How Sarah Palin Tortures the Bible

With her usual vacuous brio, Sarah Palin has seized another news cycle, using an interview with the…

Das Racist (America’s best rappers? You decide) recently played at Carleton College and of course hijinks ensued: “After their show I walked up to Victor who was being accosted by fangurls and I was like, ‘Hey these chicks are weird come hang out with my friends our hotel…

AOL + HuffPo: What Does It Mean?

AOL’s purchase of the Huffington Post for $315 million is fascinating. It comes directly on the heels…

So here is a look at the pro-ana and “thinspo” Tumblr communities! This is a thing to know about, the young ladies who in varying ways crave being tiny, but please note our official position on food and body size is “we are in favor of people eating the hell…

Um! Enthusiasts of the work of Jay Kang (this and this) will be interested in this: “Crown’s Lindsay Sagnette made a six-figure pre-empt for North American rights to a debut novel by Columbia M.F.A. Jay Kang. Sterling Lord’s Jim Rutman…

Bookers: DM me if you need a guest to talk Egypt. I’ve been following this stuff pretty closely for almost a weekTue Feb 01 21:28:41 via web

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Remember that time you went to J.D. Salinger’s house for a drink in 1952 and it went really really poorly?

“The sleepover, along with its cousin the slumber party, raises a whole array of emotional issues for children and parents.”
 — Wow, the crazed helicopter-parenting generation has crawled so far inside its own ass that it can no longer make sense of anything.

One of the few female editorial cartoonists in the world, Austria’s Rachel Gold, an immigrant from Israel… turns out to be an Austrian man.

The Tina Fey thing in the New Yorker today — subscription only, cheapos! — is actually great. It’s a funny, tangled little thing that still feels raw and a little frightening! True fact: “Network executives really do say things like ‘I don’t know. I don’t want to fuck anybody on this show.’”

For those of you who don’t, somehow, do your private banking with Goldman Sachs, you won’t see their just-issued report on the AOL purchase of the Huffington Post. For starters, they expect “retention compensation” to offset the…

Why Jeb Bush must run for President! It’s full of LOLs from the right.

“Arianna Huffington has, for the second time in her career, found a big payout at the end of an implausible-seeming relationship.”
 — Oh gosh.

“It’s a slow-motion train wreck and will end in disaster.”
 — Gosh, how do you really feel about the AOL HuffPo buy?