Gay marriage is now legal in Washington, D.C., and Mexico City. It’s a time that makes it easy to be proud about being married. (Or to get legally married, if you haven’t already been able to do so yet.) To all of you couples now eligible for tax breaks and a bureaucratically-recognized thing for one [...]
Terry Gross accidentally made Tracy Morgan cry, but listening to it again, rather than being the funniest and most touching thing ever, it sounds like Morgan was being bullied. Gross seemed unfazed by his vulnerability, and poked at his frailness with something approaching a dumbstruck disbelief, until it cracked him. Gross expected him to be [...]
Let the record state that October 30, 2009, is the day that the Cosby sweater began to unravel, stitch by stitch, slowly unveiling the post-apocalyptic, Charlton Hestonian dystopia that is: COMPUTERWORLD. At least in Bob Garfield’s head. In the middle of an otherwise sane conversation about computer programs that construct news stories as search engine [...]
My birthday is in two weeks. I’ll be 25 years old. At this point, there aren’t very many things that make me feel old. On the Media found a way, though. In this week’s all-music episode, the first segment points out that Napster started 10 years ago. I remember using my limited computer time at [...]
There’s this song, “The Gift,” by the Velvet Underground. It’s John Cale reading a short story about a guy shipping himself across the country to his girlfriend, while the rest of the Velvets jam on an instrumental number that sounds like Booker T. and the MG’s from Hell. What’s notable about the song, other than [...]
I’m tempted to tell you to skip most of this week’s episode and fast forward to about the last 45 seconds because there’s a lot to learn from Bob’s sign off this week. For example, the show this week was edited “more or less by me [Bob]“. In a year and a half of dedicated [...]
Happy Independence day, media fans. I hope you all had a good time barbecuing, swimming, being off work and blowing things up. We had an excellent weekend full of all of those things. Sadly, the party’s over now, and it’s back to work. Recap time! This week, Brooke and Bob pull an Adam and Jamie [...]
We’re about two weeks into being homeowners, and we’re still without internet at home. Sort of. Right now, I’ve got myself tucked away in a corner, sniffing out whatever dregs of internet seep out unprotected from the neighbors’ houses. We’ve been trying to unpack, but the thing is, most of our boxes are packed tigher [...]
Senator Chuck Grassley and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin: A match made in GOP Heaven.
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New York Governor Paterson Makes Rumors Fun Again
New York Governor David Paterson is dealing with rumors that he’s about to be accused of something bad – he’s already admitted ‘marital infidelity’ and cocaine use. The rumors are going crazy, and much like with Britney Spears, we think we know, but we don’t know. It’s gotten to the point that the rumors themselves [...]