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The Evil Genius of the New York Post

Credit where it's due, people: the Post's cover this morning (click to enlarge) is simply a work of tabloid art. Sure, it's easy to sell papers when there's big news. But on a slow day, can you pull off a cover that combines revulsion, a perverse obsession with strange diseases, and a mythical monster? That's the news business at its finest. It's a heartwarming narrative: freaky baby born with freaky condition, doctors stumped, he begs for salvation, and it's finally delivered! Something we can all get behind. The Post is actually far more subtle than its tabloid ancestors: More »

10:28 AM on Thu Nov 20 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
3,812 views, 37 comments

Most discussed aurora*raby: Wolf Boy is hot. I wish I were covered head-to-toe in beautiful silver fur. more »

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Obama As Lincoln Comparison Shows No Sign of Abating

We understand the insatiable need for the media to compare Obama to Lincoln, we really do. There's no need to rehash the potential similarities all over again, because Newsweek is devoting their cover story this week to doing exactly that. On one hand, comparing a president-elect to a another guy from Illinois who did the job well makes all the sense in the world. And above all else, Lincoln was a good man. On the other hand, there are elements of this comparison that are wildly not suggestive of BO:
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2:45 PM on Sun Nov 16 2008
By Alex Carnevale
4,970 views, 46 comments

Most discussed bellesouth: The opinions may not be the same regarding race; but wouldn't you say Lincoln's opinion of race is similar to more »

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Palling Around With Monuments

The urge to draw, literally, a link between Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama would have been irresistible to editorial cartoonists even if both men were not Illinois legislators, outspoken against a foreign military adventure and exploitive of their hardscrabble upbringings in the national hinterlands. Who better to juxtapose with the country's first black president than the commander-in-chief who emancipated American slaves (even if Obama's ancestors were not among them)? More »

11:07 PM on Thu Nov 6 2008
By Ryan Tate
7,868 views, 71 comments

Most discussed ellagood: let's hope obama stays away from the theater. more »

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We Get The BTO Joke Already, Thanks

Sure, it was kind of a McCarthyite move by freshman Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, calling Barack Obama "anti-American" on MSNBC's Hardball. But you know what else it was? A chance for editors across the country to gleefully brandish their pattern-matching skills and knowledge of Canadian classic rock. Hence all of the references to Bachman-Turner Overdrive (hits: "Takin' Care of Business," "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet") in the screenshots above, all courtesy Eric Spiegelman. As usual, the Daily Show adds that extra dash of awesome.

2:15 AM on Wed Oct 22 2008
By Ryan Tate
2,533 views, 25 comments

Most discussed lawyergay: You would have thought that at least one person would have gone for "Bachmann pretzel something"? "Bachmann Bakes Up Pretzel more »

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Details' Gayness Increases Tenfold With Gossip Girl Cover

This here website (among many others) has been asking the same question for years. Is Details magazine gay? I mean, yeah, they pretty much are with all their fancy fashion ads and fancy men who are always gracing the cover. This month's bois are the dudes from teen soap Gossip Girl, and look! The cover is eerily similar to the fellas' Out cover appearance from back in March. (Heck, when New York Magazine featured the show, they included the ladies.) Note in these two gayish covers that resident twink Chace Crawford is sandwiched in the middle on both. Heh. Subtle. Click for larger comparison.

1:18 PM on Mon Oct 6 2008
By Richard
4,409 views, 45 comments

Most discussed What it is: wait. I thought the playboys of tech feature increased the gayness tenfold? more »

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Toby Young Cheerfully Admits to Sort-of Plagiarism

It took years and years and the attention of a new movie, but someone finally uncovered a smidge of plagiarism in the fired Vanity Fair Brit's How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. Daily Intel found near-identical passages from the book and a New York Times article by John Tierney. Young was unruffled, saying it wasn't plagiarism but loose English journalistic standards at work: More »

11:31 AM on Mon Oct 6 2008
By Sheila
2,576 views, 21 comments

Most discussed TheHonJudgeSmails: Journalism in the UK, much like dentistry, is kind of an amateur pursuit. more »

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Sarah Palin To Command the Death Star?

At left is the wicked (and blessedly dead) Grand Moff Tarkin, high-powered henchman to Darth Vader, from the 1977 space documentary Star Wars. At right is Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin speaking at a campaign rally in Colorado yesterday. Note the similarities. We're not sayin', we're just sayin'. [Palin image via Splash]

4:23 PM on Tue Sep 16 2008
By Richard
8,060 views, 82 comments

Most discussed PrincessKashmir: --Jeremiah Wright as Lando Calrissian (black! and traitor! who may be redeemed after all) --Karl Rove as Jabba the Hut (no more »

headlines

Ted Kennedy Wins Rave Reviews

We were told Ted Kennedy, who's battling advanced brain cancer, had mere weeks to live. We were told there'd be a macabre video salute to the man in lieu of an actual appearance in Denver. So when he actually showed up on stage at the DNC to deliver a genuinely rousing speech, well, it was an emotional moment. So emotional that the major tabloids of both New York and Boston could not come up with original headlines. More »

11:03 AM on Tue Aug 26 2008
By Pareene
3,732 views, 40 comments

Latest by WasatchMan: He's dying. The only thing the papers can do is mouth cliches. Let Chappaquiddick rest until it's time more »

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Gossip Girl Stars Reenact Sweepingly Gay Period Drama

When we first saw the photos of Gossip Girl stars Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick lounging on the grass between takes—as louche and laissez-faire as two successful young men in the primes of their lives can be—something about the photos struck as familiar. But we weren't quite sure what it was until today, when a helpful tipster pointed us in the right direction. It's straight out of Brideshead: Revisited! More »

4:52 PM on Thu Aug 21 2008
By Richard
7,956 views, 36 comments

Latest by Severine: It will be Brideshead all over again pretty soon, there's a new feature film adaptation about to be released (October more »

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Copycat Blogger Hate-Loves Sloane Crosley

A blogger recently "reviewed" uber-book-publicist Sloane Crosley's book of essays, I Was Told There'd Be Cake, on her personal blog. "I too am a twenty-something year old self-absorbed, middle-class angst who can relate to quite a few of Sloane’s shenanigans. Oh you know, the standard white-girl fare..." Cute, whatever. But! This very same blogger, we notice, can relate to quite a few of Sloane's shenanigans: she's written essays in the past month on her blog about a.) being a bad vegetarian, b.) being a pack rat, and c.) spending a childhood playing the videogame Oregon Trail. Coincidentally, Crosley's book features essays about each of these subjects. Hatecrush alert! Let's compare and contrast: More »

4:20 PM on Wed Aug 20 2008
By Sheila
3,835 views, 46 comments

Latest by TerseNursePornstein: @lcr1234: I guess you didn't read the samples posted above? more »

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