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(NEWSER) – The unraveling of society is continuing apace following the release of Pokemon Go. The Los Angeles Times reports two men playing the insanely popular augmented reality game fell off a bluff Wednesday in Encinitas, California. One fell 50 feet and was knocked unconscious; the other fell between 75 and 100 feet. Both suffered moderate injuries after…
The new fundraising logo from the RNC looks… well, just see for yourself. The team surrounding presumptive Republican nominee for president Donald Trump hasn’t exactly been lauded for its design savvy, but the RNC’s first logo for the newly minted Trump-Pence ticket might be the worst yet. A fundraising email sent Friday afternoon by the…
Mike Pence, he’s this dick. He may or may not end up being Donald Trump’s pick for vice president, once Trump The Showman has done a few more misdirec … LOOK OVER THERE! But at much of a doucher as Mike Pence is, we weren’t mad until we read this, from Buzzfeed, about his 2000…
Since a little boy was dragged to his death by an alligator at Disney’s Grand Floridian in Orlando, people have been looking for answers. The answer to the question, “How could this happen?” is almost certainly, “It’s Florida and alligators live there,” but people keep digging. Now they’ve unearthed some very damning emails from the…
Nikki Glaser’s Comedy Central show Not Safe usually focuses on the sexual exploits people are shy to talk about openly, but on Tuesday, she dedicated a segment to the subject most universities don’t want to admit is event happening: campus rape. With special guest Katie Nolan, Glaser focuses largely on rape perpetrated by sports stars…
GIF The moving company Tituss Burgess complained about—yelped about!—on Yelp has responded to the 2015 Emmy nominee for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. http://jezebel.com/tituss-burgess… Burgess wrote a negative Yelp review of Franks Express in which the actor, best known for his Emmy-nominated role in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, called the movers out for being…
The woman who memorably described Roger Ailes’ exposed genitals as “red like raw hamburger” has been trying to get that disgusting comparison and the rest of her story about his alleged sexual harassment published for over twenty years. The Chicago Reader’s Michael Miner says he personally knows the woman identified as “Susan” in Gabriel Sherman’s…
Dani Mathers was 2015’s Playmate of the Year. She has won an award for being hot, which maybe is what made her feel qualified to decide who deserves privacy in the gym and who should be mocked for having a body unlike hers. Now she’s fired, and otherwise in trouble. Mathers posted the photo below…
Oh Newt. You predictable dick. In the past week or so, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has really wowed me and others with his surprisingly enlightened stance on race and police violence, leading to pieces like: http://theslot.jezebel.com/newt-178335788… http://theslot.jezebel.com/newt-178347891… It was an exhilarating time. But it’s over now. In an interview Thursday evening with Sean Hannity,…
Earlier today, Donald Trump announced on Twitter that Mike Pence, Governor of Indiana, had been chosen as his vice presidential candidate. Pence, 57, is a deeply traditional choice, he’s a standard old-school Republican who hews more closely to the GOP’s ideology than Trump. Pence is religious and speaks often of his Christianity as a motivating…