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Obama's SOTU Riles Rightbloggers Less Than Jokes About Thirsty Marco Rubio

Last Tuesday was the State of the Union address, in which the President laid out a bunch of plans and Republicans denounced them. Rightbloggers got into this with the aplomb you'd expect. But when rising GOP star Marco Rubio had a comical moment in his official Republican response, and people had ... More >>

Does Sex Lead to Love?

Bow chicka wow wowzer: a new study suggests that sex can lead to love. Yes, you read that correctly. As Jezebel's insightful Lindy West explains, researchers mapped the parts of the brain "stimulated by feelings of love and by feelings of sexual arousal." What they found? As per MSNBC: "What t ... More >>

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U.S. Soldier Shoots Afghan Civilians; Two Children Found Dead In Bronx, Brooklyn; Japan Mourns At One Year Anniversary Of Quake, Tsunami

A U.S. soldier killed 16 Afghan civilians in their homes when he walked off base. Following the attack he turned himself in. The reports of the number of casualties have been varied. In addition to the at least 16 dead, five were wounded. The victims include girls aged 6 or younger. "We don't know w ... More >>

Army Officers Killed Over Quran Burnings In Afghanistan; Occupy Town Square Set For Tompkins Square Park Today; Subway System Sees Injury, Death

Two U.S. Army officers were killed at their desks in Afghanistan's Ministry of Interior Saturday by a junior intelligence officer. "We believe it was 100% linked to the Quran burning because of the religious background of this junior officer. He spent two months in a Pakistani madrassa," an Afghan ... More >>

Gingrich Tells Romney to Drop the 'Pious Baloney'; Which Baloney is he Talking About?

The GOP debates have essentially turned into a traveling theater production, and today's matinee in New Hampshire was surprisingly energetic given their late performance last night. After going easy on Romney yesterday, the other candidates tried to stick it to him during this morning's MSNBC debate ... More >>

Fighting Corporate Greed and Finding Love: An Occupy Wall Street Wedding

via Meg RobertsonMicha in her gown.​If the Occupy Wall Street protests don't eventually force stricter banking regulations or greater wealth equality, the movement can at least take responsibility for one love connection. Emery Abdel-Latif, 24, and Micha Balon, 19, met at Zuccotti Park in Sept ... More >>

Happy People Look Younger

Ageless, really. Sexless, too.​According to new scientific research, "happy faces" are the hardest to read for an accurate age estimate, reports MSNBC. Not only can smiles and laughs cover up (or camouflage) age wrinkles with happiness-wrinkles, smiling faces have "a halo effect," which means ... More >>

More Americans Than Ever Support Legalizing Marijuana

​Happy Tuesday. More Americans than ever are in favor of legalizing pot, according to a new Gallup poll that shows the highest percentage of those in favor ever, since the first Gallup poll asking about marijuana in 1969, when only 12 percent of respondents thought it should be legalized. Toda ... More >>

Farmers Forced to Fundraise After the Flood; Tainted Cantaloupes Kill 13

After the government turned down Mayor Bloomberg's proposal to test a ban on food-stamp use for soda, experts are now urging that the government conduct its own study of such a ban. [NY Times] There is now such thing as a foodie magician. His biggest trick? Guessing what your favorite restaurant is ... More >>

Letter Grades on Food Carts Not Imminent; Food Corps Still Placing Unhealthy Products

​Mayor Bloomberg is at odds with the Health Department over letter grades on food carts. He wants them, but with just 20 out of 100-odd inspectors assigned to mobile vendors, there aren't enough resources to grade the city's 5,100 street-food carts. [NY Post] Major food corps may have pledged ... More >>

Homophobic Preacher Sues Rachel Maddow for $50 Million, Claims She Overstated His Homophobia

Bradlee Dean, at right in his usual outfit, and his lawyer Larry Klayman​Michele Bachmann's favorite preacher, Bradlee Dean, is suing Rachel Maddow, MSNBC, and NBC universal for $50 million, alleging that Maddow defamed him on her TV show. Dean claims Maddow injured his reputation and fundrai ... More >>

Animals Eating Popsicles

In response to a question that has long racked the world's collective brain -- how do animals stay cool at the zoo during a heat wave!? -- MSNBC has a long-awaited answer. Tigers eat popsicles made out of blood! "It's kind of gross, but they like it," said Diana Weinhardt, who supervises the Northe ... More >>

European E. Coli Culprit Found; Taco Bell Launches In-Store Entertainment, Wi-Fi

​Newsflash: In-N-Out outranks McDonald's in a Consumer Reports survey. Oh, and chains like the Golden Arches and Taco Bell aren't as cheap as they profess to be. [Reuters] European investigators have traced the devastating E. coli outbreaks in Germany and France back to this likely culprit: f ... More >>

Solar Power Could Energize Half of NYC

​Yesterday, the City University of New York's graduate center in Manhattan hosted a "Solar Summit" where researchers and programmers announced the launch of the NYC Solar Map. The CUNY website describes the solar map as "an interactive online tool that will allow users to estimate solar energy ... More >>

Sarah Palin's Emails as Governor Coming Soon; New York Times Read Goldman Sachs Emails

​Maybe this really is the age of WikiLeaks. Transparency, hacks and secrets of all stripes are currently getting big play in media news, ranging from the travails of Anthony Weiner's penis to shady New York Times snooping and the Freedom of Information Act at work. We've seen the latter in the ... More >>

Obama Takes Firmer Stance on Libya; Radiation Found in Food Near Fukushima Nuclear Plant

via AP​Following a shift by Hillary Clinton, President Obama spoke from the White House yesterday to take somewhat of a harder line on U.S. intervention in Libya: "If Colonel Qaddafi does not comply with the resolution, the international community will impose consequences. The resolution will be e ... More >>

Al-Qaeda's Teddy Bear Stars in Clifford Chase's Winkie

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Virginity Is Hot, Lesbianism Is Hotter, and Some Adults Will Never Have Sex

​Teens are either having less sex, or lying about it more. According to a somewhat surprising new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics, the percentage of 15 to 24-year-old men who "had never had any form of sexual contact with anoth ... More >>

A Potential Article For the Tea Party Magazine

My, What a Teeny Hat That Patriot Is Wearing​The official Tea Party magazine, the Tea Party Review, is set to be released next week. They recently announced some of the stories they will be running, including "Obama's War on the First Amendment... and the Rest of the Constitution" and "The Lef ... More >>

Olbermann to Current TV, Which Is Apparently a Channel That Exists

​Last we heard from Keith Olbermann, he was leaving his MSNBC show Countdown, in something of a hush-hush move that probably had something to do with Comcast pushing him out. He was contractually barred from talking about it. Today, Olbermann is expected to announce that he is joining Current ... More >>

Keith Olbermann's Future: What Will It Be?

​Fiery Keith Olbermann is no longer at MSNBC, as you know, prompting a hailstorm of speculation about what he might end up doing, when he's contractually allowed to relocate. One report said he might consult and/or appear on an Aaron Sorkin show for HBO about cable news, which is interesting, ... More >>

Bloomberg Names First Chief Digital Officer; New York Times Readies Online Paywall

​Rachel Sterne, a 27-year-old child of New York City's burgeoning start-up scene and a citizen journalism early adopter, has been named the city's Chief Digital Officer by the Bloomberg administration. What on earth does that mean? Find out inside Press Clips, our afternoon media round-up. Plu ... More >>

Joe Scarborough's Political Contributions Revealed by Voice in 2008: What Took So Long for the Suspension?

​Decades ago, when I was new to the pages of the Voice and when my work actually appeared on pages, I was visited at the office by state investigators. They had in their hands a campaign filing by Al Vann, then a young and ballsy assemblyman from the heart of Bed Stuy. I was astoni ... More >>

Bernie Madoff's Boxers Could Be Yours, If You Are Weird and Creepy

Bernie's boxers. They're a size 40. (via MSNBC)​If "weird and creepy," or, "historically intrigued," or, "needing some new underwear" happen to fit you, you should crack open your piggy banks for Saturday's auction of Bernie (and Ruth) Madoff's duds -- not just boxers but art, furniture, glass ... More >>

Glossy Liberal Magazine Brings Keith Olbermann Out of MSNBC Suspension Slumber

​Keith Olbermann is in the hot seat this weekend with Deborah Solomon in the New York Times Magazine. Okay, so he did the interview before the mess yesterday, in which Olbermann was suspended indefinitely from MSNBC for donating to three politicians without declaring so, but it's still funny t ... More >>

Rachel Maddow on Keith Olbermann Suspension: At Least MSNBC Isn't Fox News

Rachel Maddow dedicated her final segment on Friday night's show to the Keith Olbermann flap, in which the Countdown host was suspended for making political donations, and said she understands the punishment Olbermann received. "I understand what it means to break this rule," Maddow said. "I believ ... More >>

MSNBC (or New York Times!) Now Just Completely Full of and/or Eating Shit.

This is fun. An earlier draft about the suspension of Chris Hayes from MSNBC before he even went on the air tonight, as reported by the New York Times: ​ The draft that's there now: ​ MSNBC has yet to get back to "bloggers'" -- or at least, this one's -- initial request for quote. [F ... More >>

Shirley Sherrod Wants Her Life, Not Her Job, Back -- Also, Will Sue Andrew Breitbart

Sherrod and Vilsack, via MSNBC​Former Agriculture employee Shirley Sherrod, who was fired over an edited clip spotlighted by Andrew Breitbart in which she seemed to indicate discrimination against a white farmer 24 years ago (in the full clip she went on to explain the lesson she'd learned aga ... More >>

Go Cocks? South Carolina Senate Candidate Alvin Greene's College Porn Problem

​This is what one gets in Carolina for trying to "share the love," huh?

Body of Famed French Chef Jean-Francois Poinard Found in a Freezer

Jean-Stephane Poinard/MSNBCJean-Francois Poinard​If you thought Todd English's love life was fraught, then consider the sad tale of Jean-Francois Poinard. The body of Poinard, who was considered of France's most renowned chefs in the 1970s and 80s, was discovered in a freezer in his apartment ... More >>

Joran Van Der Sloot Is Not a Nice Person

​I've been remiss in not addressing the case of Joran Van Der Sloot, the Dutch party boy who just confessed to killing a young lady, this time a Peruvian lesbian named Stephany Flores. Five years ago, Joran's name came up in the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, but the botched ... More >>

How to Follow the White House Press Correspondents Dinner on Twitter

Time editor Richard Stengel, Gayle King and MSNBC's Savannah Guthrie​Happy May Day! Or happy White House Press Correspondents Dinner Day, depending how famous you are, how closely you follow the high school side of politics or how much you wish you were famous. Or! How much you wish you were c ... More >>

Memo to Eliot Spitzer: Get to Work

​It's Eliot Spitzer in Surround-Sound these days. Between the book ("Rough Justice"),the movie (Alex Gibney doc, unfinished cut), and the big Times interview this weekend in which the ex-gov savaged his would-be successor, Andrew Cuomo, it's All Spitzer, All the Time. Which is clearly how the ... More >>

Queens Residents Get Exotic CSA Veggies; Smith Street May Get a Mickey D's

​Local and organic is everywhere in Manhattan and Brooklyn, but less so in Queens, partly because of the rare, ethnic ingredients used there. CSAs and Greenmarkets in Queens are now, however, starting to carry local and organic specialty foods, like tomatillos, ancho peppers, and verdolaga. [N ... More >>

Clinton Tells Off Kid Who Wonders Why Little Missy No Let Husband Be SoS; Media Harridans Descend

OK, everyone else has this thing so here you go. Hillary Clinton, as you already heard, told some kid in Kinshasa who asked (or was mistranslated to ask) what her husband thought about these international matters she unaccountably wanted to worry her pretty little head about, and the U.S. Secretar ... More >>

Booze News: Rum Gets Classy; Caffeinated Booze Bad for the Body?

​Jimmy Bedford, the former master distiller of Jack Daniel's whiskey, died Friday at age 69. Bedford retired in March 2008 after 20 years at his post in what is the oldest registered distillery in the country. [MSNBC] Rum is becoming more of a sipping spirit, like single malt scotch or cognac ... More >>

Women Eat Less on Dates with Men (Duh!); New York Cafes Go WiFi-less

​A new study shows that women eat more when they eat with large groups of other women, and that -- shocker! -- they eat less when there are men present. Women will consume about 110 calories less when they're on date with a man than if eating with a girlfriend. [WebMD] "President Obama's daug ... More >>

Vanity Fair Intern Survives Day 2 of Cable News Marathon

We thought he looked shaky in early rounds, but it seems Vanity Fair intern Thomas Kaplan has made it through a second day locked in a small room (he calls it a closet) watching cable news -- specifically CNBC, today. "5 p.m.--done!" he tweets. "Your screaming couldn't break me, CNBC! I will be back ... More >>

Pilot Dies Mid-Atlantic Flight, "First Officers" Flying It to Newark (UPDATE: Plane Lands Safely)

A transcontinental Continental Airlines flight, the pilot of which died in mid-flight and which is being piloted at present by its two first officers, in due shortly at Newark Airport. The plane left Brussels at about 4 a.m. and its 61-year-old pilot died sometime thereafter. Newark says it will giv ... More >>

California Supreme Court Upholds Prop 8: Gay Marriage Still Banned

The California Supreme Court has upheld Proposition 8, the anti-gay-marriage law passed last November. The vote was 6-1. The justices ruled the approximately 18,000 Californians married to members of their own gender during the brief window between the legalization and criminalization of marriage e ... More >>

Booze News--Jay-Z Has a New Bubbly to Match His Bling, Guinness Touts a New Stout with More Zing

Guinness has unveiled a new stout available for a limited time in the US. The maltier, fizzier Guinness 250th Anniversary Stout can be poured all in one shot, unlike the original which requires a two-part pour. [MSNBC] Since Cristal's maker revealed that he would rather not have hip-hop artists ass ... More >>

Hostage Situation in Binghamton; 4 or 5 Reported Shot -- UPDATE: 13 Reported Dead

Someone has shot up the American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York, hitting four, possibly five people, and has reportedly taken as many as 41 hostages. Mayor Matthew Ryan says the shooter has a high-powered rifle and the SWAT team in on the scene at 131 Front Street. The Association help ... More >>

How Adorable Was My Trash Talk On Countdown The Other Night?

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