Tonight Vanity Fair announced that Christopher Hitchens, the polarizing author and essayist, died on Thursday night…
Polls suggest the British are utterly indifferent to the Royal Wedding. Whether you share their disdain, seeing this…
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As we get closer and closer to April 29, the Day of Days, Royal Wedding Mania reaches a fever pitch. Each day brings…
To write a tea instructional is to wade into darkly tannic waters long ago claimed by giants like Orwell and Douglas…
- Breaking: Katy Perry kissed a girl. [TMZ]
It appears Christopher Hitchens has finally seen Clueless, because he's come up with a decades-too-late analysis —…
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It doesn't include today's news that John Edwards is the father of Rielle Hunter's baby — but, in a review by Christo…
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Samantha Bee and Colbert Report producer Allison Silverman were awesome as per ush on a panel about Political Humor at the New Yorker Festival on Saturday. An audience member asked them a question about whether it is difficult to be a woman in comedy, and Allison responded, "Reading that Christopher Hitchens piece…
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New York Times book critic David Kelly asked his fellow Times' writers to name the funniest novel ever, and he noted…
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Welcome to the Not Fucking Long Enough weekend, readers. If you don't feel as gross as these bacon cheese glazed…
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I'm not going to be around for the morning Crappy Hour but the big news is apparently the "subtle makeover" of Michelle Obama's image currently underway. Like everything else spurred by the (ignoble, ignorant, inane) ideological right I'm sort of out of things to say about this. Like Thomas Frank to Tom Delay today…
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God, where to begin today. Maybe with the fact that while your mortgage payment was tripling, Goldman Sachs's…
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A couple of days ago I visited some friends, all artistically-inclined, who live in a converted factory in a remote…
So what does Jeze-crush Lily Tomlin think about Christopher Hitchens' insistence that women can't be funny? "He's…
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- Laura Bush gave a speech about Burma a.k.a. Myanmar and disaster preparedness and Jenna's wedding. Her lipstick was…
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Irshad Manji are two pals who were born Muslim and have spent the intervening few decades…
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Dear Cindy, we are sorry. We did not mean to belittle your pain over being called a vagina sixteen years ago. We…
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- "I heard Obama speak. He hit me with that he-just-got-done- watching-'Malcolm X,' and I swear to God, I'm like, 'Yo,…
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Just a little over a year after it published an essay in which Christopher Hitchens asserted that women aren't…