Clive Goodman (pictured) covered the royal family for UK tabloid News of the World until 2007, when he was convicted of phone hacking and sent to prison. Now, a newly released letter from Goodman says that—surprise—everyone at the paper knew about phone hacking, which was routine.
As Marge Simpson once put it, "We can't afford to shop in any store that has a philosophy." And the same might easily be said of anyone considering working at one, too. Welcome back to the Whole Foods Experience, where Whole Foods workers past and present—newly liberated by one Canadian employee's explosive kiss-off…
Shortly after hitting send on his withering, now-legendary resignation letter, the former employee of a Toronto-area Whole Foods flew to South Korea to begin an exciting new career chapter, far, far away from sociopathic co-workers who walk into people. He has so far ignored our requests for comment—but you haven't!
Late Friday afternoon, an employee of the Whole Foods Market in Toronto sent this epic resignation letter to the entire company. It's an alternatingly amusing, enlightening, and occasionally infuriating read—but a good read, nonetheless.
The US Postal Service: who cares about it? Nobody, which is why you better get ready for three-days-a-week mail delivery. "Says who?!" you scoff, just as you scoff at our nation's hardworking postal carriers. Says the boss, that's who:
Check out Mark Zuckerberg's fancy new stationery, featuring embossed paper that reads "FROM THE DESK OF MARK ZUCKERBERG, FOUNDER & CEO OF FACEBOOK." Ben Barry, a graphic designer who works at Facebook, explains its purpose:
Forty-two United States Senators have signed a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding more prosecutions over adult pornography via the "vigorous" enforcement of federal obscenity laws. The Obama administration has not filed any new adult obscenity cases, because it has plenty of other actual work to do than…
Among businesses, the initial reaction to the concept of Groupon was: "Give our shit away for half price? Well, it's good advertising." But now, that reaction is changing to: "Give our shit away for half price? Ehhh."
As you may have noticed, the Huffington Post's name begins with the letter "H." But don't say it! Because they've trademarked it. The letter, that is. So it's theirs now.
Tunisia has been epically chaotic lately, which is why we thought it was odd that the U.S. embassy there was closed on Martin Luther King Day. Now our ambassador there has found the time to write Gawker an angry letter.
British musician/activist Billy Bragg has no love for the racist British National Party, which he campaigned against in a recent general election. Now someone (BNP perhaps?), is sending his neighbors a letter calling him a "socialist leftist marxist." Sounds familiar!
Dear Michelle Obama, I think your husband should legalize immigration. Please put a statue of me in Echo Park.
Madonna apparently doesn't work well with others. She also hates actresses (and Chicago).
"One good tactic for speeding up a deal is to show lack of interest in it," writes Donald Trump in Trump: How to Get Rich. Trump ignored our offer Friday to buy his silence. The appropriate response? Press ahead, clearly.
Yesterday Donald Trump offered to buy the site of the proposed "Ground Zero Mosque," thereby ending the "highly divisive situation." To end the highly annoying antics of Donald Trump and his PR minions, we hereby offer to buy his silence.
Once in a while it's important to do some public good on this site (tax reasons, mostly), so here we go: Please help this woman and her children meet the kids' favorite band, Bon Jovi. Here's the story.
Remember that Real Housewives of New Jersey episode with the epic (read: trashy) weave-pulling/fight between Danielle and Ashley/everyone at the North Jersey Country Club? (Watch here.) Well, a tipster emailed us a letter from the club... they've all been banned!
Lindsay Lohan is getting 250 letters a day in jail. You've been using your postcards!
In your party-oriented Wednesday media column: the NYT launches a nightlife column, Julie Chen prepares to take on The View, ads masquerading as news in L.A., and One Man: Two Identical Letters to the Editor.
Here is a good, interesting story in the Washington Post about the people who write to Barack Obama, why they write, and the process by which some of their letters reach the president. It is heart-warming and kinda sad, too.
