People who hate flying all pretty much hate the usual things. They hate: turbulence…
by Lilit Marcus
by Christian Vachon
“Genghis Khan has been branded the greenest invader in history — after his murderous conquests killed so many people that huge swathes of cultivated land returned to forest. The Mongol leader, who established a vast empire between the 13th and 14th centuries, helped remove nearly…
Everyone try to look surprised: “Two Indiana University scholars report that, for male viewers, ‘emphasis on the sexual attractiveness of female news anchors distracts from memory formation for news content.’…
“For the most part, I have no idea what the lyrics of Kaputt pertain to, except for ‘Suicide Demo For Kara Walker.’ Which is odd, because the writing seems really specific compared to all the other Destroyer albums, whose lyrics I happen to understand very…
“So what’s your theme this week?”
I have never, ever in my life had anyone say to me that former New Republic owner Marty Peretz is gay! Though, now that I think about it, I realize that I’ve never had a discussion about him at all.
“Yet the prejudice — what else can one call it? — endures. In a Twitter post last week, Lockhart Steele, the founder of Eater.com and other Web sites, suggested that few excuses were acceptable for drinking rosé in January. Well, excuse me, Mr. Steele, you’ve obviously never…
by Abe Sauer
You fib!
You spin yarns!
Should alcoholic beverages contain labels that provide health and nutritional information? As an enthusiast of excessive inebriation, I am fully in favor of this increasingly likely possibility. It would be nice to be able to calculate how many calories I…
“Ohio says it’s switching its lethal injection drug to an anesthetic commonly used to euthanize pets as a shortage of the drug normally used for executions has worsened. The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction says the…
RT @edhenrycnn: Asked fave thing about President, McConnell says “that he’s supposedly quit smoking” // “Supposedly”! Snarky!less than a minute ago via Twitter for iPhone
In any other country this would qualify as irony, but in the lurid spectacle that is Italy it is simply another drop in the hooker bucket: “ENRAGED Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, hounded by the media over allegations of orgies and prostitutes…
“The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that Chicago ballots must include Rahm Emanuel’s name, issuing a stay of a lower-court order that said he wasn’t qualified to run for mayor.” Also: “The court has not decided whether to hear Emanuel’s…
Yes, this is what’s on TV: wall-to-wall Nazis, prison porn, “true crime,” Sarah Palin and “When Vacations Attack!”
“It’s fantastic that the UK is going to be the first international MTV territory to…
“As for Americans, we learn, as if we didn’t know, that due to the pressure of AIPAC, we simply lie about the whole conflict. We pretend that the Palestinians still need to make concessions for peace when there…
