Until now, I was only marginally interested in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel. The past few trailers were all familiar territory: the Kansas cornfield kid years, Supes flying faster than a speeding bullet, feeling like an outcast, magisterial score, etc. The
As if Obama’s week couldn’t get any worse, it turns out the White House got the pronunciation of “gif” wrong. In a brief NYT profile of Steve Wilhite, creator of the GIF image format, who receive a lifetime achievement award
Photo gallery: scenes of destruction caused by a series of tornadoes which hit Oklahoma on Sunday and Monday, May 19-20. Officials have estimated the body count from Monday’s storms, which primarily struck Moore, OK, at 51 people, and they expect
Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course. Well, except for the whole employer-employee, dictator-subject relationship going on. And some death threats here and there. NBD. Even in death, the former supreme ruler of North Korea, Kim Jong Il,
Chris Christie appears to be the only Republican who’s learned anything from 2012. In this video released Tuesday, the New Jersey governor riffs on his infamous post-Sandy apparel in a star-studded, self-deprecating romp. I remember during last year’s election when
Just throwing this out there. Photo: According to armchair body-language expert Ezra Dulis, either MSNBC host Chris Matthews or MSNBC host Al Sharpton is fall-down drunk before entering the White House Correspondents Dinner (WHCD) Saturday evening. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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And you thought your boss was–wait for it–unpopular. Los Angeles’s KABC reports that police arrested a woman Tuesday after allegedly taking hostage the CFO of Popcornopolis, an El Segundo “gourmet popcorn” company. Authorities say the woman, armed with a handgun,
If you enjoyed The History Channel miniseries The Bible and it left you wanting more, take heart! The cable phenomenon has its own book adaptation. It’s called A Story of God and All of Us: A Novel Based on the Epic
President Barack Obama has created a minor controversy within progressive media circles by complimenting the looks of California Attorney General Kamala Harris. Obama praised Harris Thursday as “brilliant,” “dedicated,” and “tough.” He then capped off the compliment, “She also happens
Reggae singer Snoop Lion–formerly the rapper Snoop Dogg–has put up a new single from his forthcoming album “Reincarnated” titled “No Guns Allowed”: Given the highly emotional debate over guns that has raged since the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre in December
“Are you tired?” Mom asks, watching her daughter’s frown boil over into an audible whimper. “No, I just want a real live unicorn,” the young child mewls in response. Those were simpler times, those days when our imaginations were so
This AP photo from Charles Dharapak shows a “Flat Stanley” in the East Room of the White House, where President Obama held a Women’s History Month reception Monday. Flat Stanley is a common project in elementary schools today; students take
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has won the 2013 CPAC presidential straw poll, settling questions whether the junior Senator’s more mainstream libertarianism could draw the same enthusiasm as his now-retired father, perennial presidential hopeful Ron Paul. Paul edged out Florida Senator
Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) spoke at the ACU’s Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday, and this is one of three Associated Press photos chosen to represent his time in the spotlight. Scott assumed this particular pose as he acted out a
Actress and potential Senate candidate Ashley Judd’s aging pets may have been a deciding factor in her choice to part with a renovated Scottish estate worth millions, according to a 2012 interview. Judd and then-husband Dario Franchitti, a Scotland native,
In response to Murder Most Fowl: Morrissey Refuses to Share the Stage on Jimmy Kimmel with the “Serial Animal Killers” of Duck-Hunting Show “Duck Dynasty”: That’s actually not the biggest “Morrissey being obnoxious” story to come out today. From an
In response to Video game sin tax? Where’s the sin?: Every legislator who treats gamers as rageaholic psychopaths just waiting to explode has literally no idea what video games are like today. If anything, games make young men fat and docile,
You know you were thinking it.
Secretary of State John Kerry took to the official State Department Twitter account Saturday to wish Ben Affleck and his film Argo good luck at Sunday’s Academy Awards. Good luck @benaffleck and #Argo at the Oscars. Nice seeing @statedept &
Chuck Hagel, stuck in an arduous confirmation battle to become Secretary of Defense, has notably pivoted away from his more controversial foreign policy positions–a move that appears to have validated Senate Republicans’ fierce opposition to a reelected Barack Obama. So
As my colleague John Nolte reminded us today, I am incorrigibly and forever steeped in the hipster world. It’s a simple relationship: I love the music, mostly dislike the movies, and hate the attitude. I don’t presume that my age
The Washington Post would like you to know that poor defenseless aminals are very, very sad that Congress will soon cut $85 billion in federal spending. That figure may be less than one percent of the $16 trillion still-growing national
This is how the left manufactures an education crisis: “Study after study shows that the sooner a child begins learning, the better he or she does down the road. But today, fewer than 3 in 10 four year-olds are enrolled
Our infrastructure has been crumbling for a whole four years now! Scary stuff. Somebody better do something.
