It's not as bad as dying shortly after your exoneration, but being shot 15 minutes after being released from serving 15 years in prison is still pretty bad.
White TV Reporter Is All, 'Here's Wyclef. No? Wale. No? Hmm...'
Below is a brief but shockingly accurate dramatic reenactment of what you will see in the video above, from last night's campaign coverage:
Nathaniel Wartzman's Friends Are Smoking Weed
Let's get one thing clear: Randye Hoder, a mom, is no narc. She is such a non-narc that she wrote an entire column in the New York Times' parenting blog about how she would never narc, no matter what her 14 year-old son Nathaniel (who has her husband's last name, Wartzman) tells her.
Hip Hop Charter School Blew Its Book Money on De La Soul Endorsement
In Portland, Oregon, one parent's bright idea and several years of planning and government grants had made the REAL Prep Charter Academy—a high school with a recording and arts program based in hip hop culture—a near reality. Do not insert easy joke here! The idea seems good. The execution was... embarrassing.
BET Awards Blooper Screws Chris Brown, So It's Okay
Heartbreak and heartache at the BET awards last night! At least for celebrity presenter and self-described "Writer. Dance addict. Artist. MILF" Tiffany. See, she looked down on her little e-tablet (nice touch!) to read off the award winner and it said "Chris Brown," but on the Teleprompter they were telling her…
DC Hip Hop Awards Degenerate Into Brawl
For decades now, Washington DC has struggled to put itself on the hip hop map. For decades, the city's hip hop scene has fought to be counted alongside Philly's and New York's and Miami's and Atlanta's as a real player on the East Coast. For decades, DC has worked to prove that it's more than go go music and…
Coke CEO Ready to Fire His Speechwriter
The CEO of Coca-Cola is pretty sure that China's official language is Japanese.
Famous Magazine Thinks All Koreans Look Like Kim Jong Un
Look at what prestigious Time magazine put on its website yesterday: this dumb poll that doesn't even make sense. Japery—or mistakery? Oh, mercy. You can't make this stuff up, folks. Click to enlarge—if you dare!
Dead Magazine Replaced With Dead Magazine
This is what happens when magazines die too fast. Conde Nast folded Men's Vogue last October. But don't worry, Men's Vogue subscribers! We're hooking you up with a subscription to Portfolio. Wait.
How the New York Times Lost the Scoop of Losing the Watergate Scoop
This week, a former New York Times editor revealed that the NYT got handed the Watergate storywell before the Washington Post had it, but they just...forgot about it, or something. Now the full scope of this foolishness is coming out; the comedy of errors continues to this day:
