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Don’t be pretty, because then nobody will take you seriously. Don’t be ugly, because then nobody will take you seriously. Don’t look average, because then nobody will take you. Don’t wear makeup, because it shows that you’re vain. Don’t go bare-faced, because it shows you don’t care about yourself. Don’t be fat, because then men…
Photo Zoe, Elmo and Abby on “Sesame Street.” New episodes will soon appear on HBO. Credit Richard Termine/Sesame Street The letters of the day on “Sesame Street” are H, B and O. Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit group behind the children’s television program, has struck a deal with HBO, the premium cable network, that will bring…
There was a very long span of time — probably adding up to more than a decade, ending not so very long ago — in which one of the most important and defining aspects of my near day-to-day life included strategically posting a solid, hard-won jealousy pic (or three, or five, or several more) on the internet…
Entry Text If the Black Lives Matter movement would just be convenient and not disruptive, we wouldn’t be in this turmoil. I believe it was Frederick Douglass who said that “without a struggle, there can be no progress.” I’m seeing so many people ask for convenience in the struggle. Let’s apply that to the history…
Barack Obama, slumped like a sullen teen, attempts to dunk a cookie in milk, only to realize with chagrin that the edges scrape haplessly against the cup’s rim. His snack game thwarted, the president mutters with a click of his teeth: “Thanks, Obama.” These few seconds of a Buzzfeed video, which has been viewed more…
LAS VEGAS — Activists chanting “Black Lives Matter” ended Jeb Bush’s town hall event in North Las Vegas Wednesday night as the former governor wrapped up a question and answer session. Bush met privately with members of the Black Lives Matter movement prior to the scheduled town hall, according to his campaign, although they would…
Ben Carson, a Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon and Republican presidential candidate, previously did research using human fetal tissue. In the wake of the hidden-camera videos showing Planned Parenthood doctors discussing how to provide aborted fetuses to scientific researchers, Carson has told Fox News that the benefits of this research have been “overpromised” and “under-delivered.” Late on…
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An Ohio woman told police she didn’t want to die in custody just a few hours before she was found dead in her jail cell bed. Ralkina Jones, 37, was found unresponsive on July 26, 15 hours after she discussed her medical issues with police. “I’m not asking for an exception to any rules, but…