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That Is Not How We Do Business Here
Friday, August 18th, 2006Dave Chapelle tells a joke in his classic 2000 stand-up special Killin’ Them Softly, where he imagines then-governor Bush taking the presidency, knowing only that he had a collegiate history of cocaine use. He predicted an addled Bush selling nuclear secrets for $20 and, taking the negotiating tactics of the addict in Menace 2 Society […]
I’m Chuck Kane Bitch
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006I like to believe that Jack Shafer never stops carping about the New York Times. He doesn’t write pieces for Slate, he is tapped like a babbling brook, distilled and posted on the web. Judy Miller, local distribution, the devolution of print, it all flows 24-7 from the inexhaustible resource known as Jack Shafer’s mouth.
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"The only people who call me 'Tommy' are my godmother and the mothers of girls I went to middle school with. And they do it with love."
— Tom Scocca, New York Observer
— Tom Scocca, New York Observer
"I be laughin', youngblood. It is still all about the fun."
— J. Michael Robertson, Media Studies Department, University of San Francisco
— J. Michael Robertson, Media Studies Department, University of San Francisco
"This Media Bitchfest is a rant worth reading. Informative, funny, and well written. I want to put Justin Young on my ipod and dance to his looney tunes. Very entertaining."
— Shelly Smith, Comedienne of The Brothel
— Shelly Smith, Comedienne of The Brothel
"Hey, your blog isn't shitty."
— Will Leitch, Deadspin.com
— Will Leitch, Deadspin.com
"[Y]ou belong in an asshole lab, where scientists can study the exact nature and cause of your infantile stupidity so that it may never again annoy the rest of humankind."
— mute_everything, MBF Commenter
— mute_everything, MBF Commenter
