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File under "too ridiculous to ignore": the "Boycott American Women" campaign. More »
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And yes, we do realize it's only Tuesday, so that's subject to change. The Beatles and the Stones. Biggie and Tupac. Metallica and Megadeath. To these ranks, let us add combatants Miley Cyrus and Taylor Momsen. More »
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This, amongst other potential pick-up lines, is from 1986's article John Bercow Guide to Understanding Women. At the time, he was a 23-year-old Tory councillor in South London. Now, he's Speaker of the House of Commons: More »
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"-Hello. I have some old books for sale. -What kind of books? -Old ones. -OK. What subject areas? -Where does it say that?" (One of the conversations compiled over the years by rare book dealer The BookMine) [BoingBoing] More »
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We got a number of distressed emails about a recent piece in Details. Possibly because the description read, "Getting tricked into fatherhood by a woman hell-bent on getting pregnant is much more common than you think." Good to know! More »
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A new study about comparative (supposed) happiness levels in women since the 70s has sparked the inevitable conservative response by Ross Douthat that this is what feminism hath wrought. Actually, this is what happens when a self-proclaimed Harvard grad continues to read only the introductions to research papers. More »
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From the good people who sent Joe The Plumber to Israel comes this gem of a video in which advice columnists Helen Smith and Amy Alkon recuse men from any birth control responsibilities. More »
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The National Review Online's editor, Kathryn Jean Lopez, is not one for internal dissent within the conservative movement — not that many conservatives are, apparently, given the backlash against people who aren't riding the Straight Talk Bullshit Express over a cliff a la Thelma and Louise. But Ms. Lopez wants to pin Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan down on why Noonan isn't using her column to shill for McCain-Palin. I mean, why do you need intellectual honesty when you can get a Republican elected, right? More »
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What happens when you mix booze, clothing and 60 Minutes? No, it's not Anderson Cooper in his designer skivvies at Mardi Gras, you perverts. It's far more bizarre: Lesley Stahl is hosting the launch of a line of clothing based on the "love of drinking wine" called Little Barrel. According to Fox News, Little Barrel, the brainchild of Stahl's daughter and son-in-law, will sell ties festooned with wine glasses for $75. Not to sound like Andy Rooney, but this sounds like just what the world needs now! [Fox News] More »
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As we rather facetiously predicted on Monday, it's taken the right-wing press until today to come down hard on VP debate moderator Gwen Ifill. From Michelle Malkin hyperventilating over Ifill's book on racial politics and how it means she's "in the tank" for Obama (while ignoring other moderators' pro-Republican conflicts) to Bob Unruh carping about the "look" on her face after Palin's convention speech as evidence of her bias, the conservative base is determined to make Palin's potential debate defeat Ifill's fault. In the meantime, the book that's the basis of all the hubbub, as Michael Calderone points out, has hardly been a secret. God, everyone's in the tank, aren't they? It's like Truth itself wants Palin to lose. [National Review, Media Matters, World Net Daily, Politico] More »
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We've had our issues with Dan Savage. Actually, I've had my issues with Dan Savage, personally. There's certainly a place in America for a columnist who assures you that your kinkiest kinks aren't so bad and you can still be loved for them, so get some therapy and practice safe sex! And, at one point not terribly long ago, I was happy that that person was Dan Savage. But then the more I read of his columns and his "vaginas are terrifying" and his whole "women are double-standard having bitches" thing that he likes to harp on sometimes I am like, wow. And now he has on display some pretty heteronormative thoughts about bisexuality: it's great in girls and most of us do it, but it's virtually non-existent in boys. Gross. More »
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