I was flipping around the TV last weekend and came upon Tim Burton’s Charlie And The Chocolate…
“The unemployment rate is projected to continue rising for another year before topping out in…
What we’re all watching today! Two shocking videos about violence, both with bearing…
Two things to read! Why I Write For Free, which has to do somewhat with this Ben Kunkel n+1 recent piece about the experience of the Internet, which we could barely address except via LOLcat last…
Sharks: they’re just like us, if we’re killers: “Great white sharks and serial killers such as the Yorkshire Ripper stalk their victims in a similar way, scientists have found. Using methods pioneered by criminologists, researchers have discovered that…
Don’t be sweating that up to 3 million votes in Iran could be dicey or, you know, fake. A Guardian Council spokesman explained that “voter turnout of above 100% in some cities is a normal phenomenon because there is no legal limitation for…
Want to know if your company is about to go under on account of crookedness on an epic…
The SEC is now officially after the Cohmad Securities Corporation for knowingly steering funds to the Madoff Ponzi scheme-and also Stanley Chais, who had all the Hollywood Jewish money. (OKAY NOT ALL OF IT. But once you have Spielberg’s….)
I subscribed to that Mine magazine thing, a project of Time Inc. which unfortunately is not a trade publication about ore extraction. It is instead a magazine that assembles bits of other magazines to make a magazine that speaks to…
Thanks for clearing that up.
Spotted, just now, in the sky above The Awl offices: a brightish spherical object that appears to be…
News today that popular blog “Look At This Fucking Hipster” has been picked up by St. Martin’s Press to be turned into a book reminds me of something very eerie that I received over the weekend. It claimed to be a dispatch from the future, although it was hard…
There’s more agita for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Currently embroiled in controversy over his relationship with a buxom teenage model, the scandal-plagued premier is now facing accusations that some of his associates recruited young women to…
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced today that he would not seek the Democratic nomination for California governor in 2010 so that he could better focus on fucking attractive TV reporters his city’s financial troubles.
After the brilliant success of his plan to bring (additional) chaos to the New York State Legislature, former Buffalo businessman Tom Golisano is reportedly considering a run for the open U.S. Senate seat in his new home state of Florida. This will probably…
“Goldman Sachs staff can look forward to the biggest bonus payouts in the firm’s 140-year history after a spectacular first half of the year.” Got it.
Anyone who tells you that they know how the current situation in Iran will play out has no idea what they’re talking about, but no matter what happens there have already been a number of images that can only be considered iconic from the week of protests. The Boston Globe’s Big Picture blog has an excellent collection of photos here.
“It’s not true,” says South Carolina governor Mark Sanford’s spokesman. The governor is not “missing.” Though, as everyone is hilariously enjoying, his wife doesn’t know where he is, and he skipped out of Father’s Day with the kids. So now his spokesman…
The Supreme Court has voted 8–1 against striking down Section 5-the “preclearance” section requiring judicial or Justice Department approval of attempts to change voter qualifications in areas historically inhospitable to universal suffrage-of the Voting Rights Act…
This happened on Friday night, and we’re just getting to it now, but whatever, why are you still online anyway? Enjoy this video of Triumph The Insult Comic Dog at the big Bonnaroo music fest in Tennessee. [Via]
