The Young Turks' Michael Tracey has a...dubious history with women, at best. As a college student, he sued police for "excessive force" when they arrested him for bypassing security to get an autograph from Ann Coulter (probably the only time in history this has ever happened.) ...read more
On Monday evening, publishing company Simon & Schuster canceled Milo Yiannopoulos' book "Dangerous" after a tape surfaced of comments he'd made that unambiguously advocated sexual relationships between men and boys. The white nationalists of the alt-right, unable to admit that ...read more
(Photo: Michael Buckner/Getty Image Entertainment) *** Updated Below *** It's been a really bad couple of weeks for rape victims and their advocates. This isn't the kind of thing anyone should take satisfaction in, but it's also something that can't reasonably be denied. What's ...read more
A few weeks ago, the 24 year-old Rock The Vote campaign put out a celebrity-filled viral video parody of Li'l Jon's "Turn Down For What" aimed at getting young people to vote in this year's midterms. Entitled "#TurnOutForWhat," the clip featured Li'l Jon himself, along with such ...read more
Is it easier or harder to write about a subject when you don't like anyone involved in it, when you believe that just about everybody on every side of a controversy is at best operating in bad faith or at worst is being utterly insufferable? Think about that as we dig into the ...read more
I have a confession to make and it's one that anyone who follows the After Party podcast that I do with Bob Cesca already knows: I've been watching Girls this season and not entirely disliking it. Once you wrap your head around the fact that almost every female character on it ...read more
HBO's Girls returns tonight, which means that it's once again time to be inundated with lengthy, pseudo-intellectual discussions among the digital media about a show very few people are actually watching. Even if you're someone who can't wait to ignore the new season of Lena ...read more
Well, kids, we made it through another week and it's almost time to make a hasty exit out of the drop-ceilinged, fluorescent lit, Aeron-chaired, living Tetris game you know as your office and go get obscenely drunk. But before the festivities start, here's some nonsense you ...read more
Happy Friday people, it's the last day of the week so no need to do any real work. Only 8 hours till you're off and drinking/flirting/bantering with your work colleagues at your local watering hole. Anyway, kill some time by reading what's good on the internets: Obamacare is ...read more
Another Monday is here and it's back to the wheel with you, gerbils. Here are a few things you can read this morning to hopefully deaden the pain. 1. Gold Rush Here's a wrap-up of the big winners and losers at last night's Emmys, as Matt Zoller Seitz live-blogged the whole ...read more
Here's a quick rundown of what you should be reading on this Friday morning. Why? Because it beats working. 1. Green Daze Constantly pondering how screwed you are financially? Feel like it's making you crazy, or at least unable to think clearly? Guess what? It is. NPR: How ...read more
For those of you who haven't thought all this time that Lena Dunham's Girls is itself a porn parody, along comes the inevitable real -- though not exactly "official" -- porn parody of the HBO show. Last week, Hustler announced that it's in the process of shooting an erotified ...read more
Here's a little something I don't think I've ever actually told anyone: Andrew Breitbart wrote to me not once but twice. Back in February of 2010 he rattled off a very strange late-night rant at me in response to something I'd written about his little Renfield, James O'Keefe. ...read more
When I first started my site, Deus Ex Malcontent, back in the spring of 2006, the original personal bio on its front page had a line in it that slammed Sarah Jessica Parker. I can't remember the exact words right now but I basically said something about how I didn't like ...read more
By Chez Pazienza: Let's start with the obvious: HBO's new series Girls isn't for me. What I mean by that is that I'm not its target audience. I'm not a millennial; I'm not female; I'm not a Brooklyn hipster who's perpetually drowning in his or her own insufferable ennui; I don't ...read more
