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Jo and Wes Tongue with their daughters, Evie, 4, and Lu, 3, in Fort Collins, Colo. The Tongues are disillusioned with the presidential campaign and undecided about which candidate to support. (Matthew Staver/For The Washington Post) This article was reported by Philip Rucker in Fort Collins, Colo.; Robert Costa in Madison, Wis.; Abby Phillip in…
A former Colorado college student who was convicted of raping an intoxicated woman he was pretending to take care of was sentenced to 20 years of probation and two years of a jail work-release program. Austin James Wilkerson, a former University of Colorado student, had been facing 4 to 12 years in prison for sexual…
The plus-sized comedian Dawn French would be unlikely to describe herself as a sex symbol, but was she simply born at the wrong time? “If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model,” she once quipped. “Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.” French…
Photo from here. I’m no fan of startup jargon—there’s a very thin line between innovation and bullshit—but there’s one term I’m a big fan of: “achieving failure.” It’s from Lean Startup, and essentially, it means spending a lot of time and money to perfectly execute something that it turns out nobody wants. If you want…
PSY 607: Everything is Fucked Prof. Sanjay Srivastava Class meetings: Mondays 9:00 – 10:50 in 257 Straub Office hours: Held on Twitter at your convenience (@hardsci) In a much-discussed article at Slate, social psychologist Michael Inzlicht told a reporter, “Meta-analyses are fucked” (Engber, 2016). What does it mean, in science, for something to be fucked?…
Barrier Status: ‘none’ On Thursday morning, Donald Trump doubled down on his latest verbal outrage: the claim that President Obama was the “founder” of ISIS. Actually, the Republican Presidential nominee tripled down. Appearing on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” he described himself as “a truth teller” and went on to say that the President was “the founder…
Occupy Wall Street protestors. Photo via Flickr user Paul Stein It’s not news to anyone that the economy fucking sucks for pretty much everyone in the world who isn’t a Koch. Since the financial meltdown of 2008, discussions about the 99 percent, wealth inequality, and the many related economic and social issues have been prominent….
Two-Face thinks he can turn everyone in Gotham City and the surrounding state into a greedy no-good criminal lowlife with the promise of cold, hard cash and the threat of suddenly revealed secrets. He’s probably right. I’ve always thought that Two-Face was second only to the Joker in Batman’s rogues’ gallery. His past as a…
Barry Jenner, best known for his role on “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” died Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at age 75. Jenner, who played Starfleet Admiral William Ross on “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” for 12 episodes from 1997-99, died from acute myeloid leukemia, according to his wife, actress Suzanne Hunt,…
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