La La Land, a musical about two crazy kids struggling to make it in Hollywood, won a record-breaking seven awards at last night’s Golden Globesโincluding best musical or comedy film, best director, best screenplay, and acting honors for stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. It was a sweep that nearly shut out critical favorite Moonlight, […]
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Hillary Clinton Opens Up About Putin Hacking the Election Because He Had a “Beef” With Her
Evan El-Amin / Shutterstock.com In the new world order of global politics, the delicate egos of world leaders should be considered of paramount importance. Do no criticize his cabinet picks, or his restaurants or the way they run their elections, or you may find yourself on the receiving end of an injured tweet or an […]
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Trump Names Walter White Head of the DEA on This Week’s SNL
Trump’s cabinet picks are feeling increasingly like the administration of Upside-Down (OR Community‘s darkest timeline OR Biff Tannen’s alternate reality 2015, take your horrible pick) with near daily opposite-world announcements of your worst nightmare picks for all the top government jobs. There’s an oil-drilling proponent on tap to head the interior, a Goldman Sachs exec […]
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La La Land and Moonlight Lead the 2017 Golden Globe Nominations
Mahershala Ali received a Golden Globe nomination for his role as “Juan” in Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has unleashed their nominations for the 2017 Golden Globe Awards. Leading the pack with seven nods is La La Land, a musical starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stoneโboth of whom received nominations. Moonlight will […]
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May Fiona Apple’s “Trump’s Nuts” Become the Holiday Classic It Deserves to Be
As much as I don’t want to picture Trump’s nuts in any context at all, including and especially dangling over an open flame, I hope this incisive, funny (and only slightly juvenile) version of “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” is sung ‘cross the nation for at least the next four years. We await the […]
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Recount Update: Jill Stein’s Quixotic Battle For Democracy Continues Apace and Yeah, She Still Wants Your Money
COURTESY JILL STEIN FOR PRESIDENT Jill Stein’s #Recount2016 appears to be going full steam, despite the best efforts of Trump’s lawyers and Republicans in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to block the Green Party’s bids for recounts in those states. Stein held a press conference and rally outside Trump Tower in Manhattan this morning to announce […]
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Saturday Night Live Encourages Bipartisan Hugging
It’s been a long and brutal election season. In this weekend’s cold open, Saturday Night Live acknowledges what many of us have been feeling: gross. It started out as a basic Trump v. Clinton sketch, with Alec Baldwin’s combative, pursed-lipped Trump slinging mud at Kate McKinnon’s stilted, smug Clinton as she tried unsuccessfully to hide […]
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Chicago Cubs Break Curse to Win First World Series in 108 Years
Today’s @chicagotribune front page. Cubs. pic.twitter.com/eDNHvGpXVmโ Matt Bowen (@MattBowen41) November 3, 2016 The Chicago Cubs won the World Series last night in an 8-7 victory over the Cleveland Indians. With that, the Cubs broke a 108-year championship drought. The victory brings to an end a curse put on the club in 1945 by William Sianis, […]
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The Stranger Things Gang Gets the Peanuts Treatment in “Merry Christmas Will Byers”
You’d think the more obvious Stranger Things-Peanuts crossover would be It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, but here we areโfour days before Halloweenโalready with the Christmas specials. In the animated short “Merry Christmas Will Byers”โcreated by Leigh Lahav and Oren Mendezโthe hero of Stranger Things is still a bit depressed after returning from the Upside […]
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A Mob of Dancers Gathered in Support of Hillary Clinton and Her Pantsuits
NYC is WITH HER! #pantsuit #flashmobs โ๐ผ๐๐๐บ๐ธ #HILLYES #IMWITHHER #giveemhill #hillary2016 #hrc #hrc2016 #democrat #hillaryclinton #hillary #clinton #voteHillary #madampresident #herstory #nevertrump #hillaryforpresident #2016election #womenforhillary #womancard #dealmein #strongertogether #glassbreakers #shewon #dumptrump #vote #iWILLhVOTEDOTCOM #iwillvote A video posted by โ โ alicia โ โ โ โ โ โ ๐บ๐ธI’m With Her๐ (@hillaryswarrior) on Oct 3, 2016 at 10:23am PDT Hillary Clinton is going to be […]
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Elon Musk Wants to Colonize Mars; Would-Be Martians Should Be Ready to Die on the Journey
Today, Elon Musk unveiled his plans to colonize Mars using tech from his SpaceX company. See there, in the video above that looks like a clip from an especially dour and pretentious piece of space Oscar bait? That’s the solar-powered spaceship that will supposedly carry humans to the Red Planet, where they would spend the […]
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Today in Stupid: Video Shows Assholes Destroying Instagram’s Favorite Oregon Rock
Throwback to #thatpnwrock ๐ท: @_mintken_ A photo posted by M a c k a y l a G e n e s e a (@themac10) on Nov 14, 2015 at 9:03am PST The Duckbill, an Instagram-famous sandstone formation at Oregon’s Cape Kiwanda State Natural Area, has been toppled by vandals, according a recently-released video. Oregon […]