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Beastie Boys’ Adam “MCA” Yauch Honored by New York Senate

Beastie Boys’ Adam “MCA” Yauch Honored by New York Senate

Earlier this week, the New York State Senate passed a resolution honoring Brooklyn-born Adam “MCA” Yauch of the Beastie Boys, who died on May 4, 2012 [...]

Watch: Stephen Colbert on Barack Obama, North Carolina, and Gay Marriage

Watch: Stephen Colbert on Barack Obama, North Carolina, and Gay Marriage

“Congratulations, North Carolina…tonight, as you go to sleep next to your heterosexual life-mate, you can rest assured that all across your great state, a gay [...]

Watch: Jon Stewart’s Message to Fox News

Watch: Jon Stewart’s Message to Fox News

As the flap over Rush Limbaugh seems to infinitely perpetuate, Jon Stewart delivered a rather pointed take on the whole thing — as well as [...]

Atari Teenage Riot to Donate Sony Ad Proceeds to FreeAnons.org

Atari Teenage Riot to Donate Sony Ad Proceeds to FreeAnons.org

I was sitting on my arse watching TV when the sounds of Atari Teenage Riot’s “Black Flags” began pumping out of my stereo. It was an [...]

Watch: John Oliver of “The Daily Show” Breaks Down the Rick Santorum Surge

Watch: John Oliver of “The Daily Show” Breaks Down the Rick Santorum Surge

To the surprise of many, Rick Santorum is surging in the GOP primaries. John Oliver of “The Daily Show” explains why this has left a [...]

Cypress Hill Teams With Americans for Safe Access for Protest

Cypress Hill Teams With Americans for Safe Access for Protest

Cypress Hill SmokeOut has teamed with Americans for Safe Access (ASA) and Medicine & Music Project for a peaceful protest in response to recent federal activities against medical [...]

Really? Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers on the Congressional Birth Control Panel

Really? Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers on the Congressional Birth Control Panel

Amy Poehler returned to SNL on Saturday night to revive “Really!?!” with her former “Weekend Update” co-anchor Seth Meyers. The topic of discussion? This past [...]

Jon Stewart on Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney’s Latest Political Ads

Jon Stewart on Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney’s Latest Political Ads

Rick Santorum’s latest ad in Michigan: too crazy to be real? Nope…it’s real. Mitt Romney gets a shit-stained shirt thanks to Santorum. Jon Stewart discusses [...]

Prop 8, California’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Ruled Unconstitutional

Prop 8, California’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Ruled Unconstitutional

Today, a federal appeals court declared California’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, saying a state can’t revoke gay rights solely because a majority of its [...]

Newt Gingrich Rally in Las Vegas Interrupted by Traumatic Anal Devastation

Newt Gingrich Rally in Las Vegas Interrupted by Traumatic Anal Devastation

The title is 100 percent true.  A Las Vegas rally for Republican Newt Gingrich on February 2nd was interrupted by Nevada grindcore band Traumatic Anal [...]

A Call to Indie Labels to Take a Stand Against SOPA and PIPA

A Call to Indie Labels to Take a Stand Against SOPA and PIPA

As you are well aware, Google, Reddit, Wikipedia, and many smaller sites across the internet are staging protests against the controversial SOPA and PIPA bills [...]

Radio Free Ruin Podcast Debuts

Radio Free Ruin Podcast Debuts

Paul M. Davis has announced the debut of his new podcast Radio Free Ruin, a radical talk show about tech, culture, comedy, and politics. The weekly [...]

Popular Websites Considering Blackout to Protest SOPA

Popular Websites Considering Blackout to Protest SOPA

Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, and AOL are considering shutting down in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its Senate counterpart act, Protect [...]

Fixed That For Ya! – Iowa Caucus: Macy’s Clones Tie For First Loser

Fixed That For Ya! – Iowa Caucus: Macy’s Clones Tie For First Loser

The Presidency? Someone should get these guys a game show on NBC where the goal is to tell them apart. Hey Iowa! Fixed that for [...]

Five GoDaddy Alternatives – Protest Their Support of SOPA

Five GoDaddy Alternatives – Protest Their Support of SOPA

By now, you’ve likely heard that GoDaddy voiced early support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), the free-speech trampling bill that will be voted on [...]