In the midst of the government shutdown, a woman was shot and killed after trying to break through a barrier near the White House. (LATimes) Economists to politicians: can we stop fucking around now? (USAToday) Bye bye Silk Road.  Nice ‘stache. (CNN) Wendy Davis is running for governor of Texas.  Go girl!  (Chicago Tribune) Twitter’s […]

Send this to all your Georgetown friends—someone has put Capitol Hill up for rent. While the extra cash won’t really help that much with the budget deficit, it’s probably an upgrade from whatever university housing your friends happen to be staying in. What would reporting on the shutdown look like if it happened in another […]

So Justin Bieber was carried onto the Great Wall of China. This comes as no surprise. Kentucky Fried Chicken, known as KFC by the masses, has just released “Go Cups.” Now you can eat fried chicken and get in car crashes at the same time. The NYC Opera has filed for bankruptcy. Instead of going […]

Happy October! The government is shutting down because they can’t make decisions on the budget and Obamacare. Who’d have known? (NYT) Lorde finally released her new album, Pure Heroine. Do you like it? Did you see her play live last night? Are you going to her show tonight? Can Bwog buy your ticket? (USA Today) If you […]

Well if your first few weeks of the year haven’t been completely batshit crazy enough don’t worry: Danny Brown’s new album “Old” is available for stream on Spotify starting today.  It actually leaked last night but no one seemed to really care; we wonder what major media event super ceded Danny Brown.  (Consequence Of Sound) […]

While you’re sleeping in, astronauts aboard the ISS are picking up a very big package. (BBC) If you were hoping to save the planet from the doom of global climate change, here’s your goal. (LA Times) Tonight marks the conclusion of the epic TV saga that is Breaking Bad. (Hollywood Gossip)     Missing your […]

So much for a Saturday off: the House Republicans will meet in a rare Saturday session to try to keep the government open past Monday (NYT). How early is too early to leave New York? (Answer: never leave.) And then, how early is too early to write about it? (Gothamist) The drama behind the end […]

We’re all to blame.  (BBC) Too many cars are to blame.  And maybe cheese? (CNN) We’re gonna go ahead and blame Ted Cruz for this one. (NYT) Blame it on some Yankee dirt in your eyes.  (NYDN) Are you kidding me HuffPost?  Just an honorable mention?  After all we’ve been through?!  Blame listicles and the […]

A rumination on the nature of Williamsburg. Because that’s a new and innovative source of news (NYT). And they just keep doing it: the New York Times has found the saddest place in Manhattan! Using Twitter! You groundbreakers, you (NYT). An old white male professor is a sexist old white male professor. Shocker (The Atlantic). And […]

“I guess one of the heartening things is how open both students and administrators were about hazing on campus,” sez Wesley Morton, CC ’15 and treasurer of ZBT, whose super mysterious hazing, which neither students nor administrators were at all open about, led to the creation of the anti-hazing admin committee on which Morton now […]

One month into the semester and Bwog is already oversleeping. Brits stay positive. Medical center be fuxing with your private information. 1020 has upped the price of beers on the board by $1, notably Rolling Rock and Yuengling. According to a tipster, there is no water on McBain 6 and 7. Sucks to sucks.

Give: The Emmys happened last night, with some predictable wins and many upsets. (LATimes) Take: The siege on a mall in Nairobi is continuing on for the third day, with explosions and gunfire still erupting. (Washington Post) Give: James Levine is on track for a triumphant return to conducting at the Met.  (NYTimes) Take: Farewell, […]

Al-Shabaab militants have killed 59 and injured 175 in a mall in Nairobi.  30 hostages and some dozen gunmen are still inside the shopping center.  This is the deadliest terror attack in Kenya since 1998. (CNN) A suicide bomb in a church in northwest Pakistan killed at least 75 people, one of the worst attacks […]

Were you in line to buy a 5S or 5C yesterday morning? So were some homeless men in California who were promised to be paid $40 to do so. (USA Today) “They’re focused on trying to mess with me,” says Obama about Republicans and the bill they passed linking government funding to Obamacare defunding. (NY […]

In yet another bout of gullibility the Internet has collectively fallen for a fake Playboy site applauding consensual colleges and giving tips for having a good time between the sheets without taking advantage of other humans. It turns out that the list was an elaborate hoax organized by anti-rape organization FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, and […]