If you have not already signed up for NSFWCorp’s daily email, it’s worth doing so. Just not, y’know, at your office address: … The media at the Adult Entertainment Expo is a veritable sausage fest. Penis party. Boy’s club. Dudeopalooza. Brotown. Worm farm. I looked, to put it lightly, a bit out of place. And …
Open Thread: CTE MRIs
Medical science, in its attempt to spoil everything fun, has now made it possible to identify signs of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy via brain scans while the victims are still alive. Eric Loomis at Lawyers, Guns & Money: The news that you can scan for CTE in living football players is a pretty big deal. Ta-Nehisi …
Open Thread: Posturing for His Fellow Primates
. (via Paul Constant at the Stranger) . Yes, Rand Paul is a whiny little turd, he’s blatantly setting up for his presidential run in 2016, and he’s been informed by smarter people that if Hillary runs in 2016 he’ll get as much attention from the media as the evening’s “confused old person/drunk puts car …
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Early Morning Open Thread: Sidelined
Small blessings to count on a midweek winter morning, from Tom Junod at Esquire: I watched the inauguration on Fox News. I admit there was some perversity involved — I wanted both to tremble with outrage and to gloat. I also wanted to remember why I liked Barack Obama, and there is no better way …
Open Thread: The Eye-Roll Seen ‘Round the Twitterverse
. According to the expert professional lip-reader team at Entertainment Tonite, chain-smoker John Boehner asks professed ex-smoker President Obama if he ‘had a chance to catch a smoke’… and then adds ‘hah, sooooomebody wouldn’t let you’. As the female half of a long-term couple, let me assure you that Couple Etiquette under such conditions not …
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Tuesday Evening Open Thread: The Virtues of ‘Gridlock’
Celebrating the President’s new term is all very well, but Alex Pareene at Salon reminds us that rust and the corporatist-loving media never sleep: As David Brooks taught us last week, Barack Obama’s cunning plan to sabotage and undermine the Republican Party is to repeatedly force them to act as extremist and irresponsible as possible …
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Late NIght Open Thread: Congratulations, Mr. President
. (h/t commentor Mnemosyne) . . On a purely frivolous note, I’m glad Michelle chose Jason Wu to design her dress again — poor guy took so much hate about the first one, which I thought looked great on Mrs. Obama (as does this one). Neither one would have flattered Cindy McCain, or Ann Romney, …
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