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Life In These United States

Hamilton Nolan · 09/15/08 09:50AM

Online slogan-it-yourself trinket purveyor Cafe Press says it can predict the outcome of the presidential election by tracking the popularity of each candidate's merchandise. Currently it's a tie. But doesn't the availability of "Todd Palin for Second Dude" thongs mean we're all winners? [NYT]

Valley Residents Behaving Badly

confonz · 05/03/07 02:55PM

CONFONZ — Time was, we used-ta-could out homosexuals on the front page of the tabloids. Time was, revealing people's short comings in public was a lucrative business. Time was, fat bastards could be eviscerated in public without care or thought paid to their feelings and constitutions. Times change. Thus, the ConFonz presents his quick bullet points of notable Valley residents and the gossip surrounding them. Ah, bullet points: when you just don't care enough to write up a full entry. After the jump, some silly gossip.