Since I am getting very lightly raked over some very minor coals on the charges of SEXISM AGAINST LADIES here and there on the Internet (although not raked very hard because I am a man and men get treated 1000 times better than women on the Internet), because I called some lady…

Tom Scocca: Am I the only one who sort of wishes that nice Matt Taibbi wouldn’t use all those swear words?
 Choire Sicha: YES.
 Choire Sicha: I FEEL THE SAME.
 Choire Sicha: I was like, “You wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal saying ‘fellatio’? Ugh!”
 Tom Scocca…

“An employee of teddy-bear giant Steiff is making some grisly allegations against the company’s CEO, charging he sexually harassed her for years — and raped her,” reports the Post this morning. The paper also captions photos of…

It would be a shame if the mumbo-jumbo up in Albany entirely distracted us from the really remarkable new Times/Cornell/NY1 poll…

The way we-well, some of us; no one I know-live now: with the illusion of frugality!

Coffee tables made from barrels. Lamps crafted from brooms. Chairs swathed in burlap and sackcloth. Look at the some of the newest furniture on the market, and the recession…

I’m a little late on this one, but John Lanchester’s lengthy London Review of Books piece on the financial crisis makes for phenomenal reading. It is by necessity oversimplified in certain places, and, given its place of…

“French luxury goods group Hermes has resorted to breeding its own crocodiles on farms in Australia to try to meet demand for its leather bags, its chief executive said on Monday…. Hermes already faces a major challenge producing 3,000…

In a recent poll of New Yorkers, the number one thing they thought Mayor Mike has done wrong is change term limits so that he can install himself as Lord God King of New York City, because clearly he thinks he is the only person who can…

Currently enjoying: Wordnik, the new website devoted to providing “as much information as possible, just as fast as we can find it, for every word in English, and to give you a place where you can make your own opinions about words known.” Obviously it needs a few tweaks yet, and…

News Jews can use! Please welcome Tablet magazine. Ha, it has a blog called “The Scroll.” YAY, JEWISH PUNS. Also, pretty much every Jew we have ever met works there.

Banks are buying back TARP shares, the government is easing off on plans to reorganize the financial regulatory system, and handjobs in the Bronx are going for $200 a pop: Maybe the recession really is over!

“Saved By The Bell” fans are apparently very sensitive about criticism.

What with all the craziness going down in Albany, New York Governor David Paterson has announced that he will not leave the state, because “if there’s any type of misunderstanding or who is next in charge, I would…

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It’s sort of shocking (as Rex Sorgatz points out) that nearly 200 people have so far…

Young suburban crows are stunting their growth by eating junk food; scientists blame their lazy parents.

Salon takes note of a reasoned, cogent argument in the Washington Times which suggests that President Obama is not even bothering to be secret about his Muslimity anymore. Sample passage: “After his five months in office, and…

Please welcome Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani to our shores! Ghailani, “transferred from U.S. military to civilian custody at the secretive Camp Seven in the naval base in Cuba and brought to New York by U.S. Marshals to face trial for his role in the Aug. 7…

Hoo, boy, I didn’t read Matt Taibbi’s latest from yesterday until just now. “Can you imagine what a craven, bumlicking ass-goblin you’d have to be to get a job working for the Wall Street Journal, not mention up front that you used to…