbabwean lion, nicknamed Cecil, who had been wearing a collar as a part of a long-running Oxford University research project.
A new study from researchers at Cornell and Tulane has found that know-it-alls who claim to know everything about sustainable farming or how to get rich or the DC go-go scene are actually more likely to fall for made-up facts in the area of their so-called expertise.
Everyone should absolutely try—if they want—to get out there and see the world, broaden the mind, expand ye olde horizons. But perhaps not everyone should talk about it after the fact, particularly if you’re just going to sound like a tone-deaf tryhard who desperately wants to appear cool/affluent/worldly. Don’t do…
Immediately following the layoffs of 175 J.Crew staff members last week, Alejandro Rhett, VP of men’s merchandising, went out drinking.
