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Adrian Chen · 08/01/11 05:09PMMaya Rudolph Gets Bigger
Richard Lawson · 08/01/11 04:50PMJoe Biden Says Absolutely Correct Thing About House Republicans
Jim Newell · 08/01/11 04:45PMNew Infinity Math Is So Over Your Head, Just Forget It
Hamilton Nolan · 08/01/11 04:36PMYour Angry, Sarcastic Boss Is Actually Helping Your Productivity
Brian Moylan · 08/01/11 04:31PMKoch Bros' Group Being Completely Evil Ahead of Wisconsin Recall
Jim Newell · 08/01/11 04:22PM
Americans for Prosperity, the political action group funded by right-wing billionaires Charles and David Koch, is patriotically mailing out absentee ballot applications for the upcoming Wisconsin recall elections against Republican state senators. But guess what? The registration forms that AFP has been sending out have... the wrong ballot submission date! Good heavens, how could they miss such a "typo"?
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Hamilton Nolan · 08/01/11 04:10PMRick Perry Not Running Yet, But His Ads Are
Jim Newell · 08/01/11 03:39PMTexas Gov. Rick Perry looks to have a fine chance of winning the Republican presidential nomination if he runs, which he probably will, no? Just look at this "teaser" SuperPAC ad that his rich Texas supporters are running for him in Iowa. It is happy happy happy. Balanced budgets! Millions of jobs! Corn, being husked! Rick Perry will do all of these things for America, when he rules it as his fiefdom.
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Brian Moylan · 08/01/11 03:33PMMost of Newt Gingrich's Twitter Followers Are Fake
John Cook · 08/01/11 03:05PMFacebook Makes Room for Your Unborn Child
Ryan Tate · 08/01/11 02:54PMGawker Now Working Birthday Parties
John Cook · 08/01/11 02:45PMFor some strange reason, Fox News can't let go of this month-old post demonstrating—without naming him—that a figure in a White House photo was probably the CIA analyst who tracked down Osama bin Laden. Here's Mike Huckabee over the weekend: "Doesn't their name say it all? Gawker? What do you think of when you think of Gawker? Do you think, 'Oh that's the person I want to invite to my son's birthday party?'" Probably not. But for what it's worth, Gov. Huckabee, we don't really want to go to your son's birthday party, either. Mostly to avoid the dog-slaughtering.
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Adrian Chen · 08/01/11 02:42PMInsurers Will Soon Be Required to Cover Birth Control
Jim Newell · 08/01/11 02:39PM
The Obama administration announced on Monday that health insurance plans must cover birth control with no copays, among other reproductive health care services, as preventative care for women. The requirement will apply to health care plans beginning on or after August 1, 2012. The announcement comes just a month after Health and Human Services released a recommendation that sought to expand preventative services for women under Obama's health care law.
Republican: Working with Obama Like 'Touching a Tar Baby'
Maureen O'Connor · 08/01/11 02:34PMRep. Doug Lamborn likened compromising with Obama to "touching a tar baby" on talk radio today. But he probably didn't mean to use the racially charged term in a racist way, right? There's no way he missed the lesson from John McCain's "tar baby" blunder, or Mitt Romney's "tar baby" blunder, or Tony Snow's "tar baby" blunder, right?
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Hamilton Nolan · 08/01/11 01:48PMLike Crazy: The Sweet/Sad Love Story of the Year
Richard Lawson · 08/01/11 01:23PMKids Still Hate Rebecca Black
Matt Cherette · 08/01/11 01:21PMBack in April, the Fine Brothers played Rebecca Black's "Friday" for a bunch of kids and recorded their reactions. Not surprisingly, the children hated the song. But what about "My Moment," Black's new single and message for the naysayers? Surely they'd appreciate it more, right? Not so much, as you'll see in the clip above.












