These days a lot of Paul Krugman’s NY Time’s columns are mus-read. Today’s certainly qualifies. Go read it.

MTV gives College Humor their own show

Via Ricky Van Veen it seems the College Humor crew is moving up in the world:
MTV is developing a slate of eight new “aspirational, enterprising and empowering” series for 2009 as part of a push to ramp up the network’s original programing.
Among them are spin-offs of “Run’s House” and “Rob & Big”; a show [...]

An update on the kid who was the naked baby on the cover of Nevermind. via Bartlett.

Jason Linkins takes apart the whole Obama/Church thing.

Yeah that didn’t work out

Foreign Policy is out with their 2008 Top Ten list of worst 2008 predictions (via). Everyone’s highlighting the #1 worst prediction, genius Bill Kristol saying this:
“If [Hillary Clinton] gets a race against John Edwards and Barack Obama, she’s going to be the nominee. Gore is the only threat to her, then. … Barack Obama is [...]

Turtle And Jamie-Lynn Are Dating

I thought the whole Turtle/Jaime-Lynn Siegler relationship on this season’s Entourage was a little far-fetched. Except it turns out that the Jerry Ferrara, who plays Turtle, is actually dating Siegler in real life so its not such a stretch after all. via
UPDATE: They broke up.

Nano War. Nice little time-waster. Took me a while to get past level 10 and I haven’t gotten by 11 yet. via

Kanye West says he doesn’t know anything about the “Kanye West” posting to Twitter. Shortly thereafter the “Kanye West” on Twitter disappears. Guess that answers that.

Far be it for me to judge but with all this talk about the financial struggles of news organizations maybe Time Inc. shouldn’t have paid $25 million ($25 freaking million) for 8 covers of People magazine. They paid Brad and Angelina $14 mill for their baby photos. Thats just stupid.

No, John Judis, you are not the only one who think’s the Politico’s chronicling of whether or not President-elect Obama goes to church on Sunday’s is stupid.

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