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Observer Effect: Jared Kushner's Newspaper Has a Birthday
"It's so good," the actress Christine Baranski told a film crew at the Four Seasons last night, "to have another paper in town." The paper in question was the New York Observer, celebrating 25 years of...
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Anti-Pot New York Assemblyman Busted with Pot While Speeding Down the Interstate
Behold, another hypocritical politician for us to laugh at. New York Assemblyman Steve Katz is the Putnam County politician who just last year voted down a bill to legalize medical marijuana in New...
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9-Year-Old Boy Saves Baby's Life by Teaching Mother How to Perform CPR
When a Georgia mother's 2-month-old baby suddenly stopped breathing, there was only one thing she could think to do: Scream at the top of her lungs. "I had him in my arms and still screaming over and...
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iPad Thief Unwittingly Sends 'Ugly' Incriminating Selfies to Victim
After Allen Engstrom accidentally left his iPad on a plane back in February, he was unable to track it down, and, as Senator Chuck Grassley might say, assumed iPad lost. That is, until the iPad...
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It's St. Paddy's Day, Not 'St. Patty's Day'
Every year on March 17, the people of the world congratulate Alec Baldwin's 17-year-old daughter Ireland on her new modeling contract by celebrating St. Patrick's Day. Unfortunately, in their attempts...
View ArticleConservative Panel on 'the Race Card' Turns to Chaos After Audience Member...
A panel on rebutting charges of racism at a conservative political conference went exactly was well as you might expect when one audience member suggested slaves should have been thankful to their...
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Newspapering Is a Business: The Death of the Legendary Boston Phoenix
Yesterday, the Boston Phoenix announced that the alternative-newsweekly would stop publishing after 47 years. I learned this by phone, from someone who'd been a colleague of mine there, while the...
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The Priest Kidnapped Under Bergoglio in Argentina Has Given the Strangest...
Besides his downright primitive views on LGBT issues, the most potent critiques against the newly installed Pope Francis have had to do with his potentially gruesome role in Argentina's so-called...
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In Hate Mail this Week: Repulsive Pessimism, a Rude Job Application, and a...
The most aggressive email we got this week was from someone who really just wanted to be part of it all. The rest—well, they were not so happy that we seemed to be negative, but maybe that's explained...
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Reuters Social Media Editor Accused of Helping Anonymous Has Long, Strange...
News that Reuters deputy social media editor Matthew Keys had been indicted for allegedly conspiring with Anonymous shocked his colleagues in online media. Keys has always seemed like a normal guy who...
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TMZ Reports Lil Wayne Is on His Death Bed; Friends Say Wayne is 'Alive and...
Hyper-prolific rapper Lil Wayne is currently being given his last rites at L.A.'s Cedars-Sinai Hospital after suffering a series of seizures, if TMZ is to be believed. But close friends of Wayne's say...
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Pope Calls for Church Austerity, Wants to Focus on Poor
Meeting with journalists this morning, Pope Francis laid out his vision for the Catholic church, which includes cutting spending on ornate ceremony and instead spending that money on the poor. He urged...
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Obama Foreign Policy Whiz is Full of Personal Anguish and Has an Unfinished...
Benjamin J. Rhodes was just a run-of-the-mill New York prep school kid working on a novel, when the events of 9/11 changed him forever. Now an intervention-favoring deputy national security adviser for...
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Some Marc Jacobs 'Faux Fur' Jackets Also Contain Dog
If you were thinking of buying a faux fur coat, how much dog fur would you consider to be "too much" dog fur while making your purchasing decisions? Because Marc Jacobs uses some dog hair in their...
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Meet Ben Carson, the Gifted Pediatric Neurosurgeon and Rising Right-Wing Star
This morning, Ben Carson spoke at the CPAC conference, a day after a panel on 'the race card' failed spectacularly, with some audience members defending slavery. Carson is a renowned pediatric...
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Hashtags Coming to Facebook
The Facebook you already know, but now with more hashtags in it. #Hashtags are #coming to #Facebook. That's #digital. That's #innovative. That's #disruptive. From the Wall Street Journal: Facebook is...
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LMFAO's Redfoo Will Attempt to Become a Professional Tennis Player
Party rockers on the hardcourt tonight? Redfoo, of the legendary (to many) group LMFAO, will attempt to qualify for the U.S. Open this summer at a tennis tournament in California. Redfoo, who also...
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College Lacrosse Team Bus Crashes, Leaving Two Dead
A bus carrying the Seton Hill women's Lacrosse team crashed earlier today, careening off of the Pennsylvania turnpike and colliding with a tree. The driver and one other passenger were killed and 24...
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Officers Who Shot Kimani Gray Have Been Repeatedly Sued for Civil Rights...
The NYPD officers who shot 16-year-old Kimani Gray seven times last weekend have a long history of lawsuits alleging civil rights abuses and have cost New York City over $215,000 in settlements. Sgt....
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Rand Paul Has Won the CPAC Straw Poll
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, whose unsuccessful filibuster of John Brennan was the main topic of Ted Cruz's CPAC keynote last night, has won the CPAC straw poll, the first almost real gauge of 2016...
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