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more about #rollingstone more comments → Foster Kamer: The funny thing: when I used to work in the same office as Taibbi's agent, I told her I was a fan, and he asks her: Is a young, hairy-knuckled young J... more » ethylic: And I thought it was the squid from "Watchmen" more » MisterMustard: That isn't blood dripping from the tentacles, it's oil. more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Interesting this came out just about the same time that the GS pr machine cranked out their new "mea culpa letsa throw some money atta the problem". ... more » Arken: Silly Nazis. Octopi aren't even kosher. more » D2theMatthews: To be fair, that's a cartoon octopus. more » i'm a bottle: Wow, classy. more » WhiteMan'sBourbon: Then Hitler showed the drawing to Hirohito, and thus was born tentacle porn. more » uncle_wiggly: I'm not a big Taibbi fan, but I don't believe that anyone that uses a squid/octopus metaphor is anti-semitic because some shut-ins found a fifty year ... more » ohgee: I'm pretty sure a vampire squid is a real animal, though. more » Adrian Chen: The image was also used to denounce Standard Oil back in the day. more » anonymousryan: Obviously, doing anything remotely similar to the Nazis is anti-Semitic. What'd the Jews ever do to you, VANCOUVER OLYMPICS? more » Claire Buoyant: This proves that only dinosaurs listen to rock music. #america more » Rozelle’s Bagman: So do the Alberta oil sands explain the annoying persistance of Rush? #america more » allyzay: Does this have anything to do with this? #america more » -
#coincidences
So That's What a Blood-Sucking Vampire Squid Looks Like
Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi famously called Goldman Sachs the "great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." Turns out Nazi cartoonists came up with that image first. More » -
#chartsgraphs
The Shake, Rattle, Decline and Fall of American Empire
This graph is the key to everything and it will soon be a book from HarperCollins. ("Everything" means Jann Wenner, Baby Boomers, mass culture, and the death of liberal consensus and middle class stability.) [Overthinking It via Colin via Maura.] -
#journalismisms
Gawker's Guide to Coverage of Rolling Stone's Coverage of Megan Fox
In the most misguided media decision of the decade, Rolling Stone opted to let online readers look at the pictures from their recent Megan Fox cover story, but held back the text from the internet, making them pay for words.
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#tardy
Rolling Stone Finally Taking Late, Doomed Shot At RollingStone.com
It must pain Jann Wenner to see his other properties start succeeding where flagship Rolling Stone squandered possibilities and descended into irrelevancy: online. Now that US Weekly's site has heat, Wenner's finally starting to line up RS's strategy of "whatever." More » -
#lawsuits
How Getty Images Screwed Art Capital Group's Deal With Annie Leibovitz
There are new details in Art Capital Group's ongoing legal battle with celebrity photographer/pauper Annie Leibovitz: Art Capital has also sued Getty Images, alleging that the giant photo agency tried to undermine its deal with Leibovitz. More » -
#bankers
Goldman Sachs Management to Employees: 'No More Douchebaggery!'
Maybe you heard yesterday about how things are going great over at Goldman, like $1,000,000 for each employee great? So surely there were some sick banker celebrations going down last night, right? Not if management can help it! More » -
#comingsout
Adam Lambert: Gay As He Wanna Be
The most ludicrous American Idol contestant ever, Adam Lambert, has finally come out of the closet. In a cover story for Rolling Stone! All of America's gay boo-boos are now healed, or something. More » -
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#mysteries
Why Isn't Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone's Rockstar Writer, Blogging On Rolling Stone's Website?
Fans of Matt Taibbi, frequent Bill Maher guest, 2008 NMA winner and Tom Friedman's worst nightmare on steroids, have long wondered why Taibbi blogs for True/Slant and not Rolling Stone. It's time for some answers! More » -
#exits
Musical Trendsetters at Rolling Stone Say San Francisco Is Over
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#recessionomics
Desperate Youth Pay For Internships
The ongoing collapse of the American economy means middle-class college grads must behave like coddled aristocratic twits and secure internships through their parents' largesse.
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#rumormonger
Jann Wenner Firing People At Drop of a Hat
Can Wenner Media go three weeks without another spurt of layoffs? Probably not, judging by its recent history. The latest seemingly whimsical cuts came earlier today. More » -
#rollingstone
Jann Wenner's Heartless Christmas Layoffs
Rolling Stone overlord Jann Wenner forgot to do some layoffs in his last round, two weeks ago, so he just fired some more people, less than a week before Christmas. More »
