…The Flipside. You can watch the trailer and a sample episode over on this site. The Flipside is by no means the first attempt to create a comedy news show with a conservative bent. Maybe the most popular failed attempt is The 1/2 Hour News Hour, which lasted for about a half a year back […]
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Whole World Pauses to Watch Batkid Save the Day
#FollowFriday RT @SFWish: Here he comes!!!! #SFBatkid pic.twitter.com/pMn3gRHcLo— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 15, 2013 San Francisco—and the whole internet—stopped today to bask in the adventures of Batkid. The Daily Beast has a roundup of the day’s events.
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The Koch Brothers Are Reportedly Funding "A Network of Think Tanks Across the Country"
Tal Kopan at Politico reports: A network of think tanks across the country is quietly pushing the agenda of right-wing groups with funding from Koch brothers-affiliated organizations, a new report alleges. The study, by the liberal Center for Media and Democracy, is aimed at the State Policy Network, which describes itself as “dedicated solely to […]
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Heaven Forbid That the Children See Romance
PG-13 has become an essentially meaningless rating: …a new study indicates these films have only become more and more violent since the PG-13 rating was first introduced in the ’80s — to the extent that PG-13 films actually have more gun violence these days than R-rated movies do. This is because PG-13 is generally accepted […]
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I Believe That Children Are Our Future
Hooray for Jennifer Lawrence! She’s sincerely and thoughtfully answering questions about role models for young women and body image on her PR tour for the new Hunger Games movie. Boo for Toys R Us! Their newest ad feeds into that stupid “science is boring and normal kids hate it” stereotype. This ad is practically an […]
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Sexy, Sexy Sock Puppets
Remember Ashley Madison, the social networking site that promises to bring married people together for secret affairs? Seems like it may not be as full of sexy un-singles as advertised: A Toronto woman named Doriana Silva says she was hired to help launch the Brazilian version of the adultery-themed dating service, but soon realized her […]
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Chris Christie Looks Like Mitt Romney on Immigration Reform
One of the reasons Chris Christie worries me as a 2016 Republican presidential candidate is the fact that he seemed like the kind of guy who would be willing to tell the extremists in the Republican Party to go fuck themselves. He’s totally a conservative—anti-abortion, anti-gay-marriage, anti-union, the works—but he’s not willing to say, for […]
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George W. Bush to Cause the Apocalypse (Yes, Again)
Sarah Posner at Mother Jones explains: Next week, former President George W. Bush is scheduled to keynote a fundraiser in Irving, Texas, for the Messianic Jewish Bible Institute, a group that trains people in the United States, Israel, and around the world to convince Jews to accept Jesus as the Messiah. The organization’s goal: to […]
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford with Another Winner!
CNN has a new video of Rob “I Only Smoked Crack Because I Was in a Drunken Stupor” Ford. What’s new this time, Ford? And how do you explain it? Just days after admitting he had smoked crack cocaine, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford found himself trying to explain more bizarre behavior. A video obtained by […]
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The Country Music Awards Featured a Skit Slamming Obamacare
Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley sang a little duet about signing up for Obamacare on the Country Music Awards last night that had the crowd a-hootin’ and a-hollerin’: Here are the lyrics: Obamacare by mornin’/Why is this taking so long/I’m gonna wind up with hemorrhoids/If I sit here till dawn/We’ll have cataracts and dementia/Oh, this […]
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Should Movies Adopt a Bechdel Test Ratings System?
Rebecca Pahle at the Mary Sue explains that cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s famous test for whether a movie features any meaningful female characters is catching on in a more official way: When deciding what movie to go see, moviegoers are used to a rating system providing them with a few basic facts. The level of violence […]
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After the Plagiarism Scandal, A "Furious" Rand Paul Whines: "Do I Have to Be in Detention for the Rest of My Career?”
Yesterday, the Washington Times announced that it was suspending Rand Paul’s weekly column due to all the allegations of plagiarism that have circled the Kentucky senator. But Paul’s not going to go around acting all repentant about these charges. In fact, he’s taking the whiny-baby riad, complaining about having to deal with the consequences of […]