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Dear famous actresses: Your plastic face scares me

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:35:25 -0400

“What the eff have you done to your face? You look like a CGI replica of your former self!”

Lay off WoW, GOP!

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:11:48 -0500

How inaccurate attacks on “World of Warcraft” damage a great U.S. brand and chill essential scientific research

Thanks to the NRA, teens can buy guns

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:03:46 -0500

Teenagers can’t buy booze, but thanks to a little-known loophole, they can now buy handguns

Introducing Salon’s first Vine video: The Bear Party by...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:33:00 -0500

Introducing Salon’s first Vine video: The Bear Party by Prachi Gupta

With the potential to produce replacement organs, 3D printers...

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:24:00 -0500

With the potential to produce replacement organs, 3D printers could one day revolutionize medicine and save countless lives. Unfortunately, this same technology could also be used to “print” deadly viruses, meth lab components and weapons…

-“Will computers kill gun control?”

New York City’s first-ever micro-apartments will...

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:36:52 -0500

New York City’s first-ever micro-apartments will “snap together” like Lego blocks.

Caught in Spider-Man’s web!

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:23:51 -0500

Caught in Spider-Man’s web!

“I think if Tom Brady can pose with a baby goat I should...

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:02:55 -0500

“I think if Tom Brady can pose with a baby goat I should be able to pose with my shirt off.”

-Chris Kluwe, Salon’s choice for Sexiest Man of the Year

“I just look illegal”: SF Giants pitcher - son of...

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:12:51 -0400

“I just look illegal”: SF Giants pitcher - son of Mexican fieldworkers - wears anti-racism t-shirt at champs’ parade. Go Romo!

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Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:25:31 -0400

"Not true, Governor Romney."

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:21:44 -0400

Pumped-Up Paul Ryan Shrugs

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:55:06 -0400

Pumped-Up Paul Ryan Shrugs

“The FBI broke down my door with guns drawn and took books...

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:50:17 -0400

“The FBI broke down my door with guns drawn and took books and artwork… it was like something out of ‘1984’…”

-“Activist jailed for staying silent”

New Zealand issues Hobbit coins as legal tender (Wait a...

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:53:08 -0400

New Zealand issues Hobbit coins as legal tender

(Wait a second… is that Bilbo Baggins or Ron Paul?)

Big Bird joins the unemployment line (via @FiredBigBird)

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:46:22 -0400

Big Bird joins the unemployment line (via @FiredBigBird)

Welcome to the North American Wife-Carrying Championships!

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:53:37 -0400

Welcome to the North American Wife-Carrying Championships!

Political must-reads: Salon’s Twitter 50 It goes without...

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:27:00 -0400

Political must-reads: Salon’s Twitter 50

It goes without saying: This year’s election will be the most tweeted of all time. But if you’re looking for sharp, insightful, funny political commentary in 140 character installments, you have to look pretty hard. To save you the trouble, Salon got its best political minds together to come up with a list of the 50 absolutely essential election-related feeds. Before you ask, out of modesty we’ve deliberately left out our own ace political team: @SteveKornacki, @JoanWalsh, @koxinga21, @aseitzwald, @irincarmon, @pareene, @jillrayfield and @Salon_Politics. As for the ranking, well, don’t read too much into it — each one of these feeds is fantastic. You can follow the full list here. Check it out and let us know what you think.

“…Then neoconservative co-founder Midge Decter wrote...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:34:48 -0400

“…Then neoconservative co-founder Midge Decter wrote a whole book about Donald Rumsfeld’s “manliness.” In her book, Decter concludes that Rumsfeld’s secret is “manliness” (italics hers), a quality that in her estimation has something to do with being a grandfather and something to do with prairies.

But, unfortunately for the reputation of her subject, the tone of the book is anything but manly. She blows him warm kisses (“He works standing up at a tall writing table, as if energy, or perhaps determination, might begin to leak away from too much sitting down”), and warmer ones (“this was the stuff—no other word would do—of glamour”), and even warmer ones (“Oh, Rumsfeld,” a friend coos, “I just love the man!”), until poor Rumsfeld begins to melt…”

-Alex Pareene, “Donald Rumsfeld, the media’s original weird political sex symbol”

“Are you rich and want to get richer? Vote Republican! The...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:35:18 -0400

“Are you rich and want to get richer? Vote Republican! The stronger the GOP is in Congress, the larger the share of wealth the top 1 percent controls, according to a new study…”

-Alex Seitz-Wald, “GOP Congress really does make rich richer”

“Ain’t nothin’ wrong with bein’ a little...

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:59:52 -0400

“Ain’t nothin’ wrong with bein’ a little gay — everyone’s a little gay.”

-Honey Boo Boo