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Gee thanks, Mom We’re going to need a bigger file drawer for this latest entry under Sad Jeb Bush Is Sad, So Sad, Gahhh, We Need A Drink, That’s How Sad He Is. His own mother, who has made it quite clear she doesn’t care for him much and thinks he’s kind of a loser (and she’s not wrong!),…
The great and powerful Mitch has spoken, and on Saturday New York City will be blanketed in 8-12″ or perhaps 24″ or even 36 inches of fluffy, white snow. Or not! Regardless the outcome, if plans for hunkering down on Saturday include relying on the services of your local restaurants, it’s important to keep in…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciencesis pledging to double the number of female and minority members by 2020 and will immediately diversify its leadership by adding three new seats to its board of governors. Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs announced the changes Friday, following a weeklong storm of criticism and calls for an…
She’s not pussyfootin’ around VIDEO Patrice Waite, Peter Cooper and Janet Upadhye Topics: Sarah Palin, original video More Related Stories The Oscars’ race problem isn’t going away The media has a Bernie Sanders problem: What the elites miss about politics the rest of us understand Bill Gates should be ashamed: His back-room,…
Remember that viral video from 2011 where a honey badger trots around, aggressively not caring about things? Well, the guy who made it—Christopher Gordon, who goes by the pseudonym “Randall”—is suing Papyrus and design company Drape Creative over some greeting cards that use the phrase HONEY BADGER DON’T GIVE A SHIT. Just a quick…
The award-winning actress discusses the return of Dana Scully in Fox’s beloved supernatural series and her epic battle to be treated equally on the show. “People have said to me, ‘I can’t believe that happened, how did you feel about it, that is insane.’ And my response always was, ‘That was then, this is now.’…
Microsoft has been experimenting with guessing people’s ages and emotions recently, and now the software maker has created an Android app to show off its machine learning skills. Mimicker Alarm for Android isn’t your regular alarm. While most of us wake up at an intolerable hour to the sounds of wind chimes, some European techno, or…
Ev Williams made it easy for people to say what they want online. But the man who created Blogger, then Twitter and now Medium says the Web is on its way out, at least as a place to publish your thoughts. In an interview with Peter Kafka on the latest episode of “Re/code Decode,” Medium…
The National Weather Service has issued another one of their classic caps-lock WEATHER WARNINGS, this time hectoring all humans in the northeast, mid-Atlantic and beyond to brace for a blizzard of wicked blizzarded proportions. A Blizzard Watch will officially be in effect in NYC starting Saturday morning at 6 a.m., and is expected to remain…
The cover was tweeted by the magazine shortly before 10 p.m. ET. A source with knowledge of the issue’s contents told CNN earlier Thursday that the issue will feature a blistering editorial that labels Trump a threat to conservatism, as well as essays by 22 prominent conservative thinkers from various ideological factions, in opposition to…