Blog Profile / Gawker
| URL : | http://gawker.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Pop Culture / Celebrity | |
| Posts on Regator: | 59198 | |
| Posts / Week: | 214.4 | |
| Archived Since: | March 3, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Antonin Scalia Does Not Believe in Molecular Biology
Justice Antonin Scalia agrees with his fellow Supreme Court justices that naturally occurring genes can't be patented. Where he appears to differ: The existence of genes, the basic science of genetics, molecular biology, and evolution. He just dissented from all of the above. Read more...
MySpace Still Has Enough Money for This $20 Million TV Ad
From deep within the Smithsonian's Fossilized Social Networks Wing, MySpace shouts to the world: We're here, and we have at least $20,000,000 to spend on this TV commercial. Look, Riff Raff and Pharrell are there, too. Read more...
Teen Quits US School After Teachers 'Bully' Him for Being Canadian
A teenager from the city of Watertown in Upstate New York says he had no choice but to leave his Christian school after taunts about his Canadian heritage refused to cease. Read more...
Adorable Parking Space Fight Is Just Friendly Light Sparring, Really
If you're a grown man, you should not be fighting someone in the street over a parking place. But if you are going to fight someone in the street, these guys are role models for how to end that fight. Read more...
Chemical Plant Explosion in Louisiana, Multiple Injuries Reported
An explosion at a chemical plant in Louisiana this morning has injured many—though no reports of fatalities as of yet. Hazmat units are attending to the accident at Williams Olefins Chemical Plant in Geismar, Louisiana. The plant churns out 1.3 billion pounds of ethylene and 90 million pounds of propylene per year. Show More Summary
'Naughty Israeli Soldiers' Return, Use Rifle as Stripper Pole [NSFW]
Just two weeks after photos of female IDF soldiers in various stages of undress first surfaced online, a new sex scandal has struck Israel's military — this one involving a video showing female recruits putting on a strip show inside their barracks. Read more...
Here is your daily reminder that the DC press corps is a fetid cesspool of conflict of interests.
Here is your daily reminder that the DC press corps is a fetid cesspool of conflict of interests. Read more...
CIA Nominee, Like Everyone in D.C., Loves Erotica
The surest sign yet, if you needed one, that President Obama's nominee for the CIA's number-two position is a middle-of-the-road D.C. establishment choice: She used to run an erotica reading night at a bookstore. Read more...
The Supreme Court ruled today that naturally occurring genes can't be patented—but that genes create
The Supreme Court ruled today that naturally occurring genes can't be patented—but that genes created synthetically can. No rulings on affirmative action or gay marriage. Read more...
Weep, Weep, for White America Is Dying
Allow a single tear to trickle down your cheek and drop onto the sleeve of your pale yellow golf shirt, fellow white Americans, for the day that we feared has come. I'm not talking about the cancellation of the U.S. Open, though that is certainly a blow for whites. I'm talking about the very death of our proud but pale race. Read more...
Inspector Who Surveyed Collapsed Philadelphia Building Commits Suicide
A building inspector in Philadelphia committed suicide a week after a downtown building collapsed, just a short time after he had examined it. The accident killed six people. The inspector's body was discovered with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his chest on Wednesday. He was 52. His name is not currently being released. Read more...
Teacher Fired Because Abusive Ex-Husband Posed Threat to Students
A domestic violence victim has come forward this week after being fired from her teaching job at a San Diego Catholic school because she was deemed a liability for having an abusive ex-husband. Read more...
A Glenn Beck Without a Voice is Still a Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck lost his voice on Monday. Which is to say, Glenn Beck (as we are led to believe) could not make any physical words come out of his mouth on Monday. But an anger-clown without a voice is still an anger-clown, albeit a sad anger-clown. Show More Summary
Eddie Redmayne is moving from sad, beautiful, singing revolutionary to potentially snagging the role
Eddie Redmayne is moving from sad, beautiful, singing revolutionary to potentially snagging the role of Stephen Hawking in Theory of Everything. Read more...
Have to Be Happy Right Away? Watch This Video of Dogs Riding in Cars
It is physically impossible to sit through this montage of happy-go-lucky dogs blissfully sticking their heads out of a moving car window without cracking a mile-wide smile. Go on — try it. Read more...
Vicious Wildfires Tear Through Colorado, Threatening Thousands
A group of wildfires threaten thousands of residents throughout Colorado and hundreds of inmates from an area prison. The fires have destroyed nearly a hundred homes and nearly seven thousand people have evacuated the area. Officials report that 2,300 homes are directly threatened by the flames. Show More Summary
Cops Launch Early-Morning Raid on Ford Crack Video "Ground Zero"
Early this morning, Toronto cops undertook a huge sweep of the neighborhood the Toronto Star calls "ground zero for the Rob Ford crack video scandal," taking several people into custody at the infamous Dixon Road apartments and visiting the home of one of the men photographed standing with Ford in the infamous "crack house" picture. Read more...
A Reminder That Everyone Is the Protagonist of His or Her Own Story
Here is an article about the career of a pink gorilla, with a cameo by A.J. Daulerio. Read more...
All your heroes eventually die and go to Cobble Hill to become yuppie parents.
All your heroes eventually die and go to Cobble Hill to become yuppie parents. Even Mike D. Read more...
Holy shit the Replacements are reuniting for three Riot Fest shows this summer.
Holy shit the Replacements are reuniting for three Riot Fest shows this summer. Read more...