Smoking Hot

Our culture, for whatever reason, possesses a particular fascination with the downfall of itself. We can’t seem to get enough of peoples’ misfortune. The Smoking Gun is a website designed to bring individuals’ troubles, legal or social, into the public eye. The site hosts new legal documents, arrest records, police mugshots, evidence, eyewitness crime accounts, highly sensitive & embarrassing personal information, etc on a daily basis. Most of the site’s traffic is due to the information it provides related to celebrities. Before writing this post, I was sucked in and ended reading a 21-page document detailing all of the prosecution’s witness accounts and evidence against Ben Roethlisberger in his recent case. Away from the topic of crime, however, the site aims to release to the public basically anything that would embarrass a celebrity. Which is why I like it so much. Other notable pieces of content available on TheSmokingGun include: a large collection of massive, yet highly entertaining tour riders they’ve procured from famous performing artists, famous mugshots, and an impressive assorted list of highly embarrassing documents. I must admit, our masochistic cultural enthrallments exist for a reason and I find this site highly amusing.