There Are No Candidates For the Middle Class
Important news in the class war: major presidential candidates of both parties are reportedly "aligned" on the issue of income inequality. What does that mean?
Why are hedge funds rushing to rebrand themselves as anything besides "hedge funds?" As one hedge fund manager explains, "Labels can create a lot of emotions."
"I actually want to live in a world where Jonah [Lehrer] should get another chance, even though I really understand that he made some really stupid mistakes," Jon Ronson, author of So You've Been Publicly Shamed, tells New York magazine. Lehrer's next book, The Smarter Screen, is available for preorder from Amazon.…
Allison Williams: Trust My Dad Because of This Story About a Dance
Allison Williams, a woman who has not (to the best of my knowledge) ever undergone a DNA paternity test, says you can trust her father.
The Friendly Beauty Industry "Validates" That Millennials Look Old
If you ever reach the soothing point of equilibrium at which it is possible to stop feeling that the advertising industry is constantly manipulating you, I encourage you to stop and consider this new ad campaign for skin care for 20somethings—who are, let's face it, looking a little decrepit.
The Most Hilarious Talking Point: Republicans Against Inequality
Presidential campaigns have no shortage of factually empty platitudes and gross hypocrisy deployed for political gain. It's early still, but I'll wager that the 2016 campaign will see no more scoff-worthy talking point that the Republicans' sudden concern about economic inequality.
Car Manufacturers Have Been Faking Our Engine Noises Is Nothing Sacred
If you bought a car recently, I'm sorry to tell you your "badass" engine noise is probably just a recording of someone else's badass engine, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Here Is the Latest Bold Lie From Thomas Friedman
"I've never been a fan of global conferences to solve problems," writes floating mustache Thomas Friedman in his newspaper column today. Really?
France's Daily Show Caught Fox News in a Lie About Muslim "No-Go Zones"
Fox News had to issue a correction Saturday night to a story about Muslim "no-go zones" in Britain and France, so called because they operate under Sharia law and non-Muslims and police just don't go there. Correction: No-go zones don't actually exist.
Frank Luntz Says This Election Meant What He Was Paid to Say it Meant
There must be plenty of people who think about politics who have reactions to Tuesday's election results. Rather than bringing in any of them, though, the New York Times opinion section decided to run a piece today by the fraud and shill Frank Luntz.
The Fairy Tale of the "Lone Wolf" Terrorists
After 13 years of a spectacularly destructive and unnecessary "War on Terror" it is disheartening that this must be said, but it's better to say it now, before its legend grows: fear not the "lone wolf." All you have to fear is the myth of terror itself.
Walmart Spokesman Lied. What? Not a Walmart Spokesman!
Top Walmart spokesman David Tovar has reportedly resigned after the company found that he lied on his resume about receiving a college degree. Lying? Not Walmart spokesman David Tovar!
There Is No Such Thing as a Chesapeake "Crab Boil," Suckers
"Crab boils date back centuries on the Chesapeake Bay," write the people who are selling "crab boil" events—for $67—in New York City. These people are frauds and liars, selling ersatz "authenticity," pretentious unpretentiousness, a twee New York fabrication that has nothing to do with the tradition it wishes to evoke.
Here Is a List of Wars That Started Over Major Horseshit
Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson launched strikes against North Vietnam for attacking U.S. warships without provocation in the Tonkin Gulf. Six days later, Congress passed a "Gulf of Tonkin resolution" giving Johnson carte blanche to make war in Vietnam. It was a thin pretext for protracted conflict.
"About 57% of men and 51% of women aged 18-24 'have not had sex in the last year,'" and "only 36% of men reported having watched at least one pornographic film in the last year," according to a new book of lies.
Senate Panel Rips Dr. Oz a New One for Lying to Your Fat Face
Dr. Mehmet Oz—of the The Dr. Oz Show fame—was hauled in front of a Senate panel today to answer for all the dubious benefits he claims certain weight loss products will provide. Products that he officially endorses with his name on the label. Products that he shills on his nationally-syndicated daytime television…
You'll Never Guess Hillary Clinton's Favorite Book
Some people like Hillary Clinton. Other people dislike Hillary Clinton. However you feel about Hillary Clinton, it is difficult to deny that she is one of the most cold and calculating political figures in all the land.
We Will Now Correct a Vice Media Co-Founder's Lie
We would like to briefly correct a lie about our reporting told by Vice Media co-founder Suroosh Alvi in an interview this week.
This guy duped Judge Judy with a made-up story about killing a cat and lived to tell about it. "If nothing else, the stonewashed, wide-leg, boot-cut jeans that [Judy] was wearing under her gown when she walked out really intimidated me."
