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ICYMI: Fake Cops Get Busted When They Try And Pull Over A Real Cop
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- Someinsider baseball shots were fired last week, when the New York Times Company's CEO publicly mocked tronc (the former Tribune Company's new name) in an interview.
- Speaking of journalism nomenclature, The Newspaper Association of America is officially dropping the "paper" from their name and will hereby be known as the "News Media Alliance." In other news, I really should have gone to law school.
- Some Canadian girl documented her luxe cruise vacay all over Instagram...before docking in Australia, where she and a friend were arrested for trying to smuggle 200 pounds of cocaine into the country.
- No reference to any kind of cruise should ever be made without linking to David Foster Wallace's iconic Harper's cruise ship essay, so here it is in all its glory.
- A man and a woman driving an unmarked Crown Victoria were arrested in Huntington Beach for impersonating a police officer when they tried to pull over an actual cop who happened to be off-duty.
- Watch Elliott-Gould-as-Philip-Marlowe running through neo-noir early 1970's L.A. in this achingly good clip from the Robert Altman's adaptation of The Long Goodbye:
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