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Tomorrow is Look-Alike Day, and we’re a little giddy about finally unveiling our Jean Benet Ramsey costume for the local look-alike contest. As we put the finishing touches on it, though, we offer a few cautionary tales on the shaky business of finding resemblances between people who really don’t look that similar. As you finalize [...]

One looks to the head of government for all kinds of symbollic strength, but it seems like it’s been a while since a U.S. president has actually needed to be a big, brutish manly man. That said, few hours go by without us hearing that we’re headed for times of unprecedented danger and difficulty, which [...]

1. It has begun: Sarah Palin launches presidential campaign. Her mission statement claims that sheadmires America’s “fight for freedom,” except if it’s for, you know, gay people. At least she’s, uh, “tolerant.”
2. Why are PETA and Durex throwing their money away on commercials that are too risque to broadcast anywhere other than the internet? Of [...]

For all our efforts to offer you, dear readers, as many environmentally-minded listicles as we can read, the greening of the Interweb is advancing at such a pace that we honestly can’t keep up with all the eco-friendly listicles.
What better way, then, to do justice to all the green listicles (”greensticles”?) than to dedicated this [...]

Now that the socialized collective year-end orgasm of popping champagne bottles of frothy fizz and massive fireworks explosions is over, it’s time for our weekly psychoanalysticle, Freudian Fridays. In this issue we indulge an urge we’ve been sublimating for some weeks now; we’re joining the trend of year-end lists by taking a Freudian look at [...]

Welcome to the continuation of this epic year-end edition of our listicle-of-lists Weekly Wednesdays. Earlier we looked at financial crooks, corrupt politicians and pop culture blunders (among others), now we look at some equally heavy, and significantly lighter subjects in the second half of Listicles’ Top 25 Year-End Lists of 2008.

Top 10 Spec Ads of [...]

The passionate ladies over at Feministing released a listicle today outing some feminist poseurs. Some of their entries are brave, others are obvious, some are missing. Like all sexual-political polemics, though, all the entries are conversation sparkers. So, behold, here are Feministing’s Top 5 Feminist Posers:

5. The Spice Girls: As much as their music was [...]

Those mainstream mediators at TIME have released their annual list of lists, and among the most fascinating is their hierarchy of time-capsule buzzwords. Their Top 10 Buzzwords listicle goes like so:

1. Change: The all-pervasive shorthand for Barack Obama’s campaign, uses of “change” in 2008 automatically assumed a time of hardship and a vague, knee-jerk optimism, [...]

Ahead of Will Ferrell’s one-night-only Broadway performance of his famous George W. Bush impersonation this weekend, Listicles takes a look back at some of the greatest politician impersonations by Saturday Night Live performers and alums.
Although he’s much, much taller than W., Ferrell transcends physicality to really bring the outgoing President to life (because most of [...]

One of the big year-end lists comes to us today from the rulers of all things online, Google, who released the findings of their annual search tabulations on their Google Zeitgeist 2008 site. The whole Googlegeist site is full of fascinating findings (like that New Zealanders are really into the new hadron collider or that [...]