This Insane Samsung Ad Is Insane for a Reason That Samsung Wants Hidden

Reddit spent a good chunk of yesterday and this morning justifiably ragging on this Samsung ad for featuring "possibly the world's worst actors."

Reddit spent a good chunk of yesterday and this morning justifiably ragging on this Samsung ad for featuring "possibly the world's worst actors."
Last last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) delivered a masterful defense of her proposed update to the bank-regulating Glass-Steagall Act on CNBC's "Squawk Box," effectively shutting down co-anchor Brian Sullivan's claim that government can't do anything to rein in financial risk.
An ostensibly polite request found posted outside the She & Him concert at last week's Toronto Urban Roots Fest asking attendees not to snap photos or shoot video of the duo was actually pretty aggressive, as some fans who flouted the ban quickly discovered.
Users of China's home-brewed Twitter-alike Weibo have been having some fun this week with photos of the phenomenally phallic Beijing headquarters-to-be of the state-run People's Daily newspaper.
Shortly after finishing first in an obviously rigged 1,000-meter horse race this past Sunday, Turkmenistan's "superhero" president Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov was caught on camera getting thrown off his trusty steed "Mighty."
Philip "Phil" Penny stars as a Situation knock-off in Ireland's "drink-sodden" answer to Jersey Shore, Tallafornia.
Iceland could (but probably won't) become the first Western democracy to censor Internet porn. Halla Gunnarsdóttir, an adviser to the interior minister, explains the country's anti-smut rationale to The Guardian:
A Taco Bell ad chastising party-poopers who bring veggie platters to Game Day has been pulled following a Twitter campaign launched by the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
As it turns out, Jackie Chan is not very grateful to the country that helped him roundhouse kick his way into an estimated $130 million fortune. Speaking on a television show in Hong Kong, Chan had some harsh words for the good ol' U. S. of A.
Ten elementary school performances of a play about two male penguins raising a hatchling together have been canceled by the Austin school district over concerns about "age appropriateness."
China's government has once again shut down Google+ (all Google sites) as it meets to choose new government leadership.
As K-pop megastar Psy brings his invisible-horse-riding dance to the UN, elsewhere another celebrated Asian artist is turning to "Gangnam Style" to spread a political message, though of a very different sort.
Earlier today, Twitter blocked its first account, a German neo-Nazi group that German police say is a "criminal organization." This is the first time Twitter has ever censored a user's account. Unless, of course, you count Guy Adams, who was temporarily banned after NBC complained to Twitter about Adams's criticism of…
Michael Brutsch, the Texas man behind the notorious Reddit troll Violentacrez, was fired this weekend, one day after Gawker outed him in an article Friday. This is not surprising, as Brutsch had built his online reputation on distributing pictures of underaged girls in bikinis and being offensive as possible.