“The Atlantic” Invites You to Solve Over 60 Years of Ceaseless Conflict From the Comfort of Your Own Home
For all those back seat negotiators who, during the Camp David Accords looked at Jimmy Carter and at Menachim Begnin and Anwar Sadat’s shared Nobel Peace Prize (yeah, we’re in the WABAC Machine…
Obama Stingily Just Using Old Hanukkah Greeting Year After Year
Around about this time of year, it’s difficult for us Gentiles to understand what’s going on in the Jewish community. Unlike our totally reasonable practice of celebrating the birth of the God-King Jesus…
Jerry Seinfeld…is less funny in print!
After they ran Tuesday’s opinion piece about the overuse of the word “Really” in disbelief, Jerry Seinfeld wrote in to The New York Times to defend the word’s use, and specifically its regular appearance…
Denis Leary Hijacked “The Daily Show” Last Night, And It Was Awesome
Jon Stewart has gotten into a trend of having extended Daily Show interviews that get split into two parts, one that runs on television when the show airs, and one that exists only digitally…
Yes, That Was The National In The Credits of ‘Game of Thrones’ On Sunday
If you watched Game of Thrones penultimate episode of its second season this past Sunday (and frankly, if you didn’t, who really cares about you?) you may have heard a familiar deep-throated singing…
Finally, We Can See What The X-Men Would Be As Hipsters
What if Rogue wasn’t a jacked 30-something in spandex who flew through the air and could suck out a person’s soul (or whatever you wanna call it) with her touch? What if she…
Watch A Sluiced Bill Murray Talk for 3 Minutes About ‘Moonrise Kingdom’, Pants
While we’re still waiting to find out if Bill Murray is even going to be in Dan Akroyd’s hypothetical Ghostbusters 3 movie, we at least know he’s still going strong in things that…
Counterpoint: ‘Girls’ Might Not Be Racist, But You’re Not Wrong For Saying It Is
On Monday, my fearless editor called the Internet out over the running debate over Lena Dunham’s show Girls in his article “The show ‘Girls’ isn’t racist; you are.” Sure, it may be a…
Woody Allen Finally Makes A Movie About Neurotic Americans in a European Country
If there’s one geographical place that we associate with Woody Allen, it’s New York City. This is a guy who can’t be asked to pick up his own Oscar statue because he’s too…
Maybe Josh Ritter is Responsible for Our Cultural Decline
I’ve been a big fan of Josh Ritter since I first heard “Lillian, Egypt” on The Hype Machine years and years ago. He represents something of a confluence of genres–bluegrass, folk, rock–that has steadily…