by Ana Marie Cox And Jason Linkins
The angels in Paradise Lost totally got it on with each other. [Via]
Laid end to end, the 31,400 metric tons of rebar used to build the Burj Dubai would stretch more than a quarter of the way around the world. “Moment. Jewel. Icon.” The Burj, it is said (by their PR department), will be known by many names. It is…
An article on Tuesday about people who believe that the Moon landing was a hoax referred incorrectly to a picture in a feature on the Lens blog at nytimes.com. As correctly noted in the feature, “Dateline…
China’s Ministry of Health has told a clinic to stop using electroshock treatments on patients suffering from Internet addiction. “In what might be an indication of the clinic’s effectiveness, its practices came to light when former patients went online to…
Happy Malaise Day! (Yes, yes, he never said it.) This 33-minute address represented a seminal moment in American history: It’s the last time an American President thought that appealing to a shared sense of sacrifice while being frank…
Extremely enjoying this lawsuit filed by the California Public Employees Retirement System. Their beef? They bought into “structured investment vehicles” which were given AAA ratings by Moody’s and Standard and Poors. It is not a terrible point? I…
During a period of one week back in 2002, New Jersey had five different governors; the state has no lieutenant governor, and when the governor’s office is vacant the president of the Senate serves in…
Hey, what is Clintonista lawyer Lanny Davis up to these days? Oh wait, he’s what? “He is just bad, for the country. And not just our country! He is now being bad for Honduras, where the military recently seized power, on behalf of the…
Citing the unimpeachable evidence that “more people than ever seem to be succumbing to [the] $5 temptation” that is the gyro, the Times takes a closer look at the rotating flesh snack favored by drunks and the impecunious alike. What do we…
Now this is perverse. “Troll Craigslist (carefully), and you’ll find no shortage of couples soliciting strangers to split the rent with them.” Eww! The couples get a single to move in to share the rent and next thing you know? “Sometimes it almost feels like I’m in a relationship…
I kind of love Christoph Niemann’s Master of the Universe” series on the Times’ Abstract City blog. Perhaps you might as well? If not, this attempt at a realistic Charlie Brown may be more your speed. Otherwise, screw you, when did it become my job to recommend art? Oh, right. [Charlie Brown link via Popsense]
There is speculation that negative reaction on Twitter hurt Bruno at the box office. The theory holds that the picture’s momentum-it had a huge Friday take-was completely halted by unfavorable tweet-of-mouth. No one’s sure whether the hypothesis is correct…
Correction time in the Telegraph: “Owing to an editing error, our report ‘Women who dress provocatively more likely to be raped, claim scientists’ (June 23) wrongly stated that research presented at the recent BPS conference by Sophia Shaw found that women who…
The Financial Times notes that Goldman Sachs has “set aside $6.6bn for compensation. It has earmarked $11.4bn for compensation for the first six months of the year. If Goldman’s second-half earnings stay on track, it would pay out an…
The Wall Street Journal’s Thomas Frank examines how the outgoing Governor of Alaska achieved her status as martyr: “To become a symbol of this stature Ms. Palin has had to do the opposite of most public figures. Where others learn to take hostility in stride, she and…
My Classy Linkbait Of The Day Award goes to Us, for this incredible bit of shameless traffic trawling: “Usmagazine.com has exclusive, never-before-seen footage of Michael Jackson’s Pepsi commercial accident, filmed in L.A.’s Shrine Auditorium on…
