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Lara Logan With Child, Howard Kurtz With Exclusive

No wonder Lara Logan was so cranky on The Daily Show—she's preggers! Logan, the CBS war correspondent whose well-deserved promotion to CBS' chief foreign affairs correspondent was overshadowed by all this homewrecking nonsense, is now safely in Washington and expecting a child with Joseph Burkett, the contractor she famously carried on an affair with while stationed in Baghdad. The scoop comes from Washington Post "media critic" Howard Kurtz, which is funny, because he is generally useless and was all hand-wringy about how tabloidy this story was last week. Funny how a little exclusive can change a guy's mind, right? More passionate wartime forbidden love, below. More »

11:34 AM on Tue Jul 8 2008
By Pareene
4,834 views, 25 comments

Latest by Bell County: @SW-2: No, that's right. The Dan Quayle thing was a Murphy Brown joke. In the other comment, I was the joke. more »

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CBS War Correspondent Gets Promotion, Sex Scandal

Apparently some CBS execs saw their foreign correspondent Lara Logan on The Daily Show last week, and, like thousands of young men across the nation, they said, "who is that cutie?" It turned out she already worked for them! But because she insisted on reporting depressing news from depressing places like Afghanistan and Iraq, she never made it on-air. That will change! A CBS press release says Ms. Logan will now be "CBS News’ Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and will be based in Washington, D.C." Effective immediately! Now Ms. Logan can shoot herself in the head when she's forced to watch the news they show us here in the states. Oh, and also, did you know she is a HOMEWRECKER? Oh ho ho yes she is. More »

10:59 AM on Wed Jun 25 2008
By Pareene
20,262 views, 66 comments

Latest by n/a: @skahammer: That was awesome! "I had a good run."It's only a matter of time before my super cute wife meets a guy with less hair beginning to grow out of his ears. more »

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Sensitive State Dept. Document Explains What Happens When Cars Stop Being Police, Start Going Boom

Slate found this 2005 State Department brochure on car bombs at the closed and then re-opened Wikileaks. Its amazing subtitle speaks for itself. Perhaps we could've averted a national catastrophe if, back in 2001, President Bush had been handed a national security briefing headlined "Bin Laden Determined to Make US E'Splode!"

10:54 AM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Pareene
843 views, 6 comments

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War Makes You Kill Your Favorite Author

88-year-old Horst Rippert, a German fighter pilot during WWII, learned that he shot down and killed one of his favorite authors during the war: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of The Little Prince and seven other books. Rippert learned the identity of one of his "kills" through a historian writing Saint-Exupery's biography; he told the Mail, "I knew he was a French pilot, but he was probably my favourite author at the time... I am shocked and sorry." [Mail on Sunday]

5:40 PM on Tue Mar 18 2008
By Sheila
1,794 views, 97 comments

Latest by Bloo Kazoo: I met Vladimir Nabokov at a bar one night. The next morning he woke up in a bathtub filled with ice with a tube sticking out his back and a note taped to chest telling him to call 911. more »

Prediction The puppy torture video will end the Iraq war. [Fimoculous]

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