politics
People
Levi Johnston: Sad, Sorry, Suing For Custody Of His Son
7:45AM Foster Kamer | UK Guardian reporter Ed Pilkington went to Anchorage to interview the 19-year-old babydaddy of Tripp Palin, Levi Johnston. There’s audio and some fairly interesting insight from Johnston on the Palin family and his Vanity Fair article, which was “retaliation”. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Barack Obama’s Eerie, Frozen Grimace Will Haunt Your Dreams
2:36AM John Cook | This video from Eric Spiegelman compresses 130 sequentially taken photographs of Barack Obama with visiting foreign dignitaries Wednesday during the UN meeting into 20 seconds. His smile is immobile and identical in each one. It is creepy. More »
Online
Politico: Please Take Your Unauthorised Obama Info Elsewhere
7:14AM John Cook | Politico’s Ben Smith almost WON THE DAY with nice little scoop—the video of Barack Obama calling Kanye West a “jackass” during pre-interview banter with CNBC’s John Harwood. But someone made him take it down. Why in the world? More »
People
Jessica Simpson And The Tale Of The Dead Bitch
7:51PM Andrew Belonsky | Jessica Simpson hopes a coyote returns her dog. Bill hoped that Hillary would be Al’s vice-president. And Jude Law’s baby-mama hopes to make a buck. Good morning, and welcome to today’s Gossip Roundup! More »
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Michael Moore’s Predictable, Accurate Newspaper Critique
3:14AM Hamilton Nolan | Slovenly documentarian Michael Moore has a pretty good idea about why America’s newspaper industry is in the toilet! 1) Greed; 2) Americans are dumb; 3) Republicans. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Sorry About The Gay Witchhunt, Alan Turing
11:07AM Ryan Tate | The online petition is just about the least convincing showcase of political will yet devised. But it can still trigger meaningful action, like the British Prime Minister’s apology to the late computer science pioneer Alan Turing, persecuted for being gay. More »
Online
Google, The World’s Best Nation?
6:50PM Andrew Belonsky | Google was once happy to help us find things on the wild, wild web. The company has obviously grown past that point, but could it soon be saviour of the entire world? Possibly and probably. More »
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Holocaust Denial Finds Place At Harvard Paper
1:00PM Andrew Belonsky | Harvard. It’s revered as one of the world’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning. Why, then, did the university’s newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, run a holocaust denier’s advert after rejecting it over a decade ago? More »
Online
Chinese Government Closes In On Anonymous Commenters
5:30AM Foster Kamer | Hey, Commenters! Wouldn’t that suck if you had to comment under your real names? The New York Times reports today that the Chinese government issued a confidential edict last month: commenters on China’s news sites must use their real identities. More »
Small Screen
10:09AM Jess McGuire | What good is a successful reality television show if you can’t milk it for all its worth by creating Celebrity spin-offs? No good at all! So MasterChef won the hearts of viewers by plucking a bunch of ordinary Australians with big culinary dreams from obscurity and placing them in front of a wok, yeah? Well, if that’s ratings gold, just imagine how batshit crazy the country’s gonna go when they see Queensland Premier Anna Bligh chopping onions! More »
Anna Bligh Enters The Cutthroat World Of Competitive Cooking
10:09AM Jess McGuire | What good is a successful reality television show if you can’t milk it for all its worth by creating Celebrity spin-offs? No good at all! So MasterChef won the hearts of viewers by plucking a bunch of ordinary Australians with big culinary dreams from obscurity and placing them in front of a wok, yeah? Well, if that’s ratings gold, just imagine how batshit crazy the country’s gonna go when they see Queensland Premier Anna Bligh chopping onions! More » 
