Be Less Stupid.
You may remember how last Memorial Day, Miami Beach police officers gunned down black tourists and seized the cellphones of anyone recording the cops in action. (Spoiler: the shot bystanders, ignored for a full year now, are suing!) Well, Urban Beac…
Here is a tweet that Gawker writer Max Read retweeted a few days ago. RT @DavidWinkies: @max_read actually if you call a lawyer and say you're white a dude and str8, they say you have no case #truestory— max read (@max_read) May 23, 2012 So, sor…
I'd love to be able to say, as one does about C.S. Lewis, “oh, I didn't get the super-offensive subtext about how Muslims inadvertently worship a flaming devil-beast, even though Jesus will still consider taking them to heaven so long as they don't …
Every profile of Joan Didion begins the same way: some quasi-poetic observation of the slight figure she cuts out there in the world, seguing to a contrast with what has often been called the “steely” quality of her prose. (Most hilariously awkward …
Portland, Maine, was my first city. I grew up outside it, in Cape Elizabeth, so I always think I know it, but every time I go home, I find it slowly turning into a better place than I remembered, maybe even the place I’ll want to return to someday. …
While the ultra-Orthodox steadily streamed down the 7 train platform and onto the pavilion, a group of four teenagers sat around the big red New York Mets apple, waiting for their friends. This was last night, an hour or so before the Citi Field gat…
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*SCREAMING* (Cult movie like, movie about a cult; not cult movie like “cult movie.”)
I ventured from lower Manhattan to Prospect Park this past Saturday with all intentions of enjoying myself at The Great GoogaMooga, an unfortunately titled food and music festival featuring some of New York’s biggest, baddest-ass culinary luminaries…
Here are just 17 seconds of the worst non-dentistry-related three minutes of my life. Did you enjoy broing down with rockstar chefs and hacky sacks at the Great GoogaMooga Festival in Prospect Park yesterday? Did you enjoy standing in endless lines?…
“Humility—the acceptance that being human is good enough—is the… “True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of …
One of McDonald’s most divisive products, the McRib, made its return last…
The word “hated” adorns Hunter Moore's social-media bios. He has drawn the…
Since we gathered a truly huge pile of data from our online dating survey,…
An insanely over-analyzed interpretation of a less than meaningless song.
When I started going to Tea Party meetings two years ago, I was sympathetic.…
During Hurricane Irene weekend, while holed up in a friend's apartment and…
Zero minutes after incident (a.i.) Pain. Ow. That’s real pain. I move her off me and roll onto my stomach.…
Columnists, Rick Paulas, Listicle Without Commentary, serial killers
From time to time I am asked by young people for advice in matters of work and…
Happy 30 birthday to the the most lovable alien. However, E.T. wasn't…
A few may also be called “dishes you absolutely must bring ” depending on what…
This will ruin your Memorial Day weekend, Patriots.
