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Mike Pence, he’s this dick. He may or may not end up being Donald Trump’s pick for vice president, once Trump The Showman has done a few more misdirec … LOOK OVER THERE! But at much of a doucher as Mike Pence is, we weren’t mad until we read this, from Buzzfeed, about his 2000…
Nikki Glaser’s Comedy Central show Not Safe usually focuses on the sexual exploits people are shy to talk about openly, but on Tuesday, she dedicated a segment to the subject most universities don’t want to admit is event happening: campus rape. With special guest Katie Nolan, Glaser focuses largely on rape perpetrated by sports stars…
GIF The moving company Tituss Burgess complained about—yelped about!—on Yelp has responded to the 2015 Emmy nominee for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. http://jezebel.com/tituss-burgess… Burgess wrote a negative Yelp review of Franks Express in which the actor, best known for his Emmy-nominated role in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, called the movers out for being…
The woman who memorably described Roger Ailes’ exposed genitals as “red like raw hamburger” has been trying to get that disgusting comparison and the rest of her story about his alleged sexual harassment published for over twenty years. The Chicago Reader’s Michael Miner says he personally knows the woman identified as “Susan” in Gabriel Sherman’s…
Dani Mathers was 2015’s Playmate of the Year. She has won an award for being hot, which maybe is what made her feel qualified to decide who deserves privacy in the gym and who should be mocked for having a body unlike hers. Now she’s fired, and otherwise in trouble. Mathers posted the photo below…
On Thursday, President Obama hosted a Town Hall meeting on race relations in Washington D.C. that aired on ABC, with guests affected by police violence in the United States. That included police officers and the families of Alton Sterling and Eric Garner. Garner’s daughter, Erica, was not happy with how it went. It started off…
Can I trust you? – Post and Courier. Source: Can I trust you? – Post and Courier
(1) Nerdy Childhood Pursuit Almost every conversation I have with an engineer starts with “oh I started coding when I was 10.” We think that people don’t really love technology unless they found it themselves in a garage. Well, I can tell you about using Perl when I was 10. And I can tell you…
As an unmarried woman approaching 30, I’m increasingly aware of the looming biological deadline that might make it difficult to have both a career and a family. Or at least what I thought was the biological deadline. In fact, as this video shows, the belief that you’re taking a lot of risk with your fertility…
Pour scorn elsewhere. / Joanna Slodownik Late capitalism is like your love life: it looks a lot less bleak through an Instagram filter. The slow collapse of the social contract is the backdrop for a modern mania for clean eating, healthy living, personal productivity, and “radical self-love”—the insistence that, in spite of all evidence to the…