This is, obviously, the Washington version of a "rumor." The New York phrase for it is "some speculative shit someone said while drunk, probably at a terrible party."

The New York media version would be, like, some drunk blogger at Tom & Jerry's saying, "I bet Michael Wolff is going to buy the New York Press and turn it into a glossy wedding magazine." Not something with much of a chance of happening, but, you know, it's not outside the realm of possibility, if you are the sort of person who spends a lot of time thinking about these people.

Anyway. Hillary Clinton is not going to replace Smilin' Joe Biden on the ticket.

By reducing average class size! Now a full 3/4 of Harvard undergraduate classes have fewer than 20 students. And you know what that means: more classes taught in intimate settings by younger instructors no doubt hungrier for brain sex.

(I have anecdotal evidence of this, even. Earlier this year I met a young aspiring journalist from Harvard named Lena Chen, and she was traveling [to Julia Allison's house, in fact!] with an ex-teaching assistant in tow. I am pretty sure they were having traditional non-brain sex!)

Now that you know that here is some information: it is the 25th anniversary of the journalism world's most pointlessly controversial listicle and still I am pretty sure Gawker has done the only actually funny (and crowdsourced) alternative ranking. Internet people, please put rub your A+ school for B student educated brains together and think us up a new concept. Unsafest Safety Schools? Fairly ridiculous names?

*Ahem, Princeton would like you to know they still hold the top spot in several categories of the Princeton Review and also are beloved by Black Enterprise magazine despite that angry thesis penned by that alumni association Judas Michelle Obama.

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"We don't think about it in those terms," Mr. Zuckerman said in a minute-and-a-half phone interview that he abruptly ended. "Does it have a value today given the general decline in news interest among the public? Yes. It's this kind of useful news that people want. But I didn't do it for business reasons."

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Larry's beef? Well, he claims that an article about the colonial settlement Jamestown omitted an important detail: that the all-male community who lived there 400 years ago were totally queer. In a letter to the editor that he says the magazine refuses to publish, Larry asserts:

Year after year in the wilderness made lives for hundreds and then thousands almost too harsh to bear without affection. My own research is turning up not only widespread coupling of men with each other, indeed even with personal commitment ceremonies, but actual families being formed as two men bought infants from the Indians to raise as their own.

In order to ensure that his cries for justice would be heard after the magazine told him that his letter was a no-go, Larry sent out an email to every gay and gay-acting journalist writer type person in New York.

Edmund White! Poz mag founder Sean Strub! Honorary gay Calvin Trillin! Longtime Vanity Fair celeb talker Kevin Sessums! East Village lady-playwright Sarah Shulman! Kurt Vonnegut's wife Jill Krementz! Naomi Wolf! Frank Rich! Michael Cunningham! "Wicked" director Joe Mantello! Seriously, there's a cast of thousands here.

Won't you do something about the rights of colonial settlers to buy Indian infants? We feel that we've done our part.

Struggling From One Peril To The Next, The Jamestown Settlers Planted The Seeds [ed: haha] Of The American Spirit [US News & World Report]

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