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Currying Infavor

Putting in his bid for giant asshole of politics this week is Britain's Lord Archer. In an interview with a young Indian journalist, in India, the former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party said Indians w...
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Black, White, and Read Elsewhere

The newspaper may be gasping its last breaths in the U.S., but as a middle class emerges in China and India, newly literate and monied types are bumping up global circulation of newspapers. According to a repo...
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Weiner Woos

I don't know how reputable of a paper The Hindu is, but this "article" is hilarious. New York Congressman Raymond Weiner is "wooing" Clinton's aide Huma Abedin. He's Jewish and she grew up i...
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Penny Games

You know how sometimes, when you open an account of some sort online (PayPal, Schwab, etc.) they deposit a couple of cents in your bank account and then have you verify the amount? I always thought there was so...
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Oh Appease!

Gawker's clip of the week is f-ing hilarious, if you can bear to hear this rightwing douchebag shout the word appeaser a hundred times. Classic. And may we just say, Chris Matthews, welcome back. We were sort o...
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_Unsettled_ : The _Heeb_ Review

I'll be honest. I didn't know much about the evacuation of Gaza when I hunkered down to watchUnsettled, nor had I heard or read anything about the film itself. Which is probably why I liked it. That and the fac...
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Who Are You Looking At, Einstein?

A letter Albert Einstein wrote back in 1954 to philosopher Eric Gutkind is expected to fetch between $12,000 and $16,000 at auction this week. Given that the letter describes Einstein's view that, across the bo...
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Fallon Gong

In more news about how 2009 will suck a little bit more, Jimmy Fallon held a press conference to talk about how he's taking over for Conan O'Brien next year....
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Isn’t It Ironic?

Scarlett Johansson confirmed her engagement to Ryan "Van Wilder" Reynolds yesterday. Reynolds dumped his former fiance, Alanis Morissette, for Scarlett in February 2007, coincidentally around the same...