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  • #filmschooled

    "Fuck Them": Times Critic On Hollywood, Women, & Why Romantic Comedies Suck

    "I usually maintain a fairly even temper about Hollywood because I couldn't do my job otherwise," Manohla Dargis told me today. But the formidable NY Times film critic has fighting words for Hollywood and how it treats women. [Jezebel]
    12/14/09
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    By Irin
  • #showmestate

    Anti-Gay Republican Leader's Safe Word: 'Green Balloons'

    Former Missouri Speaker of the House and opponent of "deviate sexual intercourse" Rod Jetton is facing felony charges for an S&M session gone horribly wrong, because a drunk lady never said "green balloons," allegedly. More »
    12/09/09
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  • #polls

    Outrage-Off, Tiger Woods Edition: Rush Limbaugh vs. Eugene Robinson

    As if a Muslim president wasn't bad enough, now we have a Cablinasian golfer trying steal the white man's women. It's outrageous. The only solution is outrageously stupid pundit statements. Today: Rush Limbaugh vs. Eugene Robinson. Vote below! More »
    12/08/09
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  • #lies

    How the Climate Change Summit Will Be Spun

    Whatever happens at the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen next week, we can be sure of one result: the entire event will be hijacked by bad actors spreading lies that will become conventional wisdom. More »
    12/02/09
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    By Pareene
  • #altarcations

    Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Star Trek Weddings On Thanksgiving Weekend? Live Long and Prenup!

    Don't mistake a tryptophan coma for Phyllis Nefler's mellow; Thanksgiving weekend involves sitting in Mama Nefler's basement and packing a round of the NYT Weddings & Celebrations. This week: Trekkies, West Wing fans, and Scopes Monkey celebrities. More »
    11/29/09
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    By Phyllis Nefler
  • #recaps

    And Now We Know How Padma Likes Her Eggs in the Morning

    Awaken and behold the tale of six chefs, two hearts beating as one, a sad strip, a sassafras dream and a love supreme. I'm Joshua David Stein and this is your Top Chef recap. More »
    11/12/09
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  • #television

    The Beginning of the End of the Jay Leno Experiment

    In their quest to reshape television, NBC passed a critical milestone on the way to the primetime experiment's end this week — ratings fell below their own ridiculously low benchmarks to judge the show's success. Now the format's being reworked. More »
    11/10/09
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  • #predictions

    2010 Preview: GOP to Be Teabagged

    It's basically a given that the president's party will lose seats after his first midterm (except when 9/11 happens). So let's not get our hopes up. But Republicans really wanna try to prove that bit of conventional wisdom wrong. More »
    11/09/09
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    By Pareene
  • #hello

    Please Join Me in Welcoming Myself

    Hello, my name is Adrian Chen and I am your new early shift night editor! This means I will be frantically shoveling words into the 8pm-12am news hole each Sunday through Thursday night. Please welcome me. More »
    11/08/09
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  • #conventionalwisdom

    Freakonomics Has Always Been Dumb

    Everyone is all mad at Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner for including a hilariously wrong chapter on climate change in the sequel to their famous book Freakonomics, but some of us have been on the hating-those-dudes train forever. More »
    10/23/09
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    By Pareene