As the fallout from the Sony hack continues, new emails came to light that seem to show Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal and noted producer/tough person to work for Scott Rudin sharing a few racist jokes at President Obama's expense. Feel free to save them, just in case your bigoted uncle starts blathering during Christmas dinner about how the entertainment industry is run by "progressive idiots" and "limousine liberals" — 'tis the season of giving!
Speaking of jokes, Best Buy tweeted one referencing its role in super-hip docu-podcast Serial, and the internet exploded in outrage. You can tell that most of this outrage is manufactured, because it requires 1) an attention span of longer than 30 seconds to understand the joke and 2) a conscience to be offended by it, and as we all know, the internet has neither.
Sea World CEO James Atchison resigned amid plummeting ticket sales and a mounting backlash in the wake of the Blackfish documentary, which did for orca captivity about the same thing that Whatever Happened to Baby Jane did for sisterhood.
And finally, a simulated game of Russian roulette turned into a real game of "accidentally shoot your friend" while two Largo men were "playing with a revolver"; one was shot in the chest, but is expected to recover, because a man who would let another man spin a revolver's cylinder and then point the gun at him without checking to see if it's actually loaded is apparently not the hero Largo needs, but the one it deserves.
This article appears in Dec 11-17, 2014.