The Onion: Press Secretary Spins Wife’s Death As A Positive

White House Press Secretary Ted Barrett deflects questions about the gruesome car wreck that killed his wife, instead focusing on the President’s agenda. The premise and concept is marvelous. It made me LOL.
For those new to the Onion: it is satire. this is not real…

Christine Lakin from Step By Step in FHM

As the sarcastic kid sister on ABC’s Step by Step, Christine Lakin made Friday nights appointment television for every pubescent kid with a pulse. And while her network neighbors like Jodie Sweetin and Jaimee Foxworth ended up in rehab and porn, respectively, Christine transitioned into a big screen career that would make any child actor envious. We talked with the star of the upcoming comedy The Hottie and the Nottie to find out what it’s like working with Paris Hilton and stripping down for FHM’s cameras.

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Why Did William F. Buckley Jr. Talk Like That?

An article in Slate sheds some light on it:

But if you listen to Buckley’s many debates—with Gore Vidal, Noam Chomsky, and others—the first thing you’ll notice is a distinctly British rhythm and melody. His pronunciation was likewise British-influenced in its lack of rhoticity—meaning he drops his “r”s. (An American “r” is generally pronounced with a tongue curled about 45 degrees; the Brits leave their tongues flat. Buckley is often somewhere in the middle.) This style of speech used to characterize upper-class New Englanders as a whole, since many of the region’s earliest settlers hailed from (old) England. (Fewer “r”s were dropped among the more diverse mix of immigrants in New York.) There’s also the yod, which is the “ew” sound in music and usual—like our friends across the pond, Buckley keeps the yod for words like news and pursue. He also pronounces the “t” in words like writer. And for vowels in words like thought and wrong, he rounded his lips, not unlike the English. Meanwhile, he stressed few words when he spoke but would pounce on an important one, every once in a while. (Contrast with John Wayne, who tended to stress every single word, in exactly the same way.)

Buckley Debates Chomsky: 1969

Original Anti-Piracy Video

HEY.. YOU. KID. Don’t copy that floppy. Cuz if you do, computer game makers will stop making new games cuz they will think the market hates that title and the industry will shut down. Is that really what you want?… is it?

What if this “buy a copy per location you wish to play it” policy was applied to board games? Buy one box of Monopoly for school, but if you want to play it at home you are cheating the game makers if you don’t buy a new set? Huh?…