by Seth Colter Walls
30. Increase The Pressure, Conflict
by Ana Marie Cox And Jason Linkins
Our President: so busy! So photographed! And here are Air America’s Ana Marie Cox and the…
So in episode two of The Wire, our heroes in the police department-and the non-heroes among the bunch…
“You talk to people, these small online startups, as Len Downie and I did, the optimism is absolutely infectious. Even journalists who have left or been fired from or been let go from traditional mainstream organizations now are working at lower wages for…
A letter from Jim Ledbetter, the editor of The Big Money, corrects a fact in our column yesterday on Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi’s treatment at the hands of the financial press. In discussing a piece by Heidi Moore at The Big…
Are firstborn children more selfish and less trusting than those born in lesser positions? That’s one interpretation of this study, in which subjects were given a “monetary unit” and asked to give some away…
This tale about Ski magazine, and the Summit Daily News, and how reporters have run afoul of The Big Scary Ski Industry, and how their publishers have tossed them under the snowdrift (hmm, eh, sorry), is really…
My kid, who just turned five, wakes up before me every morning and plays in his room. I hear him talking through my half-sleep, spooling out imaginary dialogue between his Ben 10 action figures, mostly about who will defeat who, who has stronger magical powers or superior fire…
British retailer Tesco has apologized after one of its Christmas cards, which reads “SANTA loves all kids. Even GINGER ones,” unsurprisingly provoked fury in people with red hair, who tend to be the quickest to fly off the handle in explosive rage. “It is…
It’s the only category at awards season that anyone cares about-Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made for Television at the Golden Globes! Now, if you feel as I do, you understand entirely that these should be two separate categories, as they are…
I don’t know how many times I have to tell you people this, but do not eat bears: “There are fewer than 10…
Michael Polakovs, the clown who in 1966 created and was the first person to portray* Ronald McDonald, died last week at the age of 86. Himself the son of a clown, Polakovs is survived by six children, one of whom is also a clown. That had to be one wacky hearse.
*Disputed. See comments.
“I was really surprised when my customer told me it was Mr Murdoch. He seemed like such a nice man.” -London newsagent Daxa Solanki, whose shop was visited earlier this year by News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch toured several different newsstands because he “wanted to know what was happening on the ground.”
The Washington Independent notes a session with reporters miserable prick Joe Lieberman just held at the Capitol, where the Senator “seemed surprised by his own endorsement three months ago of a Medicare buy-in…
Remember that disgusting DOH ad where globules of fat, meant to represent soda, were poured into a glass of grossness? Well, now you can watch a video where some guy drinks it. (You’ll want to think twice before clicking through, because, NAST.)
Great. Now even the trees are going to destroy the planet. A major bummer of an article in Nature explains that, due to global warming, trees are growing farther north than they have before. And how, because tree-tops are darker than barren land, they have less “albedo”…
Gay Marriage. In D.C. Officially approved by the City Council, to be approved by the (hot) mayor and then be subjected to a torturous “congressional review period.”
Ya like freedom, responsibility, opportunity, and compassion? Course ya do, you’re an American. Ya know who else is big into that stuff? George W. Bush! In fact, they were the core principles of his time in office. And now you can stand with the former president and his lovely…
“THE world of competitive PIE-EATING was stunned today when a rank outsider scooped the champion’s title. First-time entrant Barry Rigby, 36, amazed judges by polishing off his meat and potato pie in just 43 SECONDS.” Oh yes, there is more.
Got $225k going spare? Why not get yourself a robotic doppelganger? Kokoro, a Japanese robotics firm,
will create the sitting robot out of silicone with the same face, body shape, hair and eyes of the recipient. Their…
Getting smacked in the face with a souvenir statuette may have been the best thing that could have happened to Silvio Berlusconi. The Italian Prime Minister, due to be released from the hospital tomorrow, is the beneficiary of a wave of sympathy that has changed the conversation in…
In 1987 evangelist Oral Roberts told the faithful that unless he was able to raise $8 million in donations, the Lord would “call me home.” God got His money, but you can’t hold Him off forever: Today the call finally came.
Via the Journal’s Speakeasy blog, here’s the first trailer for Ridley Scott’s forthcoming Robin Hood. It is hard to tell from this brief clip whether the movie will be any good or not, but it did remind me that Russell Crowe still exists. Have I been in some merciful void where all news of him was…
This rather enjoyable little essay/art review by Colm TóibÃÂn begins, “From an early age, I have missed the point of things. I noticed this first when the entire class at school seemed to understand that Animal Farm was about something other than animals. I alone sat there believing…
In case you forgot: “The GOP had at most 55 Senators during Bush’s presidency.”
Syndicated columnist and National Review editor Rich Lowry has this to say about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s struggle to obtain the supermajority now necessary to pass health care reform:
Reid’s struggle getting to 60 makes some liberals fear that America has…
