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On the floor of the Democratic National Convention, Slate‘s Timothy Noah asks Jerry Springer about his plans to run for governor of Ohio in 2006.
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Heidi MacDonald has a great summation of how the annual Nerd Prom, aka the San Diego Comic-Con, has become a defacto Sundance-type festival, or “Cannes for Fans“, at once a celebration of pop culture (as personified by comics) and a complete and utter rejection of the source material (as evidenced by those comics’ segregation…