• February 13, 2012

true/slant

HISTORY OF THE DAY: Did you love those nerdy “On This Day” newspaper wire features full of Strange & Unusual facts (or actually just well-known major events) that happened on this particular day? WELL THEN YOU ARE SURE TO LOVE your editor’s new HISTORY OF THE DAY feature, so go look at Day One. [True/Slant]

INTERN RILEY GOES LEGIT: Look, he’s writing for the esteemed Internet publication Matt Taibbi’s Still So Mad At Goldman Sachs. His beat: college and whoring, two topics upon which he is a National Authority. Check it out! [True/Slant: The Diploma Mill]

DRUGS, ROCK & BARACK OBAMA: R.U. Sirius, longtime chronicler of and participant in the Cyberpunk-Counterculture Wars, has a new book about rock artists on dope called Everybody Must Get Stoned. And your Wonkette editor interviewed R.U. about these important topics, including how high Barack Obama used to get, back in the day. [True/Slant Part I/Part [...]

AMERICA’S GLOBAL HOLIDAY: “Today, Easter is celebrated around the world, from Beirut to Jerusalem. Even Australians happily celebrate this spring holiday, made all the richer by the importation of European bunnies to their South Pacific island nation.” [True/Slant]

THE GLOBAL INTERNATIONALIST: Oh hey it’s your editor’s new column thing: “The worldly chicken: How fast food is merging our global culture.” [True/Slant]