Slate: The Culture Gabfest, Toast to the Douchebags Edition

Slate Culture Gabfest | Oct 22, 2014
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss round two of the Kanye vs Taylor Swift VMA face-off, the new Robert Rodriguez film Machete and the monetization of sex on Craigslist.

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