Writing
• Wikileaks: Leak Me Something I Don’t Know (Huffington Post)
Newsflash, truth seekers: It turns out diplomats are generally diplomatic.
• Obama’s Birth Certificate a Poor Effort at Forgery (Huffington Post)
How dumb does he think we are?
• New Jersey: Teaching the World to Steal, in Perfect Harmony (Vanity Fair)
A string of perp walks turns Newark’s federal courthouse into a veritable Noah’s Ark of criminal archetypes.
A more serious look at why the recession is hard for the employed, too. Rush Limbaugh hated this one.
• Where Do Middle Eastern Protestors Get All Those Stones? (Huffington Post)
It seems Arabs may be missing out on a valuable business opportunity.
• Why You Were Unprepared to See Sucker Punch (Huffington Post)
A bad tag line further dooms a bad movie.
A commentary on what the quiet acceptance of recent gay marriage victories says about the far right.
• Airport Security and the Social Contract of Slacking (Vanity Fair)
Forget new security measures, Obama just needs to enforce the Rule of Slackability.
• No Buffalo Wings, No Peace (NPR)
The economic crisis just became my Waterloo.
• Translating Obama’s (Socialist) Speech to Schoolchildren (Vanity Fair)
A look at the hidden manifesto inside the president’s re-education message.
• The Mike Bloomberg Diet (Huffington Post)
Bill Clinton felt our pain. Bloomberg wants us to feel his.
• Swine Flu’s Next Stop: The Pantheon of Stillborn Pandemics (Huffington Post)
SARS must be rolling over in its grave.
• Michael Jackson Death Sweepstakes Winners and Losers (Vanity Fair)
His life was filled with people trying to take a piece of him. Why should his death be any different?