Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: A Continued Debate [Video]
If the Republican debates are the second greatest televised spectacle about matters that are only slightly abutting reality, then the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion specials are the first. Here is a ranking of how each woman fared in last night's fiasco. More »
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Joan Rivers Has Had Plastic Surgery 739 Times [Trivia]
Joan Rivers tells the Daily Telegraph she has had 739 surgical procedures to her Silly Puddy face. We all knew it was a lot, but, damn Joan, that is pathological. More »
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Pete Hoekstra's Racist Campaign Ad Getting Even Racist-er (UPDATE) [Oops]
The Koch Brothers Are Advertising Their Anti-Journalism Site on Pro-Journalism Sites [Kochsuckers]
Cartoon-villain Republican billionaires David and Charles Koch hate the (non-right wing) press, because the press tends to point out the various villainous activities of the Koch brothers. The Kochs waged an extensive campaign to discredit Jane Mayer's 2010 New Yorker story about them. Like many despised corporations, Koch Industries set up its own PR website, KochFacts.com, to try to counter the "dishonest reporting" of various news outlets. More »
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Gisele Says Tom Brady Played Best Game Of His Life, Is Wrong [Super Bowl]
It's okay to not know a lot about football. There are many, many people who know close to nothing about football. For example, people who call it "American football." They've got no idea what's going on. But, even if you were taking a wild guess, you would probably assume that a guy who has previously won multiple Super Bowls did not just play the best game of his life if he just moments ago lost a Super Bowl. Nonetheless, Gisele attempted to comfort Tom Brady after last night. More »
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So, The Romanian Government Just Collapsed [World News]
Just hours ago, the Romanian government collapsed as the Prime Minister and his cabinet resigned from their respective positions. There are likely very few of us who know enough about Romanian politics to have any sort of educated perspective about this, but it sounds really important. It would probably be irresponsible to not mention it. More »
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Komen Foundation VP Resigns in Wake of Planned Parenthood Dispute [Planned Parenthood]
Exactly a week after the Susan G. Komen Foundation announced that it would pull funding from Planned Parenthood—a decision that they later reversed—the organization's vice president for public policy, Karen Handel, resigned from her position. More »
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Why Moms Are Breastfeeding In Facebook's Face [Facebook]
Angry lactivists - that's the term, stop snickering - showed up in front of Facebook's offices in Austin to breasfeed their babies. They were part of a wave of such "nurse-ins," all designed to protest the social network's staggeringly dumb policies on breasfeeding photos. More »
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The Most Prolific Hacker on the Internet: A One-Handed Shadow [Stock Photos]
Stories about hackers are notoriously difficult to illustrate. In fact, there is one hacker so elusive that only two images of him exist in all the internet, despite the fact that he is the most prolific internet hacker of all time. Now introducing: The Shadowy, One-Handed Hacker of Death. More »
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Court Rules California's Prop 8 Unconstitutional and Rather Pointless [Prop 8]
California's three-year legal battle over Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that effectively banned gay marriage in the state was suspended this morning after a panel from the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled it unconstitutional in a 2-1 decision. More »
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Student Who Accused Jewish Professor of Anti-Semitism Still Working to Expose the Conspiracy Against Her [Video]
London's New CCTV Cameras Speak In American Accent [London]
A British watchdog group called Big Brother Watch is upset over some new closed circuit security cameras in London that have the ability to speak. More »
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Victim Responds to Latest Anonymous Hack: 'I Am a Supporter of Anonymous' [Anonymous]
We've already pointed out that the collateral damage from Anonymous' latest online raid—the release of more than 2 gigs of email and other data from Puckett and Faraj, the law firm that represented the squad leader responsible for the Haditha massacre—included some unlikely targets. Now one of the partners of the firm has announced on his Facebook page that he supports Anonymous' goals, and once even offered to defend Anony-hero Bradley Manning. More »
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Amazon Stores Might Invade Your Neighborhood [Amazon.com]
If you think Apple is a vertical corporate monolith, wait until you get a load of Amazon's reported plans: The e-tailer turned tablet maker turned publisher is said to be planning a physical store in Seattle with an eye toward building a national chain. And you thought the literati hated Amazon before. More »
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Zooey Deschanel Stands Next to Tall Man [Zooey Deschanel]
The Non Music Fan's Guide to M.I.A., from Truffle Fries to Her New Video [Video]
Last night, a young British woman who goes by M.I.A. flipped the bird to 111 million Americans. Revenge for the Revolutionary War? Punk rock gesture? Involuntary muscle spasm? And who was that woman, anyway? We answer all your questions. More »
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The Amazing Spider-Man: Unitards Are Back In Town [Video]
Here's a trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man, the retelling of an origin myth, retold. The background on this one is a mouthful so try to keep up: Marc Webb directed the screenplay, which was written by James Vanderbilt, which is based on the Marvel Comic Book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Also, it was once a play written, directed, and starring Bono. More »
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