Question of the Day

What is the worst thing you've ever deliberately eaten? As opposed to, you know, accidentally getting something gross in your mouth. An...

Number of the Day

$1,197,000,000,000: The amount of US dollars spent as of June on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That's one trillion, one hundred a...

Today in Rick Santorum Says Something Stupid

I had Piers Morgan call me a bigot. Because I believe what the Catholic Church teaches with respect to homosexuality, I'm a bigot. So ...

Daily Dose of Cute

When Sophie isn't draped across my monitor, she likes to lie on my desk giving my hand a full-body hug, with her head curled around so t...

Random YouTubery: Stairway To Heaven

What if the Beatles recorded "Stairway To Heaven"? (Hint: It would have been a better song.) Well, the Beatnix (a Beatles tribute...

You Go, Grrl. On Your Own Special Toilet.

There is a story going around the internetz today, care of the print edition of In Touch Weekly, about Madonna's toilet preferences. S...

Mixed Messaging

[Trigger warning for terrorism.] There's a very interesting piece by Carrie Johnson at NPR about the Obama administration's Justice...

Photo of the Day

A cash-strapped 22-year-old who sought to have an entire Where's Waldo scene inked on his back got a proposition from tattoo artist Rytc...

Great Idea! Very Democracy!

A press release I just received from the White House Office of Communications: THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _______________...

Two-Minute Nostalgia Sublime

Olivia Newton-John: "Let Me Be There"

Every Move You Make, Every Call You Take...

Democratic Senators Mark Udall and Ron Wyden are raising a red flag about abuses of the Patriot Act: Ten years after 9/11, new questions ar...

Top Chef: Just Desserts Open Thread

Holy cake wrecks, Batman! Frank Gehry must be spinning in his grave at the site of this "tribute" to his Walt Disney Concert Hall....

Cool War Profiteering, Robber Barons!

[Trigger warning for torture.] Remember when the Iraq War started—SHOCK AND AWE! USA!—and all the dirty hippies were saying things like, ...

Adfail

In yet another hilaritragic example of content-generated ad failery, I am being served JC Penney adverts all over the place this morning. Wh...

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