German researchers have discovered that Victoria Beckham is the descendant of Communist Carl Heinrich Pfänder, who…
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A lot of people would like to believe that the world — and politics — is a fairly rational place outside of the…
Rebecca Traister and I have all the same tastes in women: we both love Dana Scully and now she has publicly avowed her love for for Rachel Maddow. Maddow is smart, self-deprecating, funny but doesn't own a TV or read about herself on the Internet, though, so she's unlikely to learn of our shared love for her. Oh,… Read more
Rasha was a Syrian-born immigrant who'd spent most of her life living in New York, not that such things mattered when…
The New York Observer checks out the Meghan McCain interview in the upcoming Glamour and notices a couple discrepancies. She tells Glamour "I'd really hate myself if I dated a journalist," but she was pretty damn friendly to GQ's Greg Veis when he interviewed her for last March's issue. So who changed her mind in the… Read more
Much has been said recently about the dearth of actual bitches these days (including by Moe), but there is always…
Although on Thursday Moe and I decided that the McCain ad featuring Paris Hilton was simply dumb, it is now clear…
The LA Times is reporting that this fall in California, voters will have the opportunity to pass or defeat the parental-notification bill called "Sarah's" Law, named after a heretofore anonymous teenager who died of complications from an abortion performed without her parents' knowledge. That little story is set to be… Read more
A 22-year-old Russian executive lost her sexual harassment suit against her former employer this week when the judge ruled that sexual harassment was necessary for the propagation of the species. Her former boss fired her for not having sex with him — she said "he always demanded that female workers signaled to him… Read more
Tracy Clark-Flory has an interesting piece on Salon today responding to the rash of pro-abstinence books hitting the…
One of the most depressing memes of the end of the Clinton campaign is the idea that it would be an insult to…
The mystery of who sent the anthrax letters may finally be solved, and it's like the most random plot twist to a…
- Obama responds to McCain's Britney-and-Paris ad: "is that the best you can come up with?" We're all kind of hoping…
I'll be the first to admit, I'm not one to turn down a party. And so when an e-mail hit my inbox to attend "Grind…
"Kate Brennan's" new book In His Sights is a first person memoir of her experience being stalked. Even just reading…
If you haven't yet seen John McCain's new anti-Obama advertisement, it handily splices in photos of Britney Spears…
I don't like pretty art — flowers (unless they're obvious vagina metaphors), boats, staid portraiture, still…
When Bosnian Serbian forces took the city of Srebrenica, they massacred 8,000 noncombatant men and boys in an effort to eliminate those they thought would take up arms again them. While generally termed a racially-motived genocide, Heather McRobie of The Guardian suggests we start additionally thinking of the incident… Read more
Pam Babcock, who was discovered adhered to the toilet at her boyfriend's house in March, asked the judge to grant…