Fresh out of a stint as the resident atheist at the Presbyterian Grove
City College, Nick Douglas wrote the Gawker Media tech blog Valleywag in 2006. He is now a freelance writer, satirist and aspiring screenwriter. He blogs at Too Much Nick and Twitters as @nick.

Blog Entries by Nick Douglas

"That Won": Twitter's Wit on the Second Presidential Debate

Posted October 8, 2008 | 06:33 PM (EST)


JOHN STOP TALKING ABOUT FANNIES IT IS SO GROSS — FakeSarahPalin

My God, does he realize how much gas it will take to drive to the moon?! — michael

I was watching PBS, but turned to CNN, because they've got the "'tardometer" that tracks the responses of uncommitted...

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Sarah Palin's Letters to the Editors

Posted October 6, 2008 | 05:26 PM (EST)


Not only does Sarah Palin read every newspaper and magazine she sees, but a teenager recently hacked her e-mail again — the governor really needs to start picking passwords she hasn't recently birthed — and uncovered several memos to those publications. Some highlights:

"I was delighted to find a...

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Craigslist Robs Food From the Mouths of Journalist's Babies

Posted December 13, 2006 | 12:42 PM (EST)


The latest "Craigslist vs. the Newspapers" incident is making the rounds. The cause: Yet another group of businessfolk (this time it was Wall Streeters at the UBS global media conference) heard company CEO Jim Buckmaster explain that Craigslist's purpose is to help people, not make piles of money. Craigslist...

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What's In A Name? The Civil War Non-Story Story

Posted December 1, 2006 | 09:07 PM (EST)


NBC's decision on Monday to actively label the violence in Iraq a "civil war" triggered a rush by other media outlets to weigh in on the term and the relative merits of its use and non-use. Matt Lauer said that "armed militarized factions fighting for their own political agendas"...

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