Friday, May 24, 2013
Did You Read __________? / News Did you read about masturbation, Billy Joel, and Ronald McDonald?
Posted By Reader staff on 05.24.13 at 11:25 AM
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- Billy Joel, still drinking after all these years
Hey, did you read:
• Jane Mayer's look at billionaire David Koch's chilling effect on public television and Daily Kos's follow-up report? (The latter, btw, appears to get some of the basic facts wrong.) —Kate Schmidt
• How masturbation is at the heart of many of our social and political divisions? —Mick Dumke
• The full-page last-ditch "Save Prentice" ad in this morning's Tribune and on the NUFORPRENTICE Facebook page? —Deanna Isaacs
• That Ronald McDonald got his own WSJ hedcut and it's terrifying? —Gwynedd Stuart
• About cat bearding? —Tony Adler
• Bryan Curtis's profile of Richard Simmons? ("'Absolutely no farting,' Simmons said as he marched to the front of the room. 'People eat fucking Mexican food and I have to suffer.' He put on 'It's Raining Men' and we got moving.") —Tal Rosenberg
• About White House press secretary Jay Carney's love of Guided by Voices? —John Dunlevy
• The great headline/photo combo for this NYT piece on Billy Joel? —Gwynedd Stuart
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