On 'Times' Editor's Request To Not Use 'Tweet' Still Not a Ban?
It's just as egregious as writing "Google" as a verb. Sure, go ahead and use it in everyday speech (asshole), but don't use it in an article because you were too lazy to enunciate an 'internet search'. It's just a lazy, unnecessary promotion of a product.
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On Sweating the Technique: Hip-Hop and the Jewish Problem
I'm not sure if I'm the only one to catch this, but in the Official Scrabble Dictionary (...anyone?), if you look up "Jew", it is listed not only as the religious noun, but also a VERB. I kid you not. You won't find the verb iteration in 'real' dictionaries, like Webster's, etc.
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On You couldn't keep your eyes off of me - w4m - W 53rd (Midtown West)
"Oh, that was just my classroom-gaze. Like most things I do, best not to read too much into it."
-J. Franco
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On 7 Things To Expect When Getting off Zoloft
Step right up! Everyone gets a chance to poke the freak! Watch him curse website entities with abandon! With bonus occasional Spanish outbursts and phonetic spelling.
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On Real America: 'Robin Hood' and 'Elm Street': Main Street Goes to the Movies
Haley can probably do just fine with his the lifetime supply of residuals from New Line Cinema. He gets a cut of merchandise too, which will continue long after the death of NLC. (heh)
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On Horror Chick: Do Not See 'The Human Centipede' Unless You Are a Sick, Sick Puppy, And Even Then Reconsider
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
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On Horror Chick: Do Not See 'The Human Centipede' Unless You Are a Sick, Sick Puppy, And Even Then Reconsider
False: Asians always get the backseat.
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On Gabriel Snyder Now Executive Editor of 'Newsweek' Digital
For a second I got excited...but then I realized this wasn't about Gabe Delahayne. Sorry.
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On The Michael Vick Challenge
I'm late to the party, but this was really a superbly written article -- in fact the only thoughtful piece I've read about him lately. I'm midway through Jim Gourant's amazing book The Lost Dogs ("Michael Vick's Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue & Redemption"), and I just can't resist giving a pull-quote:
"[The informant] said that all of the dogs that didn't die from being hanged were drowned, except one. As that dog lay on the ground, fighting for air, Quanis Phillips grabbed its front legs, and Michael Vick grabbed its hind legs. They swung the dog over their head like a jump rope then slammed it to the ground. The first impact didn't kill it. So Phillips and Vick slammed it again. The two men kept at it, alternating back and forth, pounding the creature against the ground, until at last, the little red dog was dead."