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100 Jamie Lynn Spears Headlines Analyzed

With the news that Britney's little sister Jamie Lynn Spears was preggers came an avalanche of media insanity. Will we have not one, but two Spears vaginas to keep track of now? Whose baby will fetch more cash for tabloid photos? Whose baby's daddy will have the worse rap career? And what about Gramma Spears' bookdeal? Let's take a look at the sibling rivalry and the JLS reaction. More »

12:15 PM on Thu Dec 20 2007
By marypilon
37,341 views, 56 comments

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Exactly What Makes James Lipton So Irritating

Our Intern Mary has applied her sharp analytical mind and excellent Excel skill to Inside Inside, the wretched memoir by Inside the Actor's Studio host James Lipton. We've already examined the man's choice in epigraphs (pretentious), his favorite holiday (ridiculous) and his taste in women (whorish). But now the hard data is in. More »

2:05 PM on Fri Nov 9 2007
By Joshua Stein
10,114 views, 82 comments

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The 220 Best Women's Halloween Costumes On Amazon And eBay

For the truly last-minute shoppers among us, our brave Intern Mary has looked at the top 220 Halloween costumes for women on Amazon and eBay. Would you like to be a sexy witch? A plus-size witch? A Bavarian woman? A sexy firewoman? A sexy bumblebee? A sexy tinwoman? THAT IS JUST A FEW OF THE 220 OPTIONS THAT YOU HAVE! More »

5:30 PM on Wed Oct 31 2007
By Choire
13,043 views, 56 comments

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What Does Bill O'Reilly Really Say About Black People?

Fox News motormouth Bill O'Reilly is upset—he says that his recent remarks about those oh-so-well-behaved black people in Harlem were totally taken out of context! So we wondered: Well, what context were they in? Searching through the Fox transcripts, using the terms "Black, "African" and "African-American," and discarding comments about Africa (such as about Darfur or the IMF), Intern Mary itemizes the way in which Bill O'Reilly has talked about black people. More »

1:41 PM on Thu Sep 27 2007
By Choire
53,289 views, 51 comments

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Which New York Newspaper Has The Most Accurate Weather Forecasts?

Each morning we wake up, open the front door, grab the newspaper, look at the forecast for the day's high temperature, and dress based on that forecast. (Occasionally we also shower.) And every day, around noon, we find ourselves complaining that we're too hot because the paper was completely wrong. So we asked Intern Mary to track the weekday results of the city's three major papers and the New York Sun against the actual high temperatures over a two-week period. She also looked at the online predictions, for those of you who get your news that way. Her findings may surprise you! More »

11:57 AM on Tue Sep 18 2007
By abalk
7,432 views, 32 comments

Latest by JackBauersLuvChild: Sad but true fact, one the top five things I miss most about New York is not having the New York 1 blue box to tell me what to put on :( more »