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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have to ask if there was something more timely to make fun of...we feel like someone got excited about this idea in November and wouldn't budge.  And we're all for parodies being a couple of months old, at most.  We should have felt more lame and out of touch for not getting it, and instead we just felt a bit awkward...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child | Title: Don't read this post. Please, don't. | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

Talk radio is the only medium that conservatives dominate in the U.S. Is it really shrewd for conservatives to begin their political exile by attacking the leading figure in that world? To ask is to answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Rush Limbaugh Is Good for the Republicans | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

...writer lives long enough, and gets famous enough, then they eventually start to consider what will happen to all the story nuggets, novel fragments and character sketches tucked away in their hard drives and desk drawers. Some destroy their work themselves; others ask family members to do so; still others designate literary executors to handle their papers and dole them out to universities or libraries. (One hopes that the recently deceased and uncommonly prolific John Updike may have taken the last route.) But such wishes aren't always carried out to the letter. Emily Dickinson, who saw fewer than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Posthumous Literature | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

FlyBy would like to welcome you to the VOID on this fine Monday evening. What is the VOID, you ask? Technically, it is nothing more than the space of time between 5am and 8am. But, in truth, it can only be described by those who have been there. It is cruel. It is painful. In its wake lie nothing but tears, agony, and spent cans of Red Bull...ineffective as usual. Try as you may to flee to the sanctuary of The Onion, Youtube, or FML...to no avail: the VOID is a black hole that seeks to sucks...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: Inaugural VOID O_O | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...From the little they have said publicly, Sgarbi's victims were apparently tricked in similar ways. Once a relationship was established, he would feign an emergency and then ask for help. Susanne Klatten, for example, was presented with a wild story of a car accident in the U.S., followed by a mafia demand that Sgarbi pay compensation to the parents of a child that had been hurt. Business colleagues and German reporters have described Klatten as normally skeptical and the possessor of a highly analytical mind. Nevertheless, she handed over $8.84 million in cash in the underground parking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Swiss Gigolo and the German Billionaire | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

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