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Yesterday was National Pretzel Day, and while we scoured New York City from one pretzel cart to the next, we wondered what kinds of pretzels we might find if we hit the road. Shortly thereafter we overdosed on pretzels and spent the following six hours lying on a bench in a daze while our stomachs [...]

As you may have heard, Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi (at right) was sentenced to three years in jail yesterday for a little-known altercation during which he threw a shoe at U.S. President George W. Bush. It’s kind of a bummer, and in a deliciously Kafka-esque way says a lot about the humorless nature of bureaucracy. [...]

Another week has gone by and another slate of listicles we can barely keep up with has been published. Even with the addition of our list-submitting service, The Listocracy (start submitting lists today!), we’ve been unable to cover the Interweb’s perpetual cycle of lists. In this edition of our list-of-lists survey, Weekly Wednesdays, we chronicle [...]

Are you still reeling from 8 years of abuse and unjust treatment? Has the warm light of Obama not completely thawed the icy grip of the Bush years on your fragile heart? Fear not, political trauma expert Emily Bracken has a listicle to ease you into a healthier mental state. Her 12 Steps to Bush [...]

Yes, presidential facts on Presidents’ Day can be fun, but they can also be devastatingly terrifying. Like presidents, some are remembered fondly (or at least benignly), while others are downright shameful. Atlantic Monthly has put together a helpful map-shaped graphic to remind us how bad the last 8 years were with these 50 Bush Years [...]

As we transition into an era of high White House approval ratings and slightly healthier national pride, lampooning our new President becomes a more difficult proposition. With George W. Bush a simple headshot was enough to get some laughs, but with Barack Obama satiristas and editorial cartoonists have their work cut out for them. Keeping [...]

For only the second time in these soon-to-be-over aughts, America had two different presidents in one week, giving the Interweb twice the fodder for more-or-less political list-making. Parsing through our online colleagues’ output for our weekly catch-up listicle Weekly Wednesdays, we came across a sampling of the most obscure policy points, tangential pop cultural tie-ins, [...]

Long before we attempted to read an entire article in Harper’s Magazine (something we still seldom attempt) we were fond devotees of Harper’s Index. The informative, funny, clinical to the point of almost being sarcastic compilations of facts and stats always give us something to throw out during our next social engagement.
Their latest index, a [...]

The devout defenders of democracy (often by way of satire) over at Wonkette entered the fray of blogs posting Bush retrospectives last night with their rebuttal to a non-satirical Weekly Standard piece entitled “Bush’s Achievements: Ten things the president got right.”
Wonkette and The Weekly Standard highlight the same ten Bush policy points, but for obvious [...]

A few days back we informed you, dear readers, of some of the best briefcases to sport in these times of increased workplace mobility. Unfortunately, after sporting our much-adored bacon briefcase for a few days we noticed that people were rather taken aback by the strict business look of our bag.
Then it hit us, like [...]