False Flags and Roof Terrorists: Your Guide to All the Internet Horseshit

It's already begun: The wacko conspiracy theories about the Boston Marathon bombings are taking over the internet. (In fact, "it" began only 30 minutes after the explosions, when conspiracy kingpin Alex Jones pre-emptively declared it a "False Flag" attack.) Here's our rundown of the most popularāwhich is to say theā¦
It's St. Paddy's Day, Not 'St. Patty's Day'
Every year on March 17, the people of the world congratulate Alec Baldwin's 17-year-old daughter Ireland on her new modeling contract by celebrating St. Patrick's Day. Unfortunately, in their attempts to observe St. Paddy's day, many people accidentally observe "St. Patty's Day."
Welcome to the U.S. Copyright Alert System, Where Companies Can Slow Your Internet If You Download Illegally
Hope you downloaded enough episodes of Game of Thrones Sunday night to last you the rest of your life; starting this week, the five major internet service providers (AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Verizon and Time Warner Cable) have free rein to harass you with notices, block you from visiting certain websites, and evenā¦
Kate Upton and Ryan Gosling Explain the Sequester
Did you know that the federal government is on track to enact massive, across-the-board spending cuts one week from todayācuts that that could affect important government services, cost hundreds of thousands of people their jobs and greatly slow the growth of the economy? No? You didn't? It's okay: it's an incrediblyā¦
Are You Eating Horse? Europe's Growing Horse Meat Scandal Explained
NestlĆ©, the largest food company on the planet, announced today that it's recalling some of the beef pasta meals it sells in Spain and Italy. The reason? The "beef" contains horse DNA. And NestlĆ©'s not the only company. Nearly all of the U.K.'s biggest supermarkets and many of their suppliers have been forced toā¦
Your Guide to the Trillion-Dollar Platinum Coin That Obama Can Mint to Save the World
Today, New York Times columnist and Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman wrote that President Obama should be "absolutely" prepared to mint a one trillion dollar platinum coin and use it to pay the government's bills. It wasn't a typo: a lot of people are discussing the trillion-dollar coin as a way to avoid aā¦
Your Guide to the Mayan Apocalypse, the Secret Planet Nibiru, and the End of the World, Which Is Happening Tomorrow
The world is ending! Thirty-three schools in Michigan are closing "in part because the Mayan calendar predicts the world will end on Friday." The New York Post is trying to help a model have sex. And yet for some reason, you're at work, instead of your bunker/place of worship/celestial energy node. But that's becauseā¦
Kill the Head, Hope the Body Will Die: Mexican Navy Arrests Leader of the Drug War's Most Violent Cartel
One might hope that the death of Heriberto Lazcano, or "El Lazca," together with the recent capture of Said Omar JuĆ”rez ("El Peluso"), a man close to Miguel Ćngel TreviƱo Morales ("Z-40"), could point to the nearing end of the violent drug cartel Los Zetas. It could, but in reality, it is a far-fetched, unrealisticā¦
The Making and the Murder of a Mexican Cartel Kingpin
This is "Mexican Drug Blood," a regular feature on the deadly Mexican drug wars. Here, the story behind the murder of Zeta cartel boss Heriberto Lazcano.
Everything You Need to Know About R.A. Dickey, the Man Who Throws Baseball's Best and Strangest Pitch
R.A. Dickey, a starting pitcher for the New York Mets, earned his 20th win of the season two nights ago. Now everyone is talking about him, and you are standing off to the side smiling and nodding like an idiot because you thought the Met was a museum. You're a nerd, it's fine, but we wanted to help you out: Here,ā¦
The Non Sports Fan's Guide to the NFL's Replacement Referee Fiasco and Green Bay's Stolen Game
Last night, a bad call by the NFL's replacement referees cost the Green Bay Packers a win, and everyone's talking about it. Everyone except for you, hiding in your office, unable to understand 50 percent of the words in the previous sentence, faking a coughing fit every time one of your coworkers passes by. Well, nonā¦
Your Guide to the Week of Kate Middleton's Boobs and the French Magazine that Published Them
Last Friday, French gossip magazine Closer published a series of photographs of Kate Middleton sunbathing topless. Yesterday morning, police in Paris raided the publication's offices of Closer magazine, searching the building and inspecting the staff's computers in an attempt to find the name of the photographer. Andā¦
A Guide to Chicago's Ongoing Teachers' Strike
That back-to-school chill is in the air, except in Chicago, where 26,000 public school teachers and support staff are on strike and more than 350,000 students are just fucking off all day instead of learning. Even though Chicago is a dull provincial city of little national import, everybody is talking about the strikeā¦
Daily Show Correspondents Explain Modern Campaigning to the Average American Idiot
It's that time again. Convention season is over and our intrepid presidential candidates have taken to the road in a last-ditch, balls-out attempt to woo the American public in a ritual known only as "campaigning." But what exactly is this "campaigning"? And how does it work?
Two Heads, One Body, a Billion Questions: The Gawker Guide to TLC's Newest Stars, Abby & Brittany Hensel
When it was announced earlier this month that the Hensel Twins, Abby & Brittany, had been given their own TLC series (premiering tonight) people who watch TV all the time were like, "FINALLY" and people who occasionally make time for other pursuits were like, "WHAT IS HAPPENING?"

