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Islamic extremists with posh British accents sound so reasonable! Sharia law? Sure, you know best!
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Newspapers are dying, which means there will never be any more investigative journalism and politicians will screw whomever they want. But it's OK, because "innovative" new "partnerships" like the Chicago News Cooperative are here to produce real journalism. The lofty rhetoric surrounding the ...
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From Rhett & Link, the guys who brought you the ad that all ads should probably be like , comes this new spot for the Central Florida Zoo. Their relentless honesty requires it to focus totally on excrement. [ Adfreak]
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To make the point that he is not the asshole that his Glengarry Glenn Ross -ish email made him sound like ("you bunch of fucking children"), restaurant owner Vadim Poronosky called to scream at us. After we posted the email tirade that Vadim sent the waitstaff at Paradou (for failing to ...
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The Tinz just wrapped shooting for her reality show and it looks like her showmance, Prince Casimir Wittgenstein-Sayn , has gotten the boot for a new beau. Who's the lucky guy? Former American Idol contestant Constantine Maroulis . What?! Maroulis is currently starring in hair band jukebox ...
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Tinsley Mortimer
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Mortified
Nikki Finke OWNS the Oprah Winfrey story. She broke the news that Winfrey would leave the show three weeks ago. And she got the transcript of Oprah's announcement up on her site bright and early this morning. By stealing it. Finke posted embedded video of a small portion of Winfrey's remarks ...
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Oprah Winfrey
Nikki Reed
Steve Barnes (pictured), the Albany restaurant critic who was assaulted by a professional mixed martial arts fighter last year (probably) because of something he wrote, reports today: Albany restaurateurs are going to punch each other . John DeJohn, who owns four Albany eateries including the ...
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It is a good thing the American Constitution calls for instant run-off presidential elections the minute the "winner" dips below 50% approval, or else we would be stuck with the most unpopular president in American history for years to come. Thankfully Sarah Palin may now take her rightful ...
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Barack Obama
[ Taylor Momsen predictably wore black (but an unpredictably long skirt) at the The Cinema Society screening of The Twilight Saga: New Moon in New York last night. Image via Getty ]
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Taylor Momsen
Twilight
New Moon
Gossip Girl
Quick, get to a TV! General Hospital starts at 3pm and you don't want to miss a minute of Hollywood A-lister James Franco 's historic role on the show. Here's a little bit of context so you won't be totally lost. On the ABC soap, Franco plays Franco (how meta!) an artist who has come to the ...
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James Franco
General Hospital
The Way We Live Now: Same as ever. Hard times have been around for years now! But nobody was paying attention. The Christians were fighting unions and the yuppies were building dream homes and everyone else? Peanut butter jelly time. Way back in 2005, when the liberal media would have had you ...
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Did you hear the great news? The MTA will not raise fares! Or cut service! Wonderful! Except none of the headlines say "for just one year." Or "not counting the existing fare increase and de facto service cuts." The new $11 billion operating budget is actually just an ominous warning that ...
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Did you hear the great news? The MTA will not raise fares! Or cut service! Wonderful! Except none of the headlines say "for just one year." Or "not counting the existing fare increase and de facto service cuts." The new $11 billion operating budget is actually just an ominous warning that ...
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The Fireman
Italian novelist Umberto Eco , the go-to intellectual for journalists worldwide, has deconstructed the human obsession with all things listy. The bottom line for editors: Your listicles help readers brush off a terrifying universe of infinite chaos. In this manner, the listicle is not a ...
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Project Runway is all about vision and delusion. The vision to ask three designers to compete for a prize. The delusion their entries will look different. The vision to return January 14th, the delusion your audience will come back. That's right, last night during the disastrous season six ...
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Project Runway
Tim Gunn
In your ferocious Friday media column: Newspaper wars in Germany are of another breed, another high school paper censored for dumb reasons, more on the BusinessWeek layoffs, and George Stephanopoulos' fluff chops questioned. A "long-standing editorial feud " between a left-wing German paper ...
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Here's a clip from Oprah Winfrey 's on-air announcement that she's putting the Oprah Winfrey Show out to pasture: "Why walk away, and make next season the last? Here is the real reason: [T]wenty-five years feels right in my bones."
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Oprah Winfrey
The Oprah Winfrey Show
Here's a clip from Oprah Winfrey 's on-air announcement that she's putting the Oprah Winfrey Show out to pasture: "Why walk away, and make next season the last? Here is the real reason: [T]wenty-five years feels right in my bones."
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Oprah Winfrey
The Oprah Winfrey Show
A National Security Agency director just bragged to a Senate subcommittee about his agency's close "cooperation" with Microsoft to, err, "enhance" how Windows 7 guards a user's privacy. Doesn't that just make you feel all warm and fuzzy? The spooks at the NSA are, of course, notorious for ...
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Spooks
The heretofore anonymous founder of Regretsy , the blog that appropriately mocks your dumb arts-and-crafts projects, has been outed. Because she got a book deal! New blog-to-book trend: Saying right up front the book will be more paltry than the blog. Speakeasy reports that the Regretsy ...
