This morning, the Christian Science Monitor ran a very good overview by Linda Feldmann of the Republican presidential primary as it stands right now. Feldmann determines that the race could boil down to a bloody fight between three men: When all is said and done, the race for the 2012 GOP nomination may boil down […]
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A Little Depression to Kick Off Your Morning
Did you know that when you take the last panel off of a Peanuts cartoon, it becomes more depressing than your average Peanuts cartoon? No, I mean really depressing: And sometimes it has a haunting, Dostoevsky kind of feel: You should start following 3eanuts for your daily dose of spiritual malaise. (Via Bleeding Cool.)
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The Wonder Computer of the 1980s
Say what you will about conservative blog The Corner—lord knows I have—but every once in a while King Conservageek Jonah Goldberg tosses up an amazing bit of nerdbait. Case in point: William Shatner’s commercial for the Commodore VIC-20. “Unlike games, it has a real computer keyboard!” He also posted Microworld, a Shatner-hosted documentary about how […]
Posted inPolitics
Confirmed: Donald Trump Is a Jackass
Donald Trump already said he has “just a little doubt” that Obama was born in the U.S. But now, according to TPM, he’s going “Full Birther:” Donald Trump tripled (quadrupled?) down on his emerging birtherism this morning on Fox & Friends, saying that since he first brought up the issue, “all of a sudden, a […]
Posted inBooks
I Love a Good “Footprints” Gag
Over at Medium Large, Francesco Marciuliano has put up a post titled “My Upcoming Coffee Table Books.” It’s really funny, and should be today’s fuck-off browsing destination. Here’s my favorite:
Posted inMedia
The New York Times Is Building a Paywall
Read all about it in the New York Times while you still can, you moocher: The New York Times rolled out a plan on Thursday to begin charging the most frequent users of its Web site $15 a month in a bet that readers will pay for news they have grown accustomed to getting free. […]
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Newt Gingrich Funneled $350,000 to Anti-Gay Groups
ThinkProgress is reporting that Newt Gingrich secretly gave $350,000 to anti-gay groups including AFA Action: Last year, former Speaker Newt Gingrich offered his vocal support for the ultimately successful campaign to oust three of the nine Iowa Supreme Court justices who had unanimously ruled in favor of marriage equality. As Gingrich courts social conservatives while […]
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(Didn’t This Already Happen?) Online News Overtakes Print
Last year, more people got their news from online sources than from print for the first time ever. And about half of those online news consumers got their news from mobile online sites. The bad news? The majority still get their news from television*. * Television news is Satan. Last night, while out at the […]
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Apple Rumored to Make Magazine Publishing So Easy Even an Idiot Could Do It
There have been rumors for months now that Apple is very dissatisfied with what magazine publishers have done with their iPad apps so far; interfaces are clunky, unintuitive and, worst of all, ugly as sin. Some publishers are just dumping PDFs of their print editions into their apps and calling it a day. So that’s […]
Posted inBooks
Michael Showalter Wants to Be the Neil Young of Dave Eggerses
The best book written in the last 20 years about not writing a book is Geoff Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage. But if you’ve already read Dyer’s book about not writing a book about D. H. Lawrence and you’d like to find another quality entry in the book-about-not-writing-a-book genre, I’d suggest Michael Showalter’s Mr. Funny […]
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Spoiler Alert: Andy Rooney Doesn’t Like E-Books
Sorry, Amazon. Andy Rooney thinks e-books are wiggity-wack*: Related: Did you know that people can comment on Andy Rooney videos? by ErikaF1146 March 7, 2011 6:10 PM EST I just cannot WAIT until you retire. I’m going to have a party. I think someone needs to become the Andy Rooney of Andy Rooney video comments—are […]
Posted inMovies & TV
Hollywood Really Wants to Figure Out How That Goose Is Laying Those Eggs
You should read this CNET story about how Hollywood is beginning to conspire against Netflix. Hollywood film executives want you to know that they are not at war with Netflix or the Internet. Some of them told me over the past week that they have every intention to continue to distribute films and TV shows […]