Currently in Salon: "Sex and the City 2's" incomprehensible badness

Currently in Salon: Thursday May 27, 2010

"Sex and the City 2's" incomprehensible badness This bloated mess of a movie seems devoted to destroying what little affection you may have left for these women By Andrew O'Hehir

Open Salon New Jersey: Where profiling is not only legal, it's mandated The Colbert Nation vs. John Cena's CeNation New Yorkers Ready for 2014 Super Bowl & Global Warming Oilman's Daughter

10 more tragic moments in food names From Drowned Babies to Mule's Testicles, another feast best eaten and not heard By Francis Lam

10 best moments from the worst "American Idol" Slide show: From the healing smile of whatsisface to that girl who did something, we recall a season best forgotten By DG Strong

Introducing the Triple-X Alliance The readers come through with their own fantasy airline matchups. Hooters, Virgin and Bangkok, anyone? By Patrick Smith

The New York Times' tactical Blumenthal omission How the paper of record shook up Connecticut's U.S. Senate race with a bogus story By Gene Lyons

The Sestak affair: High crime or politics as usual? Right-wing pundits claim the alleged White House offer was criminal. But nonpartisan lawyers disagree By Joe Conason

War Room Rand Paul campaign shakeup! Sestak "bribe"-gate: Judd Gregg did it first Sarah Palin takes on Joe McGinniss Sestak "bribe"-gate: Judd Gregg did it first "Homosexuals" in the military will assault everyone, Christian right warns Issa's office calls Gregg deal just as bad as Sestak's "Teabugger" James O'Keefe pleads guilty to misdemeanor Vaughn Ward, the most incompetent candidate in America, is also a loser Blogger produces texts supporting Nikki Haley affair rumor Club for Growth ad attacks Sue Lowden in Nevada Wall Street turns on Obama for administering its medicine

"Sex and the City 2's" stunning Muslim clichés It's hard to overstate the offensiveness of the fabulous four's exquisitely tone-deaf trip to Abu Dhabi By Wajahat Ali

Workers describe failures on Gulf oil rig As the "top kill" is implemented, harrowing details emerge of the hours before the explosion and who is to blame MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, MIKE BAKER and JEFF DONN

Broadsheet A man's right to choose an abortion Battle of the lingerie brands The foodie indictment of feminism The battle for gay marriage -- in the classroom

Amazon and Penguin make e-book pricing deal Secret agreement ends stalemate that began April 1 RACHEL METZ

Apple passes Microsoft as world's biggest tech co. Only U.S. business ranked higher in terms of market value is the Exxon Mobil Corporation

U.S. to change strategy for war on drugs in Mexico Aid will shift target to corrupt law enforcement and politicians rather than pricy hardware like helicopters E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and MARTHA MENDOZA

Art Linkletter dies at 97 Host of "People Are Funny" and "House Party" passes away at his home in Los Angeles

Elton John performance in Morocco raises outcry Country's largest Islamist party is concerned singer will "encourage" the homosexual "phenomenon" HASSAN ALAOUI and ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU

Top military officer talks change as vote looms Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, tells Air Force grads they need character to support decision

BP begins novel effort to try to stop Gulf oil According to the company, it could be a couple of days before we see results GREG BLUESTEIN and MIKE BAKER

Facebook to simplify privacy controls Changes made to quell user fears over info sharing

U.K. gov't discloses size of its nuclear stockpile Move towards transparency follows U.S. admission that it holds over 5,000 nuclear warheads; Britain has 225 DANICA KIRKA and EDITH M. LEDERER

How the World Works Apple's Chinese suicide problem Stimulus: Keeping the U.S. economy on life support

Patton Oswalt catches thief, via Twitter As the comedian busts a kid for stealing his routine, joke plagiarists take note: YouTube is watching you By Mary Elizabeth Williams

Glenn Greenwald U.S. demands civilian trials -- except in the U.S.

Gulf Coast population surges, but will it last? The BP oil spill could make this a short-lived trend HOPE YEN

No easy options for getting out of Afghanistan Sharing power with the Taliban is unpleasant, but probably inevitable By Ahmed Rashid

"American Idol" recap: Final performances In the last episode before tonight's finale, Crystal dominates and Lee flails By Mary T. Kelly

World stocks up, but traders wary on Europe debt The increases only partly made up for Tuesday's losses CARLO PIOVANO

Will eco-disasters destroy Obama's legacy? There's a clear link between the BP spill and the global warming bill. Obama needs to explain it to Americans By Joseph Romm

BP yet to make call on latest bid to stop Gulf oil The oil company must decide whether to go forward with an experimental plan to plug the massive leak GREG BLUESTEIN and MIKE BAKER

"Dancing with the Stars" finale: Who won? It was down to Evan, Nicole and Erin -- and last night, the show finally chose its champion By Kirkland Hamill

BP begins "top kill" effort to stop Gulf oil leak A new leak could occur if equipment fails. President Obama says, "No guarantees" GREG BLUESTEIN and MIKE BAKER

Coast Guard gives BP OK to try to stop oil leak Start time not finalized yet GREG BLUESTEIN and MIKE BAKER

Activists plead guilty in Sen. Landrieu bug case 4 accused of trying to tamper with office phones are sentenced for entering federal property under false pretenses

Scandal-plagued Fergie attends NYC book fair She makes reference to her influence-peddling scandal KAREN MATTHEWS

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