Next time you look in the mirror and wish your ass was higher, or open up a magazine and wonder at the smoothness of your…

“You call yourself a Christian, I call you u a hypocrite/You call yourself a patriot, well I think you’re full of shit.” That’s one of…

Having conquered the world of Jesus sadism fetish films, Mel Gibson is now turning his attention the equally small but probably much less lucrative sphere…

On what Janice Crouse from Concerned Women for America is calling “a sad day for America,” Viacom is launching their gay-themed network, Logo, on Thursday….

The San Francisco Chronicle goes out on the web to round up some of the more pithy comments that the world press has to say…

Google launched a beta of their Video Upload Program today, giving everyone with a camcorder and a dream a chance to share that really amusing…

Okay, so, a comedian, self-described on her web site as “The Most Trusted Name in News About Monkees Eating Ice Cream,” is a witness in…

The Roman Catholic Church’s Department of Redundancy Department has gone on the offensive against Dan Brown, calling the author’s best-selling work of fiction, The Da…

Khaled Hosseini, an internist at Kaiser Hospital in Mountain View, California wrote his first book by rising at 5AM and working on it for two…

If you think there’s nowhere left for advertisers to plaster their colorful and obnoxious wares, think again. The latest and greatest surface for telling you…

The decency police, AKA the Parents Television Council, was denied (face!) by the FCC today when the council voted that a scene in the already-cancelled…

Is it better to receive more 5-star reviews at Amazon.com to increase book sales, or is it okay to receive 1-star reviews without hitting your…

Fighting back against criticism it calls “myths,” Wal-Mart took out full page ads in newspapers across the country to say that it pays its employees…

Adrift at sea for 15 days after the tsunami, ripping apart coconuts with his teeth and thinking the world just ended. The poor guy got…

Jury selection for Michael Jackson’s child-molestation trial is set to begin on January 31st, and they’re summoning 4,000 prospective jurors to come and be cros-examined…

In order to prevent the loss of its trademark due to the misuses suffered by Xerox and Kleenex, TiVo is more heavily policing the use…

Irina Slutsky works at the rebirthed Red Herring, chasing down tech-related stories and reporting them back to you and me. When Jason Kottke was threatened…

Weird, surly, out-of-touch, possibly insane CBS anchorman Dan Rather is leaving his post in March of next year, but whether or not his departure has…

This idea sounded so good it was hard to believe it was true. Pew charitible trusts and the Gates Foundation (yes, Bill’s) are teaming up…

The NYTimes’ Nicholas D. Kristof bemoans the increasingly hostile environment for the free press in our United States. Included in his list of journalists facing…

All the cool internet kids are posting links to Jon Stewart on Crossfire, or if they’re not yet, they soon will be. Generally here at…

The FCC is thinking about fining Fox Broadcasting a cool million in fines for “indecency” stemming from a segment on the turgid and rather dull…

During last night’s discussion of Halliburton in the VP debate, Cheney told America if they wanted to hear the real truth they should “go to…

For the approximately 5,000 people who make $150,000 in annual purchases and think $2,500 a year is a pittance to pay as a credit card…

Two words: Friendster Magazine. Okay, stop vomiting across your keyboard long enough for me to describe the utter revulsionistical pile of shit that is Me,…

Microsoft’s version of iTunes is expected to make its online debut this Thursday, and if it’s anything like Sony’s “iTunes Killer,” expect a great big…

In a story with an Ick-Factor that shoots through the roof, the young man who was seduced at age 12 by his elementary school teacher…

People were someone chagrined by Gmail’s practice of including ads in the online email service’s interface based on message content. But howzabout this: You’re reading…

A group of American religious leaders are going on Arab TV to apologize for what happened under our watch at Abu Ghraib. The ads will…