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Ray Lewis: The Premiere Snake Oil Salesman in American Sports

One of the most intriguing questions of the NFL off-season is whether there will be further investigation into the allegations that Ray Lewis sucked Bambi's antlers. In American sports you can do just about anything--be involved in a double murder, father six illegitimate children--just so long as y ... More >>

Fall Arts Guide 2012: Art

Colin Beavan, Congressional Candidate, on Occupy Wall Street and Living Without Toilet Paper

Earlier today the Voice brought you news of Colin Beavan. Beavan, who calls himself a "newly self-proclaimed environmentalist," is competing against Charles Barron and Alan Bellone, amongst others, for a Central Brooklyn Congressional seat on the Green Party ticket. Beavan became known via No Impac ... More >>

Dog Soldiers: Rightbloggers Meld with Mitt over Obama Mutt Meal Story

For months, the growing probability that Mitt Romney, least acceptably conservative of the Republican Presidential contenders, would face Obama in November made rightbloggers moody and irritable. They've been coming around, but slowly. When Newt Gingrich's supporters attacked Romney's years as a c ... More >>

Time: Jeremy Lin Is Officially "Lin"-fluential (Sigh)

Someone needs to check the chemicals in the water cooler at Time magazine. And while they're at it, perhaps check to see if some sort of virus from their website has filtered through to Time's readers. Several athletes made Time's Top 100 Influential People list, the highest being Kicks point guar ... More >>

Oddsmaking: Will Mumford & Sons Upset "Rolling In The Deep" In The Grammys' Record Of The Year Race?

Every year, when I get involved in Grammy debates with my cooler friends, I tell them the problem with the awards isn't that they reward mass-appeal schlock. If the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences is doing its job right, it should be rewarding popular, undeniable, and somewhat unhip ... More >>

Obama Will Support Super PAC, Despite Earlier Opposition

​In a dramatic reversal of his previous stance, President Obama announced late on Monday that his re-election campaign would begin accepting fundraising money from Priorities USA Action, a super PAC. Obama had previously stated that, because he opposes the Citizens United ruling that makes unc ... More >>

Ally Ally Alinsky! Rightbloggers See Saul Alinsky Everywhere -- Even Among Themselves

Now that Newt Gingrich, newly amplified as a Presidential candidate, is regularly using Saul Alinsky as a club to beat Obama, the conservative obsession with long-dead community organizer has gone bigtime. Perhaps overexcited by this new opportunity to lecture America about one more thing that they ... More >>

The Top 25 People Crippling Scientology: The Readers Poll!

​You've watched us reveal all but the top five entries in our big countdown, The Top 25 People Crippling Scientology -- now it's your turn to vote for your own list! Here's the link you've been waiting for -- now go and tell us who you think is doing the most to contribute to the Church of Sc ... More >>

The Top 25 People Crippling Scientology, No. 20: Trey Parker and Matt Stone

​On August 5, we started a countdown that will give credit -- or blame -- to the people who have contributed most to the sad current state of Scientology. From its greatest expansion in the 1980s, the church is a shell of what it once was and is mired in countless controversies around the worl ... More >>

Barack Obama's White House Correspondents' Dinner Speech Runs Wild, Namechecks ODB

​On Friday, we talked about how Beyoncé's participation in Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" program showed how the Obamas were interested in including a wider (and younger-skewing) swath of culture in official political life. On Saturday, President Obama's speech to the White House Correspondent ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: September 22 through 28, 2010

Here Is Photo of Fabolous and Stephen Colbert, Just Kinda Hanging Out

​An augur of more to come, we happen to know. One question though: how is Stephen Colbert still alive? [Split Infinitives]

Ray Kelly's Social Life? Fabulous, Darling!

Daily Flog: Obama installs Rahm to boot up Congress

The Man in the Irony Mask

R. Jay Magill Jr. defends the Big 'I.' But with friends like these...

Pledge Your Saturday Night to Al Gore

Nearly 100,000 promise to see 'An Inconvenient Truth'

Events for Dissent

From protests to plays and films to forums, New York 'makes nice' with the RNC