Is This Gay-Themed Taco Bell Commercial Real?

Earlier this month, a video titled “LEAKED GAY TACO BELL COMMERCIAL” appeared on YouTube. It depicts two guys consuming Taco Bell, playing skee ball, riding a Ferris Wheel, cuddling on a picnic blanket, unearthing buried treasure (?), getting married, and riding a jet-ski and a motorcycle together. And Taco Bell won’t…
Is There a Bill de Blasio Sex Tape?
Here is an interesting story: The New York Times points out today that the January 2015 issue of Vanity Fair contains a reference to a sex tape depicting New York City mayor Bill de Blasio. Let’s look. First, check out the cover:
Long-Lost Painting Was Being Used as a Hollywood Prop
A long-lost Hungarian masterpiece was hiding in plain sight all along—as a prop on the set of the Stuart Little movie.
Mysteries Abound in the Case of the Three-Wheeled New Jersey Driver
Where was this desperate New Jersey woman headed, speeding around Newark on three tires, and who was the mysterious limo rider who orchestrated her arrest? ANIMAL New York has the strange story.
Report: Piece of Amelia Earhart's Plane Found on Island Where She Died
The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery claims that a scrap of aluminum recovered from Nikumaroro, an uninhabited atoll in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, belongs to Amelia Earhart's plane. The new purported evidence supports a theory that the doomed pilot made a forced landing on an island in the…
The Secret Service hooker scandal, featuring a Yale graduate named Jonathan “Jonny” Dach, was apparently exposed in a bizarre, anonymous poem posted on the website of Yale Rumpus in May 2013.
Black Americans Distrust the Police For Some Reason
Public polling offers us evidence-based insight into the beliefs of the American people. But it cannot offer us explanations. For example, a shocking number of black people seem to have little faith in the police. But why?
Which CEOs Asked The New York Times to Keep Their Sexuality a Secret?
Between Aaron Schock, Michael Sam, and the male American populace, The New York Times still considers being gay a newsworthy event. But in their latest report on the topic, the paper reveals that a certain number of wealthy, powerful C.E.O.s persuaded the Times to keep a lid on their sexuality. So who are they?
Strangers Moved Into a Man's House and Changed the Locks
Rod Nylund recently closed on a home in northeast Portland. He hired a contractor to do some work on the house. But when the contractor arrived at the home, he found people were already living there. Confused, Nylund called his realtor, who had come to discover that the people living in his home had changed the locks…
Someone Smeared Poop on Cop Cars in Greenwich Village
Police officers returned to their cars outside an NYPD Athletic League building in Greenwich Village with human excrement smeared on the door handles. Someone (or multiple people!) really wanted to give the police some shit.
Lauren, Please Don’t Kill Jake Tapper
A few minutes ago, CNN anchor Jake Tapper tweeted—and quickly deleted—two mysterious messages: “Please don’t make it soubd [sic] like I reached out to you” and “Lauren would kill me.” Both appear to be directed at someone Tapper was trying to reach via Twitter’s direct message function. What do they mean?
Is Taylor Swift Living, and Maybe in Love, With a Woman?
Last Saturday, The Mail on Sunday reported that pop-country singer Taylor Swift was secretly shacking up with 22-year-old supermodel and close friend Karlie Kloss in Swift’s Beverly Hills mansion. But was there more to the Mail’s sapphic insinuations?
I Know You Are but What Am I? Hannity Snaps Back at Twitter Trolls
What did Sean Hannity whisper in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ear during their post-interview slow dance? He's still not telling—and he doesn't much like your guessing, either. This morning the Fox News personality took some time to respond personally to a few of the many Twitter users who took…
Brooklyn Lawyer Arrested For Not Actually Being a Lawyer
A man accused of identity theft was in a federal court today after he was exposed as having impersonated Stephen G. Dickerman, a lawyer with an office in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn that has been involved in at least 12 federal cases since 2012. At his arraignment today, the man's lawyer insisted on the charade, telling…
