SeaWorld President Jim Atchison is holding a press conference to discuss the tragic death of a trainer killed by an Orca. Atchison’s podium was set up right in front of the killer whale tank, because he does not fear death. Updated with video: More »
According to an analysis of the PR aftermath of the gruesome death at Sea World “the attack could actually drive up attendance of at least one demographic – teens and young adults.” Scarily plausible. [Washington Post] More »
Meet Stan Still, Justin Case, Barb Dwyer and Bill Board. They’re among the names a survey revealed actual parents gave to their actual children — human beings, remember — because they thought they were funny. More »
“‘Fuck you,’ [Matt Taibbi] snarled, and then picked up his mug from the table, threw his coffee at me, and stormed out.” It would be awesome if the final scene of this new Vanity Fair piece on the…
This next meme that is set to jump the shark — Photoshopped pictures in which some genius carefully combines a) Tom Selleck b) a waterfall and c) a sandwich in a smorgasbord of wonder. What’s…
In the olden days, the preferred way to sell chocolate milk powder was with pictures of futuristic scientists shining heat lamps onto the bottoms of naked young boys. Afterwards, families retreated…
Joseph Stack, the man who divebombed a tax office in Texas in his small plane last week is being held up, albeit mainly euphemistically and anonymously, as an anti-big-government hero by the tea…
Sally Quinn has a Washington Post column because she’s married to former WaPo editor Ben Bradlee. Today: she apologetically explains, at length, the circumstances that led to two of her family…
You’ll be happy to learn that after two years of painstaking biometric testing, America’s neuroscientists have successfully advised Campbell’s Soup Company on how to redesign its logo. So buy soup!…
[Demonstrators dressed up as Avatar's Ferngully People and protested on behalf of evicted Palestinians yesterday in the West Bank. Image via AP Photo/Dan Balilty.]