You knew there were land mines. You just didn't know where they were hidden, which is the whole point of land mines, now that I think about it. My guess was that they were contained in Abby Grossman's suit against Fox News. Now one of them has gone off, blowing up the narrative of Tucker Carlson's dismissal from his Fox gig, as well as the narrative about why Fox settled with Dominion Voting Systems at the courthouse snack bar shortly before the trial was supposed to begin. It was argued for a long time that Carlson's outrageous racist commentary was nothing more than a shuck, a strategy for scaring various Papaws and Meemaws out there into boosting his nightly ratings. |
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A growing chorus of concerned former "addicts" are trying to wake people up to caffeine's negative effects. |
| Your world's number-one mom deserves a top-of-the-charts gift. |
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I opened the box, and all that was staring back at me were the Adidas RPT-02 SOL. (Not the best name.) There was no charging cable, no block to plug into a wall outlet, nothing. Just headphones and a little instruction manual in an otherwise empty box. My first thought—'cause I'm some asshole commerce editor—was that this was a cost-cutting measure. "Packaging is a bit stingy," I noted in my little commerce editor's work journal. After a week, I had to go back and scratch that out. There's nothing else in the box because the headphones are actually all you need. They are that fucking good all on their own. |
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Genndy Tartakovsky—the man behind 'Samurai Jack', 'Powerpuff Girls', 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars', and more—shares his all-time watchlist. |
| According to recent research, these shoes slap. |
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Woody Harrelson is being patient. It's already early afternoon and the longtime pot smoker and legal-weed advocate is not high—or, perhaps from his perspective, not high yet. Instead, he's at a studio in Manhattan with fellow actor Justin Theroux for an Esquire photo shoot and there are still hours to go in a very long day of press obligations. A clear mind wouldn't be the worst thing. But he is keeping a joint nearby. Harrelson and Theroux, wearing the same black suit and even the same robe just a few feet away, are promoting HBO's excellent new Watergate comedy, White House Plumbers, out May 1. Created by director David Mandel, who spent years as a producer and showrunner of Veep, the new limited series retells the story of the infamous break-in from an entirely new vantage point: that of the burglars. It's a brisk, spring day in New York City, and they will plunge, clothes on, into the nearby hot tub. One problem: The water's not hot. Not even close. But as Theroux accepts a barbecue lighter and his costar submerges, asking, finally, for his joint, the two have everything they need. Theroux, 51, laughs. "Do not inhale!" he shouts comically, out of duty to the duo's long afternoon still ahead, then sparks the lighter. "Really, do not inhale!" he says again, setting fire to Woody's joint. Harrelson thanks him by exhaling smoke in Theroux's face. They both bust out laughing. A few days prior, Esquire spoke with Harrelson and Theroux about America's love of a good second act, sleeping naked on airplanes, a certain viral Saturday Night Live! monologue, why you won't be catching Theroux toking up anytime soon. |
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