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Bella is a indeed lousy role model, but do we only care because she's a girl? Five terrible male role models in guy-centric blockbusters.

Scott Mendelson | Posted November 24, 2009 | Entertainment

As I've written before, whenever any movie not primarily involving white males and/or geek-friendly genres becomes a big hit, the moralizers come out in full...

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NASCAR's Jimmie Johnson - By the numbers

Steve Parker | Posted November 24, 2009 | Business

Sunday was a big day for record-making and -breaking in NASCAR. Jimmie Johnson placed fifth in the Homestead/Miami race, but he's Number One --- again --- in America's favorite motorsport.

Johnson has won his fourth straight NASCAR Sprint Cup title --- the first driver ever in NASCAR's 61-year history to...

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Jean-Baptiste Descroix-Vernier, Nietzsche, and the Rioters

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted November 24, 2009 | World

Undoubtedly Opinion, in its prodigious versatility, has already moved on to something else.

But just the same I want to return to the strange experience my friend Jean-Baptiste Descroix-Vernier just had -- he who was ultimately responsible for the Internet company that organized a "free money giveaway" in the middle...

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Not Miserable: Giants 34 - Falcons 31

Greg Hanlon | Posted November 23, 2009 | New York

Read More: Football, Giants Blog, Giants Falcons, Huffpost Giants Blog, New York Giants, Nfl

There's obviously a lot to take out of this game, both good and bad. Are we excited that Eli played like a stud for the second straight game and appears to have conquered his historical second half swoon? Or are we worried sick about our defense, which repeatedly came up...

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The Next Trillion Dollar Federal Giveaway to Mega-Banks: Shooting Main Street Lenders For the Sins of Wall Street

Howard Glaser | Posted November 23, 2009 |

Read More: Banks, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Main Street, Mortgage Crisis, Subprime Mortgages

I have strongly supported proposals to increase mortgage lending standards, on the theory that higher standards are necessary to restore borrower and investor confidence, and will contribute to long term stability in the mortgage market (see my post, here). But buried in the enormously complex Administration, Frank...

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The Harvard-Yale Game

Tina Sloan | Posted November 23, 2009 | Living

Read More: Football, Hardvard, Harvard Yale Rivalry, Sports, Yale

The Harvard Yale football game is a microcosm of how the world has changed in my lifetime and yet has remained exactly the same. I have been going to THE GAME, as it is known to its students and alumni, since the early 1960s when I was in college. At...

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Arianna Discusses Senate Health Care Reform On Countdown With Keith Olbermann

Huff TV | Posted November 23, 2009 | Media

Read More: Arianna, Arianna Huffington, Arianna Video, Countdown, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Health Reform, Howard Dean, Keith Olbermann

Arianna stopped by Countdown with Keith Olbermann Monday night to talk about the politics behind the Senate's approach to health care reform, including recent comments by Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) and whether Democrats can afford to settle. Her view: "Without a public option, there's no real cost containment. There's no...

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On Second Thought

Chez Pazienza | Posted November 23, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, David Broder, David Sirota, Jackson Diehl, The Washington Post

There's a good piece by David Sirota that's highlighted on this site and is making the syndication rounds right now in which he takes aim at the dumbing-down of America as a nation; specifically, he ties it to what may eventually be remembered as the most inadvertently prescient not-very-good...

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What Would Will Rogers Say Today?

Kate Kelly | Posted November 23, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Kirsten Gillibrand, Participatory Democracy, Thanksgiving, Will Rogers

"Short and sweet" seemed just right for a holiday week blog.

I found the perfect gem to share, a quote from Will Rogers, as I flew back to New York from Colorado where I'd been visiting my mother.

Humorist Rogers (1879-1935) once said: "Why pay to go to...

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Cindy Hampton: Time To Tell All

Lynda Obst | Posted November 23, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Cindy Hampton, Cindy Hampton Nightline, John Ensign, John Ensign Cindy Hampton, Tom Coburn

There is one mysterious thing about the John Ensign affair in Nevada. You know how there were lots of mysterious things about the Appalachian lies in the Sanford affair? The Ensign affair, with its $90,000 pay-offs disguised as severance from his parents to the cuckolded husband and wife employees that...

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Two Days of Joseph Farah's Thin Skin, Denial of the Obvious

Terry Krepel | Posted November 23, 2009 | Media

Read More: Anti-Defamation League, Birthers, Huffington Post, Joseph Farah, Max Blumenthal, Obama Birth Certificate, Worldnetdaily

WorldNetDaily editor and CEO Joseph Farah has a notoriously thin skin, regularly lashing out at anyone who dares to criticize him or his "news" organization -- which usually results in him making ludicrous claims about the journalistic prowess of WND. Farah put both tendencies on display again in two...

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Lincoln Center Theater Cares

Charles Warner | Posted November 23, 2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Lincoln Center Theater

This is a good Monday. I'm sitting at my computer listening to the new Norah Jones album I downloaded, I got my appointment letter for teaching at NYU's Stern School next semester, and I got a timely response from the Lincoln Center Theater giving me a refund on two...

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Baratunde Goes Mad Scientist on Twitter

Neal Rodriguez | Posted November 23, 2009 | Media

Read More: Baratunde Thurston, Hashtags, Twitter, Web 2.0

I bumped heads with Baratunde, the Onion Editor, and host of PopSci's Future Of, at the Gary Vaynerchuk book signing in New York City. Baratunde gave me a quick account of what projects he had lined up.

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Washington: Totally Disconnected From Main Street

Don McNay | Posted November 23, 2009 | Business

Can you hear me calling you?

-Mike and The Mechanics

Mark Twain said that when he died he wanted to be in Kentucky because everything happens 20 years later in Kentucky than in the rest of the world.

I live in...

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More Fraud in SBA Managed Small Business Programs

Lloyd Chapman | Posted November 23, 2009 | Business

In a recent U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation into fraud in the Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) program investigators stated, "By failing to hold firms accountable, SBA and contracting agencies have sent a message to the contracting community that there is no punishment or consequences for committing...

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Somebody Up There Likes Me

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted November 23, 2009 | Living

Read More: Home, Humor, Lifestyle, Relationships

After many years of determined effort, I've achieved a solid, enduring relationship with my roof. I wonder how many other Americans can truthfully say the same thing?

The roof and I have been together since 1993. I didn't have any animosity toward the old one. It was made of cedar...

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Great Artists Can Be Cads, But Can They Not Be?

Stanton Peele | Posted November 23, 2009 | Living

Read More: Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Laurence Olivier, Leaving a Doll's House, Limelight, Look Back In Anger, Oona O'Neil, Philip Roth, Relationships, Richard Burton, Rod Steiger, The Brothers Karamazov, Yul Brynner

I posted recently about two exceptional women - Hannah Arendt and Amy Wallace - who slept with gurus - Martin Heidegger and Carlos Castaneda - who despised and mistreated them, and yet the women remained in love until the day their gurus died.

But I didn't note another...

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Democrats Now "All In" On Healthcare Reform

Chris Weigant | Posted November 23, 2009 | Politics

President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party are now, to use a poker term, "all in" on healthcare reform. Some may immediately respond to hearing this by saying: "Hey, Chris, you're just on an endless quest for fresh, new metaphors to describe the healthcare reform effort, after writing about it...

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Thanksgiving Healthy Eating Tip: Slow Down

Darya Pino | Posted November 23, 2009 | Living

Read More: Diet Tips, Health, Healthy Eating, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Tips, Tips For Holiday Season

Worrying about carbs, calories and diets is one of the most unproductive things you can do on a holiday that celebrates thankfulness. Instead of giving you a list of healthy side dishes or tips on how to cut out calories, this Thanksgiving I offer just a single piece of advice:...

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Stay Classy, Danville!

Kara Vallow | Posted November 23, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Humor, Nancy Pelosi, Nigel-Colemen-Burning-In-Effigy, Tea Party, Teabaggers

"It was a mistake not to see beforehand that this would be controversial," said an apparently tone-deaf Nigel Coleman, chairman of the Danville Tea Party. "The general public didn't exactly understand what we were going after."
Yeah, I wasn't sure either. You see, when you decide to burn people...

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