Gary Dauphin’s take on Stuff White People Like: “Don’t piss on me and call it rain.” Yeah!

I’m choosing to take it as incredible evidence of American faith in our democracy that anyone can still be shocked by the dirt-bag actions of the CIA. This is an organization that renders innocents to torture prisons overseas, that trains death squads, that overthrows governments and assassinates elected leaders. Now the CIA admits to destroying [...]

Anything that mocks magazine culture, TV crime shows and silly montage plot techniques is worth… ten-minutes of your time, maybe? This one also somehow features Bill Murray. I don’t know if Bill drinks milk before bed. I do know that being a fact checker is ridiculous— one of those jobs that you can’t believe (a) [...]

Fox’s unwitting reality TV show on the soft-core bleach-blond death of television journalism.

Last night Sen. Joe “clean and articulate” Biden tells David Letterman that he’s definitely in the running for the Democratic nomination. Letterman looks a little incredulous. Biden responds “Yeah, all I need to do is raise $25 million—not $100 million like some of the others—to get my message out there.” Like it’s nothing: “All I [...]

So Lohan carjacks three guys and then tells the cops that, no no no, it wasn’t she who was driving over people’s feet and racing down PCH at 100 mph, it was one of the guys she carjacked— ie, “the black kid.” (Anyway, that’s the way it would be in the movie, right officer?) And [...]

The Honorable Dude Coleman, then and now

In the age of the internet, if you write an “open letter” and never get a response, does it count as an open letter or as just another of the billion blog posts written that day?
This past week there were two “open letters” of note published [...]

British wag Brendan O’Neil at Spiked went hard after Bono last week. It was a case of a fish, a barrel, and a smoking gun. The subject was Bono’s stumping for aid to Africa with the big-time government leaders at the G8 summit. Bono, according to O’Neil, is a not-cool wrinkled rocker on a messianic [...]

Don’t adjust your screen. It was all a dream. Arrivederci Soprani. Wake up America.
I don’t think the last episode of the Sopranos was a cop out. I agree with Havrilesky that it was instructive and that it perfectly capped the critique of materialist consumer society and its values that was at the heart of the [...]

Taking a mandatory, utterly terrifying ride with this guy through the Niger Delta.