Popdose at Kirkus Reviews: “The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin”
Joe McGinness' scandalous expose of Tea Party cheerleader Sarah Palin gives her a most unlikely gift. ...
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Popdose at Kirkus Reviews: Top 10 Favorite Tina Fey Moments
Taking a look back at 10 Tina moments that helped Ms. Fey earn the book deal that brought us "Bossypants."...
Political Culture: We Have Met the Enemy, and They Are Us
Can taking the vitriol down a notch really prevent another tragedy like Tucson? Jon Cummings explores the state of our discourse - and his own culpability....
Ten Years: Stuff We Didn’t Have in 2001
There are events, items and personalities that become so absorbed in the culture, it is hard to believe they weren’t always there. Let’s take a brief stroll down memory lane...
The Pop Culture Year That Wasn’t: Top Stories of (Fake) 2010
Popdose teams up with world-renowned CAP News for a look at the most important pop culture stories of the past year. February: Stern Gets Ellen, Kara DioGuardi to Kiss at...
Bootleg City: Take Me Home
Mayor Cass returns with an end-of-summer recap from prison and features a 1990 bootleg from Phil Collins's Seriously Live! world tour....
Numberscruncher: Mothers, Moms, Politics, and Palin
Although I have given birth, I don’t particularly like being identified as a mother. Even worse, I hate being called “a mom” by anyone other than my son, because that...
Bootleg City: In the Darkest Hour …
Folks, I have some exciting news to share with you — the Terrorist Dunking Booth is back! After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, none of us here in...
Numberscruncher: Wither the European Union?
Abraham Lincoln was born 201 years ago last week. He was America’s greatest president because he took charge in a time of crisis, a civil war that seems unimaginable in...
Political Culture: Those Condescending Elites!
Just in time for last weekend’s National Tea Party convention – an event which will be remembered mostly for the way Sarah Palin had her devotees eating (and the rest...
Sugar Water: When Chickens and Pigs and Foxes Who Are Married to Tigers Attack
So, are you done with all your Thanksgiving leftovers? Already looking forward to that Christmas ham? Then listen up, all you attendees of Jesus’s annual baby shower, and take a...
Mojo’s Cold Shot: Giving Thanks for Mojo Workin’
Each Thanksgiving at the Flucke household, we have a special tradition where we open up the mojo bag and drop in some new gris-gris, playing Dr. John and Professor Longhair...
Dw. Dunphy On… The New Internet Superstar
I’ll cut to the chase. It’s Hitler. Adolf Hitler. Yeah, I’m rather shocked myself, but it seems like Herr Fuhrer is YouTube’s latest viral go-to guy. The new black is...
Political Culture: The Palin-Prejean Connection
One of them reached the grandest stage in her profession by virtue of her charm and very-good looks, only to be judged harshly upon that stage for her ignorance and...
Political Culture: McCain-Palin Plays the GOP’s Greatest Hits
Last night I had a dream … of long-faded memories, and basic-cable infomercials: Voiceover: Remember…this? John McCain: “Who is Barack Obama?” VO: That’s right … they’re the hits you’ve come...
The VP Debate: Palinpalooza (Wink, Wink)
Jon Cummings: My junior year at college I took a creative writing class in which all the students received copies of each other’s short stories and offered critiques in a...
Political Culture: Sarah Palin? Censorship? Thanks … But No Thanks!
What a confluence of events this week! A few hours after this column posts, Sarah Palin takes the stage for what might turn out to be her one unscripted, real-time...
Political Culture: The Lipstick … and the Pig
John McCain and Sarah Palin enjoy a light moment on the campaign trail, between feedings. From yesterday’s New York Times: “Laura Chase, the campaign manager during Ms. Palin’s first run...
Pop Politico: “Swing! Swing! Swing!”
The current breathless “Sarah Palin Watch” going on in the mainstream and not-so-mainstream media is one of those political phenomena where the accuracy of her claims doesn’t really matter to...
Sugar Water: I Coulda Been a Contender …
My girlfriend, Aimiee, and I finally returned from China on August 24. It was a few days earlier than we expected, thanks to a summer wind that came blowing in...
Exit Music (For a Film): Office Space
In Mike Judge’s 1999 comedy Office Space, its protagonist Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) is described by the downsizing consultants as a “straight shooter with upper management written all over him.”...
Elephant Walk: “Hey America, Whaaat’s Happening?*”
An Open Letter to Hurricane Gustav By Ted Asregadoo Damn you, Gustav! I mean, how could you have the audacity to downgrade from a Category 3 to the Category 2...