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On the third day of December Madness, my true love gave to me: eight songs-a-sucking. After two days of bravely listening to terrible Christmas songs, we're one day closer to crowning the Worst Christmas Song Ever. Let's get on to the next set of Holiday Horrors, and onto the next round of voting. More »
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The holidays are a wonderful time, filled with hot chocolate and hugs and TV commercials that attempt to link the idea of familial love with the idea of buying things. It is also the time when radio stations assault their listeners with an unending holiday playlist. Ears bleed, praying for death. And we've had enough it. It's about time we stood up against the tyranny of the 1% of Christmas songs inflicting pain on 99% of people who would rather listen to a John Mayer ringtone on repeat. Let's join hands, raise our voices, and declare which of the terrible Christmas songs is truly the Worst Ever. Herewith, the definitive tournament. Your votes will determine which song takes home the crappy crown. More »
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A ballsy new blog dares to ask the question, "Is Ryan Gosling cuter than a puppy?" What the what now? I think my head just exploded. First, I thought to myself, "Well, what kind of puppy are we talking about? Boo? A corgi? Selena Gomez's new puppy?" Then I starting to think about The Gos and knew he had my heart. But it was a hard choice, a choice no one should ever have to make — but if you HAD to, which way would you go? More »
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According to a bunch of polls, Michele Bachmann has been slipping since Rick Perry entered the race, and she may not win the Iowa caucuses, which are five months away and won't itself guarantee the nomination for an election that is over a year away. Isn't this fun? More »
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How does the average American feel about the abortion restrictions being busily erected in states around the country, 80 of which limited reproductive rights in the last six months alone? It's complicated. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5824817&view=rss&microfeed=true A recent Gallup poll shows that Republicans who like Sarah Palin may not feel all that committed to supporting her. Great news, right? Sure, except that one candidate who does inspire the kind of unwavering support that could win the Iowa caucus is none other than Crazytown Representative Michele Bachmann. More »
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For some, it's a question of anal retentiveness, and others, efficiency. But no matter your preference, the following statistics show that certain sexes simply care about it more than others. More »
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While the House of Representatives is busily trying to restrict reproductive rights and, most likely, fight for the Defense of Marriage Act, a new Pew survey shows that Americans are increasingly pro gay-marriage and slightly more in favor of legal abortion. More »
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According to a new poll, only 22 percent of women trust Sarah Palin to "represent [their] views on women's health issues." Clearly, the rest haven't gotten the memo that her stances on reproductive rights represent the Real America. More »
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Disappointed that Ryan Reynolds was named People's Sexiest Man Alive? It's time to vote for your personal favorite! More »
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This list is pretty good generally, but we have to give the "Chutzpah Prize" to the employee who called in sick from a bar at 5pm the night before. More »
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Sharron Angle may not be talking to journalists, but she's got jokes. In the past day, she's sent Joy Behar flowers to thank Behar for calling her a bitch and launched a Monopoly-inspired game to mock Harry Reid on immigration. More »
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This is an mailer that Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski sent to appeal to women voters. But not everyone is buying it. Meanwhile, women voters are unimpressed by Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina. What's wrong with you chicks? More »
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OMG: Celebrity catfight! More »
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You guys are completely disgusting. Seriously. More »
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Several polls of key races this fall show that not only are more men voting Republican, they're also way more energized. Where are the ladies? Besides on a few Republican ballots, that is. More »
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According to a new poll, 63% of Americans think "the U.S. still has a long way to go to reach complete gender quality. While three-quarters of women (74%) agree with this, so do just over half of men (52%)." More »
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• Michelle Obama's approval ratings have fallen following her recent vacation in Spain. According to the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, only 50% of Americans have a favorable impression of her, down from 64% in April 2009.

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As easily demonstrated by our recent harassment poll, it doesn't matter what you were wearing. To drive home that point, here are the numbers on your experiences, and some of the more striking fill-in answers to the "other" field. More »
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After going through over a thousand entries for the dumbest must-get-laid story, we narrowed it down to ten tales of lust and loss. But now the votes are in, and there can be only one winner... More »
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Last week, we asked readers to share their dumbest "must get laid" stories, resulting in over a thousand different tales of the pursuit of tail. Here are the ten best. More »
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A recent poll found 57% of Americans believe Hillary Clinton is qualified to be the president of the United States. The same survey found that only 51% think Obama is qualified for the job. [USNWR] More »
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Our recent poll to determine the next "it" sweet merely showed how narrow-minded we were. Your many delicious write-in candidates have revealed the error of our ways — and necessitated a runoff. More »
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It's come to this, friends. The epic faceoff between unfortunate sexual encounters. All of the sacrifice — the awkwardness, blood, cartoon-drawing-and-referencing, thwacks by flaccid members — will be rewarded. But first, a vote. More »
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A producer for LA radio station KROQ is shocked that his coworkers don't agree that Christina Hendricks "could lose a few pounds." So he's created a handy poll! More »
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• The role of the "queen" of the Rio de Janeiro carnival is usually played by a model or soap star, but this year 7-year-old Julia Lira will be the drum corps queen. Children's services groups are none too happy. More »
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• Original "mommy blogger" Heather Armstrong has scored a deal with HGTV. "I could not be more over the moon. I'm all the way to Jupiter. The air is very thin and dry up here," she says. Deep. Breaths. • More »
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According to a recent poll, 71% of Americans don't want to see Sarah Palin run for president. And when broken down by party, only 30% of Republicans are gunning for a chance to back the former Alaskan governor. [CBS] More »
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For the 14th time, Americans have voted Hillary Clinton the most admired woman. But guess who's number two? More »
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•  In attempts to "keep people excited about condoms," New York City has announced a contest to design the next official condom wrapper. Fancy yourself a Rembrandt? The winner's art will be displayed on hundreds of thousands of condoms. • More »
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During the election, Michelle Obama was accused of being an angry black woman, hating "whitey," and possessing "angry eyebrows." So when USA Today published poll findings that Michelle is now the more popular Obama, I thought: you damn right! More »
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The recession is making our hearts bleed as well as our pockets: an "international poll" finds that our love lives have taken a harder hit since the economic downturn than those of the (less materialistic?) other countries polled. [Reuters] More »
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• Barack Obama shot some hoops with the women of the NCAA champion Huskies and won. (Pic at left is from early April.) The jersey they gave him, though, was a bit too small. [The Swamp]

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She went to Princeton. And Harvard. She's interested in bringing attention to military families. But everyone wants to talk about Michelle Obama's clothes. Are you sick of it? More »
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The Village Voice's Michael Musto recently interviewed Paris Hilton, who talked about how she is dramatically changing her persona. Then today came news of Paris getting cast in the new Todd Solondz film. Todd Solondz, best known for Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness, specializes in the taboo and provocative. His movies have featured rape jokes, child molestation, racial slurs, homicidal housekeepers, and all-around suburban ultra dysfunction. Will Paris be the next Dawn "Wienerdog" Wiener, the much-abused and maligned heroine of Dollhouse? More »
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• John McCain has decided that since everyone is annoyed at him for lying and being a dick when he's called out on it, he's going to say Obama is lying and being a dick when he's called out on it. That's still lying, John, you're missing the point here. [Gawker]
• He was then promptly called out for lying again, not that he cares. [Swampland]
• And for being all for anti-abortion terrorists and their rights to harass and commit acts of violence against women and reproductive health care providers. Even better? Nancy PfotenhauerPfuckingsucks set him up for it by mistake. [Think Progress]
• He's probably still wondering why Obama is ahead in the national polls, though. [CNN]

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You know that feeling, the morning after, when you look back and regret things from the night before? Things like, say, winking at America in lieu of making any substantive statements on mortgages so that you could keep hammering on how awesome you are at energy policy? Ms. Palin, if you wanted to be Energy Secretary, I'm assuming you could've mentioned that to McCain a little earlier and allowed him to talk to Christine Todd Whitman or Olympia Snowe or Kay Bailey Hutchison . But Kay Steiger of Pushback and I don't have designs on the Vice Presidency or a Cabinet position, so we're free to actually about, you know, the issues. Like what your hype man ought to play after you tell someone to go fuck himself and why McCain's health care policy sucks ass for the Joe Sixpack you want to represent. That's right, this morning, we're wonking out with our... well, you know what would be hanging out if we had 'em. More »
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With the first Presidential debates and a week of Pali-blunders under our collective belts, it was time to breathe easy and have a few drinks this weekend in honor of Maureen Dowd having been kicked off the "Straight" Talk Express for talking less straight than either John McCain or Sarah Palin. But then there were polls! Rumors of a new October surprise that could keep Bush from bombing another country! And a trip to Geno's in Philly, even though everyone knows Pat's is the place to be because Geno's is biased against non-English speakers (but, presumably, Germans and Italians would get a pass). Luckily, my friend Kay Steiger, who blogs for Campus Progress, is here to help me parse all that and appreciate the occasional reference to Britney Spears. More »
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Yesterday, John McCain announced a temporary end to partisan politicking and asked Barack Obama to join him in holding hands, singing "Kumbaya" and postponing the Presidential debates until Congressional intervention ends the financial crisis, which most economists agree will be some time next year at the earliest. Who needs to know where candidates stand, anyway? There's a crisis people! Luckily, Spencer Ackerman and I are able to stop laughing at the thought that McCain is doing this for any reasons other than partisan politics and his fear of debating Barack Obama — just long enough to get through a conversation about the "strategy" behind the decision, partner-swapping, Bill Kristol's masturbatory epistles to the GOP and what McCain is doing instead of praying for a terrorist attack to save his campaign. More »
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Keira Knightley is eyeing the role of Zelda Sayre (Fitzgerald) in a forthcoming biopic called The Beautiful and the Damned, which will be directed by Nick Cassavetes. This seems…completely wrong. Don't get it twisted, I like Keira Knightley a lot. However, Zelda was a mercurial, pampered and warm Southern belle with soft, Kewpie doll features. Keira is all angles and British straightforwardness and not quite fragile enough. I know, I know, it's called acting for a reason, but I still feel she is fundamentally wrong for the part, much like I feel Kate Winslet is all wrong for the role of Isadora Wing in Fear of Flying (Btw, when I said Winslet was "too vanilla" for the part I meant "not Jewish enough"). Renee Zellweger in her early days would have been the perfect choice, but she's too old to play the teenage-to-twentysomething Zelda. Who else would be good? Vote for some better choices, after the jump! More »
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