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Today is St. Patrick’s Day, which means that most of us will be spending a small fortune (or at least more than on most normal days) on the following things: beer, green beer, whiskey, lap-dances from leprechauns, and all sorts of silly St. Patrick’s Day memorabilia that isn’t even  remotely Irish we really don’t need. [...]

To be honest, we are all a little surprised by the longevity of the bacon meme. After all, our appetite for the stuff rarely lasts longer than an hour or so, yet here we are deep into the second year of bacon-related madness, still craving the stuff. And not just in the places where you’d [...]

In our time we’ve bought into some very short-lived trends, crazes and fears, like our two-dozen pairs of Y2K socks, the avian flu ashtrays and, way back in the day, Soviet-proof tents. At any rate, we’re determined not to get suckered into buying a bunch of branded crap with this whole swine flu thing. But, [...]

The 42nd President of the United States of America celebrates his 63rd birthday today, perhaps you’ve heard of him? William Jefferson Clinton managed to remain one of the most popular Presidents during his time in office despite certain unmentionable scandals, and has only become more beloved since. After leaving office he single-handedly gentrified Harlem, and [...]

If you were outraged by the sums dolled out as bonuses to AIG and Merrill Lynch employees, then you’ll likely feel similarly offended by the annual salaries of some medium- to high-profile politicians. Like Brian Cowen (seen on T-shirts at right), the current Taoiseach (a fancy word for head of government) of Ireland, who makes [...]

For a long time growing up, we had a Chicago Bulls trash can in our room. We didn’t live anywhere near Chicago, but Jordan had just come out of retirement, the Bulls had Pippen and Rodman and were generally unbeatable, and everybody everywhere was overdosing on the team’s merchandise. Then one day it dawned on [...]

We remember obsessively checking Fox’s now-defunct auction website to see how much a seat from the X-Men’s airplane was going for. We’re not sure what price it ended up fetching, but our bid of $26.95 sure didn’t last long. Clearly, though, that was just small peanuts compared to the prices some folks pay for a [...]

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, [...]

It’s inauguration day, the second sort-of holiday in a row for many Americans, and as with every festive occasion in our great land, it’s a perfect occasion to peddle completely useless gifts. Over the last few days we’ve witnessed a veritable internet groundswell of items about Barack Obama memorabilia (hereafter “Obamarabilia” for short). In a [...]