celebrations
As News Is Ephemeral, So Too Is Life
Hamilton Nolan · 10/02/15 03:50PMA List of Things to Send Obama for His Birthday
Jason Parham · 08/04/15 02:33PMSarah Hedgecock · 06/02/14 03:10PM
Happy 17th Birthday, Fox News
J.K. Trotter · 10/07/13 12:52PMHamilton Nolan · 06/06/13 02:32PM
International Clitoris Week Is Just Around the Corner
Adam Weinstein · 05/03/13 01:05PMIn a world that often seems like one big penis party, the clit is a many-splendored thing—and a marginalized one, too. This locus of female pleasure has more nerve endings than any other human body part, but it still doesn't enjoy the cultural currency of your average wang. Maybe Clitoris Week will change that.
An Ode to the Humble Peanut, Which Sustaineth This Great Nation With Its Bounty
Hamilton Nolan · 11/07/12 10:40AMDivorce Parties Are a Really Good Idea
Brian Moylan · 06/10/11 04:32PMThe Celebrations of Osama bin Laden's Death That You Missed
Brian Moylan · 05/02/11 11:11AMHappy Birthday, Rupert Murdoch!
Hamilton Nolan · 03/11/11 04:03PMDo you know what today is, in addition to being a tragic day of global devastation? It's Rupert Murdoch's 80th birthday! No need to comment on any issues of karma. Born into a newspaper-owning family in Melbourne in 1931, Rupert parlayed a single small newspaper in Adelaide into a national—and then global—media powerhouse. Who among us can say we have not had our lives affected by Rupert and his properties? Every time you watch The Simpsons or Bill O'Reilly, read the Wall Street Journal or a London tabloid, or watch a rerun of Napoleon Dynamite, you are, in your own way, being touched by the News Corp empire. It's amazing and not a little bit scary.
The Incredible First News Footage from Liberated Benghazi, Libya
Max Read · 02/25/11 02:01AMLibyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi offered his own theory about the causes of the revolution sweeping his country on Thursday: "They [al Qaeda] give them pills at night, they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe." Indeed. CNN foreign correspondent Ben Wedeman (whose Twitter account of the Arab-world democratic movements is fascinating) and crew were the first to enter the liberated city of Benghazi with a camera, and witnessed firsthand the effects of hallucinogenic Nescafe: Jubilation, singing, peace signs, and, at least once, chants of "CNN! CNN!" [video via CNN]