Tag Archives: none-solid

Who Is Rand Paul, And Why Is He In Our Politics? [Field Guide]

Kentucky Republican Rand Paul is in the news! The newly-anointed Republican candidate for U.S. Senate told Rachel Maddow last night that he supported a business’ right to exclude blacks. Everyone got very excited by this. Who is this man? More

The Stuff They’re Using to Clean Up the Oil Spill Is Poisonous, Too [Disasters]

BP’s oil isn’t leaking ” four or fives times ” faster than everyone thought—at a rate of 4 million gallons per day —it’s twenty times worse than BP thought. And the chemical they’re using to “disperse” it is toxic, too. More

Brooklyn’s Poster-Campaigning Spurned Lover Speaks [Mysteries]

Andrea says she met Michelle when she realized they shared a boyfriend. She says he two-timed them in the same bed, without condoms, during Michelle’s period, so they teamed up to humiliate him . Michelle says none of this is true. More

A Few Rules for Tourists Visiting New York City This Summer [Rules]

In honor of the hero who divided a strip of sidewalk along Fifth Avenue into lanes for “tourists” and “New Yorkers,” we decided to put together a few tips for the masses who will be visiting New York this summer. More

American Idol: The Bronze Age [Recaps]

And then there were two! And soon there will be none and we’ll be done. Yes, two more episodes of this withered Idol season to go and, remarkably, we’ve ended up pretty much exactly where we were supposed to. More

Wikileaks Founder Thinks Everyone’s Out to Get Him: Don’t Buy It [Conspiracies]

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange claims that Australian officials confiscated his passport. He added, ominously, that Australian police questioned him about his past. Was it payback for the time Wikileaks published a secret government document? We call bullshit. More

Who Will Save American Apparel? [Financial Trouble]

American Apparel announced a $17.6 million loss for the first quarter of 2010, a figure that puts the company in danger of defaulting on one of its loans. If it can’t refinance, you’ll have nowhere to get striped tube socks! More

Nobody Believes Anything on the Internet, Anymore [The Internets]

As Bret Michaels recovers from a brain hemorrhage that nearly killed him (and gears up for the Celebrity Apprentice finale), a nagging question keeps popping up online: ” Was it all a publicity stunt? ” Is nothing in public life believable, anymore? More

The City: Here’s to the Ladies Who Lunch [Recaps]

We were too busy looking for a cute new umbrella on the internet to bother with The City . Luckily fictional freelancer Betsey Morgenstern was there to fill us in on a very important fashion summit. More

American Idol: Glory Glory Hallelujah [Recaps]

And so last night we trudged on again, this time with only three oxen to pull Mother Courage-Seacrest’s war wagon through the mud. Was it a successful journey? Yes and no. More