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Koch Bros' Group Being Completely Evil Ahead of Wisconsin Recall
Jim Newell · 08/01/11 04:22PM
Americans for Prosperity, the political action group funded by right-wing billionaires Charles and David Koch, is patriotically mailing out absentee ballot applications for the upcoming Wisconsin recall elections against Republican state senators. But guess what? The registration forms that AFP has been sending out have... the wrong ballot submission date! Good heavens, how could they miss such a "typo"?
Most Major Newspaper Editors Don't Even Use Twitter
Hamilton Nolan · 08/01/11 04:10PMHere Are America's Top Party Schools
Brian Moylan · 08/01/11 03:33PMMost of Newt Gingrich's Twitter Followers Are Fake
John Cook · 08/01/11 03:05PMGawker Now Working Birthday Parties
John Cook · 08/01/11 02:45PMFor some strange reason, Fox News can't let go of this month-old post demonstrating—without naming him—that a figure in a White House photo was probably the CIA analyst who tracked down Osama bin Laden. Here's Mike Huckabee over the weekend: "Doesn't their name say it all? Gawker? What do you think of when you think of Gawker? Do you think, 'Oh that's the person I want to invite to my son's birthday party?'" Probably not. But for what it's worth, Gov. Huckabee, we don't really want to go to your son's birthday party, either. Mostly to avoid the dog-slaughtering.
Internet Explorer Users Are Objectively Stupid
Adrian Chen · 08/01/11 02:42PMRepublican: Working with Obama Like 'Touching a Tar Baby'
Maureen O'Connor · 08/01/11 02:34PMRep. Doug Lamborn likened compromising with Obama to "touching a tar baby" on talk radio today. But he probably didn't mean to use the racially charged term in a racist way, right? There's no way he missed the lesson from John McCain's "tar baby" blunder, or Mitt Romney's "tar baby" blunder, or Tony Snow's "tar baby" blunder, right?
Like Crazy: The Sweet/Sad Love Story of the Year
Richard Lawson · 08/01/11 01:23PMKids Still Hate Rebecca Black
Matt Cherette · 08/01/11 01:21PMBack in April, the Fine Brothers played Rebecca Black's "Friday" for a bunch of kids and recorded their reactions. Not surprisingly, the children hated the song. But what about "My Moment," Black's new single and message for the naysayers? Surely they'd appreciate it more, right? Not so much, as you'll see in the clip above.
More Airbnb Horrors Emerge
Ryan Tate · 08/01/11 01:17PMWhat Is This Delightful Sound John Boehner Makes?
Jim Newell · 08/01/11 01:13PMSome TV camera people caught Speaker John Boehner fleeing to his escape elevator in Capitol Hill last night, after everyone finally reached a debt ceiling deal that no one understands but should pass Congress today anyway. Think he wasn't tired? This guy, Boehner, not tired? Get out of here. Just listen to this noise he makes. A pure sigh of relief, or the desperate wail of an aging farter? You decide, America. For now it is merely John Boehner's "sound."
30 Years of MTV in Three Minutes
Brian Moylan · 08/01/11 01:09PMMTV turns 30 today. Instead of taking it out for an overpriced dinner and making jokes about how it's old, we compiled this video with some of the high and low spots of the channel's history—from Madonna's infamous "Like a Virgin" at the first Music Video Awards to Puck on The Real World, Downtown Julie Brown, and Jersey Shore.
Real Housewives of New Jersey: All I Want for Christmas Is You
Richard Lawson · 08/01/11 12:55PMThe world's longest Christmas ever continued (and finally ended?) on last night's episode of As the World Turnpikes, with the opening of presents and the spreading of a temporary, tentative peace throughout the land. Let's open the gifts and then burn all the wrapping.
Meet the College Chancellor with a Suburban Sex Dungeon
Maureen O'Connor · 08/01/11 12:48PMNobody's Doing Real Fitness Any More
Hamilton Nolan · 08/01/11 12:26PM
It seems that everywhere you look these days, someone is telling you how to do fitness wrong. They're telling you the wrong way to pick a trainer, they're telling you the wrong best exercise to do, they're telling you to do things that will kill you. And do you know who is to blame for all of this misinformation? That's right: you.