motherjones:

Your GOP tea party debate-meets-Monday Night Football tweet of the night, via @adamweinstein.

teradome:

Organizational charts for tech companies. (via @mrandre)

Actually, I think they got it exactly right.

theatlantic:

Ann Louie Sussman explores how Egyptian protestors deploy satire, irony, and mockery against Mubarak’s regime.

Parody, Linda Hutcheons has written, repeats something familiar, but with a “potentially revolutionary” difference. For Egyptians, did it get any more familiar than Hosni Mubarak, whose rule lasted 29 long years? Whose Dracula-like face peered down from signs and framed official photographs all over the country (photographs that seemed to freeze him in the Twilight Zone of his mid-fifties, where his hair color still remains)? Who greeted them every morning from their state television and state-owned newspapers? As Issandr El Amrani asked in his eerily prescient article on Mubarak jokes written for Foreign Policy two months before the revolution began: What would happen if you spent three decades making fun of the same man? 

Read the rest at The Atlantic. 

(Source: The Atlantic)

dogsareadorable:

Nic Rad’s “Celebritist Manifesto” on James Franco this weekend was so great that I got to write about it. Plus, now I have an awesome Franco mask to scare people with!

So sad I missed this, I can experience it vicariously through Drew though.

(Source: dogsareadorable)

Valentines for journalists. via @lavrusik

langer:

Fun new parlor game: print up a few hundred of these, spend a night handing them out at Tom & Jerry’s. Whoever keeps a straight face the longest wins.

adamiss:

This one really got me.

(via arig)