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Parsing The Obama Ipod As Told To Rolling Stone: The Blog Equivalent Of "Hot In Herre"?

There are two kinds of good things in this world, according to my friend Don. There are the Irrefutables, and then, there are the things where you're like "You think you're soooooooooo cool, but you can't deny…" The irrefutables are, you know, just that. (Obama's race speech. Exile In Guyville. Thomas Frank's call for a new Grace Commission to expose the massive scam of government privatization which he admirably restrained himself from titling the Disgrace Commission.) But the latter things might make you squirm at first, like the epidemic of Irish Catholic overshare in the wake of Tim Russert, or Billy Joel's "Longest Time" or those fond memories you have of being 22 and voting for Ralph Nader who is who is now ripping on Barack Obama for "acting white" which brings us sheepishly to the contents of Barack Obama's iPod — EGADS SHERYL CROW — being ceremoniously revealed to Rolling Stone. On one hand, you know, like Peggy Noonan would say: Barf. On the other hand: Ludacris did some really irrefutable work. The most musically enhanced Crappy Hour in some time, with me and Megan after the jump. More »

10:00 AM on Wed Jun 25 2008
By Moe
5,717 views, 149 comments

Latest by TheFortHillBlues: I know this may be late but I'm going to say it anyway... F*ck you, Daily Howler! I was educated by the nuns (Sisters of Saint Joseph) and the Jesuits (Go Rams!) and I'm an Irish-Catholic from blue collar families. When more »

crappy hour

Would You Listen To Abba With This Guy?

Oh, John. Back in 2000, you were a Maverick, almost Tom Cruise-like, with your rakish smile and your willingness to buck the system that we all hated so much. You charmed us, led us to believe that you were different than all those other pilots in all those other bars who would try and fail to sing to our souls, or at least different than George W. Bush. And, like Tom Cruise isn't Maverick in real life but a crazy, Scientology-proselytizing, silent-birth having freak, so, too, have your days of playing The Maverick come to an end. We know the truth, and no karaoke can change that, not the Righteous Brother and not Abba. With Moe a little snowed under this morning, Spencer Attackerman Ackerman of the Washington Independent joins me to talk about what sucks about you. And there's kind of a lot. More »

10:00 AM on Tue Jun 10 2008
By Megan Carpentier
4,254 views, 163 comments

Latest by Rooo sez BISH PLZ: @ms.marvelous: "But MSNBC can't call men hysterical, insane, bitches without upsetting the world order." I'm sorry, but what is the problem with that again? more »

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The World, Too, Is Bipolar

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6:40 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By mcarpentier
2,883 views, 58 comments

Latest by treecut...will cut a beech: @alysbrangwin: I totally agree with this, and I wish there were transition policies that could be a little more targeted than just eliminating the gas tax. Because, in the long run, the only way to get more public transportation more »

crappy hour

Chelsea Clinton Made A Girl Fat!

Look, it's Chelsea Clinton on the cover of a magazine! What impeccable timing, New York! Your empathetic portrayal of Hillary's pretty (and pretty reticent) daughter who would rather be seen than heard pushes my "I totally want to read this right now" buttons almost as hard as that April Fools Day themed Modern Love column in the Sunday Times. But hey: It's the Monday after the Oscars, and who really wants to talk about fucking Ralph Hater? (Okay, we'll talk a little bit about Nader.) After the jump Glamocracy's Megan Carpentier and I tabulate the columnist calls for Clinton to get out before she does something even more desperate than circulating photos of Obama dressed up like a homicide bomber and ponder the tragic fate of the poor girl who got excommunicated by Chelsea's Mean Girl gatekeepers at Stanford. More »

10:00 AM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Moe
11,682 views, 430 comments

Latest by That_little_attention_whore: @SinisterRouge: Interestingly enough, in the ancient Greek alphabet, "X" is used as a shorthand for "Christ" , which the early Christians would use during the Roman Empire (along with the fish) to throw the Romans off. So "Christmas" = "Xmas". more »