Thursday - October 8, 2009

The Shadow Editors: Reading Mark Greif's Recent 'N+1' Piece In Real Time  @3:00 PM

You weren't the only ones with lots of things to say on the topic of On Repressive Sentimentalism, in which, well….

Tom Scocca: Wow, this n+1 thing is PROFOUNDLY ARGUABLE.

Choire Sicha: Uh oh. READ MORE 68

Wednesday - September 23, 2009

Fox News Goes Big On 'Despot Housewives'  @1:00 PM

Poor Fox News can barely fill out five slots in its wonderful "DESPOT HOUSEWIVES" charticle, but still it is a splendid and hilarious thing to behold. Unfortunately they run out of steam by number 5: "Parvin Ahmadinejad is very rarely seen even when beheld in public, as her hard-line husband follows a strict form of Islam that requires women to wear a full-body hijab. In fact, almost nothing is known about Mrs. Ahmadinejad — her age, her schooling, her sign of the Zodiac –because she stands quietly by in a conservative Muslim theocracy, where women are raped the night before executions and face up to 80 lashes for refusing to cover their hair." WE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THIS HORRIBLE WOMAN AND HER HORRIBLE RAPEY COUNTRY! Also, "Jimmy Choo-style"? Was it a knockoff or not? What gives? 6