Derek Lowe, a doctor of organic chemistry with decades of pharmaceutical research experience, has published a takedown of a BuzzFeed post that went super-viral over the weekend: “Eight Foods That We Eat in The US That Are Banned in Other
From the White House that brought you “man-caused disasters,” “shared prosperity,” and “kinetic military action,” check out this new entry in the public lexicon: “Founding Founders.” That phrase made its way into the headline of a White House blog post
Cyndia Lauper won a Tony Award for Best Original Score for the musical version of “Kinky Boots” during Sunday evening’s award ceremony. She previously won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1985 and an Emmy Award in 1995
Mike Herrera, the lead singer of the punk band MxPx, has tattoos–a lot of tattoos. In fact, he’s got a giant bald eagle inked across his entire back, which means he’s sort of a fan of America. Mike’s not necessarily
Prolific graphic novelist Doug TenNapel is bringing his distinctive style back to the video game world for the first time in 14 years. TenNapel is best known for creating the video game character Earthworm Jim in the mid-1990s, and his
As President Barack Obama gave a shout-out to families affected by last week’s tornado in Monroe, Oklahoma, he was off by about 200 miles. Let he who is without gaffes cast the first stone, but the President accidentally flubbed the
St. Louis TV news station KMOV has fired Larry Conners, the news anchor who revealed the IRS shook him down after asking President Obama tough questions in an interview. The station says of his departure: Larry is certainly entitled to
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.
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