The Jersey Circus: JWoWW Meets NotMe
The Internet’s ironic love affair with The Family Circus continues with The Jersey Circus. Yes, all captions are actual utterances from the Jersey Shore cast.
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“The American Combat Mission in Iraq Has Ended”
How beautiful to hear those words — spoken by President Barack Obama from the Oval Office on Tuesday night. We’re not out of Iraq by a long shot: 50,000 U.S. troops are still there. They’re all supposed to be home by the end of 2011. In the meantime, what a great step in the right direction.
Tony Blair Talks Smack on Gordon Brown
After three years of keeping mum, former British Prime Minister
Roger Federer Between the Legs — for the Win!
Roger Federer played a terrific between-the-legs shot — a “tweener,” as the announcer calls it — in his first match of the 2010 U.S. Open last night.
The Glenn Beck Rally: 80,000 or 650,000?
ASU Professor Steve Doig was part of a team that used high-def overhead photos to count the crowds at Glenn Beck’s rally at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday. Beck him
Barack and Michelle Obama: Helicopter Parents
President Barack Obama, with his wife Michelle (at top) and daughters Malia (right) and Sasha, returned to the White House yesterday after the family’s 10-day vacation in Martha’s Vineyard. All four made a stopo
This Week on the Who2 Blog
This week on the Who2 blog:
Paris Hilton’s Problem: Cocaine or Lip Balm?
“Miss Hilton pulled out a tube of lip balm. At the same time … a bindle of cocaine in a plastic bag came out of her purse” in plain view of police in the room.The Las Vegas Review-Journal on Paris Hilton’s Friday-night arrest for cocaine possession.
Yes, It’s THAT Eli Wallach
Our new profile of veteran actor Eli Wallach has just been posted by editor Paul Hehn.You look at recent photos of Eli Wallach and think, oh, here’s this grandfatherly old fellow who pinches babies’ cheeks and wears tweed socks and sits on park benches looking harmlessly at pretty girls as they jog past.
Nate Silver Moves to The New York Times
Political analyst Nate Silver has moved his excellent blog, FiveThirtyEight.com, to the New York Times.