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New York Post Commenters Have Some Interesting Racist Thoughts on This Tragic Subway Death
Hamilton Nolan · 12/04/12 12:40PMYesterday, Ki Suk Han was tragically struck and killed by a subway train in Midtown Manhattan after being thrown onto the tracks by an angry and perhaps mentally disturbed panhandler. We could spend all day debating the actions of the New York Post photographer whose horrifying photo of Han shortly before his death ran on the paper's front page today. What cannot be debated is this: the New York Post's online commenters are some of the world's most... interesting people.
Idiot/Hero Jet Skis Through Streets of Flooded New Jersey Town During Hurricane Sandy
Adrian Chen · 10/29/12 04:31PMOne thing you should not do, even though it looks like one of the Top Three Funnest Experiences a Human Being Can Have, is ride your jet ski through the flooded streets of your beachfront community during Hurricane Sandy, like this guy. YouTube user Right Coast Surf posted this video of himself tooling around a flooded Manasquan, New Jersey today. (Which, as Gothamist points out, is under mandatory evacuation.)
Tech Guru Leo Laporte Can't Stop Revealing His Sexxxy Texts on His Internet TV Show
John Cook · 10/16/12 01:10PMWhen we last checked in with internet tech explainer Leo Laporte a year ago, he was accidentally broadcasting screenshots of his sexy Google chats with his business partner Lisa Kentzell by cutting to the contents of his computer screen—"i still smell and taste you. i adore you. (12:13 pm)"—during his show. So what's he up to these days? The exact same thing.
Bain Capital Wants a Piece of Gawker
John Cook · 10/10/12 09:45AMAfter we published nearly 1,000 pages of Bain Capital's confidential financial records—including audits revealing for the first time that Bain employed a potentially illegal tax dodge currently under investigation by the New York attorney general—we thought we might hear from the good folks at Mitt Romney's former private equity firm, perhaps asking us to take down the documents. Well, Bain finally got in touch yesterday. And they want to explore investing in Gawker Media.
Here Are the Worst Moments From Fox's Attempt to Stir Up Controversy with Five-Year-Old Obama Video
Kate Bennert · 10/03/12 01:15AMAs expected, Fox News aired the 5-year-old video of Obama's speech at Hampton University that conservative bloggers—namely Tucker Carlson—tried (and failed) to make an issue of in 2008. Though there may have been a few previously unreleased segments in tonight's footage, the right-wing discussion was the same old thing: "He sure does talk funny," "But what about white people?," and "Why is he so angry?"
GOP Volunteer Calling FL Voters: 'I Don't Know if You've Done Any Research on Obama... He Is a Muslim'
Hamilton Nolan · 09/28/12 01:35PMRick Santorum on Being Conservative: 'We Will Never Have the Elite, Smart People on Our Side'
Louis Peitzman · 09/15/12 02:20PMDonald Trump Replaces Sarah Palin As Your Top GOP Webtroll
Drew Magary · 09/13/12 01:15PMThe reviews of Mitt Romney's reaction to the Libya crisis this week were uniformly damning. But Donald Trump, little orange scamp that he is, knows solid trolling material when he sees it. Which is why he just offered up the above tweet, which accuses the President of being friends with terrorists. Because at this point, why not? Your man Romney is getting his ass kicked in the polls, so why not lay all your cards out on the table and accuse the President of virtually everything possible? Terrorism. Murder. Incest. Once you've crossed the line into blatant slander, you may as well go all the way.
Sure, There's No Evidence That Akin Was Right, But It Seems Like It Might Be True
Max Read · 08/23/12 05:54PMConservative columnist Mona Charen would like to offer a "mild dissent" about Todd Akin, the Missouri senate candidate who claimed that in cases of "legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." Sure, she acknowledges, there isn't any scientific evidence, at all, to bolster that claim. But doesn't it just feel right?
BP's Olympics Ads Make Americans Completely Forget That Whole Oil Spill Thing
Hamilton Nolan · 08/09/12 08:34AMRemember how BP's relentless pursuit of profits at the expense of safety caused the Gulf of Mexico to be flooded with oil a little while ago? No. I don't remember that. Do you? Hmm. What I do remember is BP's absolutely awesome Olympic spirit!
Amtrak Incapable of Making World's Easiest Profit
Hamilton Nolan · 08/03/12 08:50AMI'm sure that railroads are a tough business. Probably takes a lot of skill and savvy to turn a profit. I'll give you that. But you know what is not a tough business in which to profit? Selling food and drinks at a virtually unlimited markup to a captive audience with no other options. Amtrak cannot even make a dollar doing that.
WSJ Columnist on Women Saved by Boyfriends in Aurora: 'I Hope They Were Worthy'
Max Read · 07/25/12 10:23AMDumb Store Wonders If 'Aurora' Is Trending Due to Kim Kardashian Dress It Sells [UPDATED]
Emma Carmichael · 07/20/12 01:22PMMSNBC Profiler Wonders if 'Dark, Trekkie-Like Person' Was Responsible for Dark Knight Shooting
Max Read · 07/20/12 10:35AMWho coud have killed 12 people at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight in Aurora, Colorado? Former FBI profiler Clint Van Zandt, appearing on MSNBC with Chuck Todd, speculates: "is this simply the terrible, terrible collision between some dark Trekkie-like person's fantasy world and reality?" Uh, Clint: no. [thanks to @ArkansasFred]
Ignoramus Americans Like the Supreme Court Less, Which Means Nothing
Hamilton Nolan · 07/19/12 01:05PMCan David Brooks Even Read the Words He Himself Is Writing?
Max Read · 07/13/12 11:44AMOh, Jeez, Mitch Albom Is All Hot and Bothered by 50 Shades of Grey
Max Read · 06/26/12 05:48PMRich liar Mitch Albom, once described by H.P. Lovecraft as "a grotesque scaly body with rudimentary wings," has written a column about 50 Shades of Grey. Reading it is like coming across a big shotgun next to a tiny barrel with an enormous, beautiful fish inside, only the fish has already hung itself from a tiny noose.
Einstein Would Have Been a Great Ad Guy, Says Ad Guy
Hamilton Nolan · 06/11/12 10:30AMI don't know about you, but when I think "People who made the wrong career choice," I think "Albert Einstein." Talk about wasting your smarts! Instead of writing papers on math things that the average consumer doesn't even understand, he could have been writing slogans, for Kit Kats™. Missed opportunities.
The Catholic Church Should Not Expect to Be Taken Seriously
Hamilton Nolan · 06/05/12 09:12AMA few years ago, Sister Margaret Farley, a nun and a teacher at Yale's Divinity School, published Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics—a book that did not say that your sexual urges are nothing more than the shameful pangs of demon penises fucking your soul which should be repressed and repressed and repressed until you are absolutely warped, underneath that church outfit. Burn the witch! Ahh, apparently we don't do that any more? Well... censure the witch!