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The California painter and critic Manny Farber extolled “termite art” as occurring “where the spotlight of culture is nowhere in evidence, so that the craftsman can be ornery, wasteful, stubbornly self-involved, doing go-for-broke art and not caring what comes of it.” That need for art to be ugly, to go where it is not wanted,…
December 5, 2017 Hi, It’s Us, All the Fourteen-Year-Old Girls in America Hey, guys. We’re the fourteen-year-old girls of America. There are a lot of us, but we talk to each other. We’re on a group thread. We hear that the president — who, for the record, you elected; we are not old enough…
MONTGOMERY, AL—Waving off the current allegations against him as vicious attempts to sabotage his election bid, Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore told reporters Monday that the women accusing him of pedophilia were only doing so now because “shifting sociocultural norms have created an environment in which assault allegations are taken seriously.” “These women have had…
United Airlines said a man wouldn’t give up his spot on a flight. According to witnesses, he was pulled screaming from his seat by security and back to the terminal at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. (The Washington Post) Before you seek to board a plane, please ask yourself the following questions. Better to ask them before…
President Trump made a lot of promises to the American people during his campaign, but parts of his spending proposal seem to contradict some of those pledges. (Video: Jenny Starrs/Photo: Melina Mara/The Washington Post) Some people are complaining that the budget proffered by the Trump administration, despite its wonderful macho-sounding name, is too vague and…
CreditPHOTOGRAPH BY SPENCER PLATT / GETTY Barrier Status: ‘none’ Great. Just great. Nine years. That’s how long I’ve spent meticulously crafting an online persona that’s funny, trendy, tech-savvy, slightly self-deprecating, and nerdy in a conventionally acceptable way. Now it’s all falling apart. Trump hasn’t even been President for two months, and look at what’s happened….
The Disney film studio is in damage control this week, as news spreads that its live action remake of Beauty and the Beast may contain a gay subplot, in what is being described as a first and now a last for any high budget children’s film. Conservative pundits and cinemas alike are protesting the “unnatural”…
Senator Elizabeth Warren let Rachel Maddow know her plan. Judge Neil Gorsuch was making his rounds to all the Senators, to meet them and woo them, including her, and Senator Warren suggested that Maddow hide under a desk, with tape rolling, in case Gorsuch bashed Trump, and they could politicize the moment. “We don’t want…
Meet Secretary of the Treasury and Swamp King, Steve Mnuchin. https://youtu.be/8okdzcz7PTM?list=PLur87nTwD0BtIreRwNBMG63ZCc4EXo9F9 via Swamp Dwellers | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS – YouTube.
NEW YORK—Admitting they badly need to turn their business around, executives at struggling media company Vidmark Interactive confided to sources Tuesday that their situation has become so dire they may have to consider giving a job to someone who is actually qualified to hold it. “We’ve had such a difficult time staying afloat in the…