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Angelina Jolie's lips make it into 2.3 percent of all email traffic

Nicholas Carlson · 08/12/08 10:20AM

Angelina Jolie does so much good with her fame, she's almost like Bono, except her accent is more transatlantic than Irish. Or like Princess Diana, but alive. But sometimes, Jolie's fame is put towards evil use. For example, The Wanted. Also: spam. Jolie's name makes a lot of people click on emails. Secure Computing reports that each day, some 2.3 percent of all email traffic contains Angelina Jolie's name in the subject line. Think "Angelina Jolie naked," "Angelina Jolie nude movie," or "Angelina Jolie naked video,"writes InternetNews.com's Andy Patrizio. The 10 most common names associated with spam emails are below. We're glad to see so many people interested in nude movies featuring Barack Obama and George Bush.

Will Oliver Stone's Bush Movie Be Stupid Or Serious?

Michael Weiss · 07/28/08 01:10PM

Here's the new teaser trailer for Oliver Stone's under-anticipated biopic of our dim president's early years, W.. Josh Brolin plays the young, hedonistic Bush whose dreams of wearing tuxedo t-shirts to state dinners and not routing dictators are dashed after papa (James Cromwell) chides him for being an entitled wastrel and tells him to grow the hell up. Judging by the arch soundtrack ("What a Wonderful World") and goofy close-ups, we shouldn't expect too deep of a psychological investigation. The only conflict Stone's Dubya would ever call "Oedipal" is deciding whether to eat dog food as part of his frat hazing ritual. But if movie does turn out to be a cartoon, it'll be mildly disappointing because Stone's Nixon, though a seriously flawed film, took the surprising risk of rendering another reviled president as tortured in an almost Shakespearean way. It was Tricky Dick as tragic villain. Though Hollywood's resident conspiracy theorist's cultural influence has waned in recent years, his historical revision has become the conventional wisdom; see the reviews for Rick Perlstein's biography Nixonland, which makes the entire country a willing engine for Nixon's inner demons. Bad signs in W. already: 1. The casting of Richard Dreyfuss as Dick Cheney. He already played that role in Rob Reiner's Crayola-written The American President, and brought as much subtlety to it as the shark that once tried to eat him. 2. The film PR campaign's insert of Bushisms. 3. It's opening in October for maximal electoral value, which means there might be another breathless conservative campaign to boycott it, matched by breathless defenses of its artistic merit from Stone. It happened to Brolin's real father when he played Ronald Reagan in a forgettable TV drama. [First Showing]

Oliver Stone Turning 'W' Into Something Resembling 'Oil Fields Of Dreams'

Mark Graham · 06/30/08 07:20PM

As the clock ticks down to the planned (and totally insane!) October 17th release date of Oliver Stone's W, more details are emerging about the plot and structure of what we're still fairly convinced is some sort of elaborate April Fool's Day stunt. We've seen the teaser poster, and now, the Los Angeles Times' John Horn checks in on the film and reveals what could go down in cinematic history as one of the medium's most outrageous structural devices:

Henry Nicholas donated the equivalent of 50 tabs of ecstasy to the Bush campaign

Jackson West · 06/06/08 06:40PM

Broadcom bad boy Henry Nicholas wasn't just a surprisingly inept industrial consumer of drugs and prostitutes with a handful of posh properties scattered across the OC — he was also a Bush donor. According to campaign finance disclosure documents, he gave $1,000 in 1999 to the George W. Bush campaign during the primary season in 1999. Or, at the $20 per dose he was paying for MDMA, the equivalent of fifty tabs. Maybe that's what Nicholas meant by "party favors?"

San Francisco to build biodiesel plant at site potentially named after George W. Bush

Jackson West · 06/02/08 06:40PM

The California Energy Commission has granted the City of San Francisco $1 million to build a test plant for converting used grease from restaurants into biodiesel. The plant is slated to be completed by the end of 2008, according to hunky, slick-haired god-mayor Gavin Newsom, and will be located at the Oceanside sewage treatment plant — the same plant that a group of residents are hoping to have renamed after President George W. Bush. [Earth2Tech]

The Only Five News Photos Everyone Ever Cares About

Nick Douglas · 03/24/08 04:07PM

We know what the buzz is among the Drudge/Post/Times crowd, but what about normal Americans? We need some sort of automatic list just to keep tabs on them. Thankfully Yahoo has just such a list. As the most-viewed news site, Yahoo News is the news for tens of millions of normal Americans. The site's "Most e-mailed photos" list constantly cycles, but the photos always belong to these five genres:

The Top Ten Enemies Of Bloggers

Nick Douglas · 02/25/08 09:58PM

"They're toads," Tony Kornheiser recently said about bloggers on a radio show for which he is paid good money. "They're little toads. Actually, they're pimples on the behind of the greater body politic in this country and in this city. And because, because they have access to airwaves and three or four people read them, they think, 'Oh, I'm very important.'" Kind of like radio hosts! But enough of that goofball, there are nine bigger blogger-haters who deserve derision — not because bloggers don't deserve constant mockery, but because insulting an entire class of people always guarantees failure.

Joshua Stein · 11/06/07 11:40AM

In an article about Jenna Bush in Texas Monthly, the presidential daughter guesses what her parents are doing that particular "mild July evening." "[Dad is] riding his bike around the White House lawn. He's a maniac on that bike." Her mom is "probably in the sitting room on the second floor, reading. We got the new TEXAS MONTHLY, by the way." Reporter Skip Hollandsworth then spies on Jenna at a playground. "I sit in my car across the street, unseen, and watch her for a few minutes. She smiles at her kids as they run back and forth, then starts laughing at something one of them says to her. Finally I hear her shout, 'Come on, guys! Recess is over!'"

Choire · 11/05/07 05:05PM

"President Bush, right, smiles after presenting author Harper Lee, left, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony for the 2007 Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Monday, Nov. 5, 2007, in the East Room at the White House in Washington (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)"

Joshua Stein · 06/25/07 12:36PM

When President Bush stays at the Waldorf Astoria he special-orders Bologna sandwiches on Wonder Bread with Doritos. Salads are apparently, for terrorists, [FW]

Court Says Swear Away, And Screw The F.C.C.

abalk · 06/05/07 12:30PM

Thank fucking Christ for the Second Circuit. Those motherfuckers on the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that the FCC's ability to fine stations and networks for broadcasting obscenities was a bunch of bullshit. In a 2-1 decision (and fuck you for dissenting, Judge Pierre N. Leval, you cocksmoker), the Court ruled that when even dickstabbers like President Bush and Vice President Cheney can swear like asspacking sailors on shore leave, curse words generally do not contain the kind of sexual context which the FCC used as a rationale for their retarded fucking fines. While FCC chairman Kevin Martin pissed and moaned like a nubile Wyoming farmboy being passed around for cigarettes, we believe that the opinion, which can be found here, is tit-suckingly sagacious and eminently, taint-munchingly prudent. Nice fucking work, fellas.

Breaking: Giuliani is Disgusting, Likely Sucking Your Blood

jliu · 06/02/07 12:00PM

Second time tragedy, third time barf! Rudy Giuliani, on whose watch occurred the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, is, by all accounts, still running for president. Rolling Stone's magical politics man Matt Taibbi has been following the barnyard generalissimo around, and it turns out he's worse than the Bushes ("George Bush has balls, too, but even he has to bow to this motherfucker.") and saying inappropriate things to your kids: