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Tracking the D'bury Universe
We won't post new stories on this page every day, but whenever we do put something up you have our word: It will be about the strip. Guaranteed.
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How Shall They Impeach Obama? Conservatives Count The Ways
Since 2010, Obama's haters have floated more than two dozen reasons for filing articles of impeachment. They would like to oust the president for, among other things...
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Audio: Nixon's Secret White House Tapes
In an adaptation from their forthcoming book, Vanity Fair contributing editor Douglas Brinkley and historian Luke A. Nichter draw on 3,700 hours of President Nixon’s White House tapes to convey the inner workings of Nixon’s action-packed first term...
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'South Park' Marches On In New Places
While the media moguls in Sun Valley, Idaho, jockeyed for parking spaces for their jets and hunted for havens in a consolidating content world, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the boy-men behind “South Park,” were in Los Angeles, proving again that if you make content people love — it’s harder than it looks — it doesn’t matter how many paradigms shift....
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Tech Aesthetics
Twitter has log cabins and Facebook has graffiti -- what do the offices of tech giants tell us about the future of work?
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What You Need To Know About The Coming Jellyfish Apocalypse
Are there more jellyfish than ever before?
Is climate change to blame for the increase in jellyfish?
Should swimmers in the United States be worried?
If you get stung, what should you do?...
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Garry Trudeau Discusses How 'Doonesbury' Helped Him With 'Alpha House'
"Doonesbury," the classic comic strip, has had to take a back seat as its cartoonist, Garry Trudeau, focuses on his Amazon original series, "Alpha House," but that doesn't mean the old hasn't helped inform the new.
Trudeau took part in a panel for his political satire series Saturday during the Television Critics Assn. press tour in Beverly Hills, and the Pulitzer Prize winner spoke of how "Doonesbury," which has been on hiatus since March, helped prime him for his current endeavor...
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Unlikely Warriors: 'Elephant Company,' By Vicki Constantine Cooke
I have to confess — my love of elephants made me apprehensive to review a book about their role in World War II. But as soon as I began to read “Elephant Company,” I realized that not only was my heart safe, but that this book is about far more than just the war, or even elephants. This is the story of friendship, loyalty and breathtaking bravery that transcends species...
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An "Unbelievable" Encounter With Amazon
In an attempt to negotiate a bigger share of e-book royalties, Amazon has instituted shipping delays of three to five weeks for the books of many Hachette authors, including J. K. Rowling, James Patterson, and me. A few days ago, in an arrangement brokered by Dick Cavett, David Hill, the newly appointed director of “fulfillment” for Amazon, agreed to participate in a face-to-face meeting with me, at the company’s Manhattan warehouse...
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Meet The Creative Genius Behind Daffy Duck And Wile E. Coyote
Bugs, Daffy, Porky Pig and Elmer Fudd, Pepe, Wile E. Coyote, Marvin the Martian, Michigan J. Frog, Road Runner...New York's Museum of Moving Image is putting Mr. Jones, who passed away in 2002, on a pedastal with their latest exhibition, "What's Up, Doc? The Animation Art of Chuck Jones. Spanning six decades and over 300 films the traveling show pays tribute...
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Elephant Weeps While Being Rescued After 50 Years Of Mistreatment
After five long decades of being forced to endure a life of unimaginable suffering, Raju the elephant is finally free. Fitted with painful shackles for nearly his entire life, Raju walked the dusty roads of India, interacting with tourists in exchange for coins and food. His body bears the signs of malnutrition and the scars of physical abuse -- but the emotional toll was no less profound...