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Astonishingly, Sydney Sweeney's Enormous Breasts Are Once Again the Subject of Heated Political Controversy
Astonishingly, Sydney Sweeney's Enormous Breasts Are Once Again the Subject of Heated Political Controversy

Preeminent sex symbol Sydney Sweeney’s large breasts just can’t stop making headlines as an unusual, unexpected flash point in our eternal culture war and the battle between the left and the right.

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The Big WhoopNathan RabinJuly 29, 2025Sydney Sweeney, advertising, Sex, controversy
There Are More Respectful Ways to Remember the Late Hulk Hogan Than By Rerunning This Piece on Santa With Muscles But It's the One We're Going With!
There Are More Respectful Ways to Remember the Late Hulk Hogan Than By Rerunning This Piece on Santa With Muscles But It's the One We're Going With!

Hulk Hogan. Christmas. Comedy. Children. Magical crystals. Catacombs. What could possibly go wrong? 

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Control Nathan RabinNathan RabinJuly 24, 2025Hulk Hogan, Fred, bad movies, Control Nathan Rabin, Wrestling, Nathan Rabin's Happy Place
Griefamania Continues With a Mortified Look at the Late Hulk Hogan's Suburban Commando
Griefamania Continues With a Mortified Look at the Late Hulk Hogan's Suburban Commando

You guys made me and Clint watch a Hulk Hogan science fiction comedy that, to be brutally honest, was quite poor. 

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Control Nathan and ClintNathan RabinJuly 24, 2025Hulk Hogan, Arnold Schwarzenegger
The Late, Not So Great Hulk Hogan's Notorious 1995 Album Hulk Rules is an Accidental Masterpiece of Anti-Comedy
The Late, Not So Great Hulk Hogan's Notorious 1995 Album Hulk Rules is an Accidental Masterpiece of Anti-Comedy

If you thought “Hulk” Hogan’s sex tape was embarrassing, wait until you hear his 1995 rap album Hulk Rules!

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Control Nathan Rabin 4.0, Wrestling MonthNathan RabinJuly 24, 2025Hulk Hogan, rock and wrestling, rap, kitsch, camp, Wrestling Month
Noted Racist and Trump Supporter Hulk Hogan is Dead, So I'm Rerunning All of My Pieces on Him, Beginning With Rock N' Wrestling
Noted Racist and Trump Supporter Hulk Hogan is Dead, So I'm Rerunning All of My Pieces on Him, Beginning With Rock N' Wrestling

I scratched a nostalgia itch by revisiting Hulk Hogan’s wonderfully cheesy mid-1980s animated vehicle Hulk Hogan’s Rock ‘n’ Wrestling, featuring Brad Garrett as the Hulkster and a Cold War-infused outer space theme and setting.

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Rando Family!Nathan RabinJuly 24, 2025Hulk Hogan, The Iron Sheik, WWF, World Wrestling Federation
The Random Rerun of the Day is the Wildly Misguided Late-Period Robert Evans Cartoon Kid Notorious
The Random Rerun of the Day is the Wildly Misguided Late-Period Robert Evans Cartoon Kid Notorious

In the early oughts Robert Evans briefly had his own raunchy animated vehicle? Was it a flop? You bet your sweet ass it is was!

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My World Of FlopsNathan RabinJuly 24, 2025Robert Evans, South Park, Animation, Slash
It's Later Than You Think
It's Later Than You Think

My father’s recent passing made me think about my wildly dysfunctional with time. It’s a finite commodity for all of us, and we never have anywhere near as much as we want and need.

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The Big WhoopNathan RabinJuly 24, 2025
In an Unsurprising Development, GarfieldEats Proprietor Nathen Mazri Has Lost What's Left of his Goddamn Mind
In an Unsurprising Development, GarfieldEats Proprietor Nathen Mazri Has Lost What's Left of his Goddamn Mind
The Critters Project, The Big WhoopNathan RabinJuly 23, 2025
The Random Rerun of the Day is the Bizarre Hungarian 1989 Film Adaptation of Felix the Cat
The Random Rerun of the Day is the Bizarre Hungarian 1989 Film Adaptation of Felix the Cat

One of y’all kind sadists paid me one hundred dollars to see and talk about a 1989 Hungarian-American Felix the Cat movie that, honestly, is pretty fucked up.

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Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJuly 22, 2025Animation, Felix the Cat, fantasy, Star Wars Holiday Special, The Phantom Menace, kid's films
I'm Glad Pot is Largely Legal. I Just Wish I Didn't Exert So Much Time and Effort to Circumventing Laws That Never Should Have Existed in the First Place
I'm Glad Pot is Largely Legal. I Just Wish I Didn't Exert So Much Time and Effort to Circumventing Laws That Never Should Have Existed in the First Place

When I think of all the time I wasted trying to score pot when it was illegal, it all just seems like a goddamn waste.

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The Big WhoopNathan RabinJuly 22, 2025
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