Frank Luntz, We Found Your Toupee
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Bill & Ted’s Excellent Vanilla Pudding
The camera adds ten pounds. Twenty pounds if you eat it. Forget the movie Speed, it looks like somebody needs to start taking some. Keanu Reeves Looks Bloated at Cannes Film Festival – Yahoo! omg!.
USA Out Of Foreigners To Kill
The New York Times reports today that amid the controversy surrounding the Obama administration’s targeted killing couterterror program, and in particular that program’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles, the number drone strikes U.S. forces have conducted over the past few years has declined: [L]ost in the contentious debate over the legality, morality and effectiveness of a novel weapon is the fact that the number of strikes has actually been in decline . Strikes in [...]
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Kim Kardashian Waxing For Two
Is it safe for a pregnant woman to wear that much bronzer? There are toxic chemicals than can seep into the amniotic fluid. Then again if Kim cared what she put into her body she wouldn’t be carrying Kanye’s kid. Kim Kardashian is pregnant and proud as she shows off her growing bump in [...]
The Ultimate Don Draper Pitch Is Don Draper: Seeing Mad Men Through Its Ads | Underwire
Every week, Wired takes a look at the latest episode of Mad Men through the lens of the latest media campaign of the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce advertising agency. A big shiny Clio Award to everyone out there who figured out what Don Draper was really trying to sell, and to whom he was really trying to sell it, before his long dark working-weekend of the soul came to an end. I didn’t. I’d taken [...]
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Sarah Palin has a crush
Sarah Palin, foremost critic of the ‘lamestream media,’ has found an exception in CNN’s Jake Tapper. “There’s something different, certainly refreshing, about Jake Tapper,” she tweeted on Tuesday. “I call it integrity and professionalism.” Palin was responding to an interview with Tapper on zap2it.com, the television industry news site, in which he discussed his coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings, the trial of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell and the recent Oklahoma tornadoes, among other [...]
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One In Seven American Seniors In Poverty
(Credit: U.S. News and World Report) Preliminary analyses of the 2010 U.S. Census indicated that less than one in ten American seniors live in poverty. But a new and more nuanced “supplemental” poverty metric finds that number may actually be closer to one in seven seniors when accounting for their out-of-pocket medical bills. The “original” poverty metric has been used since the 1960s. But some argue that it’s an archaic measuring stick, since health [...]
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Rand Paul Defends Apple’s Tax Dodging
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) vociferously defended Apple during a Senate hearing on Tuesday, as the tech giant fought against accusations that it used foreign subsidiares to dodge billions of dollars in taxes. The Tea Party favorite, who is openly considering a 2016 presidential bid, accused the government of “bullying” Apple and issued a personal apology to its executives. Apple CEO Tim Cook appeared before a Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations one day after Congressional [...]
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Chris Christie Denies Climate Change
Yesterday, Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) rejected the notion that Hurricane Sandy’s damage was worsened by climate change. At a ceremonial event to mark the rebuilding of the Jersey Shore boardwalk post-Hurricane Sandy, Christie responded to a question from WNYC/New Jersey Public Radio about how the state could have better prepared for the consequences of climate change : Well, first of all, I don’t agree with the premise of your question because I don’t think [...]
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Best of 2013
Originally broadcast May 17, 2013. Today’s show features highlights from 2013 with Paul Dooley, Eddie Pepitone, Rick Overton, Janie Haddad Tompkins, Jeremy S. Kramer, Hal Lublin, Mark Thompson, Will Ryan, and Lauren Pritchard. We are written by Frank Conniff, Guy Nicolucci, David Weiss, Will Dixon, Ned Rice, and David Feldman. Please subscribe to our show [...]
David Feldman is an American comedy writer and performer. He writes for Comedy Central's The Burn and Joy Behar's Say Anything on Current. He's also written on ABC's Roseanne, HBO's Dennis Miller Live, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and Fox's Talk Show With Spike Feresten. Feldman has also written for The Academy Awards, The Emmys, Triumph The Insult Dog Comic and countless roasts on Comedy Central. Over the past few years he has written with and for Steve Martin, Martin Short, Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Robert Smigel and Bette Midler. As a comedian Feldman has appeared frequently on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show and The Late Late Show as well as his own special for Comedy Central. Feldman has also done commentary for Salon magazine. Feldman began as a standup comic in San Francisco. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, children, three dogs, and three cats. In 2009, Feldman launched the popular listener supported 'David Feldman Comedy Podcast' which includes a diverse mixture of live and prerecorded content which can be downloaded from iTunes for free. For some reason Feldman spoke at Pitzer College's 2009 Commencement Ceremony. Feldman has won three Prime Time Emmys for comedy writing as well as three Writers Guild Awards. He is a Democrat who has written jokes pro bono for candidates he supports.