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Gabriel Snyder · 02/02/10 02:45PM

Cosmo editor on her choice for the magazine's next nude Senator centerfold, to PopEater.com. Reference photo of Bayh, of whom White added, "We think he's hot in a natural, low-key, Midwestern sort of way," provided after the jump.

Barack Obama's State of the Union Was Awesome

Pareene · 01/28/10 10:56AM

Barack Obama's first State of the Union was not a particularly soaring or pretty speech. But it was really the model every future president should look to when composing their own.

Holy Man Killed in Drive-By

Hamilton Nolan · 01/28/10 10:02AM

Kabul residents say US soldiers murdered an imam who was sitting peacefully in his car with his three children. "After they shot him, they didn't stop, they just kept driving," said one witness. The US military confirms the killing. [WP]

Brazen Computer Heist Hits New York Times!

Hamilton Nolan · 01/20/10 11:50AM

How desperate are New York Times employees? A tipster tells us that a thief recently stole 27(!) laptop computers from the NYT's headquarters—and some think it may have been an inside job. The sordid details:

Sergey Brin Escalating War Against Chinese Oppression

Ryan Tate · 01/18/10 03:10PM

First Google refused to continue censoring its Chinese search engine. Now the company is helping a Congressman rebuke China's authoritarian regime for human rights violations. It all just confirms that Sergey Brin is by far our favorite top Googler.

NBC Finds Its Attack Dog in Its War with Conan: Dick Ebersol

John Cook · 01/15/10 11:19AM

NBC has drawn the long knives and dispatched NBC Sports titan and former late-night guru Dick Ebersol—who produced Saturday Night Live during the Joe Piscipo years—to strike back at Conan O'Brien in a New York Times interview.