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Here at Jezebel, we get a lot of emails. Many of them are nice, helpful emails! Quite a number, however, are totally bizarre. Below, our favorite batshit email of the week. More »
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An embarrassing Republican has issued a textbook non-apology weeks after forwarding an email that called First Lady Michelle Obama "Mrs. YoMamma" and implied that she and the Grinch were twins separated at birth. He's sorry people got mad. He didn't mean to offend anyone. But can we all agree that the President and First lady are black? I mean, what's up with that?! More »
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We've all been there: trapped in a seemingly neverending conversation with no obvious way out. How do you escape without hurting the other person's feelings. Never fear — whether you're at a party, on the phone, or stuck in an email chain, we have exit strategies for you. More »
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Thanks to Facebook and Twitter, our pool of professional connections is as expansive as our list of friends. While it's savvy to make use of your list of contacts when asking for a work-related favor, it's important to remember that your "friend" online is a more than just a pal when you're asking him or her for a professional favor. Here are some suggestions for the next time you shoot an email requesting help from someone you know (or someone who someone you know knows). More »
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz criticized Florida Rep. Allen West's support for a budget plan that would cut Medicare. So he called her "vile, despicable" and "not a Lady." More »
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Washington private school Sidwell Friends is being sued for $10 million by Arthur Newmyer, who says the school abetted his wife's affair with a school psychologist and caused both him and his daughter "severe emotional distress." More »
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Look, we all know the phone is scary. But sometimes you can't avoid it. Herewith, a few tips for making calls without sounding like a weirdo. More »
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Ever spend an hour staring at your screen, struggling to compose an email that strikes just the right balance between polite and friendly, only to give up and go browse on Zappos? Us too! But with the tips below, none of us will have to wander the wasteland of email uncertainty any longer. More »
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A California man has pled guilty to a crime one victim called "virtual rape": he hacked into hundreds of women's email accounts, found naked pictures, and sent them to everyone in the women's address books. More »
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Take a US Foreign Service member, his two buddies from Princeton, a yacht, and a contest to have sex with the most women. The result: the most sexist, racist, and frankly disturbing email chain we've read in a long time. More »
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Fed up with the constant barrage of email promising to increase the size of his genitals, San Francisco resident Daniel Balsam did what any fucking brilliant person would do: he quit his job and sued the spamming bastards. More »
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The national media isn't alone in weighing in on the fuss over the "Fuck List" PowerPoint. Some highlights, here. More »
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Today's CEFAD provides insight to the persistent question, 'Why don't we adopt the formal diction of law and business and introduce it into our personal lives?' Wouldn't the crispness of legalese be simpler, even kinder, in its way? Um, no. More »
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Like you, we get lots of spammy emails. Nigerian diplomats need wire transfers. Ladies have been mugged in London and can't pay their hotel bills. But today, a first, forwarded from a reader: Alexander McQueen spam! More »
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It's that time again, when we reach deep into our inboxes and pull out the most bizarre and unhinged reader emails for your delectation. After the jump: incest, lube, and how to get indicted by the SEC. More »
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We know we crank out tons of content every day. It's our job! But we also know that a lot of people can only check in around here intermittently, and sometimes it's hard to keep up with our best stuff. More »
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Because crap is equal opportunity, today we bring you an email onslaught by one "Linda," who was...very displeased with the business exchange she had with "Kate." Very displeased. We'll let her tell you. More »
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Jesse James's emails with Mistress #5 reveal that, in addition to his other failings, he's pretty much the world's worst correspondent. Which just won't fly on today's dating scene. More »
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Sometimes a certain issue seems to generate a lot of Crap Emails; this week, it was Sarah Palin's "empowering" anti-abortion message. So today's Mailbox Hall of Shame is dedicated to Ms. Palin — with a Millionaire Matchmaker bonus. More »
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Undaunted by previous roundups of ridiculous emails, readers continue requesting services we don't provide, confusingly haranguing us, and encouraging us to "be fool!" A sampling of our recent favorites, after the jump: More »
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Writes Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams, "Smart people, nay, brilliant ones use emoticons. Articulate, bright, funny people. Yet when I see a smiley, my first thought is, 'What are you, 12 years old?'" :-< More »
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It's been a while since we shared our worst emails with you, but that doesn't mean we haven't been getting them. After the jump, a sampling of requests, denunciations, and stories of masturbating celebrities. More »
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An email is making the rounds at Yale, "ranking" girls according to how many beers it would take to make them look hot. How many beers would we need to find this amusing? ∞. [NBC] More »
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This week we wrote about the stigma (or lack thereof) of online dating. Now Virginia Heffernan asks whether an online love affair is really just a love affair with being online. More »
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Last night, The State released a series of e-mails between Mark Sanford and his Argentinian paramour, a woman said to be a 43-year-old agribusiness exec. We analyze Sanford's communiques from a literary, cultural, theological, and numerological perspective, after the jump. More »
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Fox News has apparently obtained a transcript of e-mails suggesting that Carrie Prejean lost her Miss California USA crown for making unauthorized public appearances and generally being incredibly difficult. We translate the exchange from Prejean into English, after the jump. More »
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The Centers For Disease Control's attempt to utilize late '90s technology to spread health information is probably well intentioned, but all they taught us is that the folks who work there are passive-aggressive busybodies. More »
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Why is the internet so much better for breakups? More »
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Going through Crap Email withdrawal? Check out Psychotic Letters From Men, compiled by a guy named Weasel. More »
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While we can't publish every crap email that we receive in our inboxes, we can select some of the crappiest nuggets of crap and deliver them as a special holiday present to you. More »
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Details of a post-election email written by Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, to family and friends have been leaked to the public. Maya wrote about the confusing range of emotiond she felt on the days surrounding the election when she had to deal with the death of her grandmother and her brother's historic presidential election. Maya turned down Obama's offer to be with him on election night but says in her email, "We've made a great choice, I assure you" about her brother's election. [Time] More »
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Saturday night at a bar a friend and I were discussing his latest date. The date was running late and texted a few times, saying so. Eventually, the date just went ahead and canceled the date, saying he was sorry he wouldn't be able to make it. And he did so via text. Yesterday, I had an exchange with a friend in California, one that we both confessed made us laugh out loud. It took place via Facebook messages. The other day, my mom texted me to tell me she'd bought "the cutest thing" for me. I had to think about the complaint my friend made when relating the story of his canceled date: Why are people so reluctant to talk on the phone? More »
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You guys, right after we posted about how teenage girls have no interest in becoming scientists or engineers, we got an email from a young engineer! She has no idea what to wear in the "business-casual" workplace. Trousers and a shirt with a cardigan comes to mind, but maybe you guys have some other suggestions? Click the scientist at left for details from reader "G." More »
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"Lolita culture in the US is most definitely feminist." That's part of an e-mail we received from Ellie, the 20-year-old woman pictured at left, who was featured in the New York Times story about Gothic Lolitas. She read the comments you guys wrote about her style (including ones like, "If Lolitas means looking fugly like those girls above, I'm good," which she found offensive) and she crafted an extraordinarily thoughtful response. Click the image at left if you care to hear what she has to say. More »
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Do you ever miss big stories on Jezebel because you're, you know, working? We have great news: E-mail alerts! Check out that blue bar over on the left of the page. If you look closely, you'll see a "Suscribe To Jezebel" headline and entry field. You may now sign up to get the "Top Stories Of the Week" from Jezebel via e-mail. The e-mail goes out every Friday and shows the 5 most popular stories of the week. We'll also use the e-mail list to alert you guys of "breaking news" on the site. All you have to do is enter your e-mail address in the window and follow the confirmation directions. These addresses will not be sold to advertisers, by the by. Plus! Guess what? More »
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The Vatican has been so busy lately — condemning the war in Iraq, changing the date of St. Patrick's Day, bankrolling Anne Hathaway's boyfriend in hopes he will help them pay their mountainous legal fees — that you might have missed it last week when they put out a new list of Seven Sins. Well, they were zeitgeisty! But since I'm sure very few of you are really making wayyyy too much money or laying waste to the environment or conducting research on stem cells, I didn't know how relevant they would be to Jezebel. Which is why we decided to rewrite the list to better address our favorite topic du jour: Eliot Spitzer. And, you know, boys. Herewith, our Seven Dudely Sins. More »
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No wonder there are so many crap emails from dudes! A survey just released by Nielsen Online says that only one-seventh of women think that breaking up via email is acceptable, while one-third of men think that it's decent behavior. Men are also much more likely to keep a secret email account: 17% of 'em have one, as opposed to 9% of women. But dudes aren't the only ones out there with a dubious moral compass. Women are more prone to virtual snooping than men are. 27% of women said they'd snooped someone's email account, while only 21% of men admitted to it. But perhaps the most icky statistic of all was this one: 25% of married people have joint email accounts. I'll let you know when husbandandjess@pleasekillmenow.com is ready to accept messages! More »
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"Denise2005" aka "Matilda&Leon", a married lady with a baby in the hospital, is having some connubial un-bliss, she tells the other ladies on relationship site TheNest.com: More »
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