What's The Monsanto Protection Act And Why Is It All Over Facebook?
You may have noticed a petition hosted on food advocacy groups like Food Democracy Now circulating on social media for the last week. If you're anything like me, you blithely scrolled over it in your...
View ArticlePopular 'Jew In The Box' Exhibition At Berlin's Jewish Museum Unsurprisingly...
As a Jewish person, I feel pretty confident in saying that it's almost inevitable that putting a Jewish person in a small space, ever, anywhere, will make some people angry, even if it's with the best...
View ArticleAnd Now, Aaron Eckhart and Gerard Butler's Prom Picture
(L-R) Actors Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart attend the Premiere of FilmDistrict's 'Olympus Has Fallen' at the '5 Zvezd' on March 29, 2013 in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Gennadi Avramenko/Epsilon/Getty...
View ArticleNOO: TIME's Grumpy Cat Photo Shoot Copycatted Bullett's Lil Bub Photo Shoot
Before this happened today and quickly because The Greatest Feud of Our Time, Tardar "Grumpy Cat" Sauce (right) and happy mutated accident Lil Bub (left) have been able to co-exist as two very...
View ArticlePrinceton University Mom Stands By Her 'MRS Degree' Op-Ed
When Ann-Marie Slaughter called for "the next wave of an equal-rights revolution" at a Princeton University female leadership seminar, it's unlikely that she expected one of it's speakers, Princeton...
View ArticleThe Importance of a Thigh School Education
Maurizio Domizzi of Udinese Calcio in action during the Serie A match between Udinese Calcio and Bologna FC at Stadio Friuli on March 30, 2013 in Udine, Italy. (Photo by Dino Panato/Getty Images)
View ArticleWomen's Sports Clubs Will Be Authorized in Saudi Arabia
Last year saw Saudi Arabia sending two female athletes to the Olympics for the first time in their conservative Islamic history. Now, at the behest of a number of international rights organizations,...
View ArticleSaturday Night Social: Céline Dion's Heart Goes On To Turn 45 Today
A very happy birthday to Céline Dion, whose most famous song will always conjure up images of Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio fucking in a sweaty jalopy. Above, a completely batshit live rendition...
View ArticleWhile You Were Sleeping Cory Monteith Checked Into Rehab (Again)
Glee star and "Frankenteen" Cory Monteith, who's previously been open about his troubled past as a delinquent teenager, has checked into rehab for substance abuse. His rep confirms to People:...
View ArticleAmy Poehler Is Dating Nick Kroll, Much to Our Delight
So THIS is The Best, Inc.: Amy Poehler has oh-so-quietly been dating fellow comedian Nick Kroll of The League and Best Week Ever. The two nommed on food at a restaurant on Sunset Boulevard, and...
View ArticleBeyonce Doesn't Like Labels But 'I'm a Modern-Day Feminist, I Guess'
While she's been a lightning rod for claims of both feminism and anti-feminism (particularly since announcing her Mrs. Carter World Tour), Beyoncé has tended in the past to steer clear of the F-word...
View ArticleThe One Hot Guy on Girls Quits Because He Can't Stand Lena Dunham
Say goodbye to sadsacky-turned-sexier Zuckerbergian Charlie, Marnie's (Allison Williams') chewtoy on Girls (have you guys even heard of this show? Because like NOBODY talks about it). Actor Christopher...
View ArticleAmanda Bynes Informs Twitter That She Has An Eating Disorder
Sigh. Amanda Bynes' repeated insistence on only using her (technically crappy; see above) Twitter selfies comes from a dark place, it looks like. I know: You're totally shocked. Shortly after Bynes...
View ArticleHalle Berry Is Pregnant Again, This Time With America's Hottest Male Fetus
After a tumultuous year of custody battles with her ex-husband Gabriel Aubry (the father of her 5-year-old daughter Nahla), Halle Berry, 46, has confirmed via her rep that she's pregnant again. She...
View ArticleCapybara Hot Tub Time Machine
What happens when capybaras stop being polite and start getting real? Adorable dozing. (Although I do like imagining that these capybaras are the Real World of capybaras, and we all know that all...
View ArticleCNN Writer Says Kamala Harris Incident Was NBD Because She's OK With...
Roxanne Jones, former vice president of ESPN and current CNN opinion columnist, has joined the ranks of Fox and Friends' Gretchen Carlson to opine that we should all just lighten the fuq up about...
View ArticleToss That Ironic Sweater You Were Saving: Sears Portrait Studio Is No More
Fuuuuck! If you've been meaning to do that professional hideous-Christmas-outfit group photo (or some other variation, as did my siblings and myself) for the last five years or thereabouts, we've got...
View ArticleA Depressingly Large Percentage of Nigerian Women Are Using Harmful Skin Bleach
Last September a horrific-sounding "intimate bleaching product" gained popularity in India and Thailand, which promised to make vulvas "fairer within four weeks." While the shock value garnered this a...
View ArticleKate Middleton Sees Own Reflection, Decrees Six More Weeks of Winter
Catherine, Countess of Strathearn is shown a doll of herself* by Dayna Miller which she got as a Christmas present as she stops to talk to some school children during a visit to Dumfries House on...
View ArticleBeyoncé and Jay-Z Blasted For Culturally-Ignorant Havana Vacation
Bey and Jay are currently celebrating their fifth anniversary eating, wearing tribal-printed DVF (her), smoking cigars (him), and posing with schoolchildren in Old Havana. They also brought their moms...
View ArticleFacebook Watchdog Group 'Rapebook' Throws In The Towel
Social networks' chicken-egg impact on rape culture has been discussed in detail since before the landmark case in Steubenville (and, more recently, a quite similar case in Torrington, Connecticut)....
View ArticleGerard Butler Did The Harlem Shake With British Soldiers
Gerard Butler, man, you are late to the game. But I'll give it to you because of that prom photo you took with Aaron Eckhart. [via NYDN]
View ArticleCat Marnell's Friends Are Nervous That She Now Has $500,000 To Buy Drugs With
Enabling! What does it mean?! Are we all doing it?! Or, as we all remember from the iconic bedtime story of our childhood: If you give a mouse a cookie, it might overdose on heroin. As we've...
View ArticleThe First Annual Feminist Porn Conference Is Today
(They're prawns!) I think we're all glad that the porn industry is no longer limited to Bang Bus. But now that free amateur porn on the Internet has more-or-less usurped the market that used to be...
View ArticleWith Arms Thighed Open
Stuart Hooper of Bath is tackled by Paul Warwick of Stade Francais during the Amlin Challenge Cup Quarter Final match between Bath and Stade Francais at the Recreation Ground on April 06, 2013 in...
View ArticleSaturday Night Social: Melissa McCarthy Returns With Gusto To SNL
Melissa McCarthy hosts Saturday Night Live tonight for the second time, and, above, charms the shit out of everyone while discussing her first time on the show with alum Jimmy Fallon. (The quick...
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