If typing this sentence won’t spike our web traffic I don’t know what will: Have you been dreaming of Sarah Palin’s tan lines? A controversy has broken out between the American Tanning Industry Association (uhm, pro-tanning) and the American Cancer Society (Debbie Downers) over the news that Sarah Palin had a tanning bed installed in [...]
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Benjamin Svetkey has a great article in the most recent Entertainment Weekly in which he casts the racy landscape of our pop culture (teenagers making with the oral sex during school hours on 90210) against the quaint olden days when Murphy Brown getting knocked up was viewed as the seventh seal of the apocalypse.
Svetkey points [...]
Okay so we’re about to have a depression. Today the Wall Street Journal called for a WPA-era-style “Resolution Trust Corporation,” which is basically like Sarah Palin ordering the tofu stir-fry. Now I’m not sure who these Lehman Brothers are, if they’re hot, if they are willing to “play together” since they need the money, or [...]
Who is the economic whiz-kid behind the financial services and banking deregulation that lead our economy to the brink of collapse this weekend? That’s right! McCain’s “economic brain” and former campaign co-chair Phil Gramm.
And who do Americans think can best handle the economy?
Barack Obama 48%
John McCain 45%
And McCain is trending upwards…
[Updated.] Speaking of [...]
David Foster Wallace died yesterday; my friend Chris wrote a brief but lovely tribute. That’s just terrible.
For the last week or so, my beleaguered better half has been calling me from the road with travel crises and genuine work stress, and my response is basically “yes, yes, okay, yes but WHAT ABOUT SARAH PALIN OMFG.” My friend Carl (who has small town values, btw) and my Pinko co-conspirator Stirling are perilously close [...]
Oh, how I have missed you Saturday Night Live!
Ok, I’m sure this doesn’t really come as a shock to anyone but Sarah Palin, that weird unblinking hunchback running to be John McCain’s understudy, doesn’t approve of you and your dang alternative lifestyle. And she most certainly does not want anyone, least of all herself, reading books about it.
NYT (via Politico):
…in 1995, Ms. Palin, [...]
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