1000WORDS/Shutterstock It may feel like home, but it’s actually the McDonalds of the internet. It’s a hubbub that’s been bubbling to the surface over the past couple of months: In accordance with the company’s guidelines, Facebook is quixotically enforcing its “real names” policy, with the primary targets for enforcement thus far being drag queens, burlesque […]
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Joan Rivers, Pioneering Comedian-Turned-Contentious TV Personality, Has Died
The official word, from Rivers’ friends and employers at E!: Joan Rivers has passed away at 81 years old. Her daughter, Melissa Rivers, released the following statement: “It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my mother. She passed peacefully at 1:17pm surrounded by family and close friends. My son and I […]
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Jezebel: “We Have a Rape Gif Problem and Gawker Media Won’t Do Anything About It”
The staff at Jezebel—the feminist wing of the Gawker Media empire—posts an open letter: For months, an individual or individuals has been using anonymous, untraceable burner accounts to post gifs of violent pornography in the discussion section of stories on Jezebel. The images arrive in a barrage, and the only way to get rid of […]
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Hell Hath No Fury Like an Early-’80s Teenager Whose Father Recorded Over Her VHS Tape of Beloved MTV Videos
Anyone who knows me well has heard a million stories about the hilarity of my beloved friend Mindy. Here is a recently unearthed letter written by Mindy when she was 13 years old, after her father recorded over her MTV videos with the Larry Holmes v. Gerry Cooney fight. Bow down, bitches.
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“A Burger Has Never Made Me Cry Before”
And a Burger King video has never made me want to puke before. (Unless we count slaughterhouse footage as a Burger King video, which we probably should.) It’s a fine line between support and pandering, and for me, the above video coats that line in bloody gay cow guts.
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“How the National Organization for Marriage Doomed Itself to Collapse”
Thank God for Slate writer Mark Joseph Stern’s deeply heartening roundup of the rise and fall of the National Organization for Marriage. A sample (bolds mine): [T]he exact same factors that led to NOM’s success have helped to hasten its decline and fall. From the get-go, the group has simply refused to play by the […]
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Rachel Maddow Tracks Cliven Bundy’s Insanity to Its Roots
…and grills all those (FOX News, Rand Paul, the National Review) who mindlessly championed this radical racist (who did a perfectly good job of telegraphing his extreme views. The evidence will amaze you.) The moral: “Do your homework before you try to mainstream a guy like this.” Watch.
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A Room of One’s Own
Neil Breen’s Fateful Findings Will Explode Your Brain with Amazing Terribleness
Neil Breen’s Fateful Findings will explode your brain.
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Mormon Woman Made Insane by Frozen
Mormon Woman Made Insane by Frozen Thanks to her goddamned grandkids, a Mormon grandma has been made to repeatedly watch Disney’s Frozen, and she’s not happy about what she’s found. From her 3,700-word treatise at A Well-Behaved Mormon Woman: The gay agenda to normalize homosexuality is woven into Disney’s movie Frozen not just as an […]
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The Only Presidents Day Songs Humanity Will Ever Require
Created by Dina Martina, (AKA genius Grady West). Find the full Dina Martina Holiday Album at iTunes!
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Just When I Thought I Couldn’t Love Dale Hansen Any More…
…he goes on Ellen and says more things that make me want to carry him through the streets on my shoulders. For those needing a refresher: Dale Hansen is the Dallas sportscaster whose eloquent address regarding the coming out of American football player Michael Sam went viral earlier this week. (Not only did he concisely […]