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The Involuntary Transgender Dating Service
Hamilton Nolan · 01/25/10 10:16AMNotable trend noted by the New York Times news-paper: Transgender individuals often choose to change their names along with their sex. And New York City is a popular place to do so! The more you know. There used to be a law that name changes had to be advertised in the news-paper, which had the fringe benefit of helping transgender people to make new friends:
The Most Ridiculous Names to Appear on The Simpsons
Mike Byhoff · 01/11/10 01:12PMAmerica Ain't Giving Its Baby No Boring Name
Hamilton Nolan · 12/15/09 10:13AMRadio Shack Embraces Shantytown Image
Hamilton Nolan · 08/03/09 11:22AMConsultant Somewhere Fired
Hamilton Nolan · 06/29/09 02:41PMTalk Fashion the Fancy Way
Hamilton Nolan · 06/11/09 03:27PMWe know why you're not accepted in the fashion world: because you don't know how to pronounce the names of all those foreign designers. Don't be ashamed. Many people pronounce "Dolce & Gabbana" like uncouth Americans. Youtube can help!
She'll Do Anything to Save Money
Hamilton Nolan · 03/27/09 01:45PM'Freedom' Just Another Word For '8-Year Boondoggle'
Pareene · 03/27/09 10:16AMFight The Power Of Times Rap Name Discrimination!
Hamilton Nolan · 06/24/08 01:41PMRing the alarm: the paper of record is treating rappers separately and unequally! In a surprisingly fresh piece of analysis, the Columbia Journalism Review unearths the NYT's sneaky tendency to "birth-name" rappers more than other musicians. (They also coin the term "birth-name," which I like, although for the sake of hip hop consistency they should say "government-name"). That means, for example, that RZA gets second-referenced as "Robert Diggs," but Marilyn Manson gets to keep his stage name throughout Times stories. That is so foul! Government names are nerdy. Plus, culture editor Sam Sifton gives a nonsense nilla explanation for the discrepancy:
"Googlegangers": Don't Say This
Pareene · 04/10/08 09:38AMThis cute thing with the Googlegangers in the Times? You know, where people search for other people across the country with their same name, and feel some sort of mystical kinship, or something, because of innate biological self-similarity biases? Some people have funny last names that were made up out of whole cloth a couple generations ago at Ellis Island or somewhere, like in An American Tail. These people have no Googlegangers, which is a stupid word, because everyone on Earth with that last name is directly related to them and probably embarrassed by what's being done with it on the Internet. The closest non-relative these hypothetical people can manage to track down on the Google might be Dana Perino. So screw you, "Jon Lee" and "Jason Rodriguez." [NYT]
Radio Lady Calls Clinton Name!
Pareene · 04/03/08 01:37PMAir America host Randi Rhodes called Hillary Clinton a whore! Oh nooooooo outrage!! Rhodes, who has always been a cross between an outrageous stand-up comic and a naughty drive-time shock jock, has a regular show on the liberal radio network that no one listens to. The clip of her calling Hillary a whore was taken somewhere or other at some point in time and posted to YouTube by some guy. It's a scandal to those who need to actually pretend to take Randi Rhodes seriously in order to feel outraged about something. Also she calls Geraldine Ferraro a whore but no one cares. Anyway, Air America suspended her. Clip after the jump!