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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. “I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you’re willing to work hard, it doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or where you love. It doesn’t matter whether you’re black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American… Read More

Media

Anderson Cooper (Finally) Comes Out to Andrew Sullivan

By Judy Berman on

As anyone who’s read Gawker or seen paparazzi photos of him accompanied by a muscle-bound gentleman already knows, Anderson Cooper is gay. This is such a well-known fact that recent conjecture surrounding Cooper’s sexual orientation has centered not around whether he prefers the company of men but why he hasn’t come out yet. Well, we… Read More

Web

Quote of the Day: Take That, Ninja Cat

By Caroline Stanley on

“He is the master of stickfighting — using a small tree as a quarterstaff. Claude is a 6-year-old orphan Asiatic black bear, a resident of the Asa Zoo in Hiroshima. His ability to twirl sticks is jaw-dropping — so good that it looks fake, but there are other videos at Japanator (with a baseball bat)… Read More

Books

A Modest Proposal for Dealing with Unemployed Writers…

By Caroline Stanley on

In this week’s New Republic, Mark I. Pinsky suggests that Barack Obama bail out laid-off journalists with a modern version of the Federal Writers Project — the program launched by FDR to provide jobs to more than 6,000 out-of-work creative types in the late ’30s. The emphasis was on documentation; writers worked on everything from state travel guides to slave narratives. Pinksy points out that many of the people involved the first time around became some of the biggest names in the American cannon — John Steinbeck, John Cheever, Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright — and used FWP funding to research the works that made them famous. … Read More