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more about #controversies more comments → Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: And here I thought nerds only cared about hair pie. The more you know . . . more » FitnessMadeSimple: Oh, hey, good idea. Let's make a statement about how intolerant these folks are by being intolerant! And then we can put out a poorly-written press re... more » Sergio Hernandez: And of course it's the same group of Che Guevara wannabes who "occupied" the Kimmel dining hall last year. [gawker.com] Maybe they're angling for PE... more » DahlELama: Well, I for one am proud to see kids from my alma mater spreading a solid message to the public. Oh, what's that? The message you intended to send wa... more » BettyCrocker: The event, entitled "The Jihad Still Threatens America," encouraged viscous Islamophobia and promoted aggressive military intervention in majority Mus... more » raincoaster: I've read the article Langewiesche wrote for VF, and Sully's right. It's really just the macguffin to sell the book and differentiate it from the othe... more » TheBusinessGuy: Well, I haven't read the book, or Sully's, for that matter, but as anyone who has ever worked with anything automated knows, it's the human who makes ... more » iplaudius: I thought that multiple A320 pilots went on record saying that certain features of the automated cockpit made it more difficult to execute the maneuve... more » BookishLookish: Plane-Loving Minutiae Boy vs. Big Clangin' Balls Guy In the ring, gents. #sully more » Rasselas: There's no wire for keeping your cool, Billy. #sully more » pollyannacowgirl: Jellis h8r! #sully more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: I am going to suggest that Sully landed in the river ***despite*** the automated pilot, and that the automated pilot was doing everything the hell it ... more » naugahydeinplainsight: Langewiesche seems to want it both ways, happy to stir up controversy but sort of mealy mouthed when the subject talks back. Now he tells the Times a... more » Mrs. Beeton: Anyone seen those Sully at St. Jude commercials yet? He's like "I'm not a hero. These tiny children deciding to exist in spite of the constant horribl... more » stew: TRUE STORY: the original title of this book was, "Bish, Plz, My Kid Could Land Planes in the Hudson All Day. NEXT." #sully more » -
#jihad
NYU Tolerancemongers Attack Intolerance With Pie
Last week, Forbes columnist and NYU professor Tunku Varadarajan won our Outrage-off for his column about crazy Muslim murderers lurking amongst us. NYU radicals have struck back with a revolutionary pie-ing of Varadarajan's Islamaphobic allies! More » -
#feuds
Hero Pilot Smacks Down Fancy Book-Learnin' About Hero Plane!
Unflappable (except by geese, ha) hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger is not sitting idly by while fancy writer William Langewiesche (pron. "Lain-guh-wees-chay-guevara") offers up his trashy "scientific theories" about Sully's famous crashed plane. Everyone listen, Sully is saying something confrontational! More » -
#television
Who's Turned on Family Guy?
After much deliberation, Microsoft has decided against sponsoring the upcoming Family Guy special, 'Seth MacFarlane's Holocaust Incest Tampon Hour.' They join an illustrious list of Family Guy haters.
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#advertising
Are Booze Ads Making You a Drunk?
Whoa: The British Medical Association is urging a complete ban on alcohol advertising and sponsorships in England, home to many drunks. But the media needs that money! Who's more disingenuous here—ad agencies, media companies, or doctors? It's close! More » -
#journalismism
College Paper Uproar: Masturbation Masturbation Masturbation
The editor of Towson University's college newspaper has resigned amid scandal. Sexy scandal! The Towson University community was just not ready for sexy mutual masturbation talk. What? It's natural and human. Masturbation 69 orgasm dildo masturbation masturbation. What? Be mature. More » -
#freespeech
Big Scary Cartoonist Coming to Scare Yale
Speaking of idiotic uproars over cartoons, at colleges: The guy who drew the Danish Muhammad cartoon that set off worldwide riots is coming to Yale—the provincial little school whose University Press allows religious psychos to dictate what it publishes. More » -
#shutupcollege
College Kids Miss The Point, As Usual
Oh look, the black cartoonist Keith Knight dared to draw a black guy in a noose in this recent K Chronicles strip, and now "Students at a western Pennsylvanian school are outraged." Shut up, Slippery Rock University. More » -
#badeducation
Right's Asinine 'Indoctrination' War Hurts School Kids
President Obama announced that he will give a speech welcoming America's young students into the new school year. Conservatives, happy to fight about anything this man does, came out swinging against the President's "socialist" intentions. And they're winning!
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#badvertising
WWF Actually Did Know About 9/11 Ad
Just to make sure everyone is extremely clear on who did what here: the World Wildlife Fund is not just an innocent victim of a bad rogue ad agency in this whole 9/11 ad fiasco. More » -
#controversies
Eleven More Companies Flee Glenn Beck
Poor, sad sack Glenn Beck has even more woes than just unwarranted, and ill-advised, threats on his life. Eleven more companies have decided to pull their ads from his Fox News program. Who are they? More » -
#controversies
Killer British Weed Makes Kids Go Loco, Moms Write Books
In the UK there's a magical strain of skunk weed: It addicts teenagers, turns them psycho, prompts their mom to write a tell-all book, and then sends the nation into an uproar over said book. And it's coming to America! More » -
#controversies
The Glenn Beck Ad Boycott List
Today, GMAC Financial Services confirmed that it's no longer advertising on Glenn Beck's show. How many advertisers have deserted him now? Let's tally them up:
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#cowards
Yale Press Sides With Religious Fanatics Over Own Author
Yale University Press is publishing a book about the Danish Muhammad cartoon controversy of 2005. But Yale will not publish any images of the cartoons, or Muhammad, because Yale University Press is run by freedom-disregarding accommodationist pussies. More » -
#idolhands
Let's Read the Paula Abdul Tea Leaves
Covering American Idol is often like reporting on a maze wrapped in an enigma washed down with a mystery. Could it be the entire free world—including us—was duped into thinking Paula Abdul walked away from TV's biggest show? More » -
#biteme
Karma Attacks, Beats Wrigley's Chris Brown Campaign
Last year, Wrigley designed the world's most evil stealth marketing campaign ever, with a fella by the name of Chris Brown. Now they've finally ended it. It just took a little domestic violence to convince them to stop killing music! More » -
#controversies
Richard Wolffe's Ethical Swamp Grows Even Murkier
MSNBC and Richard Wolffe have been taking heat for Wolffe's employment at the network as a political analyst and guest host for Keith Olbermann while also working as a lobbyist/publicist. Now Wolffe's secret Obama book proposal has been revealed. More » -
#controversies
The Time Gawker Put the Washington Post Out of Business
Spurred on by his editor, a Washington Post reporter complained over the weekend that we "stole" his profile of a ridiculous "generational guru" when we blogged about it on this site. Our question: where's your outrage at your editors?
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#journalismism
Daily News Reporter: Crazy Met Man Lies
Yesterday the New York Mets fired their VP of player development for being a psycho—then tried to insinuate that a Daily News beat writer sabotaged the guy in order to steal his job. Today the reporter responds: No, liar. More » -
#usa
Greedy Danes Attack American Mermaid Art
As if small-town America didn't have its hands full dealing with the death of manufacturing jobs and the crystal meth epidemic, now it has to worry about some money-grubbing Danes demanding payment for big-breasted mermaid statue knockoffs. Where's the outrage? More » -
#theend
CNN Boss Tells Lou Dobbs: Birther Story is 'Dead'
CNN president Jon Klein has had just about emotherfuckingnough of this "Birther" shit on his network. Klein sent out this email last night telling Lou Dobbs et al that "this story is dead." More »
