Pavel L Photo and Video / Shutterstock.com Simone Manuel won a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Rio yesterday, making her the first African-American woman to win an individual medal in Olympic swimming. Manuel, a student at Stanford University, tied with Canada’s Penny Oleksiuk for the win. Michael Phelps also had a historic night. […]
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After a Deluge of Angry Tweets, The Daily Beast Takes Down Story on Gay Olympians
lazyllama / Shutterstock Yesterday, Nico Hines, a reporter for The Daily Beast, published a dangerous “exposé,” which outed a number of gay Olympic athletes, many of who live in countries with repressive anti-gay laws. Hines—who is straight, married, and has a child—used gay hookup app, Grindr, to bait male athletes. As was to be expected, […]
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Dan Savage to Daily Beast: Take Down Your Creepy Olympic Grindr “Exposé”
lazyllama / Shutterstock In recent years, the Olympic games have become synonymous with sex. And the 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro are no different. Usually, the reports focus on the hundreds of thousands of condoms that are being handed out to athletes in the Olympic Village. But this year, Nico Hines, a reporter for […]
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John Oliver Makes the Case for Supporting Local Papers (and Namechecks the Oregonian)
On Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver makes a very strong case for supporting your local daily newspaper—if for no other reason that local reporting keeps officials honest, and supports national reporting (like his). Oliver’s report also uses the Oregonian‘s struggles to stay afloat and chase after their “digital first” business plan, as a good […]
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The First-Ever Commercial for a Cannabis Edible Was Made in Portland
This new commercial for Mirth Provisions‘ brand of cannabis beverages—which slyly bear the name “Legal”—is being touted as the world’s first-ever TV commercial for a weed edible. Is it? I’m inclined to take them at their word, but there’s a comments section here in case you have proof otherwise. The ad was made by a […]
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Jon Stewart Returns, Courtesy of Stephen Colbert, To Help Reasonable Humans Shake Off Trump Terror (and Bash Fox News)
It’s nice to see you again, Mr. Stewart. The echo chamber has been lonely in your absence. Of the many, many horrible things we learned last night during the speech that refused to end, perhaps the most poignant was the proof that no one will ever invent a time machine. If there were to be […]
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Megyn Kelly Has Reportedly Told Lawyers That Roger Ailes Made Unwanted Sexual Advances Toward Her
Megyn Kelly has “described her harassment by Ailes in detail,” according to a scoop this morning in New York magazine. HELGA ESTEB / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM For weeks, the most talked about anchor at Fox News has been silent about the sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Gretchen Carlson against Roger Ailes. Until now. Gabriel Sherman reports: Kelly’s […]
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Invitation Declined
“No, network news show booker, I don’t want to come on TV so I can tell ‘parents’ what to say to three-year-old kids when they see two gay men kissing. Because it wasn’t that three-year-old who had a problem with those two gay men kissing. The three-year-old kid didn’t shoot up that gay bar and […]
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A Toast to The Toast: I Love You, I’ll Miss You, and I Don’t Blame You One Bit for Closing
May ye be in heaven an hour before the devil knows your monetization metrics! ifong/Shutterstock Today’s first bummer came in the form of news that The Toast, a three-year-old blog run by Mallory Ortberg and Nicole Cliffe, will be closing July 1. It’s tempting to add another drop to the ocean of tearful, shame-spraying tirades […]
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Boy in Dinosaur Costume Creates Panic; Saves Slow News Day
Via Reddit, here is an actual story currently on an actual local news organization’s website. From KPTV: And here is the entirety of that story: FOREST GROVE, OR (KPTV) -Monday’s warm weather brought out a couple of mermaids, and even a dinosaur. A boy in a custom-made dinosaur costume was seen wandering around the Rogers […]
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Being Under 30: One Weird Trick for Getting a Subscription to The New Yorker?
Something weird happened when I became a Sunday New York Times home delivery subscriber this fall, and it wasn’t just that a 28-year-old person willingly exchanged perfectly good American dollars for the paper version of print media’s oldest available dinosaur. MB NOT PICTURED: Unbridled joy. It was this: Suddenly, I was in demand. High-brow print […]
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Everything the Oregonian Thought They Knew About What You Thought You Knew About Baby Carrots Being Wrong is Wrong
This morning, Oregonian food writer Molly Harbarger dropped an orange howitzer shell on your frontal lobe with an amazing expose that rips the lid off conventional wisdom surrounding carrots and their strange, inscrutable life cycle, in an article entitled Everything You Thought You Knew About Baby Carrots Is Wrong. An excerpt: Baby carrots are not […]