Reddit Libertarians Accuse Obama Administration of 'Planting' Questions in AMA

President Barack Obama did a Reddit "AMA" (Ask Me Anything) this week, answering ten questions over about 30 minutes and causing the site to crash repeatedly. But it wouldn't be a real Reddit experience without mob paranoia — and, right on cue, a bunch of libertarian Reddit detectives have assembled a case that the…
CNN's Ali Velshi Learns How Important the Word 'No' Is
Around 10:15 CNN's Ali Velshi tweeted: "BREAKING: law enforcement source tells CNN there appears to be terrorism connection to the #ESBshooting." This happened several minutes after local New York City outlets reported that the man who opened fire outside the Empire State Building, so the tweet spread like wildfire.…
Top 20 Party Schools, Top 20 Sober Schools All Sound Equally Horrible
We now take such things for granted, but it's important to remember that for hundreds of years after the fall of Rome, Europe underwent a long age of violence and terror, bereft of the wisdom and knowledge of the ancients, completely ignorant of which colleges were among the 20 Party Schools. We must consider…
Phyllis Diller, 1917-2012
Legendary comedian Phyllis Diller has passed away, TMZ reports. She was 95, and had been under hospice care following a fall. Her family was with her when she died.
Trax Read: Listen to an Exclusive Mungolian Jetset Mix
Mungolian Jetset — producers Pål Nyhus (also known as DJ Strangefruit) and Knut Sævik — have always had, for better or worse, a reputation as the jokers of the small but talent-dense Norwegian house community — the weirdest, shaggiest members of a weird, shaggy scene. It's not an undeserved reputation. Their tracks…
Real-Life 50 Shades of Grey Ends in Arrest, Stalking Charge
Who would have thought that the real-life 50 Shades of Grey-style BDSM relationship between a 53-year-old Ivy-league graduate investment banker and his 27-year-old live-in slave would have ended in 40 text messages, a "knock-down, drag-out fight" and an arrest? And yet, the New York Post writes today, that's exactly…
Here's Anderson Cooper's Boyfriend Making Out With Not Anderson Cooper
Here's Anderson Cooper's boyfriend Benjamin Maisani, making out with someone who is not Anderson Cooper in a New York City park. Wait: Who? What? Where? When? Why? Allow us to answer your pressing questions.
Mitt Romney to Announce VP This Morning, But Twitter Has Already Chosen Paul Ryan
Ryan, the 42-year-old Congressman from Wisconsin (Yes, -R), appears to be the favorite choice as Mitt Romney's Veep Boy. He's definitely the most viral.
Tech Snobs Are Throwing Their Money At a New Indie Social Network
Social media has gone mainstream, and jaded geeks are totally over it. Facebook? It's turned into "sludge for the brain now, filled with fluffy rabbits and gibberish." Twitter? Just a mess of "mass-market spoonfed 'trending topics.'" Instagram? What was once the epitome of geek chic has been overrun with filthy Android
You Should Read the Pussy Riot Defendants' Powerful Closing Statements
The Pussy Riot trial — in which three members of a Russian punk collective were charged with "hooliganism" and held in jail for months over a guerrilla performance Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral (you can read more about it here) — ended yesterday with two of the defendants, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda…
Here's a Photo of Subway Jared and George W. Bush Hanging Out
Here's a photo of Subway pitchman Jared Fogle and inspirational speaker George W. Bush hanging out, taken from Jared's Facebook page.
David Rakoff, Essayist and Performer, Dead at 47
Writer, performer, and frequent NPR contributor David Rakoff has died following a three-year battle with cancer. Rakoff was born in Montreal, and lived, variously, in Toronto, London and Japan before settling in New York City, which he called "the great love of my life" and was the subject of much of his writing.…
The Mars Rover's Insanely Cheery Twitter Account Is Creeping Me Out
I love space travel as much as the next huge dork. I still have my personalized certificate for participating in NASA's 2008 "send your name to the moon" project somewhere in my file cabinet. (Not to mention the certificates for "Space Hitler," and "Poophead McGee," whose names I also sent to the moon. Hey, I was in…
Viral Video of Kid Peeing In a Restaurant Shows Chinese Loves Public Urination Scandals Too
There are few things the Internet loves more than a good peeing-in-a-restaurant scandal. In the U.S. we just had that Fort Wayne, Indiana Taco Bell worker who tweeted a picture of himself pissing on an order of Nachos BellGrande. Across the Great Firewall, Chinese internet users have been freaking out over a video of…
Justin Bieber Thinks Prince William Should Be Less Bald
Expertly coiffed pop star Justin Bieber doesn't understand why Prince William's hair is thinning.
Kim Jong-un Drew This Picture of a Mini-Golf Course For Some Reason
The life of North Korea supreme leader Kim Jong-un is so demanding. He's got to visit endless dolphinariums, watch Disney musicals and, of course, look at things. It's amazing he found time to hand sketch a picture of a mini-golf course for a government report. But he did, and here it is.
