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Kinder Egg-Style Chocolate Now Legal in the U.S.

Kinder Surprise Eggs, the Italian-made, toy-filled chocolate Easter candy that was banned in the United States since it was first produced in the 1970s, has suddenly been legalized -- or, at least, an American version has. ABC News reports that New Jersey sweets entrepreneur Kevin Glass received FDA ... More >>

Q&A: The Found Footage Festival's Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher Have Got You on Tape, America

You name it, they've found it--The do's and don'ts of caring for your ferret, relics from the golden age of Jazzercise, and brazen fourth wall-breakers like "Rent-A-Friend," for very lonely people. Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett have curated the great American garage sale of fringe video, one uninte ... More >>

After Gun-Control Talk Reportedly Banned on Fox News, Murdoch Turns to the Post

It appears that media mogul Rupert Murdoch may have some level of, dare I say, morality and compassion inside of him. A day after New York Magazine reported that higher-ups at Fox News directed producers and reporters to avoid engaging in gun-control talk, Murdoch's New York Post published an edit ... More >>

Christine Quinn, Best Bud

The City Council Speaker's conspicuous Sandy presence

Sam Champion's Engaged! Tom Ford's A Dad!

Longtime weatherman and TV personality Sam Champion and his boyfriend, Brazilian-born photographer Rubem Robierb are engaged. You have a choice of two punchlines: "They are the Champions." Or: "Sam's predicting a wedding."

Traingasm Video A Spoof. Thank Gawd

We're relieved to report that the world is not quite as creepy as we initially thought it was after watching a video of an Upstate man having what can be best described as a "traingasm."A few hours ago, we posted the video -- titled "Excited Train Guy" -- thinking it was legit. Turns out, it's bulls ... More >>

This Is A Video Of A Bunch Of Little Creeps Bullying A Defenseless Old Lady

The video embedded above is one of the more despicable things we've seen in a while -- it shows a bunch of junior high-aged kids bullying a defenseless old lady for no reason other than to just be total shit-bags.

Ron Paul Has Been Abandoned!

Ron Paul is a lonely, lonely man. At least when it comes to the media. Politico reports that NBC, the last network to keep an embedded reporter on the Texas gyno/congressman's campaign trail, has decided to remove the journalist from this post. So nobody is following him. How sad! Now, you could ... More >>

Patriocracy

Save the Humans! Actors and Whales Trapped in Big Miracle

Free Fleshlights Given Out At Fleshbot Awards

​ A Fleshlight looks sort of like a flashlight, except it unscrews to reveal a simulated vagina that you ... well, as Joan Crawford said to Christina, "You figure it out!" And since Fleshlights sponsored the Fleshbot awards for sexy pop culture, held at the Highline Ballroom on Friday night, ... More >>

Jay Shells, Etiquette Sign Artist, Says He Wanted to Make One Saying 'Fox News Lies' (on Fox News)

Via our friends at Animal NY, here's a rather hilarious, slightly awkward video of Jay Shells, the artist behind the "Metropolitan Etiquette Authority" signs peppering the streets of NYC with messages like "Pull Up Your Pants" and "Clean Up After Your Horse." He recently went on Fox News to talk ab ... More >>

Why Is Bill O'Reilly Not Calling Out Mike Huckabee's Gangster Glorification?

​"You may remember a couple years ago that Pepsi hired gansta (sic) rapper Ludacris as a commercial pitchman. [I] objected, saying major American corporations have an obligation not to reward people who harmed society...Unlike Ozzy Osbourne, who curses, or Britney Spears, who's an immature ex ... More >>

Homophobic Preacher Sues Rachel Maddow for $50 Million, Claims She Overstated His Homophobia

Bradlee Dean, at right in his usual outfit, and his lawyer Larry Klayman​Michele Bachmann's favorite preacher, Bradlee Dean, is suing Rachel Maddow, MSNBC, and NBC universal for $50 million, alleging that Maddow defamed him on her TV show. Dean claims Maddow injured his reputation and fundrai ... More >>

Casey Anthony Fans Send Her Money in Prison; She Buys Cheese Dip

​Fear not for the demonized Casey Anthony, who has gotten her fair share of death threats, sure (and will be changing her name and donning a disguise upon her release from jail). Because despite all that, she has lots of friends. Friends who send her money to spend on makeup and ponytail holde ... More >>

Ilonko Krauss, Holocaust Survivor, Hit by Minivan

​The local Fox News television reporter puts it like this: "To survive the worst of the worst -- a Nazi death camp! -- and then 70 years later, you're crossing this little street in Queens and you get struck by a car... Well, that's what happened this morning." Basically. Ilonko Krauss was hit ... More >>

Anthony Weiner's Puny Career

​As surely as the camera adds inches, Anthony Weiner was always bigger on screen than in person.  Weiner's plan to stage his resignation this afternoon outside of a Jewish women's center in Sheepshead Bay, where he launched his loud if inconsequential political career, was surely intended ... More >>

Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Semen Stains Identified in Rape Case DNA Test

​DNA tests identified semen on the accuser's clothes from the alleged attempted rape of a hotel maid in Manhattan by the former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The NYPD reportedly told authorities in France about the findings today, indicating that Strauss-Kahn's team will indeed be forced to ... More >>

Glenn Beck to Quit Fox News Show; New York Times Paywall 'Harder' For Poor People

​Though his contract is not up until December, early 2011 has seen its share of speculation about the fate of Glenn Beck and his hugely successful Fox News show. Both Beck's camp, namely his company Mercury Radio Arts, and the Fox News side have flexed in the press to prove that neither really ... More >>

Katie Couric Out at CBS News; Engadget Crew Ditches AOL For SB Nation

​Every time we turn around there's a switch-up at the newly Arianna Huffington-helmed AOL and Huffington Post hybrid, with the boss simultaneously cleaning house and sprucing up, by kicking AOL-ers to the curb and hiring up a handful of big names. The Huffington reign has left a large number s ... More >>

Olbermann to Current TV, Which Is Apparently a Channel That Exists

​Last we heard from Keith Olbermann, he was leaving his MSNBC show Countdown, in something of a hush-hush move that probably had something to do with Comcast pushing him out. He was contractually barred from talking about it. Today, Olbermann is expected to announce that he is joining Current ... More >>

Alec Baldwin Is Not Replacing Keith Olbermann

​Jack Donaghy is a fictional NBC executive on the show 30 Rock; Alec Baldwin is the actor who plays him. Neither is going to replace Keith Olbermann as the host of Countdown or any other show in the 8 p.m. slot on MSNBC because that would be ridiculous, despite a report from Popeater's Rob Shu ... More >>

New York Times Opens Hangover Rooms, Goes WikiLeaks; Rupert Murdoch Babies His Kids

""recoverycouch.jpg" via​It happens: some mornings you get to work without having been home the night before and you pull a freshly starched white shirt from the bottom drawer of your desk, you brush your teeth under the fluorescent light of the men's room with one of those little things you p ... More >>

Keith Olbermann Will Shut Up For Most of 2011

​Keith Olbermann's departure from MSNBC is being euphemistically called a "negotiated separation," but this for the same man who was called "a jerk and difficult and brutal" by his boss. The New York Times has more details in this morning's paper, the most concrete being the fact that Olberman ... More >>

The Goo Goo Dolls

MSNBC (or New York Times!) Now Just Completely Full of and/or Eating Shit.

This is fun. An earlier draft about the suspension of Chris Hayes from MSNBC before he even went on the air tonight, as reported by the New York Times: ​ The draft that's there now: ​ MSNBC has yet to get back to "bloggers'" -- or at least, this one's -- initial request for quote. [F ... More >>

Zach Galifianakis Sparks a Joint on Real Time With Bill Maher

In a few days, California voters will decide on Proposition 19, which would legalize marijuana and allow the local government to regulate and tax the drug. The federal government has warned that no matter what the voters decide, federal law will remain the same and smoking marijuana will be a probl ... More >>

Making Fun of Hipsters Now More Unfunny Than Ever (Video)

​Even using the word "hipster" is a slight in and of itself, in some regard: it shows the need to pigeonhole a group of people who may have very little in common under one generally misanthropic label. That obviously hasn't stopped anyone -- certainly not us -- from using it, but the "making f ... More >>

Weathermen House on 11th Street Blows Up

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 12, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 11 The House on 11th St.: Digging Up the Debris by Ron Rosenbaum The "live bomb" which, according to Monday night radio reports, was discovered in the ruins of 18 West 11th Street turned out to be a six-in ... More >>

Fox News vs. Hipsters: A First-Rate Lesson in Hate Speech

​Fox News decided to publish an editorial on "hipsters" or what they think they know "hipsters" are, entitled, "The Trouble With Hipsters," written by a Hopefully you've landed here and will not read the actual article. That said, given that Fox News's broad outlook still sees President Obama ... More >>

'Craigslist Killer' Found Dead in Jail

​The tabloid-favorite Boston University medical student, accused of murdering a woman he found through Craigslist, was found dead in his cell on Sunday, NBC News is reporting. Last April, Philip Markoff, 24, pleaded not guilty to shooting Julissa Brisman, who he allegedly met online, and robbi ... More >>

This Is How Fox News Reports on Ground Zero: By Faking It

Via barthel.tumblr.com.​As you can imagine, there are plenty of TV cameras and reporters in the vicinity of Ground Zero right now, reporting on the story that Al Qaeda is now allowed to open a Church of Satan/NYC-themed shake-a-snow shop on top of the exact spot the Muslims started a war with ... More >>

NY1's iPhone App Generating Considerable Amount of Excitement

​New Yorkers are passionate about NY1. And now they can be even more passionate about NY1.

Fox News Poll Blames Barack Obama for Blaming George W. Bush

​Fox News took a poll, and according to the results, 66 percent of Americans think that President Obama should start taking responsibility and stop blaming the Bush administration for things. That's more than three times as many as the 21 percent who think it's right to continue to blame the ... More >>

Documenting Our Crooked Educational System in The Cartel

Conservatives Enraged By 2007 Sesame Street Episode Get Apology from PBS

​As often happens in the madhouse that is the rightwing blogosphere, a conservative recently got mad about an old TV show: Big Hollywood denounced Sesame Street for a 2007 episode in which Oscar the Grouch said, "I am watching 'Pox' News. Now there is a trashy news show." The episode actually ... More >>

More Bits of the Walter Cronkite Memorial Service

​Buzz Aldrin approves of Cronkite's coverage of Apollo 11, "explaining each procedure so that the waking world knew what was coming next." Andy Rooney, who memorably choked up at the original service, plays it safe with a taped tribute from his 60 Minutes crank-desk. He referred to his own s ... More >>

What the Hell Is the "Hello Cow" Song?

In the seedy underbelly of the internet that is Google's Hot Trends--"Vanessa Hudgens pictures leaked" (leaked?), "steven tyler dead," "lady gaga hermaphrodite picture," etc.--now comes "Hello Cow," a song that's been tearing up Google's charts all day, despite no real identifiable information abo ... More >>

Weird Photos of Michael Jackson's Legs

ABC News has uncovered these upsetting pix of Michael Jackson's legs at a rare moment when they weren't moonwalking. What the shots uncover is a bunch of discoloration and needle marks suggesting IV usage. And these were from 2002! Discuss.

Pilot Dies Mid-Atlantic Flight, "First Officers" Flying It to Newark (UPDATE: Plane Lands Safely)

A transcontinental Continental Airlines flight, the pilot of which died in mid-flight and which is being piloted at present by its two first officers, in due shortly at Newark Airport. The plane left Brussels at about 4 a.m. and its 61-year-old pilot died sometime thereafter. Newark says it will giv ... More >>

Zogby Poll Says Internet, Fox "Most Trusted"; Hoax Suspected

Why The NY Post Has It In For Olbermann

BYE-BYE BUSH

Imagining our country without Dubya

Nas Makes Fox News Look, Go Back to Eating Lunch

Jesse Jackson's Ball-Busting of Barack Obama

Sue Simmons, The 'F-Bomb' and the 'Sauce'

Pledge Your Saturday Night to Al Gore

Nearly 100,000 promise to see 'An Inconvenient Truth'

Tune in to Discover the Unlikely Superstars of the New Games

Smoke Signals

Koppel Says Yes to Military Censorship in Iraq

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