* As recently as 1996, a political candidate's sexual affairs weren't mainstream news fodder. * Print news has come full circle now that the "future of news" is print. * Richmond Tea Party prepares for an audit after complaining about paying for a park used freely by
* Biggest strike in 30 years disrupts UK; 58% of schools closed. * Obamas take their daughters book shopping; the girls buy the President Everyone Poops. * Professional lobbyist Gingrich splits hairs over being a lobbyist. * Free speech rights of federal employees to be decided soon. * Audubon's Birds of America now
In the past 20 years, movies and the quotes they’ve sprinkled across American pop culture have occupied a shrinking proportion of our social mindshare. It’s time to mark and celebrate the death of the movie catchphrase.
* Iranian students storm British embassy in Tehran; semi-official news agency says protesters "conquered." * Dahlia Lithwick profile of Justice Kagan after a year on the bench. * John Stuart Mill, dead thinker of 2011. * Arab revolutionaries top Foreign Policy's list of top 100 global thinkers. * Stories you
When hard times hit a notable—and note-taking—member of Manhattan's 1%, she seeks out comfort in warm arms, big and strong, at New York's Zuccotti Park.
* Korea's president channels Carter and dons long underwear to conserve energy. * Patagonia ad urges customers to buy less of its clothing, less in general. * Kenya yet to wipe out jihadist militia in Somalia. * Gingrich's Belgian Congo dissertation mashed up with Tintin au Congo. * Keith Gessen, n+
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* Military folk keep their jobs secret to avoid hero-worship, being looked on as victims, or simply the questions. * Pakistan's PM says "no more business as usual" with U.S. after NATO aircraft kill two dozen Pakistan troops. * Publishers quite aware that, for the first time
“Get the fuck out of the motherfucking lane, motherfucker!”
If a person tells a joke in a forest and doesn’t get a laugh—that’s how you know he or she’s a true comic. A report from the 2011 International Society for Humor Studies Conference, where so-called experts of comedy submit themselves to professionals to be critiqued.
