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To be Muslim in 2016 America is to feel like eyes are always on you; like a task as simple as driving a car could end in murder; like any given day you might need to plead for your life with a racist neighbor. Imagine that people who look like you, speak like you,…
How to be perfectly unhappy – The Oatmeal. Source: How to be perfectly unhappy – The Oatmeal
.entry-header Ask anyone who knows me. I am a VERY outgoing person. Extroverted? Yes. A less known fact is that I hate uncertainty. I need to know what is happening. And when. Without that, chaos. Yes and Yes Yes (@YxYY on Twitter) is a gathering of “thinkers/futurists/nerds/weirdos” that happens every July in Palm Springs, California….
The soldier pointed his AK-47 at the female aid worker and gave her a choice. “Either you have sex with me, or we make every man here rape you and then we shoot you in the head,” she remembers him saying. She didn’t really have a choice: by the end of the evening, she had…
© Lakeshore Entertainment Kate Beckinsale is being hunted on all sides in the gritty first teaser for Underworld: Blood Wars. The quest for power among the vampires, lycans and all of their hybrid enemies is bloodier than ever before in the upcoming sequel – and only a Death Dealer can battle them all. Advertisement – Continue Reading…
A man who wants to be a world leader doesn’t know what Aleppo is. Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee, was stumped on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Thursday when asked about the Syrian city, which has been one of the worst-hit in the nation’s devastating civil war. “What would you do, if you were elected,…
When Star Trek fans fight about the best Trek show, nine times out of 10 they’re arguing about the original series versus The Next Generation. Obviously, both shows are excellent and fundamental to the franchise, but they aren’t the best Trek ever put on television. I believe that honor belongs to Deep Space Nine, and…
These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission, no, wait, 50-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life for itself, to boldly remain relevant across space and time. And it has. Especially today, in the age of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the message of “Star Trek” — openness, harmony and the…
Fifty years ago — on Sept. 8, 1966 — TV viewers were transfixed by the appearance on screen of a green-hued, pointy-eared alien called Spock. But beneath the makeup, actor Leonard Nimoy fretted that this would be the end of his promising career. “How can I play a character without emotion?” he asked his boss,…