(Photo: Charles Peterson) "Load up on guns. Bring your friends." If you were a kid who grew up on rock-and-roll, Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit was the musical equivalent of the JFK assassination: you know exactly where you were when you heard it for the first time. I was ...read more

Happy Friday. Here's what's going on in the world -- or at least on the internet -- that you can use to pass the time until you get to start your weekend. 1. All the talent that NBC has unceremoniously dumped over the years that's actually been, you know, talented and somehow ...read more

Happy “OK, I really, really should order those Christmas presents so I don’t get killed on shipping” Day! Here’s what’s happening on the interweb: 1. How The Media Will Report The Apocalypse Award-winning new site Buzzfeed went all meta and mocked how the media would report ...read more

Happy Friday, all. Here's what you should probably be reading this morning because it's better than sitting around trying to figure out how you can duck out of work early: 1. Chief Concern This is shaping up to be a big deal: In what I assume he mistakenly figured would be a ...read more

Here's what you should be reading instead of bothering with that whole getting-back-to-work thing: 1. Tom Galt Like everyone else, we here at the Banter love piling on the mockery when it comes to Tom Friedman. He's really such an easy target. But R.J. Eskow actually skipped ...read more