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EA Promotion at Comic Con: The Second Circle of Hell

Non breaking news: <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/photoessays/2007/02/game-boys">The gaming industry</a> is still pandering to the 14-year-old boy mentality.

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| Fri Jul. 24, 2009 4:41 PM PDT
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Call Of The Wild: Cougars In Palo Alto, CA

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| Fri Jul. 24, 2009 11:47 AM PDT

Amy Poehler, We Love You Too

Is 35 the new hag? Amy Poehler's tongue-in-cheek shout out to <em>Mother Jones</em>.

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| Thu Jul. 23, 2009 11:12 AM PDT

The Onion Sells Itself to China, and a New Comedic Genre Is Born

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| Thu Jul. 23, 2009 10:26 AM PDT

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Interview: Sundance Film Lab Director, Plus Video

The director of the Sundance Feature Film Program discusses this year's filmmakers lab and the best indie movies you haven't heard of. With video from the lab.

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| Thu Jul. 23, 2009 9:09 AM PDT

How to Confront Rape Jokes

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| Wed Jul. 22, 2009 12:17 PM PDT
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High School Feminist Bloggers are Smart (and Punny)

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| Wed Jul. 22, 2009 11:38 AM PDT
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Is Hollywood Finally Going Galt?

Ayn Rand's <em>Atlas Shrugged</em> might be coming to a small screen near you...eventually.

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| Wed Jul. 22, 2009 10:25 AM PDT
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How Henry Louis Gates Blew It

Getting righteous on the cops was a rookie move.

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| Tue Jul. 21, 2009 11:23 AM PDT
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Music Monday: Scarier Than Manson: The pAper chAse

The Dallas fright-rock foursome's new CD is a solid addition.

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| Mon Jul. 20, 2009 12:04 AM PDT
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Music Monday: Barbershop Smackdown

Our intrepid crooner braves the harmonizing masses in Anaheim's international barbershop competition.

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| Mon Jul. 20, 2009 12:04 AM PDT

My Favorite Frank McCourt Story

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| Sun Jul. 19, 2009 8:09 PM PDT
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Dumbledore's Army

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| Sat Jul. 18, 2009 3:01 PM PDT
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Matchbox's Child Soldiers

Tween boys drive tanks in Matchbox's new oddly antiwar toy ads.

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| Thu Jul. 16, 2009 3:30 PM PDT

Books That Defeated Me

Ulysses, Bleak House, Moby-Dick...I just couldn't do it.

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| Thu Jul. 16, 2009 10:28 AM PDT
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Dear Nixon, Love Elvis

Tidbits from Elvis's 1970 letter to Nixon about the Drug War.

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| Tue Jul. 14, 2009 4:37 PM PDT

Apples to Orgasms

A British leaflet is advising school pupils that "an orgasm a day keeps the doctor away." Could such a program ever work in the US?

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| Tue Jul. 14, 2009 1:08 PM PDT

Quote of the Day

"Cannery Row has become at least thirty percent more schlocky and touristy over the last decade, but this is not necessarily a bad thing..."

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| Mon Jul. 13, 2009 11:53 AM PDT
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Re: Bing, Drum, Ford, & Jacko

How Bing got its name; Ford's marketing fictions, and other musings.

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| Mon Jul. 13, 2009 10:23 AM PDT
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Conspiracy Watch: The CIA's Bad Flashback

Were GIs used as nerve-gas and mind-control guinea pigs?

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| Mon Jul. 13, 2009 8:00 AM PDT