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Obama's Modest Proposals Drive Rightbloggers Gun Crazy

Last week President Obama, inspired by December's Newtown shootings, announced 23 executive actions, and proposed some legislation, to address gun violence. The actions are rather mild ("Require criminal background checks for all gun sales," "Nominate an ATF Director," etc.) and the legislation prob ... More >>

La Rafle

Broadway Musicals I Never Want To See

And yet I can smell them coming... Bluesies: A scaled-down version of Newsies starring the Blue Man Group, this show won't have any singing (the guys never make a sound) and zero dancing (they're always carrying large, cumbersome tubes), but oh, those facial expressions!

The Most Awkward Books To Read on The Subway

One of the many reasons New York is perf for bookworms is mass transit: You can read during your commute! If you have ever been on a subway or bus during rush hour, you will have noticed how close the transit quarters are and how tempting easy it is to eye other peoples' books and periodicals -- an ... More >>

Hypnotik: The Seer Will Doctor You Now: Mixed Signals

A new play about a charismatic clairvoyant comes in a little fuzzy

"Horrors of War" Playing Cards Available For a Mere $6,000

​For one of the most unsettling collector's items available, look no further than the new "Horrors of War" trading card collection. Cards range from "Atomic Bomb" to "Highway of Death," and cover every war from WWII to our current war on terror. You can also buy the signature of Winston Church ... More >>

My Five Favorite Movie Actresses

​That is, if this was 1969--and I'm not convinced that it isn't. (5) Catherine Deneuve She looks like a French Barbie crossed with the Infant of Prague, her hair never moves, and she's so wry and chic that she struck me as the most brilliant import since crepes. My favorite movie: the screwb ... More >>

Jewish Firearms Group Compares Bloomberg Gun Control to Genocide, Nazis

​A new inflammatory open letter from the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership advocacy group addressed to Mayor Michael Bloomberg argues that "'[g]un control' actually (and historically) means letting government, whether benign or ruthlessly evil, disarm certain sectors of society a ... More >>

Unseen Hitler and Eva Braun Photos Released

via LIFE​LIFE has released a collection of images from the personal collection of Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's long-time girlfriend (and at the very end of their lives, wife). The photos were confiscated by the U.S. Army in 1945 and preserved by curator Reinhard Schulz. They paint Eva Braun as a ... More >>

The Five Worst Politicians Of All Time

​Power corrupts, in some cases way more than others. Here, in ascending order of awfulness, are the politicians who've abused their privilege the most horribly, staining their records with terrible policies and crappy excuses.

The New York Times and Timelessness of The "Cat Pictures" Strategy

​The global fascination with cats, and the profit potential from it via the light-speed circulation of information will never cease nor lessen. Cat videos! LOL Cats! Cats being cute! Cats doing silly things! Cats being weird! Cats that look like they're smoking a bong! Cats that look like Hitl ... More >>

Mayor Bloomberg's No Smoking Ban Will Make a Naggy Narc Out of You Yet

Tell this woman not to smoke. We dare you.​Breaking: People who are smoking do not like to be told not to smoke. Particularly out in the middle of an open-aired park, surrounded by empty chairs, after they've been cast from bars and restaurants and their own homes. Particularly when that one c ... More >>

10 Offensive Things to Dress As Before You Reach For That Tired Nazi Garb

​Oh, Jesse James. We at the Voice are so over people dressing like Nazis. Here's a tip, JJ: If Prince Harry apologized for it in 2005, it's a trend that's jumped the shark. (Personally, I thought it was over in 1945, but then I've never been into the military look ... Grey-green? Not my color. ... More >>

Avatar at the Oscars: What are the Odds?

​The whole Avatarization meme, with Photoshop-savvy fans recruiting icons (Hugh Laurie, Lil Wayne, Angelina Jolie, John Goodman, Sasha Grey, Mr. Bean et al) into the Na'vi tribe -- peaked around Valentine's Day with the poignant spectacle of Palestinian activists protesting the Israeli barrier ... More >>

Chaplin's The Great Dictator at IFC Center

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​Kennedy Airport. Twitpic via sawyerlex. War on Christmas season swung into full effect. In a holiday spirit, the Staten Island D.A. tried shame on shoplifters. A GOP Congressman moved to read a pro-Christmas resolution into the House record. Andrea Peyser denounced the godless Bloomingdales ... More >>

Monty Burns wins mayoral write-in vote

​It turns out there's a constituency for selling Staten Island after all. If you spot him the votes for C Montgomery Burns, Charles Montgomery Bunrs and CM Burns, fictional billionaire Charles Montgomery Burns ran away with the write-in vote in last month's mayoral election with 27 votes (pdf) ... More >>

Driver/Funnyman/Rapist Erupts in Court, is Sentenced to Max

Torkieh Sadagheh was sentenced yesterday for the rape and attempted rape of exotic dancers whom he had picked up in his livery cab. As you may recall, a neighbor had compared Sadagheh to Borat, in that he adopted socially an obnoxious hey-sexy persona; unlike Borat, Sadagheh was not popular ("He wan ... More >>

Outdoor Smoking Ban Draws Fire, Will Go Through Anyway

The Health Department's proposed ban on smoking at city parks and beaches seems not to be finding a receptive audience. "NYC=Nanny State?" asks the Daily News, which given our trans-fat ban and fresh-air bars seems an almost absurd question. "ALSO BREAKING: New York To Be Renamed 'Pussy City,'" says ... More >>

After Obama's Hitler School Speech, Rightbloggers Go to "B" List of Complaints

In jurisdictions where it hasn't been blocked by patriotic intervention, President Obama's school speech is being viewed today. The President tells the no doubt enraptured kids that " if you quit on school -- you're not just quitting on yourself, you're quitting on your country," so they should stu ... More >>

Town Brawl! Rightbloggers Applaud Aggro Outbreaks at Health Care Meetings

As you may have heard, some of the town hall meetings held by public officials for debate on Obama's health care plans have become brawls. In St. Petersburg, protesters bellowed until Representative Kathy Castor left the meeting; in St. Louis, a health care reform proponent, Brian Matthews, said h ... More >>

Rich Old Miser Lady's Horrible Life Given Positive Spin by Her Beneficiaries, Incurious Press

​Once upon a time people who lived like paupers despite their vast wealth -- sometimes not revealed till their deaths -- were called "misers" and thought an unfavorable type of human being. There was for example Miser Steubendorf of East Tenth Street, who "was rich but lived alone and starved ... More >>

Annals of the Liberal Media, Obama-Socialist-Joker Edition

​Step 1: Design and copy a weird pop-culture-referent poster of Obama (but leave the usual Hitler and Muslim accusations out this time); Step 2: Put copies up in two locations. (You could do more, but why knock yourself out?) Step 3: Take pictures. Step 4: Disseminate via the usual channels ... More >>

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The Month in Politics, from Madonna to Hillary

Surfwise: An Alt-Family Portrait

Parenting off the grid–and eventually off the reservation

Letters

Price on Request

Beauties and Beastliness

Unclear Physicist

While Dubya plays nuclear chicken with Iran, Oppenheimer is the right play to revive

Hostile & Nasty

Angry brutes and tattoo artists whip you with the grease chain

Rack Focus

Film

NY Mirror

It's Not Only About Terri Schiavo

Barriers to Killing Come Down

Reich and Wrong

The Pastor's Tools

NY Mirror

Mugabe's Victims: Mostly Black

Charles Barron Calls It 'One of the Most Stable Countries in Africa'

Listings

The IBM Link to Auschwitz

Researchers Uncover Records of the Company's Work at Death-Camp Complex

Brecht Point

Rubble Indemnities

Music

The Nazi on the Bestseller List

E-Book on a Hitler Lover Lights Up the Net

Schooled for Scandal

The 'Faggot' Factor

The Chickens Came Home to Roost at Columbine High

The Dobie Brothers