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Lying Bastards. h/t The Wonk Room.

Oct 31st

“Alas, over the last few decades, the world has not become a...”
— Mikhail Gorbachev, the last...

Oct 31st

I am a person who really likes cooking. It’s a great way of...

Oct 31st

moviesinframes: Swingers, 1996 (dir. Doug Liman) Why...

Oct 31st

Some Artists Know

Oct 30th

“You had one 9/11. We are having daily 9/11s in Pakistan.”
— Sana Bucha of Geo TV during...

Oct 30th

simplerecipes: Ghanaian Jollof Rice 1 & 3/4 cup...

Oct 30th

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Damnnnnnnnn. Please tell me you get what Rik’s referencing here. The first of three...

Oct 30th

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“If there’s no military, no police force, no law, no justice, and no hope, what’s the point of...

Oct 29th

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The Clipse. Behind the Scenes on the Popular Demand (Popeye’s) video, featuring Killa. h/t Nah...

Oct 29th

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“If there’s no military, no police force, no law, no justice, and no hope, what’s the point of...

Oct 29th

retropolitics: stencils: Jef Aérosol 2009 - Angela...

Oct 29th

The 10 Scariest Things I Watched as A Kid...

Oct 28th

thedailywhat: Photo of the Day: Monica Szczupider...

Oct 28th

“After more garbage that you’ve seen in every time travel...”
— 4thletter! » Blog...

Oct 28th

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Black Thought, Mos Def and Eminem (with DJ Premier) at the BET Hip-Hop Awards. Sometimes I remember...

Oct 28th

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Malice (of the Clipse) discuss the backstory behind the songs on ‘Til the Casket Drops, their...

Oct 28th

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Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela. Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar, the captain of the 1995 South...

Oct 28th

Who Is the New York Smashed Burger Champion?

Oct 28th

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An animated Chris Ware story from This American Life. h/t Boing Boing. This is awesome. Go visit...

Oct 27th

agentmlovestacos: This is an officially licensed...

Oct 27th

Call for Listener Questions

Oct 27th

“After eight years of neglecting Afghanistan as vice...”
— Senator John Kerry

Oct 26th

“What I’ve created in Blood’s a Rover is the...”
— James Ellroy, on his...

Oct 26th

agentmlovestacos: YES! Real life Roy Lichtenstein...

Oct 26th

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Fascinating. The Human Hair Trade - a short documentary (w/ no voice overs!) exploring the...

Oct 26th

“If you’re graduating from college this spring, you’ll...

Oct 24th

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Nineteen Eighty Four. h/t Sean Collins.

Oct 24th

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Tyler Perry strikes back! I’m really looking forward to this interview. I suspect that...

Oct 24th

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Sen. Al Franken is that dude. That is all. h/t Boing Boing.

Oct 24th

4thletter: Clipse – Popular Demand (Popeye’s) f. Cam’ron...

Oct 24th

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The Vertigo Crime commercial that aired on BBC a few nights ago. It looks pretty cool, but the...

Oct 24th

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Sara Kruzan is a young woman who was convicted of murdering a man who had sexually enslaved and...

Oct 24th

Separated at birth? Paul Heyman, who wrestling fans may...

Oct 23rd

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Former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, on Obama’s receipt of the Nobel Prize and domestic...

Oct 23rd

KeyChest - The Next Step in Entertainment...

Oct 23rd

simplerecipes: Breakfast Potatoes 10-15 baby red...

Oct 22nd

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The Black Dynamite Score Documentary. I can’t wait to see this film. For the trailer, click...

Oct 22nd

“I believe we can balance the scales if Tom Cruise would...”
— Alec Baldwin, on the gender...

Oct 22nd

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Great interview, conducted by John Sellers of trueslant.com. h/t Nah Right. Check out the A/V Club...

Oct 22nd

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Spike Jonze + Ikea.

Oct 22nd

“I just feel like writing imperfection instead of creating a...”
— Curtis ‘50 Cent’...

Oct 22nd

“[T]his “country” that white Americans are...”
— Andrew Sullivan. Ta-Nehisi has...

Oct 22nd

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retropolitics: apsies: openwindows: 86-year-old WWII vet on gay marriage: “what do you think...

Oct 21st

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This is a brilliant invention. It seems slightly ridiculous until you remember all those college...

Oct 21st

Huggabroomstik live on Tuesday 10/20!

Oct 19th

thedailywhat: Daniel Lecky: “We Found Waldo” BRB,...

Oct 19th

thedailywhat: Buy This: Freudian Slippers. Q: How many...

Oct 19th

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Just when I dismiss Kanye West as an artist, he comes out with something like this. We Were Once A...

Oct 19th

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I wish I had known about this earlier. This is an animated film based on Shhhhhhh, the graphic novel...

Oct 18th

Retro Movie Posters. This one’s by Tom Whalen. I also...

Oct 18th

John Oxendine *IS* Norman Osborn!

Oct 18th

Pardon Jack Johnson

Oct 17th

I always knew that Batman was secretly a commie. For more,...

Oct 17th

What Whoopi Goldberg ('Not a...

A youthful error? Yes, perhaps. But he’s been punished for this lapse— For decades...

Oct 16th

Scary Link of the Day: NSA Edition

Oct 16th

“I’m busy and Nancy [Pelosi is] busy with our mop...”
— President Barack Obama. I...

Oct 16th

“Imagine putting $1 down on a lottery where there are 100,000...”
— Matt Yglesias, explaining why...

Oct 16th

Rogue Film School

Oct 16th

Fuck Tumbilarity - What's Your Walkability?

Oct 15th

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It appears increasingly unlikely that Ghostbusters III will be a good film. No Bill Murray, no...

Oct 15th

The Intractability of Financial Derivatives

Oct 15th

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I always miss these kinds of things. Thank God for Hulu. Eric Idle and the Roots! There is a reason...

Oct 15th

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I think Antichrist will be brilliant, but I will never see it. I’m usually a sucker for...

Oct 15th

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thedailywhat: Mashup of the Day: The Where The Wild Things Are / Girls Gone Wild mashup you knew...

Oct 15th

Will 30 Rock Become the Next Will & Grace?

Oct 15th

Genius at work. I can’t say enough about Herbie...

Oct 15th

“Popular culture is long past black characters held up as a...”
— John McWhorter. He really...

Oct 14th

A Big Step Forward - Princeton Adds a...

Oct 14th

“If China begins churning out doctors and one of them cures...”
— Ezra Klein, on the bright side...

Oct 14th

Will We Be the Next Lost Generation?

Oct 14th

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Hitchcock on the old Tom Snyder Show. Part 1 of 7. Thank Kottke.

Oct 14th

thedailywhat: Tee of the Day, Too: “THE MAN WITH HIS...

Oct 14th

“It is simply not fair to prosecute someone for a crime that...”
— Justice Antonin Scalia,...

Oct 14th

The Geography of The Great Recession

Oct 14th

agentmlovestacos: AHHH! AHHH! AHHHHHH! *stabs eyes* These...

Oct 14th

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When Quincy speaks, we all listen. h/t Nah Right. I can’t wait for the second part of this...

Oct 14th

DORF - A Unified Theory of NPR's Taste In...

Oct 14th

FBBP #116 - Planetary Post-Mortem

Oct 14th

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He’s damn right. Andrew Sullivan, on the Human Rights Committee’s apparent decision to...

Oct 13th

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Obvious Child, a light-hearted abortion comedy by Gillian Robespierre, starring Jenny Slate of SNL....

Oct 13th

People shouldn’t just assume that their...

Oct 13th

thedailywhat: Life-Altering Device of the Day: The Dyson...

Oct 13th

Scientific Realism, or You Can't Negotiate...

Oct 13th

“[I]f we have four or five years of near-zero inflation and...”
— Matt Yglesias on the...

Oct 13th

“I suppose we should not begrudge Barack Obama his Nobel...”
— Alexander Cockburn, on...

Oct 13th

The Process of Cooking - Michael Symon, with photos by...

Oct 13th

Let Forever Be: A Planetary Retrospective Pt....

Oct 9th

thedailywhat: Steampunk Wedding Cake of the Day: Best...

Oct 9th

jacquesofalltrades: So the Germans invade France multiple...

Oct 9th

“As an Appropriator I must ask, what will that policy cost...”
— Rep. David Obey (D - Wis.),...

Oct 9th

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h/t Spencer Ackerman. Interesting viewing.

Oct 9th

FBBP #115 - Deadpool for President

Oct 8th

Apps for Everyone: The Conservative Talking...

Oct 8th

“Texas justice is essentially sorcery, and there will be...”
— Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Oct 8th

Chartsengrafs: A Planetary Retrospective Pt....

Oct 8th

“Joblessness is where economics and politics converge; while...”
— Mark Penn h/t Matt Yglesias

Oct 8th

Batman and Robin #5 - “Revenge of the Red...

Oct 8th

Can Camp Lo possibly make a comeback? Uptown Saturday Night...

Oct 7th

"The Whore of Mensa," Woody Allen

Oct 7th

Denied Without Recourse

Oct 7th

“I have one other question: remember all those “chickenhawk”...”
— Glenn Greenwald (via...

Oct 7th

Chartsengrafs: A Planetary Retrospective Pt....

Oct 7th

The Conversations - Pixar

Oct 7th

simplerecipes: Spicy Sauteed Fish with Olives and Cherry...

Oct 7th

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thedailywhat: Lights Out: The Polanski/To Catch a Predator mashup you knew was coming is now...

Oct 7th

Boing Boing posted this image, a hilariously...

Oct 6th

Kristen Swensson of Serious Eats may have introduced me to a...

Oct 6th

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30 For 30. Thirty documentaries about sports by award-winning directors. This is for King’s...

Oct 5th

Joe the Barbarian, with words by Grant Morrison and pictures...

Oct 5th

The Pleasures of Re-Reading

Oct 5th

Is there anything cuter than the pygmy hippo? h/t Serious...

Oct 5th

The Perils of Single Party Bipartisanship

Oct 4th

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Mark Bittman brings us sweet potato salad. This is definitely on the list of recipes to try.

Oct 4th

thedailywhat: Simpsonized Thing of the Day: Artist Dean...

Oct 4th

thesmarttart: simplerecipes: Baked Butternut Squash Fries...

Oct 4th

Fahrenheit 451 - very cool. From Movie Posters for...

Oct 2nd

“As you get older, pop music becomes primarily nostalgic in...”
— Peter Suderman, on pop music.

Oct 2nd

prettyfoods: appleonastick: Made of chocolate. This...

Oct 2nd

oldhollywood: “Now the questions that come to...

Oct 2nd

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Chris Rock speaks the truth re: Polanski.

Oct 2nd

“I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or...”
— One of the last notes left...

Oct 2nd

God Will Be On Your Side

Oct 2nd

Link-A-Rama II

(1) Has the U.S. Supreme Court become irrelevant? (2) The Fall of the Oakland Raiders (3) 4L...

Oct 2nd

-Paul Pope, illustrating a passage from Frank...

Oct 2nd

“I hope that whenever I have to go to a government agency to...”
— Miu Jianwen, a lawyer from...

Oct 1st

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jacquesofalltrades: Sesame Street’s take on AMC’s Mad Men: “Good work, sycophants!” Mad Men...

Oct 1st