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At the CIA, Accidentally Kidnapping and Torturing an Innocent Guy Earns You a Promotion

John Cook · 02/09/11 01:09PM

The Associated Press' Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo have a breathtaking-but-sadly-unsurprising story detailing the CIA's habit of promoting the very people responsible for the Agency's most spectacular fuck-ups. The analyst responsible for illegally abducting, drugging, sodomizing, and beating a completely innocent man because she thought he was someone else? She's running the hunt for bin Laden now. The guy who let a prisoner freeze to death in Afghanistan? He oversees spying operations in the Middle East.

Somali Pirates on a Ship-Seizing Streak

Hamilton Nolan · 02/09/11 09:03AM

Somali pirates have seized a Greek supertanker off the coast of Oman—just one day after seizing an Italian supertanker! "Don't forget us, news media!" they seem to be saying. "Egypt is a passing fad." [USAT. Photo: Getty]

The Death Star Discovered

Brian Moylan · 02/08/11 07:30PM

These people may look like they're on the surface of Darth Vader's planet destroying laser, but they're really just workers completing the roof of Singapore's new avant-garde ArtScience Museum. Another photo is on the right. [Photos: Getty]

Facebook Buys Enormous New Office

Ryan Tate · 02/08/11 03:33PM

Facebook announced it will move to new offices nearly seven times the size of its current headquarters. Someone is planning on conquering the world, clearly.

Debra Messing Returns to What She Knows Best: The Gays

Richard Lawson · 02/07/11 05:25PM
  • Debra Messing just cannot stay away from the gays! This is what everyone will say about the new pilot she's going to star in, Smash. She'll play a lyricist working with a GAY MAN on a Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe. This is an NBC sitcom pilot all about a musical! So who cares about the gay guy?? Debra Messing could be doing this show with a ten-pound stinkbug and I'd be excited about it. The Debra Messing part could itself be played by a ten-pound stinkbug and I wouldn't care. (I'd maybe even be more excited?) Let's forget the Grace 2.0 stuff and focus on the fact that Glee has made theater slightly cool for a hot minute and enjoy it. [Deadline]

Eminem Gives Up

Hamilton Nolan · 02/07/11 01:24PM

There's a very good reason that our culture's most enduring artistic and moral icons all died young: because if they'd stuck around long enough, they'd have ended up shilling for sugary beverages during the Super Bowl. So long, Eminem. You were fun while you lasted.