Because I do believe I bummed some of my colleagues out yesterday with my early morning post on tragedy and media (what is this, fucking Hannah Montana? What the hell do you want to be talking about in the morning?), here is something that is pure sweetness and light. Behold the little Argentinian girl who …
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High-Value Targets
This is hardly AM fare–waking up is hard enough these days without downing a shot of awful news–but I, like a lot of people, have been sort of obsessively distressed about the news that CBS correspondent Lara Logan “suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating”, as CBS reported, in Tahrir Square last Friday. …
That’s Mr. Jackson if You’re Nasty
So you have to wade through a bit of this interview-preview, the parts where Piers is sort of doughy and weird and Janet is busty and weird, but it’s worth it for another small reveal of the terrifying (and yet, in some ways, wildly successful) parenting style of Joe Jackson. I’m gonna try this on …
Hosni Mubarak, World’s Worst Father, Steps Down
“I am addressing all of you from the heart, a speech from the father to his sons and daughters.” —Hosni Mubarak, Feb. 10 I don’t want to say that the concept of a father speaking to his children should be banned from all political speech. In India, they refer to Mahatma Gandhi as Bapu, or …
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