Lookee here, Hollywood: Rick Santorum has become CEO of a Christian film production company called EchoLight. And according to The Dissolve’s Vadim Rizov, Santorum’s got some big plans: “I’d like to see Dallas and Fort Worth be to faith and family entertainment what Nashville is to music,” Santorum told [The Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Cary] Darling. […]
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You Don’t Need Facebook On Your Phone
The other day, I was trying to make room on my home screen for an app—One Bus Away needed better placement—and so I decided to move Facebook off the home screen. It was inadvertently the smartest thing I’ve done this month. It turns out, when Facebook isn’t on the home screen, I never think of […]
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Is Ted Cruz Still Talking?
Nope. John McCain, according to the Huffington Post, was especially not amused by one of Cruz’s crazier moments: “If you go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany,” Cruz said. “Look, we saw in Britain, Neville Chamberlain, who told the British people, ‘Accept the Nazis. Yes, they’ll dominate the continent of Europe but that’s not our problem. […]
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Shutting Down Comments for Science
In a post at Popular Science titled “Why We’re Shutting Off Our Comments,” Suzanne LaBarre writes: Comments can be bad for science. That’s why, here at PopularScience.com, we’re shutting them off…That is not to suggest that we are the only website in the world that attracts vexing commenters. Far from it. Nor is it to […]
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Popewatch: The New One Is Still Better Than the Old One, but the Old One Was a Nazi
1. As a rebuttal to all the hoopla over Pope Francis’s suggestion that the Catholic Church should spend a little less time obsessing over gays and abortion last week, Tim Stanley at the Telegraph points out the case of a former priest from Melbourne named Greg Reynolds who “appears to have been both defrocked and […]
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Some Assholes Always Have to Go and Ruin It for Everybody Else
The AP wants you to know that your special delicate snowflake butthole is causing a problem: BEMUS POINT, New York (AP) — Increasingly popular bathroom wipes – pre-moistened towelettes that are often advertised as flushable – are being blamed for creating clogs and backups in sewer systems around the U.S. Wastewater authorities say wipes may […]
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J.K. Rowling Is Writing the Screenplay for a Harry Potter Prequel Film Series
From the press release: Warner Bros. Entertainment today announced an expanded creative partnership with world-renowned, best-selling author J.K. Rowling. At the center of the partnership is a new film series from Rowling’s world of witches and wizards, inspired by Harry Potter’s Hogwarts textbook “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” and the adventures of the […]
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The Saul Goodman Breaking Bad Spinoff Is Coming
According to Deadline, AMC and Sony Pictures TV have given the green light to Better Call Saul, a prequel series to Breaking Bad. This is good news, because it decreases my chances of Breaking Bad withdrawal. Plus, more Bob Odenkirk is never a bad thing.
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Dallas Gay Pride Organizers Institute Dress Code to Make the Event More “Family-Friendly”
Dallas Voice reports: In a controversy that threatened to overshadow the 30th anniversary of Dallas’ gay Pride parade, some LGBT activists expressed outrage this week after organizers reminded participants about the need for the event to be family-friendly and said nudity and lewd behavior will no longer be tolerated. Daniel Cates, one opponent to the […]
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The One Percent Is Close to Full Recovery
In a PDF, Emmanuel Saez of UC Berkeley writes: From 2009 to 2012, average real income per family grew modestly by 6.0% (Table 1). Most of the gains happened in the last year when average incomes grew by 4.6% from 2011 to 2012. However, the gains were very uneven. Top 1% incomes grew by 31.4% […]
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What Do You Think About the New iPhone Announcement?
Apple just had their big annual iPhone hootenanny. Announcements include a release date for iOS 7; a cheaper, plastic iPhone 5C in multiple colors; and the iPhone 5S, which comes with a better camera, a new fancy gold shade, and—some seem to think this is the biggest deal—a fingerprint scanner. At the moment, Wall Street […]