Jezebel: Oil

Italian Vogue Editor Attempts To Defend Oil-Slicked Shoot

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:58:48 EDT

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Guys, I was on BBC radio today talking about Steven Meisel's oil-drenched Vogue Italia shoot — and so was editor Franca Sozzani. Check out this link, and fast forward to about 26:30, where the discussion begins. More »

Rielle Hunter Sues For Book Profits • Gay Students Voted Prom King And Queen

Katy Kelleher — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:40:00 EDT

• Rielle Hunter is reportedly suing Andrew Young, author of the The Politician, for all profits from the memoir's sales. More »

Are You There, God?

Anna Holmes — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:10:00 EDT

[Pensacola, Florida; June 6. Image via Getty]

Sweet Home Alabama

Anna Holmes — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:10:00 EDT

[Dauphin Island, Alabama; June 2. Image via Getty]

Hoda's Idea To Plug Oil Leak: Giant Tampon

Dodai Stewart — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:00:00 EDT

On the Today show this morning, Hoda Kotb announced her idea for solving the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf Of Mexico: "A gigantic, huge tampon." More »

Hidden Cause Of Oil Spill: Porn

Anna North — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:40:00 EDT

What were the folks at the US Minerals Management Service doing when they were supposed to be preventing millions of gallons of oil from spewing into the ocean? Apparently, looking at lots of porn. [Daily Beast] More »

Spill, Baby, Spill

Anna Holmes — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:10:00 EDT

[Fort Jackson, Louisiana; April 30. Image via AP]

Nailin' Palin

Anna Holmes — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:40:00 EDT

Twitter, via The Daily Dish. More »

Liquid Assets

Katy Kelleher — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:20:00 EST

Dodai points out that this chart, which compares the relative prices of different liquids, would be more interesting if it included perfume. Also: Breast milk. And when it comes to vodka, are we talking Grey Goose, or Mr. Boston? [BuzzFeed] More »

Going Vogue: Anna Wintour Meets Alaskan Winter

Anna North — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST

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Question: What do Sarah Palin's new book and Vogue magazine have in common? Answer: Both are glossy, insubstantial, and full of lies. More »

A Tale Of Two Op-Eds: Hillary Clinton Vs. Sarah Palin

LatoyaPeterson — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:00:00 EDT

Both Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin wrote, and published, op-eds this morning. While Secretary Clinton argues that food security and agricultural stability is vital to national security in the Guardian, Palin pushes "drill baby drill" in the National Review. More »

Sally Quinn Peddles Offensive Stereotypes About Middle-Eastern Women On MSNBC

Megan Carpentier — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:00:00 EST

Sally Quinn just got back from a Brookings Institute conference in Doha and, judging by her appearance on MSNBC talking about the status of women in the Middle East, she didn't apparently learn much. More »

Conventional Crap: Vice-Presidential Viagra? Palin Stiffens The Dick Of The RNC

Megan Carpentier — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:00:00 EDT

This conventioneering thing is almost done, and, sadly, so am I. Despite the barn burning, roof-raising, political cock-stiffening speech that Alaska governor Sarah Palin gave at the Republican convention last night, I am still tired (and slightly late to my own crappy party) this morning. Luckily, HuffPo blogger Jason Linkins always waits for me and has funny things to say; after the jump we talk Palin, Rudy, Palin, McCain, Palin, Huckabee, and more Palin. More »

Does Obama Need A Little (Not Mc) Kaine To Save The World?

Megan Carpentier — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:00:00 EDT

It's a beautiful morning here, one of those mornings no one in Beijing ever has anymore where you can pretend it's the 70s and the world is less polluted but visions of stagflation might dance in your head, or you can be like Moe and I and pretend it's the 90s and read about 90s music and China's human rights record and WTO negotiations and wish you lived in Berlin instead. But it's 2008 and real questions await like: What EXACTLY is a green collar job? Will Obama embrace Virginia governor Tim Kaine more fully than in this picture? And why do we care what some crazy guy's motives were for shooting a bunch of people in a church when he is obviously crazy and thus his motivations are no more explicable that the motives of any other crazy person, including the first guy that ever sent me a crap-anything-from-a-dude...or Dan Quayle's? These questions and many, many others will stay unanswered after the jump, at least until you get to the comment threads. More »

The GOP Can't Save Itself, And We Won't Help

Megan Carpentier — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:00:00 EDT

Moe is on the (supposedly) WiFi-enabled bus from Virginia, taking in the greatness of America (or at least that section between D.C. and New York City) while I'm stuck in upstate New York, so it's another episode of reverse-polarity Crappy Hour! We talk oil, what the GOP is doing wrong, what is wrong about what the GOP thinks it is doing wrong, what is a capital-punishment worthy offense (hint: advertising WiFi on your bus and not providing it) and kissing Bill Clinton's ass. It's all after the jump! More »

Obama Is A Machiavellian Ari Gold Sellout! Will Scarlett Johansson Notice?

Moe — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:00:00 EDT

Yesterday while Crappy Hour was in progress Barack Obama totally sold out the like MAJOR ISSUE OF HIS WHOLE POLITICAL CAREER and we didn't really talk about it because the campaign's media fellater relations department still hadn't distributed its key talking points, but then they sent out this video and as you can see, there is really no need for Obama to take $80 million from you taxpayers in the interest of running a "clean" campaign if he has made quite enough money already collecting from clean individuals like you and me! (Put another way: why build a welfare state when, like Toqueville pointed out, Americans have such a rich tradition of charity, concern for fellow man etc?) Anyway, so it's Friday, which means that even if we don't think this financing thing is such a huge biggie David Brooks is using it as a chance to dissuade Scarlett Johansson from carrying such a heaving torch for Obama by likening him to a fictional soulless Jew and Peggy Noonan is reminding us again of the meaning of life and everyone else is still fighting about oil and Megan and I try to get to the bottom of how much we can blame the crap economy on the war and get distracted by cute patriotic dogs. More »

Oil: There's No Doubt, We're In Deep Guys!

Moe — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:00:00 EDT

So Big Oil is finally going to get some payback for its tireless efforts promoting that disastrous invasion of The Iraq! Megan and I are sooooo happy for them. The "unusual" no-bid contracts about to be awarded to Exxon, BP, Shell, Total and Chevron reunite all the original partners in the Iraq Petroleum Company that held a monopoly on Iraqi oil exploration until 1961 when some communist decided that wasn't "fair" to the Iraqi people and nationalized oil, which is incidentally what the Republicans are accusing the Democrats of trying to do over here. Newt Gingrich was on Fox this morning telling everyone America needs to "Declare Energy Independence" on July 4 this year but like this apparently Robert Palmer inspired propaganda poster points out we're probably going to have to figure out how to detox somehow, which would be one thing if we had some sort of growing employment sector to withstand the rising prices, like the South Koreans who are busy making all the ships out there looking for oil. That and Obama says no thanks to a nationalized campaign, some Bear Stearns guys get arrested and Larry Sinclair is insane with me and Megan after the jump. More »

The World, Too, Is Bipolar

mcarpentier — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:40:00 EDT

Hillary Clinton won't wear Donna Karan anymore because it makes her look too well-dressed. Four words, Hillary: Nancy Pelosi is Speaker. [Times UK]

Social Scientist Says Oil Makes Women Second-Class Citizens

mcarpentier — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:00:00 EDT

The problem with being a liberal some days is that there are just so many things to oppose: the patriarchy, obviously; global warming; big business; the War in Iraq; the War on Drugs; oil companies; pharmaceutical companies; health insurance companies; zoos (but not when they do conservation work); circuses all the time; industrial farming... the list just goes on and on. It's probably even harder when you're an academic trying to write an important piece on why women in the Middle East often have it so bad because there's oil and patriarchy and big business and Islam, which we all know is a religion of peace and, really, not that much more patriarchal than some religions (cough, Catholicism, cough) that many Americans are brought up in anyway and so Islam can't really be the problem because it's not all bad in all places and stuff. And, so, Michael Ross of UCLA has a better idea: the problems facing women in the Middle East are all due to oil. It's like, so many birds and one stone — not that liberals kill birds with stones because that's just mean. But, is he right? More »