Mike Nizza

Greatest. Poll. Ever.

esquire.com — I am going to print out this poll and, perhaps, put it on my wall in a gilded frame. I hope every cable teevee haircut who plans to ride the Benghazi, Benghazi!, BENGHAZI! train to riches and fame and glory does the same thing because this is the best result in a poll in the history of results from polls.

"Posterizing Your Friends" Should Be The Next Big Fad

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The Professor Who Went Nuclear

esquire.com — There are big ideas, and then there are big fking ideas. Kenneth N. Waltz, a political scientist who died this week at 88, was a man who had one of the latter: let more nations have nukes. In fact, welcome it. Not just the United States and the Soviet Union.

Complaints Rise as Bike Share Program Nears

nytimes.com — Bike share was easy for New York City to love in the abstract. It was not about adding bike lanes at the expense of something else; it was about sharing something that did not yet exist.

The Real Life of Brangelina

esquire.com — Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Cinema for Peace Tom Junod's profile of Brad Pitt will appear in the June/July issue, which is on newsstands at the end of the month. When I met Brad Pitt the day after Easter, he was so tired that he was perhaps more reflective than usual.

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Heavy Metal Stories - Louder Than Hell Secret History of Metal - Esquire

esquire.com — Are you a heavy metal fan? No? That's okay, too. Whether you're the sort of man who knows everything from who first threw the Devil Horns to the correct pronunciation of Yngwie Malmsteen, there is something fascinating to learn from Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Story of Metal, by Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman, out today - loads of little-known, often creepy anecdotes that shed new light on the making of Satan's Music.

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The New Orleans Shooting

esquire.com — Cheldon went down. Got up. Tried to walk. And then stopped. He made it less than a block before he found himself on a woman’s porch, bleeding from a hole in his lower right back while the woman, a stranger, applied pressure to the wound with a wash c