explanations

America's Most Expensive College: The Unconvincing Explanation

Hamilton Nolan · 04/14/11 11:45AM

Sarah Lawrence is America's most expensive college. It'll cost you a cool $59,000 to send your whelp there to sit shoeless on a grass lawn, becoming a lesbian. Why so pricey? The school's president has all sorts of dubious explanations.

The Gawker Skybox (Update: Had) Issues: An Apology and Explanation

Gabriel Snyder · 11/30/09 10:22AM

Good morning! Welcome back from the long holiday weekend. If you're like us, you're probably wondering why pictures of Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black are the first things you see at the top of the home page. It's a glitch, we're told, that's running art from two different ad campaigns on the site right now. Update: the whole thing has been taken down until the issue is resolved. Thanks, ad folks.

Baghdad Shoe Hurler: Journalistic Role Model

Hamilton Nolan · 09/17/09 03:21PM

Let's not forget that the hero Iraqi Shoe Hurler was a journalist before he became a footwear projectilist. A certain portion of his colleagues think he disgraced his profession. They're wrong. Let's go to Muntader's brand new explanatory op-ed!