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Mark LeVine explores the Middle East metal phenomenon and the band most beloved from Dubai to Tehran: Iron Maiden

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The Domino’s Rescue

The Domino’s Rescue

There’s something all at once amazing and tragic about the story of Jean Wilson, the woman whose life was saved because she orders Domino’s every day and the delivery driver noticed she hadn’t ordered in three days and called the ambulance.

(Thanks to the Sherpa for the link.)

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White fans want white superstars, or in the case of the NBA, at least one white American superstar. Unless the ghosts of Bird and John Havlicek and Jerry West return to the floor, that isn’t going to happen. And since it isn’t going to happen, the NBA will continue to struggle with an identity crisis that no one wants to publicly acknowledge.

Buzz Bissinger, who may or may not think every caucasian receiver reminds him of Wes Welker, on why he thinks whitey don’t like the NBA anymore
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All told, Team Coco touches more than 5 million people each month, many of them primarily consumers of O’Brien’s brand of humor online. “A lot of television executives still have the idea that a show is something everybody watches,” O’Brien says using an old-fashioned voice: “ ‘Let’s gather around the TV set and watch it, and then let’s talk about it with all our friends at work tomorrow.’ Well, your friends didn’t watch the same show that you did, and they also didn’t watch it at the same time.” And it no longer bothers O’Brien if that’s the case with his show. As long as they’re consuming it, any time, any place will do.

Douglas Alden Warshaw, Conan 2.0