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Interview: Former VJ Kennedy Looks Back at the Golden Age of MTV Through Rose-Colored Glasses 27 Aug 2013 | 07:55 am
If you were a red-blooded American teenager in the 1980s, chances are at some point, you not only wanted your MTV, you wanted to work there, either behind, or ideally in front of the cameras. Lisa Ken...
Quote of the Day 27 Aug 2013 | 07:49 am
It may well be that the United States will go to war with Syria. But if so, it should be because we have to — not because we want to. For the American people to accept the legitimacy of this conflict ...
Weapons of Mass Deja Vu 27 Aug 2013 | 03:43 am
Welcome back to 1998*. Conservative impeachment talk is in the air, and so is leftwing saber cruise missile rattling in the Middle East: Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that the use of chem...
Second Chance for John Frankenheimer’s Seconds on Blu-Ray 26 Aug 2013 | 07:36 am
Last week, the mailman delivered an Amazon box containing the Criterion Blu-Ray edition of the 1966 John Frankenheimer movie Seconds, starring Rock Hudson. Its arrival meant I could finally retire my ...
Human Sacrifice, Dogs And Cats Living Together… Mass Hysteria! 26 Aug 2013 | 06:50 am
Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions. Mayor: What do you mean, “biblical”? Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type s...
The United States of Paranoia 26 Aug 2013 | 06:11 am
In his terrific new book, The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory, Jesse Walker of Reason writes that while the vast majority of conspiracy theories are bunkum, we can learn a lot about wha...
Quote of the Day 26 Aug 2013 | 04:57 am
If gun control worked, Chicago would be Mayberry right now! And Weld County and El Paso County would be Thunderdome! You guys wouldn’t have [Weld County] Sheriff [John] Cooke, you would have Tina Turn...
Two Sorkins in One! 26 Aug 2013 | 04:26 am
Past performance is no guarantee of future results: Sorkin, however, did not have any kind words for the Huffington Post, the news and commentary website that he believes helps power “a genuinely dam...
Blue On Blue: Salon Versus Maureen Dowd 26 Aug 2013 | 03:25 am
“Please fire Maureen Dowd … or get her a fact-checker — The Times columnist hijacks the NYC mayor race, makes another screw-up that would get a less famous reporter axed,” writes Alex Pareene in the a...
The Audacity of Hubris 26 Aug 2013 | 01:11 am
Past performance is no guarantee of future results: The White House takes pride in the fact that Obama’s [presidential daily briefing] is “not briefed to him” – because, they say, he is “among the mo...
