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I’m not kidding. Every week, day in and day out, I see his articles on Slate; I usually manage to restrain myself from clicking on them—on the rare occasions I fail to do so, I’m almost always sorry. Past failures of cognition on his part have included this fine series on how black [...]

Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin…responding to a question about how oil obtained from offshore drilling can be kept in the country instead of sold on the world market, with an answer CNN’s Wolf Blitzer characterized as “not exactly easy to understand:”*
“Oil and coal? Of course, it’s a fungible commodity and they don’t flag, you [...]

Maybe I just don’t understand the definition of “news.”
Main Entry: news
Pronunciation:
\ˈnüz, ˈnyüz\
Function:
noun plural but singular in construction
Usage:
often attributive
Date:
15th century
1 a: a report of recent events
1 b: previously unknown information
2 a: material reported in a [...]

After having spent my adult life variously not being a mom, being a married mom, being a single mom, being a mom who stayed at home and being a mom who worked outside the home, I have come to the conclusion that if you are a fertile woman of childbearing years, no matter what you’re [...]

So I was idly paging through CNN.com and came across this headline:
July 2, 2008
Poll shows Americans cool to Michelle Obama
Posted: 10:30 AM ET
Oh brother…aside from the fact that a candidate’s spouse should be a virtual non-issue and so should everybody’s opinion of him or her–
The new Associated Press-Yahoo poll shows 30 percent of Americans view [...]

This is the quality of news reporting today.
There was no teen pregnancy pact in Massachussetts.
There are no painted, spear-throwing primitives attacking Great White Helicopters in Brazil.
No shit Don Imus is a racist. Hello?

Because some graphics just get better with every repost.
You guessed it–the Duggars are expecting their 18th child.
“We’re expecting!” the happy mother told TODAY co-host Meredith Vieira and the entire Arkansas clan. “Number 18!
Joshua, the Duggars’ eldest son, said the news, two days before Mother’s Day was “a shock” — if only to a point.
“I wasn’t [...]

I have some experience with rejecting self-taken identity. I have some experience with leaving communities. I have some experience with realizing that a thing you thought was good—and maybe it once was—is no longer a thing you can be part of.
I get this. In a really fundamental way. It is catastrophic to me that this [...]

Welcome to China! We hope you enjoy your stay during the Olympics.

Huh? What’s that? Those guns? Don’t mind them.
Sigh. Fine, fine, let’s talk about the guns. No, they’re not there to mow down Olympic torch protesters. Or Tibetan nationalists. [Though if any such offenders were [...]

Flying shards of glass and everything. I was so worried about the economy and BAM! FINALLY somebody, somewhere is aiming to do something about it!
Study: Single parents cost taxpayers $112 billion
That sure jumped out at me. Clearly, first off, single parents aren’t taxpayers! Or the headline would read [...]

Over at Boundless Webzine, Focus on the Family’s source of hip, Candice Watters is reminded by the New York Times to warn science to beware, bee–waaarrreeeeeee!!!!!!!! That is, beware to continue to be aware that scientific ethics are a good thing.
Also, did you know that in the past, scientists were sometimes wrong? And [...]

Slate’s new gals-only blog (called the XX Factor because it’s x-edgy to the x-treme, and also women have two X chromosomes while men have an X and a Y chromosome. Get it?) is drawing criticism for being eyeball-meltingly boring. Erica Barnett calls it “fucking DULL.” Gawker remains unimpressed by the writer’s “femiladyism.” [...]