Merchandising Rule #1: Think of a catchy product title…or blatantly steal one from the nearest magazine rack.
Clamor finds itself in a sobriquet squabble with the latest miracle dietary additive. The makers of CLAmor spray (apparently “conjugated linoleic acid” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue) promise weight-loss results in as little as 4 weeks. […]

Poor Katie Moran. For a woman who’s supposedly a sexual genius, she takes the crème de la crème of literary subject matter and reduces it to a head-clutching bore. The bimbo-ish Moran is a writer for Playboy, and despite her bisexuality, she reinforces (in clunky prose) the kind of heteronormative, pre-feminist agenda that you would […]

We all knew there had to be some reason for it. No one could so publicly and confidently display such amorality, incompetence, and apathy without some sort of medical excuse. Buzzflash’s theory is as good as any: Dubya’s callousness is a symptom of a serious mental ailment. Rumors have circled for years– […]

Sheerly Avni from Alternet has compiled a thought-provoking list of 10 films that “get women right.” But is such a project really necessary? I mean, after a summer that gave us such virtuoso characterizations as Jessica “Daisy Dukes” Simpson in “The Dukes of Hazard” and Paris “generic horror flick bimbo” Hilton in “House […]

Here’s the first of what we plan to be a new installment for Clamor Magazine blog readers featuring clips, reviews, and other ephemeral pieces of cultural capital that we think you might be interested in checking out. This week, enjoy a cut from Bloc Party’s critically-acclaimed album Silent Alarm called “Helicopter.” Click here to listen.
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I’m a little unsure of how to respond to the enterprising folks of the Creation Truth Foundation: should one applaud them for acknowledging the existence of what most Creationists usually sidestep, or should their latest project be considered a new watermark in red-state nincompoopery? Let’s go with the latter.
CTF’s Museum of Earth History now […]