Photo: Matthias Schrader/Associated Press In case you haven't heard, we lost the battle but won the war in the World Cup today. The U.S. national team lost 1/nil to a powerhouse German club, but we still advance out of our group and into the knockout round. Over the past couple ...read more

They both had struggling shows on prime-time cable news. They're both rich white guys. They're both preening assholes who've managed to piss off the LGBT community. And now, they're both saying goodbye. It's been a pretty eventful 48 hours for Alec Baldwin and Piers Morgan, with ...read more

Piers Morgan is a pompous blowhard. There shouldn't even be a debate about that. Irrespective of this fact and even if it's simply a matter of convenience, however, his politics do lean to the left, which ostensibly makes him an ally when it comes to liberal causes, even if he ...read more

If anyone can work out what the hell Ann Coulter is talking about, please enlighten us in the comments section. As far as I can tell, Ann Coulter believes marijuana should be illegal because her pool guy didn't clean her pool in California one time, and regular smokers are good ...read more

I was tempted to title this post "Sarah Palin's Snub of Piers Morgan Is Grotesque, Will Make the Right Come in Its Pants." That's actually far more fitting now that I think about it, because really these kinds of stunts from Palin are actually very easy to believe and are ...read more

Several years back, when I was living in New York City, I had a particularly drunken conversation at a bar with a young woman whose job was working with the blind. This seemed incredibly noble to me, certainly compared to my vulturous TV news gig, so I pressed her for ...read more