Extra Extra: The Worst Things On The Internet In 2018

Dec. 12, 2018, 5:37 p.m.

Because Werner Herzog is doing a 'Star Wars,' check out today's end-of-day links: Keith Richards quits drinking, National Enquirer gives up Trump, new Pixar film cast, 2018 TV musical moments, The Cube Rule, and dog LOVES broccoli.

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  • Sarah Huckabee Sanders hopes people remember her as being "transparent and honest." [Attempts to stifle laughter, starts dry heaving]
  • The media company that owns the National Enquirer admitted to "working in concert" with the Trump campaign to pay off a woman who said she had an affair with Trump in order to squash her story: "AMI further admitted that its principal purpose in making the payment was to suppress the woman's story so as to prevent it from influencing the election."
  • A very bad judge resigned after he told an attorney who was promoting a film festival honoring Viggo Mortensen that it was "about the gayest thing I have ever heard" and "You and Viggo Mortensen should get a hotel room and suck each other's dicks."
  • BuzzFeed has done us all a service and compiled a list of the worst things on the Internet in 2018.
  • Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Octavia Spencer will star in the next original Pixar movie, Onward.
  • Mel Magazine take us inside the secret world of doctors who love whippets "because it’s easily accessible and undetectable on drug tests."
  • A Brooklyn model has been awarded $125,000 after she unwittingly became the face of HIV when a state agency used her stock photo in an ad campaign.
  • Vulture has a great list of the best TV musical moments of 2018.
  • Max Harris did chores and collected rent at the Oakland artists’ warehouse where he lived— now he faces trial for the 36 deaths that occurred at a concert there.
  • The Washington Post argues that "The Cube Rule" is the answer to society's greatest questions, in particular: Is a hot dog a sandwich?
  • Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal attorney, has been working on his side hustle by courting businesses abroad.
  • Keith Richards has given up drinking.
  • Read about the secret society that blends meditation and astrology with Saturn worship and “sex magic.”
  • Excuse me: Werner Herzog will be in that new Star Wars TV series The Mandalorian?!?!
  • And finally, this dog loves broccoli almost as much as I do: