April 21, 2010 – Here is another hot bit of Manhattan media gossip for you influentials: this is my last day at Gawker. To say it's been an amazing experience would be a ridiculous understatement. First of all, insidery listicles aside, I will still be writing mostly the same things about mostly the same monsters. More »

April 21, 2010 – Media news! Former Gawker editor Gabriel Snyder is now the Executive Editor of Newsweek Digital. First they join Tumblr, then they hire a Gawker editor—Newsweek is the hip newsweekly! (Now you can probably expect a bunch of former and current Gawker writers to start contributing nonsense... More »

April 21, 2010 – Tablets, notebooks, and netbooks—there are so many options for mobile computing these days. But which one is right for you? I have no idea! But it's my last day at Gawker! More »

April 21, 2010 – There are two ways to tackle the Mark Leibovich profile of his old friend Mike "Morning-Winner" Allen, and the Politico celebrity tabloid that Allen composes a newsletter for: More »

April 21, 2010 – The same morning the New York Times posts their monster magazine profile of Politico newsletter savant Mike Allen, Politico management announces a high-profile hiring! More »

April 20, 2010 – Oh boy—Michael Calderone is... teasing the upcoming Mark Leibovich story on the hellish "journalism-alternative" sweatshop that is Politico. On Twitter. More »

April 20, 2010 – Openly gay Iraq vet and activist Dan Choi chained himself to the White House fence again, and was arrested, again. Police chased away the reporters trying to cover the demonstration, which is, if not unprecedented, at least unusual.

April 20, 2010 – The new, improved, reasonable Bill O'Reilly interviewed the new, improved, hard-right extremist John McCain, and the Senator had an interesting justification for his support of Arizona's vile new immigration law: More »

April 20, 2010 – Andrew Cuomo, currently running for governor of our hearts (and, unofficially, for governor of the state of New York), has filed suit against New York State Senator Pedro Espada Jr. More »

April 20, 2010 – Washington DC will never, ever get a vote in Congress. Their best chance ever just ended ignominiously because Republicans added an amendment gutting DC's gun laws.

April 20, 2010 – The Supreme Court has struck down a federal law against videos depicting animal cruelty. The justices voted 8-1 to overturn the ban on free speech grounds, with only Samuel Alito dissenting. The law was aimed at so-called "crush videos," which were a thing to be hysterical about in the '90s. More »

April 19, 2010 – "Is Miley Cyrus the Next Leftist Trojan Horse Into Country Music?" Yes, says Brian Cherry, freelance writer and contributor to World Poker Tour Magazine, at BigHollywood.com.

April 19, 2010 – Here is a terrible, tragic story about the separation of an elderly gay couple by Sonoma County, California, the subsequent death of one member of that couple, and the auctioning of their property. More »

April 19, 2010 – Even the flawed Politico-sponsored "exit poll" after last Tax Day's Tea Party showed that basically all the Tea Partiers voted for Bush and McCain. So let's keep constantly polling them and desperately trying to win their favor, ok, media outlets?

April 19, 2010 – I cannot wait for April 26, when Shanghai's Obama Entertainment Club opens. This is surely why Obama constantly bows to Chinese people. Visit the official website (© 2010 Obarma Club) for some awesome embedded music that you cannot turn off.

April 19, 2010 – Because Bill Clinton politely asked fringe conservatives to stop encouraging violence against the government on the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, Michele Bachmann has decided that he wants to "take her out." In a killing sense. More »

April 19, 2010 – Because God personally blessed such behavior when he whispered the Constitution into George Washington's ear, "several dozen" "self-proclaimed patriots" will openly carry loaded firearms at a demonstration in a Virginia national park today. Daniel Almond will have a loaded pistol, a rifle, and a... More »

April 16, 2010 – This week, Oprah canceled prom because John Cook left. Here are Gawker's scientifically-determined posts of the week, sorted by new visitors in the last hour. An investigation into the strange, sad world of paying Snooki to dance! A huge fucking fireball that destroyed most of Madison, Wisconsin. More »

April 16, 2010 – So, financial regulation. Let's try to talk about it for a second. Blanche Lincoln suddenly wants to ban banks from derivative trading, which is awesome, but who knows how the rest of this thing will shake out. We know that the GOP has already begun to engage in attacks so ridiculous that it will... More »