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Highlights from the twelfth Republican debate.
Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and John Kasich squared off in Miami, with CNN hosting.The debate began with Rubio, who is almost out of options heading into next weeks elections, acting incredibly nervous.There were no references to male genitalia, baffling the media.Trump said he’s the best person to fix our immigration system because he has exploited it as a businessman.Really, t... → Read More
Utah’s governor blames Snapchat, reality TV, Twitter, snarky emails, and even the National Enquirer for the rise of Donald Trump.
And the list goes on. → Read More
This is what it looks like when two adult presidential candidates debate policy rather than penis size.
This is what it looks like when two adult presidential candidates debate policy rather than penis size. → Read More
This is what it looks like when two adult presidential candidates debate policy rather than penis size.
This is what it looks like when two adult presidential candidates debate policy rather than penis size. → Read More
Here are the five best post–Union Jack flags.
New Zealanders are voting today on whether to stick with their existing national flag—a Union Jack and four stars that is easily confused with Australia’s—or to adopt a new one with a silver fern and four stars. If the latter wins out, New Zealand will join dozens of countries and territories that have changed their flags to remove the British colonial symbol.How would the fern-and-stars... → Read More
The Hulk Hogan v. Gawker trial hasn’t even begun, and already it’s a Florida Man classic.
The second day of jury selection is well underway in the former pro wrestler’s $100 million civil suit against the media company for publishing a sex tape of him. The cast of characters passing through the St. Petersburg courtroom is just what you’d expect from the Sunshine State.Tampa Bay Times reporter Anna Phillips has been live-tweeting the proceedings. You’l... → Read More
Here comes Cheddar: “a CNBC for millennials,” and proof that we have run out of names for startups.
The new media company—which is being launched by Jon Steinberg, formerly president of BuzzFeed and CEO of Daily Mail US, and has already raised $3 million in funding—“will stream one to two hours of live content every day, primarily from the New York Stock Exchange trading floor,” Business Insider reports. Here is its logo:This company is not to be confused with Cheddar, the “next genera... → Read More
Here comes Cheddar: “a CNBC for millennials,” and proof that we have run out of names for startups.
The new media company—which is being launched by Jon Steinberg, formerly president of BuzzFeed and CEO of Daily Mail US, and has already raised $3 million in funding—“will stream one to two hours of live content every day, primarily from the New York Stock Exchange trading floor,” Business Insider reports. Here is its logo:This company is not to be confused with Cheddar, the “next genera... → Read More
White House: Cuba wasn’t isolated. We were.
In a matter of weeks, President Barack Obama will become the first U.S. president to visit the Caribbean island nation since Calvin Coolidge 88 years ago. In a Medium post on Thursday explaining the decision, deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes argued that America’s Cold War–era policy of isolating the communist country had failed—that we ended up isolating ourselves instead.“Cub... → Read More
Another key demographic Donald Trump is poaching from Ted Cruz: cigar smokers.
The senator from Texas really likes cigars, a fact he makes known in a number of ways. He puffs in front of photographers. He holds fundraisers titled, “Smoke A Cigar With Senator Ted Cruz.” And sometimes he just comes out and says it: “I do enjoy an occasional cigar. (I am Cuban after all),” he wrote in a questionnaire for The Dallas Morning News.How devastating it must be for Cruz, then, th... → Read More
Is This the Greatest Film Ever Made About the Amazon?
Oscar nominee "Embrace of the Serpent" is as surreal as "Fitzcarraldo," but without the exploitation. → Read More
Highlights from the ninth Republican presidential debate.
Here’s everything you missed from Saturday’s GOP battle in South Carolina, hosted by CBS News.The 2003 anti-war movement has found its voice: Donald Trump.Trump attacked the debate audience yet again.The audience booed the facts.Ben Carson quoted Stalin. But Stalin never said that. Here’s the exact moment that CBS News lost control of the debate.Cruz repeated the bogu... → Read More
Bill Clinton: “I always kind of liked Justice Scalia.”
Asked about Antonin Scalia, who died Saturday, the former president said the following on CNN:I always kind of liked Justice Scalia because he never pretended to believe something he didn’t. He never pretended to be anything he wasn’t. And I think that’s one reason why by all accounts he became good friends with Justice Ginsburg... Tonight, all of us, whether we agreed or disagreed with him, ... → Read More
The leading conspiracy theory about Antonin Scalia’s death: Obama did it.
The Supreme Court justice died in his sleep on Saturday at a luxury resort in West Texas, putting the Court’s conservative majority at risk. If President Obama’s eventual nominee somehow gets confirmed this year, which is no sure thing, the court will have five Democrat-appointed justices to the four picked by Republican presidents. So of course some paranoid people on Twitter smell foul play... → Read More
Michael Bloomberg breathes a sigh of relief as Jim Webb announces he won’t run for president as an independent.
In 2014, the New Republic predicted that the former Virginia senator wouldn’t run for president because he’d get bored. We were half right. Webb declared his candidacy as if it were a news dump, and he lasted just long enough to remind people about that guy he killed. He was out by Halloween, but refused to rule out an independent bid.Webb astonished no... → Read More
Bernie Sanders’s blood pressure is exactly what you’d expect it to be.
U.S. Congress attending physician Dr. Brian P. Monahan, the Democratic presidential candidate’s doctor of 26 years, wrote in a letter released Thursday, “You are in overall very good health and active in your professional work, and recreational lifestyle without limitation.”The letter is as antiseptic as Donald Trump’s doctor was bombastic. In medical jargon, Mon... → Read More
Look at this panda, just chilling in the snow.
Giant pandas are notoriously lazy creatures. Like a college stoner, they only eat one thing—except instead of ramen, it’s bamboo—and they even struggle to summon the necessary effort for sex. So it’s no surprise that Tian Tian, a 264-pound male at the National Zoo in Washington, isn’t terribly adept at playing in the snow, either.Tian Tian woke up this morning to a lot of snow, and he was pretty… → Read More
So this is how it ends.
Officials at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (aka WMATA, aka Why-Ma-Ta, aka Metro) announced Thursday that due to the blizzard barreling toward the city, the subway system will close Friday at 11 p.m. and not re-open until Monday morning. What time on Monday morning? The agency did not say, nor does it need to. Because we will all be dead.Here’s how it will go down:Everyone... → Read More
So this is how it ends.
Officials at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (aka WMATA, aka Why-Ma-Ta, aka Metro) announced Thursday that due to the blizzard barreling toward the city, the subway system will close Friday at 11 p.m. and not re-open until Monday morning. What time on Monday morning? The agency did not say, nor does it need to. Because we will all be dead.Here’s how it will go down:Everyone... → Read More
It’s officially time to PANIC about the D.C. blizzard.
As in, there is no other rational way to respond to the official warnings about the snowstorm scheduled to hit the mid-Atlantic on Friday afternoon.The National Weather Service, whose penchant for all-caps would make a light breeze sound life-threatening, issued an alert on Thursday that read, “HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW WILL CAUSE DANGEROUS CONDITIONS AND WILL BE A THREAT TO LIFE AND… → Read More