About a year ago I work/watched Lena Dunham’s debut film “Tiny Furniture” when someone else streamed it from my TV. Wasn’t too impressed, so I was pretty ambivalent about her HBO series “Girls.” Then came her Obama campaign ad, which
In response to Ling’s Cars: The owner of Ling’s Cars reveals Breitbart readers are throttling her website.
There… there are no words. (UPDATE: Click with caution if you are prone to epilepsy.) As seen on TV–it’s got gifs! It’s got music! Cats wearing military helmets! A no-horse-meat guarantee! A .com domain for a UK business! A mosaic
Wednesday evening, a blog report circulated claiming Lena Dunham, creator and star of HBO’s Girls, did not vote in the 2012 election, based on a survey of New York City voting records. However, Ms. Dunham’s publicist contested the claim. The
Slate has a fascinating tech article I’ve been meaning to write about for a couple days now about Silent Circle, a mobile developer which claims its latest app can send calls, texts, and files in such a way that they
You know the story: frog carries scorpion across river. Frog tells scorpion, “Don’t sting me or we both drown.” Scorpion stings frog. Frog asks scorpion why. Scorpion says, “It’s my nature.” Senator Marco Rubio sits down with Ben Smith of
In response to A Heavy Subject Matter: I think the left’s response to the charge of hypocrisy over smoker shaming would be that second-hand smoke harms the health of other people besides the smoker. I know there’s some conservative pushback
In response to Obesity Is Hilarious: I’m not sure what we’re getting at here. Because the stigma against smoking is hypocritical, we should push a stigma against overeating? Maybe I’m reading that wrong. I think Christie’s gag was funny, just
In response to Get Hip: I remember an article some magazine did about Republican hipsters (can’t find it on Google) about half a year back; as conservatives passed it around, the majority of the response was mockery–“weirdos” this, “betas” that.
We can all stop making jokes about MTV not playing music videos anymore. As my colleagues John Nolte and Christian Toto have been pointing out for a long time now, Internet streaming is eroding the corrupt business model of cable
This story didn’t get a lot of play yesterday, but it can’t be repeated enough. Job growth per month over the past four years averaged a whopping 25,000–100k shy of conservative estimates of how many jobs we need to create
Earlier today, as I hadn’t seen the tweets from Obama’s camp saying he was shooting on August 4th of last year, I checked the pic’s Exif data on Flickr–a great feature they include for photo wonks to see the aperture,
Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” is not only a great film but the greatest display of liberalism in movie theaters this past year. To those whose blood is boiling or eyes are rolling, I don’t use that word to refer to
Andrew Kaczynski of BuzzFeed reacted as any normal, non-partisan journalist would when news broke of Hillary Clinton’s hospitalization; in keeping with tradition at BuzzFeed Politics, he scoured the archives of the Internet to score political points against conservative media. Kaczynski
New York City Michael Bloomberg warned city residents not to feel unsafe after a suspected murder at a subway station, claiming one sensational event does not negate the downward trend of homicide in the region. “It’s a very tragic case,
In the Sufjan Stevens song “John Wayne Gacy, Jr,” the singer punctuates a retelling of the infamous killer’s deeds with the line: “On my best behavior, I am really just like him.” As a Christian, Stevens’ lyric is a poignant
The media and public have passionately debated whether George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed Florida youth Trayvon Martin in February of this year, could justifiably claim self-defense. Progressive media outlets attempted to downplay the wounds Zimmerman sustained in
A State Department spokesperson has announced that singer-songwriter, entrepeneur, and all-around embodiment of sprezzatura Andrew W.K. will not represent the United States as a cultural ambassador to Bahrain. Spokesperson Noel Clay said the planned trip was “a mistake and not
Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier is one accomplished dude: international rock icon, music producer, club owner, motivational speaker, and television host — and soon, he’ll be known as a world statesman. Known by his fans as Andrew W.K., Wilkes-Krier is known for
UPDATE 4: The SOE has closed down for the night with the hand count of the 304 found ballots unfinished. Hawkes relays that everyone on site except for SOE staff and law enforcement have been forced out of the building,
The entertainment world displayed a deeper hue of purple during the 2012 campaign between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney than it did during 2008’s presidential contest. Though the concept of “celebrity” is looser than ever — Obama’s “endorsement” from reality
Multiple sources have cited the Associated Press calling the race for Minnesota’s 6th congressional district in favor of incumbent Republican Michele Bachmann. The vote tally for Bachmann and Democratic challenger Jim Graves remained too close to call through Tuesday night.
Walked back into the TV room to catch Rudy Giuliani ripping Obama for ignoring the requests for extra security at Benghazi — just hammering him. CNN anchor Erin Burnett couldn’t think of any way to spin it, so the conversation
CNN has, out of the blue, called up Ron Paul (R-TX) on Election Day to talk about how there’s no difference between Obama and Romney, playing oodles of campaign B-roll of Rep. Paul and his supporters on the campaign trail.
On CNN this morning, Ohio Senator Rob Portman put the kibosh on some last-minute GM/Jeep/Fiat spin from — who else? — Soledad O’Brien. O’BRIEN: The implication being that jobs were taken from the United States and being moved to China.
