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#yum
The Whitehouse State Dinner Menu: Delish!
What are you eating tonight? Whatever it is, it's not as good as what they're serving at Obamas first state dinner. Unless you are actually at the state dinner, in which case: You're in for a real treat! More » -
#pullquote
Marcus Brauchli —
executive editor of the Washington Post explaining the newspaper's decision to close its remaining U.S. bureaus in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, to the Washington Post. -
#truecrime
A Forced Miscarriage Is a Most Gruesome and Fascinating Crime
Three things make a good true crime story: sex, death and lacing things with poison. The crime of forcing a woman to have a miscarriage invariably has all three of these things—plus the added "zing" of abortion politics. More » -
#picoftheday
Hillary Clinton Has No Flaws Whatsoever
[Secretary of State Hillary Clinton—alongside Indian ambassador to the U.S. Meera Shankar—beams at the arrival of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the White House today. Step inside to see Joe Biden's reaction. Image via Getty] More » -
#the00s
The Best of 00's Derby: Was It the Age of Quirk?
The last five weeks of every decade generally bring a frenzy of media list-making. However, in this first decade of the blogging era, the cataloging of best and worsts should approach H1N1 emergency levels. More » -
#complaints
World's Least Respected Conservative Thinker: There Are Too Many Gays and Whores in Newsweek
Former National Review Online editor Kathryn Jean Lopez is outraged that Newsweek disseminates the opinions of wanton harlots and avowed sodomites. Specifically, Dan Savage and Sasha Grey. More » -
#rulesofhollywood
The Rules of Director Jail
Show business does not (yet) have its own judicial branch empowered to imprison and, if necessary, torture people who commit unspeakable crimes against studio profits. It does however, have an even more effective tool at its disposal — director jail. More » -
#newspapers
Washington Post Pulls Out of the Rest of America
At the end of December, the Washington Post will close its bureaus in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. This is the biggest write-off of on-the-scene domestic news coverage by any major paper yet. More » -
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#classicads
Murderous Pistol Cannot Hurt You
Iver Johnson Revolvers "are not toys: they shoot straight and kill." Nevertheless, they're "absolutely safe," and "Papa says they won't hurt us." In 1913, as now, gun owners were mainly schizophrenics. [Copyranter] -
#media
A Glimpse of Google without News Corp.: No Big Loss
The media world is in a (relative) uproar over what the implications of News Corp. pulling its content off Google would be. But! A three-part Gawker investigation-type thing indicates the impact might be quite minimal for you, the consumer. Observe: More »
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#clipjob
Gawker.TV: The Five Best Videos Ever of the Day
Today at Gawker.TV, a criminal channels television during his arrest, a little girl's unknowingly racist, a documentary from "the future" remembers the present differently than we do, sexting gets its own song, and we examine the best literal music videos. More » -
#advice
How to Deal With Teens
"A 13-year-old girl won't interact with her long-distance father, and she even called him 'gay' for caring. What's a dad to do?" Point out that she's the gay one, and she looks like a slut. Kids' respect is earned. [WaPo] -
#opencaption
Precious Moments
[The whitest boy alive, Zac Efron, gets a posing lesson from Gabourey Sidibe after a screening of his movie, Me and Orson Welles, in New York last night. Image via Getty] -
#fashion
Lindsay Lohan has not been fired by fashion house Ungaro. Despite designing nipple pasties.
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#recessionomics
Demonize the Homeless Long Enough and No One Will Notice You Moved Back Home
The Way We Live Now: At home. With Ma. And Pa. And the leaky basement pipes, and the laundry machine, and our broken dreams. And the jug we rent from the United Homeless Organization. It's a living, hey! Amirite? More » -
#stayinschoolkids
There is a Deadly New Drug to Kill Our Kids
There's a menacing new drug around. And it's called... meow meow. Really. The press in Australia and Britain, who love a new drug they can moralize about, say it's deadly and legal and kids are all doing it. More » -
#sad
Kentucky Census Worker Was Not Murdered
When a census worker was found hanged with 'fed' scrawled on his chest, many across the country denounced anti-government nuts like Glenn Beck for inciting a lynching. It now seems that wasn't the case. Prepare for some unbearable crowing. More » -
#soundtrackofourlives
Glee Just Exploded a Glitter Grenade in My Brain
We just got the music for tomorrow's episode of Glee: "Bootylicious," "True Colors," "Imagine," acoustic "Papa Don't Preach!" I'm dancing and crying at the same time. Wednesday night can't come soon enough. And come back Friday for my recap. -
#gawkercares
The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
At 2009's National Book Awards we honored Sarah Palin's Going Rogue as 2010's frontrunner for the NBA Fiction Prize by getting it signed by the gathered literary luminaries. And now, it can be the best charitable, tax-deductible present ever. More » -
#greatmagazinedieoff
Time Inc. Folding InStyle Weddings
We've just confirmed that Time Inc. is folding Instyle Weddings, a quarterly publication. The wedding magazine category is rough these days. More » -
#fitness
Electro-Abs Really Work!
Ab scientists say that those electric ab muscle stimulators really do make your abs stronger. Your abs, guys. Only abs. [WSJ] -
#dictatorstyle
Meet the Gaddafi Boys
Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi's kids are a hoot: Saif is a painter who keeps pet tigers, while Hannibal enjoys sports cars and turning fire extinguishers into weapons. And, according to sources, they're paying the U.S. a visit on daddy's dime.
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#apologies
Dear Adam Lambert, We're Sorry We Asked You to Be Too Gay for GMA
Last week we were telling Adam Lambert to gay it up because no one cares he's a 'mo. Now his über-gay performance at the American Music Awards cost him a spot on Good Morning America. We're sorry, Adam.
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#personalads
Seeking Slim Vegan Morrissey Fan from Non-Dominant Culture for Occult Activities
Turning to Craigslist in search of love: A grand American tradition! And not one deserving of mockery. Rather, let us marvel at the craft of composing a Craiglist M4W ad that excludes every woman on planet Earth. Except, perchance...you?
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#coverlies
Going Vogue: Anna Wintour Meets Alaskan Winter
Question: What do Sarah Palin's new book and Vogue magazine have in common? Answer: Both are glossy, insubstantial, and full of lies. [Jezebel] -
#opencaption
The Final Word on Chris Brown
[Diane Sawyer had to go and ask about Rihanna's abusive ex during the singer's performance on Good Morning America today, and this was all the response she got. Image via Getty] -
#magazines
Playboy Now Able to Afford Tara Reid
Playboy, which is really just hobbling along waiting to be sold at this point, is outsourcing its non-editorial production duties to AMI, which now has the weirdest stable of publications in the business. More » -
#gingerwars
The War Against Gingers Continues
Our red-headed brethren are still being set upon by angry mobs. It's all TV and the internet's fault — the kids today are on the Facebook and the YouTube and get these crazy ideas and then savagely beat others. More » -
#gossiproundup
Tinsley Mortimer's Reality Show Is Already Criminal
That's because it's now got 100% more of phone hacking PR girl Ali Wise. Also Emma Watson gets around, Lady Gaga marries Papa John, and J.Lo meant to fall down. It's Tuesday and that's all the gossip you get. More » -
#girlsonfilm
The Inevitable Tila Tequila Sex Tape Has Landed
A sex tape is such an obvious beat in the narrative arc of Tila Tequila—sexxxy internet celebrity and MTV reality queen—that it's barely news. Actually, it seems like the most posed "sex" tape we've ever seen. More »
