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Harvard is, apparently, the best university in the world, despite lack of cookies. The school has plenty of kooks, though, or at the very least a very major one: conservative columnist Peggy Noonan, who has parlayed her avoidance of poor people into heading a study group at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Good call, Peggy: Harvard doesn't dig the poor, either!

Soapblox, host to political websites including DailyKos and our own Blue Mass Group, was recently hacked in a major way. Its operator (yes, singular) threw up his hands in frustration, but the blogosphere rebelled, saying, "We need internet politics!" Now the liberals are raising funds to help Soapblox become what it needs to be, rather than what it is. Will the fundraising succeed? Only you—and your pocketbook—can decide.

Gawker points to a picture of a 1.2 million home in West Stockbridge with a KKK sign above the back door of the home's "turretlike" birdhouse addition (complete with bean bags). Klannish touch, Kappa Kappa Kappa, kids' initials, or counting strikeouts? A Gawker commenter speculates it's Curt Schilling's house. What do you think?

Sex lives are like pets: infinitely more interesting to their owners than to anyone else. Yet Lena Chen and her fascination with all things genitally-related are getting her notice once again. Gawker yesterday gleefully linked to a photo she posted more than a week ago showing the after-effects of a messy hummer on Lena's face (NSFW, duh).

The New York Times did a flyover article about Boston now that Boston is a sports powerhouse. Why they choose to recognize this fact now is beyond us, but the author reveals a change in New York's attitude toward Boston. Instead of a blazing contempt (displayed in the past by Radar and Gawker), the New York Times is feeling some ambivalence now that Boston is winning games left and right. Here's a paragraph:

--A massive fire that started in an abandoned nightclub and eventually destroyed 14 buildings in downtown Lawrence broke into the national news. In a miracle given the size of the fire, no one was hurt. However, 30 families were displaced. Authorities think the fire is suspicious. The owner, who was in the process of turning the spot into a restaurant, says he has no insurance and that someone "jealous of his success" started it. [Boston Globe, Boston Herald]

Thespians stopped by Boston this week to read for the miniseries that will be based on BU professor and left-wing darling Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. And here's what happens when an intellectual heavyweight's work gets mixed up with this thing we call pop culture:

Harvard's sex magazine, H Bomb, is … uh … coming soon, and the staff threw a naked party in New York, according to the Crimson. And they had quite a turnout:

The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryant Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on annoying car alarms, a murder suspect used a fake Asian accent on the stand and a video of a man being beaten up by teenage girls on a subway shocked the city. And we interviewed soon-to-be-leaving-Gawker editor Choire Sicha, who said,...

H Bomb, the Harvard University sex magazine, vanished for reasons that had nothing to do with scabies. Last year, the people who ran H Bomb lost their status as an official student group. But ">Lingbo Li at the Crimson revealed this week that H Bomb is back in the school's good graces, and they will publish a new magazine on February 14. H Bomb only published two issues, but a new editor, Martha ‘Martabel’ Wasserman,...

--The Legislature is going to consider banning spanking tomorrow. That's spanking of children, not "please, sir, may I have another" frat-spanking or whatever role-playing you do with your significant other. [WCVB] --A man's SUV became stuck on train tracks in Beverly last night just as a commuter train was heading toward him. He escaped in the nick of time. His SUV got creamed. [Photo-WCVB] --The Roman Catholic Archdiocese plans to close at least two schools...

The last word that should be used to describe Boston is "cheap," but housing prices compared to New York City's are a steal. The cellist for the Magnetic Fields, Sam Davol, has moved his family up to a new pad in Boston's Chinatown above Jumbo Seafood Restaurant. Of course, "cheap" is relative. The New York Times did a piece on how Davol and his spouse decided a move to Boston would allow them to quit...

--Mike Mennonno writes a wonderful post about the power of the Polaroid. Photo of the Day fans, take note: "It's hard to say whether the fleshiness of polaroids is an illusion of their application or inherent in the process, but Warhol's polaroids capture that same sinuous, sensuous seediness polaroids seem made for. You don't get that with digital, with its sharp focus and white light." --Newton Streets & Sidewalks had another encounter with a turkey....

Why, oh, why didn't this happen in Boston? Gawker heard from one of their spies that Patriots QB and panty model Gisele Bundchen had a spat at a New York City restaurant: "I saw Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady this Monday at Extra Virgin and they were fighting. Everybody was looking at them, until Gisele left Tom at the table—seated alone! Drama!" Brady keeps winning on the field and appearing in Stetson ads, but he...

Shalom Auslander Reading Thursday, October 11, 7:00 pm Brookline Booksmith Free More info From far away Shalom Auslander's memoir looks delicate and sweet, with lightly outlined white images traced on a red background. The title appears in a cursive font with looping letters. Then you look at the actual words on the cover--Foreskin's Lament. In this memoir, Auslander and his long departed foreskin have a lot to gripe about. Auslander was raised in an Orthodox...

This week, Boston Magazine blog spread the word that the Globe had hired Veronica Chao, editor of the Improper Bostonian to helm the Globe's Sunday City Weekly section.

Dear Lola, Oh, Lola, how could you? You incurred the wrath of Gawker and left local bloggers puzzled as to what you were about, you coy little vixen! You claim to be the Boston Globe's new fashion magazine. You claim to be Boston's newest best friend. You resemble Louise Brooks, but shrunk down into the size of the old TV Guide. You seem so harmless at first glance. But we've discovered that you're a little...

Ah, the New York/Boston debate. While many point their fingers at Boston for stoking the flames on a regular basis (chants of "Yankees Suck" heard everywhere might have something to do with it), we can now point a little of the blame back to NYC. Gawker, having decided that they'd chastised Britney Spears' parenting techniques enough, shocked readers across the globe today by turning its typically New Yawk-centric eye beyond the boroughs. But, in characteristic...

So, Gawker started up this feature on "The Poors," in which they ruthlessly mock media encounters with those of us who don't have trust funds. Gawker might be interested in a recent front-page article by the Globe about the South Bay Center, the big ol' mall that is apparently a crossroads of class conflict. The form of Sarah Schweitzer's article isn't the problem. Well, maybe the fact that the Globe put a story about a...

The state supreme court ruled against the Herald Monday, upholding a $2 million verdict saying that the paper is guilty of libel against a Superior Court judge. Reporter David Wedge accused Judge Ernest Murphy of saying a 14-year-old rape victim should "get over it" in 2002. Murphy declared that he said no such thing and said the statement destroyed his reputation, so he sued. A jury found Wedge guilty in 2005, and the Herald appealed....

Michael Chabon will read from The Yiddish Policemen's Union on Thursday, May 3, at 6:30 pm at First Parish Church. Tickets can be purchased for $5 from Harvard Book Store. Pulitzer winner Michael Chabon's new book, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, is beyond ambitious – it describes a colony of European Jews that was established during World War II in Sitka, Alaska. It could have happened. Such a plan was under discussion within the FDR administration....

Boston-born Sumner Redstone is everywhere, from The Colbert Report to MGH. Just recently, the Viacom chair made a $35-million-dollar donation to the MGH burn center. Rich people make donations all the time, but there's a reason for the mogul's gift. We knew that the 1979 Copley Plaza Hotel fire damaged Redstone's hand, the appearance of which gave rise to much speculation over at Gawker. The injuries he sustained in that fire nearly killed him, as...

The Harvard Crimson is mired in the controversies of copycat cartoonists, quote cribbing, and an editor who would like to hide in a spiderhole. It's not a good sign for the future of journalism when the editor of an Ivy League paper takes damage-control tips from Saddam Hussein. You'd think the Harvard kids would have learned their lesson after Kaavya Viswanathan's legendary fall from grace. But, in the past few weeks, plagiarism fever has...

This being Boston, we can't hope (nor should we want, truth be told) to get the volume of celebrity sightings that Gawker does in New York. As such, we have to content ourselves with the usual cast of stodgy intellectuals and fresh-faced plagiarists who trudge through Cambridge from time to time. (And Michael Dukakis. Bostonist and Mrs. Bostonist saw the Duke standing on Arlington Street one morning last week, and we were more than a little excited, even though he's around all the time and not nearly as glamorous or coked up as Lindsay Lohan.) So when a top-secret informer told Bostonist that former Attorney General Janet Reno was spotted in the Harvard Club last night drinking a Beefeater martini, straight up, one olive, we were like, "meh." But then our source told us that Reno really did look exactly like Will Ferrell playing Janet Reno on Saturday Night Live (see photo), and we felt that was amusing enough that we should mention it here.

When our friend from N.Y.C. visited a few weeks ago, she told us about a shocking problem that plagues Manhattan every spring season: a lack of Cadbury Creme Eggs. Now, we scoffed at our friend and told her she must be mistaken, especially since the Creme Egg is synonomous with Easter nowadays. But she insisted that she has her cousin in the Midwest ship them out to her so she too can celebrate with an Egg here and there. Bostonist forgot all about this Creme Egg problem until we read our snark of the day over at Gawker and saw that a reader wrote them looking for answers about the disappearing Cadbury Creme Eggs:

Notwithstanding the fact that we're married, Bostonist does sometimes read the personals. No, no, no, it's not our cheating heart, it's the fact that they're hilarious (and frequently smack of desperation in a way that makes us that much more glad we're out of the game). Usually, since we hate spending money on anything, we're limited to craigslist, and we used to think that was OK. But then we came across this post on Gawker, informing us of the absolute most awesomest personal ad ever in the whole world. And the best part is that although the ad appeared in the New York Review of Books, it was posted by someone in Boston, giving us an excuse to share it with you. Since the NYRB locks its personals behind codes, oaths, and subscriptions, we will reproduce the wonderful missive to would-be paramours for your benefit:

When her fancy vacation home is featured in the New York Times, and she's pilloried on Slate.com for having the gumption to show off that home, of course. Susan Orlean, New Yorker regular and a Boston resident since 1982 (and former Globe and Phoenix staffer), lately had her upstate New York weekend pad featured in the Times's impossibly bourgie "House Proud" section (in which people much richer than Bostonist demurely share details about their palatial abodes). OK, whatever - a Boston writer had the good fortune to gain wide acclaim (bringing considerable riches, we imagine) and marry a rich guy to boot - big deal. This would have eluded our notice were it not for the fact that Timothy Noah at Slate thinks there is something terribly untoward about journalists (even softer-side-of, human-interest-book-writin' journalists) showing off their riches.

According to places such as Star and Gawker, it’s feasible that Jen From Dawson’s Creek, AKA the lovely actress (see: Me Without You, The Station Agent) Michelle Williams is pregnant with Heath Ledger’s baby. Funny enough, tonight Williams’ ex-boyfriend, Andy Herod, is in town with his band The Comas. Last year The Comas released Conductor, a fantastic album that was loosely centered around Herod’s breakup with Williams. It’s most clear in one of the standout...