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more about #slate more comments → raincoaster: Maybe, just MAYBE it's the fact that it maintained Slate's DNA that caused it to fail as a separate site? #doublex more » VoxPopuli: I prefer to think of it as sending Double XX back into Slate's kitchen to fetch it a beer and make dinner. #doublex more » iplaudius: Slate vagina dentata chews DoubleX cud. #doublex more » BookishLookish: Did you know, Mr. Cook, that the ancient Greeks thought the uterus could detach itself and wander all over the body, causing all kindsa sinister havoc... more » Owen Thomas: Peggy White, the exiting publisher of Double X, strikes me as eminently employable elsewhere: She was formerly the general manager of Yahoo Finance. C... more » raincoaster: "Much fanfare" eh? So why is this the first time I've heard of it? Oh, right; I'm not married to someone who reads Slate. #slate more » City_Dater: Perhaps some voice of reason spoke up and said "hey, throwing everything by/about women into a pink ghetto makes us look like assholes." But probably... more » Carly: I still don't understand why "women's" articles need to be divided off from the "mainstream" into their own little section. There aren't men intereste... more » Seeräuber Jenny: No great sympathy here. A few years ago, there was a post on the XX Factor about the great progress women were making. I wrote (under a different na... more » hamburgerhotdog: Where will Katie Roiphe post her inane rantings now?! #slate more » morninggloria: I would have read it if they'd called it "Triple X." Two x's just aren't hard core enough for me. #slate more » iplaudius: I prefer Double Y. The articles on weight lifting, prison life, big-and-tall fashion, and Australian tourism are nice, and I enjoy the Zeb Atlas advic... more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Slate is a men's magazine? #slate more » Spirit Fingers: Bah! Since I've yet to hear any really crazy things about her in the last twenty years, and she's mostly stayed away from all things VH1 reality, then... more » oudemia: Well, shit. Here I was about to paste in [www.news.cornell.edu] from Cornell itself in 2008 saying that she had earned her PhD. But it no longer says ... more » -
#internalmemos
Double X Isn't Closing—It's Crawling Back Up Into Slate's Uterus
Slate honcho Jacob Weisberg has addressed Double X's shuttering as a stand-along entity in a memo, confirming some layoffs and characterizing the site's demotion to a section of Slate as "returning Double X to the womb from which it sprang." More » -
#feminism
Double X to Be Folded Back into Slate
Six months after the Slate Group launched Double X as "a new kind of women's online magazine," it's being transformed into a section of Slate.com, a very old kind of men's online magazine. More » -
#dang
Roxanne Shante's Feel-Good Story a Fake?
Noooooooo: Last week we heard the heartwarming story of how old school rapper Roxanne Shante got her evil record company to pay more than $200K for her to get a Ph.D. Now Slate says the whole story's a fake. More » -
#corporateconspiracy
The Secret, Shameless Sleaze Of MSNBC's Richard Wolffe
Salon columnist Glenn Greenwald posted a scathing column about the armistice between GE and News Corp meant to end Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann's fueding. It's a chilling read, and brings in a tangentially related player: Richard Wolffe.
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#hacks
Happy Blogiversary to Mickey Kaus!
Slate ur-contrarian Mickey Kaus has been bloggin' away for 10 years now! He is most proud of a) thinking he invented various ancient quick-fix policy ideas and b) immigrant-hating. More » -
#fridaytan
Eddie, Woody, & Michael: Do We Even Care About Geniuses Anymore?
Eddie Murphy, Woody Allen, Michael Jackson: All indisputable geniuses in the 80s. Hit-or-miss in the 90s. And, at least before the outpouring of adulation for Jackson today, you probably wouldn't want to trade reputations with any of them. More » -
#negropediabrown
Page 91: The Answer to the Case of the Undead Auto-Tune
Previously: Jay-Z was frustrated by Slate's Jody Rosen's analysis of his new single D.O.A. Is Jay just getting old? Or is Jody being thoughtless? Negropedia Brown investigated, and here's the solution to yesterday's Media Mystery! More » -
#negropediabrown
Negropedia Brown: The Case of the Undead Auto-Tune
Mr. and Mrs. Brown had one child. They called him TAN, but everyone else called him Negropedia. One day he opened a Blog Detective Agency to solve Media-Mysteries resulting from Ethnocultural-dissonance. Let's follow along, kids! More » -
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#theassimilator
Does Weed Have '5' On the Economy?
What could cure cancer, the economy, and put lovable handles on Michael Phelps? Hold that thought. On the bong I've got: Jason Mulgrew, Jeff Weiss, and Anonymous Hedgefund Dude. We are from the future. More » -
#theassimilator
Can Double X Get Feminist Media On the Same Cycle of Hate?
Well, "hate" is a strong word; more like "pissed!" Or maybe, "PMS'd?" Hmm, probably best to let the ladies handle this, first up: Amanda Marcotte and Jill Filipovic with a more nuanced take than I. More » -
#theassimilator
In the Case of Dan Baum, Everyman, vs. the New Yorker: How Do You Plead?
Last week Dan Baum ate from the tree-of-temptation and tweeted blaspheme about the holiest of literary-institutions, The New Yorker. This weekend: Slate's Troy Patterson, Eric Easter of EbonyJet, and Emily of Emdashes pass judgment: More » -
#mediacrack
Goodbye Playguy, Adios Honcho
In your countercultural Tuesday media column: Gay porn mags fold en masse, Chevron is evil as usual, Slate deems women capable of running their very own blog, and prison radio kicks ass: More » -
#eliotspitzer
Silda Spitzer Goes Out With a Blogger
Eliot Spitzer, the prostitute-hiring ex-governor of New York, has been seen in public with his wife, Silda, for the first time since he confessed to paying for sex with aspiring musician Ashley Dupré. More » -
#lolslate
Your Dead Kid Doesn't Impress Slate Columnist
Jack Shafer has had it with the weepy emails about how you lost Little Timmy forever to some overdose. He's a busy man. Save it for Cary Tennis. [via Nick Douglas] -
#twitterati
Don't Tweet on My Shoes, I'm Headed for Atlantis
Today's sweetest tweets: CNET's Caroline McCarthy got ready to don a Snuggie. Valleywag alumna Megan McCarthy (no relation) dreamed of Atlantis. David Gregory of Meet the Press succumbed to Twitter peer pressure. And more! More » -
#journalismism
Slate Badmouths Its Own Suze Orman Takedown
Waitress turned self-appointed wealth expert Suze Orman is a terrible person, according to Slate's Big Money. That's because this evil financial sorceress recommends an investing strategy called "dollar-cost averaging." What? More » -
#huffpoors
Blogger Dreams of Terrifying Future of Well-Paid Bloggers
Mickey Kaus seems to think that the fact that HuffPo's unpaid contributors and underpaid staffers aren't unionized is proof that unions are Bad and Don't Work and are Bad for America. More » -
#music
Billy Joel, 'Worst Pop Singer Ever'
Billy Joel will be dissed, forever, by various critics. Now we're told the singer is a whiny misogynist — and 'The Worst Pop Singer Ever' — by Ron Rosenbaum in Slate. More »
