Here is a review of all of Douglas Coupland’s books:

Character A: You remember that Thing*? I remember that Thing.

Character B: I remember that Thing also.

A little bit more on the New York Observer’s firing of the long-time cleaning lady: apparently the paper’s owner, Donald Trump’s maybe-soon-to-be son-in-law Jared Kushner, offered her the possibility of staying on-if she worked…

The letter the U.S. government sends you when they kick you out of the Army for being gay? It says “You admitted publicly that you are a homosexual, which constitutes homosexual conduct.” Yes! Speech acts are back, hello…

The Journal’s got a great front-pager on the spate of cities and towns looking to rebrand themselves with idiot slogans and logos in hopes of attracting tourist dollars. The mayor of Providence, Rhode Island-the new one, not the guy who assaulted the man he suspected of screwing his wife with…

Have you heard about Alberto Cutié? The hottie Hispanic holy man was recently photographed “kissing and caressing a bikinied brunette on a Florida beach.” The photos, which show the sultry spiritual leader with “his…

Grey Poupon is owned and manufactured by Kraft Foods. It is the processed cheese of mustards. It is the fucking Velveeta of faux-French products. Can we all shut the fuck up?

Apparently conservatives have just cottoned on to the fact that a huge number of college dorms-and dorm rooms!-are co-ed. (Wait till someone tells them that the bathrooms have been going co-ed for a while now.) So this crazy woman takes to The Blogs to…

“The nation’s largest banks collectively need another $75 billion in equity to ride out potential losses due to the recession.” Oh, here, I’ll give it to you!

Basically all this front-page article in the Times about small company bosses laying off their workers teaches you is: they really do discriminate against childless and single people! Literally, if you have kids, you get laid off last. Also when you do finally…

This month a British court may rule that chiropractic treatment is a complete fraud and its practitioners are total quacks, which is completely true but something it’s best not to say in mixed company because there’s always someone who swears by it and is completely offended…

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We’re not gonna get into the habit of posting a ton of Colbert Report/Daily Show clips, because…

How your Doritos “flavor dust” is made: “In its original solid state, the dust acts like one of those grotesque squeezey desk toys. If you poke it, the dent very slowly un-dents itself. When taken out of its bag and laid on the (whatever machine/conveyor belt apparatus it…

91% of all online movie tickets being purchased right now are for the new Star Trek movie, according to the Fandango press release Nikki Finke got. That is a lot of tickets, unless you consider the fact that geeks do pretty much everything online and Star Trek is like…

David Simon, who created the greatest TV show ever ohmigod it’s like Dickens etc., testified before the Senate Commerce Committee about the future of newspapers yesterday and told members that if newspapers die no one will be left to cover City Hall. Gawker’s Ryan Tate offered an excellent response.

Fashion Flash: Black woman resembles other black woman.

Twitter is going to turn its search results into a real-time Google News-Wikipedia mash-up? Or, you could say, a giant topic-indexed blog with millions of idiot writers. Like Wikipedia, but without the structure fascists!

All the angry hedgefunders who are crying about the socialism of the mean president who forced them to accept a deal in the Chrysler bankruptcy so that he could repay his union buddies for their support should cheer up just a little: the union is getting hosed too!

Currently at Fox News: “YOU DECIDE: Does the baby in the photograph look like John Edwards? Share your thoughts. Click on ‘Leave a Comment’ below.”

Earlier today Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Manny Ramirez was suspended 50 games by Major League Baseball after failing a drug test. There’s no word yet on what they found in his system. Was it steroids? Recreational drugs? Boner juice? No one knows. But even if sports aren’t your thing…

Symbolic tradesman “Joe” “The” “Plumber” is quitting the Republican party, according to Time magazine. His reasons for leaving include the GOP’s obstructionism, anti-intellectualism, and crass unwillingness to provide viable alternatives to Democratic policies. Oops, wait, I have that wrong: He’s…