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*Scroll down for the full slideshow of images. See the rest of the gallery at LIFE.com.*In 2007, we launched on this site a column called Lets' Bring Back -- which has, over the past three years, celebrated hundreds of forgotten-yet-delightful fashions, pastimes, objects, and personalities.More...

ICONS OF STYLE SERIES: Suzy Parker, The World's First Supermodel (PHOTOS)

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Note to reader: I originally wrote this when "Eat Pray Love" was in the movie theaters. But I'm posting it today on what would have been my 8th wedding anniversary. Now, it's just another day on the calendar. And "Jack Ass 3" is number one at the box office. Onward.If I see one more trailer for Eat, Pray, Love, I may throw up.More...

Eat Pray Choke On It

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SurveyUSA10/21-25/10; 594 likely voters, 4.1% margin of errorMore...

CA-Gov: 46% Brown (D), 38% Whitman (R) (SurveyUSA 10/21-25)

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Ah, poor Charlie Crist. Circa 2008, the Florida governor was a pretty big deal with legit aspirations to higher office. So, he sent his best crony, George Lemieux, to Washington to keep a Florida Senate seat warm for him as he completed his term in the Florida state house.  Unfortunately, these ambitions were undone by the emergence of Marco Rubio.  So Crist bailed on the GOP primary he was going to lose to run as an independent, and he made his case -- playing with letters and drawing lines on a beach to remind voters that, when there was but one set of footprint, 'twas Crist that carried them.And now, this is how Crist's political career ends, with an ad that basically beseeches Kendrick Meek voters to vote for him instead, because "polls show" that only Crist can stop Sarah Palin, who is now doing something to Florida, I guess?  Anyway, I don't know what "polls" he's referring to, because the ones I've seen all say he's going to lose.More...

Crist Warns Voters Of Sarah Palin, For Some Reason (VIDEO)

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For the next few days, we'll be celebrating the upcoming Rally To Restore Sanity/March To Keep Fear Alive by highlighting the ways in which "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" have long advocated reasonableness. You're invited to take part! Remember a "moment of sanity" that was dear to you? Send me an email and tell me about it!------More...

Rally To Restore Sanity's Roots: Facing The Crossfire

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Anyone who's ever spent extended time with very young children will know what I'm talking about here. Whenever a particularly spazzy kid who's perhaps a little too hepped up on sugary snacks can't articulate what he or she wants, they tend to act out. Sometimes violently. Spitting, biting, screeching, hitting.I think you know where I'm going with this.More...

When in Doubt, They Beat Up Women

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Bill Clinton was in Brooklyn yesterday to endorse his former housing secretary, Andrew Cuomo. In front of a packed crowd at the New York City College of Technology, Clinton urged that this election was "serious business" and listed what he called Paladino's "greatest hits" of unsettling soundbytes -- like recalling when he said welfare recipients should be put into work camps. "What they need is a job, folks," the former president said.Cuomo, who worked for the Clinton White House from 1997-2001, joked that he has not worked as hard since when he was working for Clinton.More...

Bill Clinton Stumps For Andrew Cuomo: "This Is Serious Business"

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Crossposted with TomDispatch.comAfghanistan still awaits final results from the nationwide election held last month to fill the 249 seats of the lower house of parliament. Deciding which of the more than 2,500 candidates won takes time because the Electoral Complaints Commission that investigates voting irregularities, made up of five men handpicked by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, was swamped by more than 4,200 complaints.More...

Big Men, Big Money, Big Voting Scam: The American Midterm Election -- in Afghanistan

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The other day I was invited to meet with a book club that had chosen my book to read.  I love to do this, and I most often phone into these.  But fairly regularly a group is in my area, and so I am graciously invited into someone's home.The other night I showed up, expecting the usual lovely evening of polite discussion, signing some books, posing for a group photo.  I'm always touched to see how shy some people are in the presence of an author; I generally feel as if I'm letting them down by being such a bland, normal person. I'm no Dorothy Parker, not by any means!More...

Be Kind to the Author Whose Book You Can't Stand (or, Authors Have Feelings, Too!)

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DENVER — Tom Tancredo is quick to admit he brings plenty of baggage to the Colorado governor's race.Like the time he called Miami a "Third World country." Or when he got thrown out of the White House for suggesting then-President George W. Bush was soft on illegal immigration. Or when he refused to take part in a presidential debate because it was on a Spanish-language network.More...

Tancredo: Barack Obama Is A Greater Threat To The U.S. Than Al Qaeda