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George Zimmerman was wounded Monday afternoon during a shooting in Florida. Police said Zimmerman recieved minor facial injuries, reported WFTV-TV, and was taken to a local hospital in Sanford. Zimmerman was not shot. His lawyer told the Associated Press that he was hit with shards of glass from his vehicle’s windshield. He has been released…
It’s 2015, and we finally have female action figures to play with. Only they look like this. To answer @slashwhatever, the person on Twitter asking, “Am I the only one that thinks this is a little fucked up?” I’d say no, sir, you definitely are not. Hideo Kojima’s upcoming Metal Gear Solid V will feature the…
The miniature wargame play celebrated in the War Game Digest could reach only a limited audience because it required painstaking efforts from dedicated and artisanal adults. Avalon Hill’s board wargames, on the other hand, could reasonably aspire to reach the mass market. They built on the recognized tradition of juvenile board games, but with a…
As we’ve learned through the course of the month, David Letterman’s departure means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. For Americana musicians, it means saying goodbye to one of the genre’s biggest champions. For POTUS, it means losing an “escape” after a long day at work. And for the 20-time visitor…
View this image › Joss Whedon at an event for Avengers: Age Of Ultron in Seoul, South Korea, on April 17, 2015. Ahn Young-joon / AP When filmmaker Joss Whedon decided to delete his Twitter account on Monday, the day after his movie Avengers: Age of Ultron scored the second-highest domestic opening weekend ever, it…
by Zack Ford Posted on May 8, 2015 at 10:27 am “‘Hecklers’ Veto’ Fails To Block Transgender Protections In Country’s 10th Largest School District” CREDIT: Twitter/InsideNOVA/Jill Palermo Thursday night, the Fairfax County School Board, which oversees Virginia’s largest school system — and the tenth largest in the country — voted 10-1 with one abstention to…
When a straight dad gets blasted by the Internet for being an attentive father, what chance do two loving gay dads have? None, as a viral Instagram photo of proud pops Kordale and Kaleb proved this week. Power couple Kordale, of Chicago, and Kaleb, of Atlanta, clearly love their two daughters a perfect amount, as…
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One day we were shooting with about 20 large male background in full tactical military garb, weapons and all. The extras kept leaving their prop guns all over the place and the propmaster, typically overworked, asked if I could help keep eyes. So I asked the background to please gather round, and could they…
Figures released by Germany’s Interior Ministry just two days before the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe are sobering. They reveal a “sharp increase” in right-wing violence, with 175 racially motivated attacks in 2014, as compared to 58 the year before. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said asylum seekers and…