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Uber says it has permanently suspended the driver. When Erika Szabo, a video game and anime YouTube personality, ordered an Uber on a Sunday afternoon following a guest appearance at a convention in Toronto, she was looking to get home quickly after a long day and shitty weather. Just as her Uber driver pulled up, however,…
My father-in-law grew up eating blood soup. He hated it, whether because of the taste or the humiliation, I never knew. His alcoholic father regularly drank up the family wage, and the family was often short on food money. They were evicted from apartment after apartment. He dropped out of school in eighth grade…
Chris Hemsworth has just demonstrated the right way to own up to racist or insensitive behavior. On Thursday, Hemsworth shared a photo on his official Instagram in solidarity with the protestors of the Standing Rock pipeline protest, and in the process apologized for cultural appropriation in the past. Hemsworth, who is currently filming the next…
Web of Trust’s browser was pulled for being, well, untrustworthy. Browser add-on caught selling identifiable web histories. Source: Browser add-on caught selling identifiable web histories
Romance is part of the essential fabric of the comic book movie. Where would Christopher Reeve’s Superman have been without Margot Kidder’s vivacious Lois Lane in the Richard Donner and Richard Lester films – the flawed, human counterweight to the tedious perfection of everyone’s favorite big blue alien boy scout? Would the early Sam Raimi…
The following sentence applies regardless of when you read this: A famous man has recently been accused of doing sexual things to a woman (or many women) without consent. At the time of this writing, it was a politician’s “groping” scandal but next time it’ll be unwanted dick pics a powerful man sent to an…
close story-meta Photo Credit Javier Jaén On Nov. 8, Americans may elect our first female president. While many of us are exhilarated at the idea of this feminist victory, the toll we’ve paid for coming so close to that historic barrier has been the most graphically sexist election in living memory. What this campaign has…
Google Microdata Mobile only ad Article “Cover” Mel Gibson Is Not Sorry Indignant, yes, his appearance on the Late Show With Stephen Colbert suggested. But the disgraced star’s apology tour has been, overall, strikingly lacking in actual apologies. Google Metadata CBS “Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world,” Mel Gibson, drunk and…
In its Date Lab series, the Washington Post matches two D.C.-area singles, sends them out on a blind date, and interviews them afterwards. Obviously, this doesn’t always work out. This week’s Date Lab featured Erica, a 27-year-old project analyst, and Anda, a 32-year-old entrepreneur. Here’s how Anda describes his goals: I’ve been on hundreds of…
Voices Yes, contraceptives have side effects – and it’s time for men to put up with them too Apparently women can have such ailments as depression and acne thrust upon them for the greater good of preventing an unwanted pregnancy, but the same level of discomfort cannot be expected of men scald=3875131:article_responsive_images [if IE 9]><...