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Bernie Sanders’s supporters are fond of the hypothesis that Democratic superdelegates, the elected leaders and party officials who currently support Hillary Clinton by a lopsided-doesn’t-even-begin-to-describe-it 469 to 31, are going to bow to the “will of the people” if Sanders ends up winning more pledged delegates than Clinton by June. There’s just one hiccup in…
Washington state caucus-goers. (Ted S. Warren/AP) Writer and activist Shaun King has a prolific presence on social media and an outspoken passion for Bernie Sanders. King appeared in Sanders’s Spike Lee-directed promotional video that came out shortly before the New York primary, and he has consistently advocated for the senator from Vermont on Twitter for…
(Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post) “He’s won some, we’ve won some, but I have 2.5 million more votes than he does.” — Hillary Clinton, in an interview on ABC’s “The View,” April 5, 2016 This article has been updated with the most recent primary results The Clinton campaign often points to the fact that the former…
RealClearPolitics – 2016 Democratic Popular Vote RealClearPolitics – 2016 Democratic Popular Vote. Source: RealClearPolitics – 2016 Democratic Popular Vote
Some people had hoped, after months of hype and the pedigree of director Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code), that Warcraft might break the long and storied Curse Of Bad Video Game Movies. I have some sad news for those people. Maybe video game adaptations were just never meant to be. Warcraft, which comes out June…
Billionaire Peter Thiel and Hulk Hogan make for an unlikely couple. This Silicon Valley Billionaire Has Been Secretly Funding Hulk Hogan’s Lawsuits Against Gawker – Forbes. Source: This Silicon Valley Billionaire Has Been Secretly Funding Hulk Hogan’s Lawsuits Against Gawker – Forbes
It’s hard to pick a side in the Gawker-Thiel-Hogan lawsuit, reported today in Forbes, but the lawsuit and its outcome are a mere sideshow to the main story, which is that this case is a terrifying development for those of us who value a free, democratic media. What is most frightening about this lawsuit is that…
On Playing Games, Productivity, and Right Livelihood end article header One week last spring I said it out loud for the first time: “Sometimes I play so long, my fingers go numb.” I said it while straddling the man I loved. We were fully clothed, on my bed, in my newly cleaned and de-cluttered room….
There’s really no escaping the launch of Overwatch. The airwaves are packed with commercials, the internet is littered with banner ads, and social media is showing animated character shorts on a loop. The only confusion might be the fact that for the Americas, Overwatchtechnically launches tonight, not tomorrow, and many fans are counting down the seconds until the…
GIF Illustration by Sam Woolley. Angel-winged Mercy having sex with the devilish Reaper. Spunky mech pilot D.Va pleasuring herself in front of a webcam. Blindingly speedy Tracer caught in Widowmaker’s web. Overwatch porn has been all over the Internet for months, though the game’s creators at Blizzard don’t seem to eye it too favorably. (Warning:…