The next big tech happening is a chain of grilled cheese restaurants? Jonathan Kaplan, who invented the popular Flip digital video camera, took his startup “The Melt” out of stealth mode while on stage today at this year’s D gathering in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. His big news? Sequoia Capital, which in the past has […]
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Paris Hilton Works So Hard, You Guys
Thank God CNN is around to cover the hard-hitting news like this: When Morgan asked the hotel heiress about people’s misconceptions, she replied, “Just having the last name Hilton, people assume that everything was handed to me and I’ve never had to work a day in my life. But in reality, I’ve worked so hard, […]
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Herman Cain Pulls a Train
Herman Cain says, “stupid people are ruining America.” And so to refute the stupid, he’s released a country music video featuring Joe the Plumber, who is apparently not stupid now somehow. He’s lucky so many words rhyme with his last name. In other news, the tea party isn’t racist because, uh, Herman Cain, that’s why.
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Sarah Palin Continues to Be a Lying Sack of Shit
TIME Magazine’s coverage of Sarah Palin’s Memorial Day weekend tour lets Sarah Palin get away with more of her coy, jus’ folks bullshit. And her mom is in on it, too: Indeed, Sarah Palin’s family road trip has turned into a media circus. Dozens of televisions stations staked out three different spots at Gettysburg National […]
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Gingrich Is Already a Failure
Oh, Newt. Will you ever win? Voters nationally are evenly divided on Barack Obama’s job performance at 48% approving and 48% disapproving. Despite the mixed feelings toward him he leads Mitt Romney by 7 at 49-42, Newt Gingrich by 14 at 51-37, and Sarah Palin by 17 at 54-37 in hypothetical match ups. That’s because […]
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Santorum’s Awkward Spurt
Below you will find Rick Santorum’s high school yearbook photo. The Atlantic calls it “tragic,” but I wouldn’t go that far, exactly. Is anyone really happy with their yearbook photos? For some reason, the Atlantic has put together a slideshow of every Republican presidential candidate’s yearbook photos, and while I admit that Santorum’s is hands-down […]
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Looks Like Sarah Palin Is Probably Running for President
The New York Times: Sarah Palin is fortifying her small staff of advisers, buying a house in Arizona — where associates have said she could base a national campaign — and reviving her schedule of public appearances. The moves are the most concrete signals yet that Ms. Palin, the former governor of Alaska, is seriously […]
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Republicans Want to Throw Grandma Off a Cliff
This video does fine work tying Republicans to their desire to hack Medicare to little bitty pieces. Make sure your teabaggy relatives see it! (And Oliver Willis just posted a complete list of the 235 Republicans who voted to kill Medicare. Pass that along, too.) (Via Wonkette.)
Posted inReligion
I Fucking Hope the Rapture Happens on Saturday
Could you imagine if the Rapture really happened on Saturday and all those evangelicals got sucked to to the sky and left the earth to us? What kind of a world would we who are left behind experience? Who would try to ban books in libraries? Who would make idiotic “challenges” to evolution and otherwise […]
Posted inBooks
The First Hunger Games Photos
Entertainment Weekly has the first photos of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in the upcoming Hunger Games adaptation. Here’s the cover: I know Katniss’s race has been hotly debated, and I of course wish that the casting call had been more racially sensitive, but I must say that this is about what I pictured while […]
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Obama 2012 Produces the Best Campaign Paraphernalia Ever
For $15, the Obama 2012 campaign will send you a coffee mug with President Obama’s birth certificate on it. On the other side is a photo of the president and the words “MADE IN THE USA.” This is fucking brilliant. Go donate here.
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Newt Gingrich Brutalized in Glitter Attack
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and his wife Callista were hit with glittery confetti by a protester Tuesday during the couple’s appearance at a book-signing. The man approached the Gingriches during the signing at a downtown Minneapolis hotel, dumped a cracker box full of colorful confetti on the pair and said, “Feel […]