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#cornponeopinions
O'Reilly Pardons Fox Commentator Mike Huckabee For Commuting Suspected Cop Killer's Sentence
The Washington State cop killer should be a slam dunk of rage for Bill O'Reilly: A governor commutes a criminal's sentence, then the guy goes and kills four cops. Except that governor was fellow Fox commentator Mike Huckabee. More » -
#twitterati
Discussing the Blow-jobby Part of Journalism
Sarah Silverman compared her feelings to quicksand; Rob Thomas compared President Obama to President Bush; and a newspaper staffer likened the story process to oral sex. The Twitterati turned up the contrast. More » -
#printisdead
Is Heeb Magazine Folding?
A tipster informs us that Heeb—the favorite rag of Holocaust-mocking hipster Jews everywhere—is going kaput. Details? Email us. Update: A Heeb staffer emails that they haven't heard anything; the honchos we asked for comment still haven't replied. -
#requestforinformation
Get Ready for Blogger Shameless Tuesday (And Help Us, Too)
Starting tomorrow, new FTC regulations require bloggers to disclose when they accept cash or freebies for posts. Appropriately enough, fameball queen Julia Allison is leading this coming wave of embarrassing confessionals, with a disclosure about her insides. More » -
#picoftheday
Winter Wondering Land
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#franchises
Hollywood Holds Breath as Bourne Series Suddenly Imperiled
When a franchise dies, all of Hollywood sheds a tear. But when a franchise dies prematurely, while it still has years of cash to give, Hollywood goes to battle stations. And tonight, Hollywood stands on the brink. More » -
#oldnews
Tourists Go to the Same Broadway Shows Year After Year
The good news: tourists poured a truckload of cash into Broadway over Thanksgiving weekend. The sad news: the shows that did best were tired gems like Wicked and The Lion King and shows based on movies. Original musicals are doomed. More » -
#rumormonger
Rush Sets Wedding Date!
Congrats to Rush Limbaugh! We hear he's finally set a date get married for a fourth time—appropriately enough, it is the Fourth of July!
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#opencaption
Two Wild and Crazy Wheels
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#pullquote
Countess LuAnn de Lesseps —
the Real Housewife of New York answering Daily Intel's question, "If you were to try to teach a lesson from" White House party crashers and Real Housewives of D.C. aspirants Michaele and Tareq Salahi, "what would it be?" -
#socialnetworks
Facebook Still Cleaning Up Its Redesign Mess
Someone in France stumbled across an apparent new version of Facebook with a simplified interface. It looks like the social network is still fixing the information overload introduced by its disastrous redesign. More » -
#polls
Outrage-Off: Breitbart vs. Birthers
Lib bigots are faking climate change and electing a British monkey to the presidency. Only outrageous crypto-conservative statements in the media can save us. Time for your daily outrage-off! Today: Andrew Breitbart vs. Birthers. Vote in the outrage poll below! More » -
#seasonsgreetings
The Hidden Subtext of Christmas Specials
You think that the animated holiday specials we all grew up with were just teaching you about Santa and presents and winter wonderlands? You're wrong! They were sending you hidden signals both excellent and devious. Here is the ugly truth. More »
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#thejaylenoexperiment
Is It Time to Cancel Those Leno Obituaries?
It's certainly not a best-case scenario, but in the face of all fears, the end of Jay Leno's ratings free fall doesn't seem bad. At last there are signs the NBC's Jay Leno experiment may have turned a corner. More » -
#clipjob
Gawker.TV: The Five Best Videos Ever of the Day
Today at Gawker.TV, The Sun spoofs Apple commercials, Kelly Cutrone drops the F-Bomb on morning television, a concert-goer finds his seat by way of everyone in the audience, and we choose the best Price Is Right flip-outs of all time. More » -
#culturewars
Let's Fight About a Gay-Sex Videogame This Christmas Season
Dragon Age: Origins has taken the terribly awkward genre of videogame dialog and melded it with gay romance and, also gay sex scenes. Who, in these United States, could possibly object to foisting this content on teenaged boys? More » -
#kellonearth
Kelly Kutrone, the best part of The City, debuts her Bravo reality show February 1.
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#bafflingcrusades
GOP Literally Digging Through ACORN's Trash for Anything Bad-Seeming
What is our nation's very serious opposition party up to, these days? Oh, just staging mock trials in Congress using "evidence" they found in ACORN's trash! More » -
#advertising
Fruit-Laden Railcar Engenders Concern For Indigents
Ever wanted to see an entire NYC subway train full of green apples? No? Well you never wanted to be trapped in a subway car with a knife-wielding murderer either, but it happens. Oh and feed the hungry, etc. [Adfreak] -
#fuzzymath
The Equation for When to Quit Watching a TV Show
Even the best television shows run out of creative juice if they stay on the air long enough. But, when is the right time to give up hope a show will improve and abandon it forever? Finally, a handy calculation!
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#thetribe
On Details, "Hot Jewish Girls," And Sloppy, Knee-Jerk Misogyny
Reading Details' "The Rise of the Hot Jewish Girl" should probably offend me as a woman and a Jew, but it's as a journalist that I'm most offended. Still, could Details be more misogynistic than Maxim? There's strong evidence. [Jezebel] -
#sellingmovies
Hollywood's Feel Bad Movie Season Is Upon Us
Each winter, with the coming of awards season, the colors of America's multi-plexes turn from bright pastels to dismal browns and grays as Hollywood strains for gravitas with their takes on the most depressing topics of the day. More » -
#mediacrack
'Twitter' Is Word of Sexless Year
In your maverick Monday media column: A word is preposterously declared to be The Top, Jim Lehrer takes it slow and steady, the Mike Penner vs. Christine Daniels question, and you are invited to a Hooker Pub. More » -
#coverlies
December Allure: For The Martian On Your Holiday Shopping List
If you've got a green-skinned friend with limited understanding of earthling manners, a copy of December's Allure may be just the gift for her. [Jezebel] -
#thanksgivingofhorrors
Thanksgiving Horror Stories: The Results Are In
Thanks to all of our lovely, scarred, dysfunctional, boozy, bad-cooking readers, we were more full of Thanksgiving Horror Stories than a Macy's parade balloon is full of helium. We selected the best (or is it worst?) and crowned a winner.
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#buses
Palin Not Actually Taking Tacky Bus on Tacky Book Tour
Amazing investigative reporting by the great Joe McGinniss: Sarah Palin says she is conducting her book tour from a bus, but she is actually just hopping on a rented Gulfstream to get from suburban shithole mall to suburban shithole mall. More » -
#globalwarming
Climate Email Scandal: Scientists Engaged in a Conspiracy of Science
Climate change is real and man-made. Period, end of story. But recently, some emails have leaked that conclusively prove that climate scientists... are really pissed off that a well-funded industry exists that subverts and denies their work.
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#danger
"Bagel-related injuries are exceeded only by chicken, potato, apple and onion injuries." Knowledge is power.
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#disasters
The Sad, Premature Death of the TechCrunch Tablet
Last month, Popular Mechanics named TechCrunch's CrunchPad 'Product of the Year." The unreleased tablet computer was, of course, promptly beset by delays, infighting and a legal dispute. Now it's been aborted by its parent. More » -
#holidaze
Goldman Employees Aren't Allowed to Hang Out in Groups of 12 or More
Goldman's Christmas celebration rules have a funny condition: they can't hang out in groups of twelve or more. More » -
#fridaymorningnewsdumps
Chelsea Clinton Engaged
Every political reporter in the nation was so consumed by one ridiculous non-story over the holiday weekend that they missed the biggest ridiculous non-story of the month: Chelsea Clinton is engaged!
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#opencaption
Push Him Real Good
[Cameron Diaz wonders if anyone will notice if she gives Tom Cruise a shove off the top of the Gothic Palace in Seville, Spain, which they toured on Saturday. Image via Bauer-Griffin]
