Here’s the latest blast from Spanking the Donkey author Matt Taibbi, one of a handful of journalists still deserving of the title — and currently my hero.

While America obsessed about Brittany’s shaved head, Bush offered a budget that offers $32.7 billion in tax cuts to the Wal-Mart family alone, while cutting $28 billion from Medicaid.
“Now, [...]

Blogger Perez Hilton is about as odious to me as his sorta-namesake, Paris, with whom he shares a loud and burning desire to be famous despite having no discernible skills.
That said, nobody deserves what he’s just been handed: a $7.6 million dollar lawsuit for copyright infringement. The plaintiff is photography company X17, who claims through [...]

At this point, there’s really only one reason to tune in to Shill O’Reilly. It’s the same reason you don’t keep walking when two jerks are fighting outside a bar. The impulse to keep watching is the impulse of a true rubbernecker.
I’ll say this, though: he really is a top-drawer entertainer. You really believe that [...]

I’m not sure whether mainstream attitudes have really changed, or whether they’re just more nuanced and pushed further underground, but what I do know is that people who actually liken homosexuality to smallpox shouldn’t be allowed to operate a motor vehicle, vote, own guns/power tools, or use my oxygen.

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File this under “O” for “oops!”
Or maybe “n” for “not entirely credible damage control”.
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina: Part of a speech by World War II Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels was played over the public address system before a high school soccer game, prompting an apology by the home team’s principal.
Forestview High School principal Robert [...]

Nice title, eh? Welcome, pr0n spiders!
The Screech story has been tearing up the ‘net. Somebody flipped me the New York Daily News’ reportage on the sex tape scandal, and buried under that was this nugget about Paris Hilton’s drunk driving charge:
Paris Hilton could face six months in jail. The hotel heiress was charged yesterday with [...]

Taking a page out of Paris Hilton’s book, washed-up Saved By The Bell star Dustin Diamond seems to be angling to reinvent himself through the magic that is amateur pornography.
The interesting bit here is that his agent is actually admitting that the whole thing is a publicity ploy.
Diamond’s manager, Roger Paul, told a New York [...]

That’s what you get when you scramble the letters in Tie Domi’s name. Me Idiot.
Another anagram for the former Leaf enforcer’s name is “I Do Time”, which makes sense for a guy that plied his trade as one of hockey’s greatest goons. I think the CBC was saying he was the second most penalized player [...]

Hasbro has been releasing tweaked special editions of Monopoly for ages — Star Wars, Simpsons and so forth — but “Monopoly Here & Now” is the biggest and most exuberant sell-out yet. Say bye-bye to the top hat, iron and dog; now you can pick from a New Balance shoe, a grande latte from Starbucks, [...]

I can’t believe it! I just can’t fathom it! And I could never, ever, ever have predicted it!
Only a few years after Jay-Z, arguably hip-hop’s most overrated MC, claimed that he would retire after releasing “The Black Album” — and subsequently bagging buckets of free ink from the gullible press — Jay-Z is releasing another [...]