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Why Rightbloggers Should Drop Benghazi, IRS, and AP, Focus on Umbrellagate and Bulworth

As the Benghazi prosecution appears to fizzle, rightbloggers have sought to replace it with a pair of new scandalettes concerning the IRS and the Associated Press. We think they show a disappointing lack of imagination. In the far-flung meth labs of the right, fresher outrages are cooking that Amer ... More >>

Real Housewife Kenya Moore Tells Me Why She's "Gone With The Wind Fabulous"

Kenya Moore--former Miss USA and current star of the Atlanta Real Housewives show on Bravo--is coming to Splash on April 4 to premiere her new song and video, "Gone With The Wind Fabulous." I interrupted my Kinky Boots-Fabulous life to catch her for a stimulating tete-a-tete.

Nomination of Republican Hagel Gives Rightbloggers a Chance to Reach Out Ha Ha No Not Really

Obama has nominated Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense. Hagel is a former Republican Senator, so you would expect Republicans to appreciate the gesture. Or you would if you lived in the earlier, simpler time before rightbloggers. In our current era, alas, nothing proposed by the Kenyan Pretender ... More >>

Sign Our Petition To Kick Donald Trump Off The Internet

The sun came up yesterday, so it should come as no surprise to anyone that billionaire "Birther" bozo Donald Trump made a complete ass of himself.In addition to making an ass of himself all day yesterday, "the Donald" made an ass of himself all day today -- and will continue to make an ass of himsel ... More >>

Rightbloggers Anticipate Romney Landslide, Denounce Nate Silver, Katy Perry

The election's Tuesday, and the whole political blogosphere is one endless screaming rah-rah for one candidate or another. We advise against all direct contact with it from now till next weekend. The preemptive victory dances of the left blogosphere are, as we never tire of paraphrasing Jed Leland, ... More >>

Rightbloggers Revel in Romney Rout, But Good Job Numbers Put Them Back in Tinfoil

Rightbloggers had one of their best weeks of the campaign. First their candidate, Mitt Romney, bested President Obama in a debate, and then the Labor Department posted a drop in the U.S. unemployment rate. Both events convinced them of impending electoral victory, as the first proved that the Presid ... More >>

In A Presidential Debate Where Donald Trump Is Referenced Twice, There Are No Winners

Presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama sparred last night in a 90-minute debate viewed by an estimated 40 million Americans.Regardless of who you think won the debate, the truth is we're all losers -- billionaire buffoon Donald Trump was mentioned twice.Of all the fruitcake reality TV ... More >>

Cannes Fetish Porn? Marion Cotillard in Rust and Bone, Sex Tourism in Paradise (Love)

Hot French double-amputee on bare-knuckle boxer sex. Fleshy Austrian cougar cycles between multiple young, fit African gigolos. Loglines of highly-specific fetish porn, or of movies premiering Thursday in the Cannes Film Festival main competition? Perhaps both, but definitely the latter: Oscar win ... More >>

Rightbloggers: Obama's Gay Marriage Move Means He's Trying to Win, Or Lose, Or Destroy America, Or Something

As everyone has heard by now, Pride Week came a little early to the White House as President Obama said, "I think same sex couples should be able to get married." He didn't push any legislation, and he said legalization should be left up to the states. But he is a U.S. President who has endorsed gay ... More >>

Rightbloggers: Obama Unfairly Uses Bin Laden, Jokes, and Slow Jam to Get Reelected

We're coming up to the first anniversary of Osama Bin Laden's demise. Some media outlets celebrated with cute headlines ("Osama Bin Laden Used Viagra And 'Just-For-Men' To Keep His Wives Interested In Him"). President Obama celebrated with an ad reminding everyone that he killed him. To rightblogge ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Criminal Charges Formally Dropped

​Following the death of top Al Qaeda terrorist Osama bin Laden last month, federal prosecutors today dropped criminal charges against him because, as ABC puts it, he'd be "unable to appear in court to answer them." There had been a criminal case against bin Laden for the bombings of U.S. embas ... More >>

Peter Thiel Announces 2011 '20 Under 20' Fellows, but Why So Few Women?

​Meet Peter Thiel's Fellows: a handsome selection of the finest innovators under 20 years old. And by handsome, we mean 18 of them are boys, two of them are girls. But is anyone really that surprised of the ratio? Probably not. (Back to that later). Thiel's 20 Under 20 were selected based on a ... More >>

Saif al-Adel Is al Qaeda's Next Top Bad Guy

​In the vacuum left by the demise of Osama Bin Laden, a man known as Saif al-Adel ("Sword of Justice" to you; other aliases include Muhamad Ibrahim Makkawi and Ibrahim Al-Madani) has been appointed interim leader of Al Qaeda, reports CNN. Al-Adel, who is Egyptian, was once a Special Forces off ... More >>

Rightbloggers Explain How Killing Osama Was Bad for Obama, America

Last Sunday, right after President Obama announced the death of Osama Bin Laden, we did a quick scan of rightblogger responses to the event. The brethren basically felt Obama had nothing to do with it and if he did, it wasn't worth doing. A week has passed. Which means rightbloggers have had time ... More >>

Carnival Workers Mad at Obama; Nation's Political Discourse To Be Taken Off Life Support

​A subset of nomadic amusement park workers have issued grievance towards President Obama for remarks he made during yesterday's birth certificate press conference. During the press conference, which was held to disprove a bunch of lunatics, Obama said, "We're not going to be able to solve our ... More >>

Barack Obama's Birth Certificate: Here It Is! But Something About It Looks Fishy...

​Kenya, East Africa?! It says so right there on the paper... (Haha, just kidding.) That's the birthplace of Obama's father, who shares the name Barack Hussein Obama, but was not birthed on August 4, 1961. Our president was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Shut up, birther idiots. Shut up, Donald Trum ... More >>

Donald Trump's Letter to The New York Times

​Remember when Gail Collins called out Donald Trump for being a totally not viable presidential candidate in her column last week? Did you think The Donald was just going to take that sitting down? No, no, no. This week he responds in the pages of the Times. He really, really hates Gail Collin ... More >>

Rightbloggers on WikiLeaks: Kill Julian Assange, But Not Till We Use His Stuff Against Obama

This weekend we got another fat load of WikiLeaks, based on purloined diplomatic cables to and from the U.S. State Department. As happened when Julian Assange's muckraking endeavor leaked U.S. military data from Iraq earlier this year, conservatives are outraged, and some call, as before, for the ex ... More >>

Andrew Sarris: Heteros Have Problems Too

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 4, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 5 Heteros have problems too By Andrew Sarris I am 42, going on 43, and I have never had a homosexual experience. Thus, if only by the process of elimination (and an ecstatically happy marriage), I must q ... More >>

Why This Decade Sucked, Reason #10: Social Media Ruined the Internet

​ We will, in the closing days of this wretched decade, list the Top Ten reasons why it sucked, starting from the bottom. ​Remember back in the 90s, when you loved the internet? When you saw it through a child's eyes, and clapped with delight at dancing hamsters, cruddy Flash animation ... More >>

The End of Poverty? Maps Post-Colonial Injustice

Birther or Not, Here They Come! Rightbloggers Work the Obama Birth Certificate Angle

As you may have heard, there is among certain people a controversy as whether Barack Obama was really born in the United States. They generally believe that Obama's certification of live birth and the confirmation of Hawaii's State Department of Health are either bogus or insufficient. When lawyer ... More >>

Good News For Haddock-Lovers: Some Fisheries Rebounding, Others Floundering

Don't eat him!​ You might remember the interview published here with journalist Charles Clover about his new documentary, End of the Line. Part of that movie reports on a study by a group of scientists led by Boris Worm at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. Using world catch data, they ... More >>

Birther of a Nation: Poll Finds Less Than Half of Republicans Think Obama Was Born in U.S.

Maybe you heard that top conservative magazine National Review dissed the birthers -- that is, the folks who believe Obama is not really President because he was born in Kenya or somewhere like it. But it's going to take more than that to bring this patriotic movement down! According to a Daily Kos/ ... More >>

Pirate School, For the Merchant Sailor in You

The three Arrrrrs: Maritime schools tackle the seafaring menace

Man Booker International Prize 2009 Nominees Announced; Jay McInerney, Jane Smiley Exchange Words

Daniel S. NeunerAmit Chaudhuri, Tina Brown, Andrey Kurkov, and Jane Smiley Last week brought the announcement of the Man Booker International Prize 2009 Judges' List, the official shortlist for the sixty thousand pound, every-other-year prize for "one writer's continued creativity, development and ... More >>

Roastarama!

Putting it diplomatically: No on Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State

Dead presidents in Africa and on Wall Street

New African/Jamaican Comes to Clinton Hill

Lip Service

Shopping with balmy women

Un-Veiled

The controversial critic of Islam retraces her road to enlightenment

Accidental Tourists

Doc treats Sudanese lost boys as feel-good fodder, ignoring their plight and their history

Cold Comfort Pharm

Postcolonial detritus and pharmaceutical devilry dominate a mature le Carré adaptation

The Good Seed

In 'The Constant Gardener', the suddenly ubiquitous Ralph Fiennes masters the art of diplomacy

Queer Planet

Two summer fests take a global perspective on LGBT lives

Rights and Wronged

Global fest looks at sectarian violence, teen labor, and—for the first time—the Iraq war

Iraq's Gravity Pulls a Soldier Down

A fateful path from Nigeria, through Brooklyn, to war

Edges of the Groove

Arguments against education, reclaimed punk rants, electropop with staying power

The Energy and the Ecstasy

Getting to Spring With a Credit Card and a MetroCard

Letters

Open Me

Finding beautiful boys, bordello interiors, and worldwide Jews in the season's most intriguing coffee-table books

Hooked on a Feeling

The 'Times' Records a Year of Bitterness

Mmm . . . Cum-Covered Dog Food!

Darkness Visible

A Summit of Their Own

Youth Demand Action Outside the World Conference Against Racism

Letters

Turning Point

The International AIDS Conference Makes a Commitment to Saving Third-World Lives

Distant Voices, Still Lives

NY Mirror