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mmm that makes sense. it doesn’t come out negative from him and I hope I don’t sound negative not really, but not warm fuzzies either – i know what you’re meaning, but I’ve realized recently …
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CVS To Stop Selling Cigarettes. So What?
The way that CVS was praised today you would think they had announced a company-funded initiative guaranteeing the end of homelessness, or maybe something slightly smaller and more achievable like paying their employees a living …
Carrying Capacity: The Pathetic Wisp of Our Collective Attention Span
Best Albums of 2013. Best Books You Never Read in 2013. Best movies, best video games, best sasquatch erotica. Surely the annual “best” lists that websites, magazines and newspapers publish New Year’s Day intend to …
What Happened to the Stop Button?
The stop button has disappeared. Once ubiquitous, these buttons with the solitary but powerful impressed square were seen on every device from the Walkman to DVD players. If a device played media, it had a …
Wendy Davis Didn’t Lie
So this is how it works: The GOP is a bitter bunch, with a serious and well-deserved inferiority complex. They like to go tit-for-tat. So, back in 2008, when the McCain campaign was releasing attack …
The Next Crazy Idea From The Right That Just Might Work
A disturbing read by Salon’s Paul Rosenberg today in which he he describes the ideas presented in a conference call he was able to eavesdrop on that was led by rising conservative idea-man Charles Kacprowicz. …
Wilford Brimley
Proof that advertising and product placement work: One minute I’m sitting on the sofa watching The Daily Show, hearing Jon Stewart reference Wilford Brimley. The next I’m craving a motherfucking oatmeal cookie. -Alibi Pierce
Google Fixes Most Aggravating Web Feature
True to the headline at Slate, it appears that Google really did just fix one of the most annoying things about web surfing. Few things drive me as crazy as the sudden blast of an …
A Star is Born
As the Chris Christie “Bridgegate” coverage becomes more heated and more inescapable, and local Democrat senators begin talking about impeachment; as the full gamut of MSNBC hosts gleefully celebrate the impending demise of the GOP’s …
Paris Hilton Reportedly Signs Lucrative AC DJ Contract
Speaking of Atlantic City’s decline, America’s most hate-loved trashy heiress has reportedly signed a four-gig DJ residency at Harrah’s The Pool worth $100K per night. Not a bad deal for her, considering it’s a commonly …
Chasing the Dragon: An Ode to Atlantic City
Today, after 34 years, The Atlantic Club, the former Golden Nugget/Bally’s Grand/Hilton, closes its doors. In 1980, the then Golden Nugget became Atlantic City’s sixth casino to open after the 1976 legalization of gambling. Within …
The Christie Conspiracy Theory
On Wednesday, I wrote about the now inescapable Chris Christie bridge story. It had been simmering for a couple of months, but hit full boil status when texts and emails were released implicating top Christie …
Windows H8
Windows 8 launched in 2012 with a $1 Billion ad campaign, hyping the new operating system as the missing link between the endangered dinosaur PC and the computing devices of now and the future: Tablets …
This Week in Shoegaze
This is the feature in which we attempt to follow the Drone Subterranean Wall of Sound and Whispered Vocals. We begin this feature with the latest project from Simon Raymonde, core member of the pioneering …
True Detective
Late last night, Slate’s television critic, Willa Paskin, published a review of HBO’s True Detective that confirms exactly what we’ve known all along: The show is going to be AWESOME. HBO seems to have lost …
Christie’s Bridge
Back in early December, Rachel Maddow began to hammer on New Jersey’s governor and potential 2016 Presidential candidate Chris Christie for a burgeoning scandal in his home state. Basically, in September, New York and New …
Welcome to The Stoner’s Journal
Welcome to The Stoner’s Journal. Despite the name, this is not a celebration of “weed culture,” or a destination for weed news. We’ll leave that to the plethora of sites already out there providing such …