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The Musical Talmud: “One Less Lonely Girl” by Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber shows us the path out of America’s recession through auto-tune and baby-faced good looks.
The Three Faces of Crank
Is Crank about man’s fear of emotional commitment? Globalization in the 21st Century? The human race’s search for meaning? Or none of the above?
The Puzzling Logic of Conan O’Brien’s Super Bowl Ad
One of the videos that made it into our Super Bowl ad roundup was the Conan O’Brien ad for Bud Light, in which his agent/manager/ambiguous guy in a suit convinces him to make an embarrassing Bud Light Ad by assuring…
We All Are Americans
[Beginning today, we will be saving our most thoughtfully overthought articles for Sunday publication. Though we haven't the audacity to hope that we will replace your ritual of lugging the phone-book sized Sunday Times down to your favorite obscure Park…