[Update 2/10/2020 1:13pm PT – this story has been updated to include Fox News's statement.] The Daily Beast recently obtained a leaked internal memo from the Fox News' research and… Read the rest of the article: Internal memo proves Fox News knew they were spreading disinformation about Ukraine — especially Hannity
The Rock-afire Explosion was a pre-cursor to the Chuck E. Cheese band that was originally created by Aaron Fechter, when the chain was still called ShowBiz Pizza Palace. In 2008,… Read the rest of the article: Watch a bunch of anthropomorphic animatronic animal musicians perform an Arcade Fire song
Only 5 women have ever been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director — and only one of those nominations happened in the past decade. So this year, Natalie… Read the rest of the article: Natalie Portman's Oscars outfit was embroidered with the names of women directors who were shafted for nominations
Boston's got a bad reputation when it comes to race. And unfortunately, much of it's deserved. Of course, there are people who are trying to fight and make a positive… Read the rest of the article: Boston Police Union throws a tantrum over Black Lives Matter at school week
Last year, I cracked a joke on Twitter about the surprising similarities between NWA's "Fuck the Police" and Dominic Behan's famous Irish rebel song, "Come Out, Ye Black and Tans."… Read the rest of the article: Mashing up NWA with an old Irish rebel song
politics is a journy pic.twitter.com/Tt6zkfAOvG — L Ron Mexico (@LRonMexico) February 3, 2020 I know this is supposed to be a joke, but it accurately captures the political journeys of… Read the rest of the article: This guy's journey through supporting all the Presidential candidates is hilarious but painfully real
I took a Shared Lyft home the other night, rather than waiting for the bus. There were two other passengers in the car when I got in — a woman… Read the rest of the article: I reported a passenger for farting in our shared Lyft and now we've been officially un-paired from Lyft forever (supposedly)
In early September 2019, President Donald J. Trump tweeted something dumb. Specifically, this time it was about the encroaching Hurricane Dorian, and the places that it would or would not… Read the rest of the article: New FOIA'd emails reveal the chaos behind the scenes of the National Weather Service's #SharpieGate
Many abuses of the Trump administration are sadly nothing out of the ordinary — rather, they're just continuations of the snowballing precedent of presidential power abuses set forth by their… Read the rest of the article: How the Trump administration is putting public records under threat, so history may never know the awful things they did
I'd never thought about the character limit on domain names — but apparently, they cut off at 255. I found a handy Microsoft blog that goes into a bit more… Read the rest of the article: This website has the longest URL allowed by the domain name registry
Songwriter Tom Rosenthal had a tweet go viral last week, featuring a short song he'd written in a few takes with his 4-year-old daughter Fenn: Fenn, my nearly 4 year… Read the rest of the article: "Dinosaurs In Love" is the saddest, sweetest song I've heard in a while
The US government provides federal funds to states to help with disaster relief. This much hasn't changed under the Trump administration. In fact, in 2018, Ben Carson's Department of Housing… Read the rest of the article: Republicans get billions of dollars in public funding to fight climate change by pretending that it isn't real
Back in the summer of 2019, the Waze map navigation app announced a partnership to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sesame Street.
Still dapper, but less creepy capitalist. Mr. Tayto Man is nothing but love.
In 2019, a 3-year-old Nubian goat named Lincoln was officially inaugurated as the first mayor of Fair Haven, Vermont. And then she pooped. As Town Manager Joe Gunter explained at… Read the rest of the article: A police dog is running against the goat incumbent mayor of a small Vermont town
A team of researchers at Cornell University recently published a new paper titled "Evolutionary dynamics of recent selection on cognitive abilities." But that's a mouthful that kind of buries the… Read the rest of the article: Some wasps have evolved to recognize and remember faces
While I respect Netflix's decision to go with 3D CGI instead of a more traditional anime-style animation, this reminds me of when I was 9 years old and obsessively watching ReBoot… Read the rest of the article: The trailer for Netflix's new "Ghost in the Shell" series looks like a 90s kids' cartoon
Apparently a 13-year-old Julia Stiles appeared in an episode of PBS' Ghostwriter series, playing the hacktivist editor-in-chief of the Hurston High School newspaper in "Who is Max Mouse?" Do let us… Read the rest of the article: Can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace?
On Tuesday, January 28, 2020, the Trump Administration revealed its vision for an Israel-Palestine peace plan. The proposed two-state solution would leave the state of Palestine completely surrounded by Israel,… Read the rest of the article: Jared Kushner says Palestinians screw-up every opportunity they've ever had, in celebration of a proposed two-state deal that he left them out of
The Lincoln Project was announced in a New York Times op-ed in December 2019. Written by George T. Conway III, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver and Rick Wilson, the declared their mission to be: [D]efeating… Read the rest of the article: Anti-Trump Conservative PAC launches a brutal attack ad against Arizona Senator Martha McSally
