I'm not sure when it started happening exactly,but I've recently realized that I'm spending more and more of my day wearing sunglasses. It started out innocently enough when I discovered that if I kept my sunglasses on while on the train, I had an additional way to communicate to people — along with my headphones, open book, "Please Don't Talk To Me, Please" t-shirt, and the vial of blood from the...

Early Sunday morning, at least 20 people were killed and 40 wounded when a gunman opened fire in a gay nightclub in Orlando. Police Chief John Mina told reporters a lone shooter with an assault rifle and a handgun started shooting in the Pulse club around 2 a.m. and was killed inside the club in a shootout with the police. The authorities classified it as a "terror incident" because of how organized...

After major victories in California's and New Jersey's primaries Tuesday, Hillary Clinton became the unequivocal nominee for the Democratic party. Naturally, fans of Bernie Sanders were disappointed that their beloved democratic socialist is very unlikely to represent the left in November's general election (despite his refusal to drop out of the race), and even undecided Democrats were reluctant...

And so it will always be true, the best books to read this summer will mostly go quick and fast. That's how summer reads are: They're books you can consume as day turns from searing white heat to purple dusk. They're books you read hard and fast, pages crinkling from the damp of your hand. You read them in great gulps, looking for more. Winter is great for reading. But, as a lead up to the great...

The expectations for Samantha Bee’s late night talk show couldn’t have been any higher. The debut of Full Frontal on TBS earlier this year made Samantha Bee the sole woman in late night, a fact the former Daily Show correspondent immediately lampooned during the program’s premiere. In a pre-taped segment, Bee fielded softball questions on shattering the glass ceiling: “What’s it like being...

According to a recent survey by the Washington Post and ABC News, about a third of voters think Hillary Clinton has an advantage as a woman in the election. It's pretty disturbing to me that a third of voters would agree with anything so frequently touted by presumptive Republican nominee and known-misogynist Donald Trump, and also that about a third of our great nation's electorate seems to have...

You really can buy anything on Amazon these days, even a pussy snorkel. And not just any pussy snorkel, but one that glows in the dark for those more intimate moments. Everyone take a break to spit out their coffee. The product is designed to allow a "man to continue breathing while performing oral sex on a woman in a spa, bathtub or even a bowl of green Jell-O." However, if you need a pussy snorkel,...

On Thursday, Brock Turner was sentenced to six months in a county jail and probation for raping a girl behind a dumpster, even though he faced up to 14 years in a state prison. The judge said that he thought a longer sentence would have a "severe impact" on Turner's swimming career, since he planned one day to train for the Olympics. The victim's letter to the ex-Stanford swimmer is moving, powerful,...

Angela White, better known as Blac Chyna, will soon be Angela Kardashian. Does she know that they don't just give you bags of money for having the name? According to US Weekly, the makeup artist, private dancer and, um, model known for her friendship with Amber Rose and being the mother of Tyga's child, King Cairo is eager to take her husband's name when she marries Rob Kardashian sometime in the...

Just last summer we were parsing through the charred remains of love thanks to the Ashley Madison hack. Now, thanks to the Information Age, a new website is here to complicate your Tinder experience. For $5, Swipe Buster will let you search to see if users are active on Tinder. Input your target's first name, location, age, and gender to search. Then the site will show you when the user last...

When you've got ongoing depression and anxiety issues, you learn to take the good with the bad – especially as you muddle your way through finding a medication that works to calm the self-loathing thoughts and doomsday paranoia (at least for a little while). I was on a relatively low dose of Lexapro for years; I found it helped clear the dust in my head allowing me to get some good work done...

It's April, and festival season is now upon us: That delightful period of the year when people with more money than God go to a bunch of very expensive music festivals in order deck themselves out in very expensive and culturally appropriative ensembles and pose for Instagram pictures, just like the real hippies used to do! This grand tradition traces back all the way back to Woodstock '94, which--unlike...

What you see here is a salad cake, as prepared by Misuki Moriyasu for the Vegiedeco Cafe in Nagoya, Japan. The “cake” part of the cake is whole vegetables blended with soybean flour, the “frosting” is tofu or cream cheese, and the filling is, well, salad. My inclination is to say that this is horrible, and to some extent it is. We’re all conditioned to look at a cake and think that we’re...

I love baseball. My four favorite words in the English language are “pitchers and catchers report” — a phrase I hear in February, which just barely edges out the “Opening Day” of April. I look forward to today every year with an anticipation that can only be rivaled by children lying awake listening for reindeer on the roof. And then Opening Day arrives…and like a bolt of lightning I’m...

We buy makeup because, on some level, we all want to live the kind of life that makeup wants us to live.  A concealer, touted by blogs and YouTube and waterlogged magazines at your nail salon, promises to make you look like yourself, but with the skin of an angel, all plasticky and soft focus, like a permanent Instagram filter slapped on top of your actual, real face. Lipstick will change you from...