Father’s Day has been called “the Rodney Dangerfield of Holidays” and was essentially created as an afterthought to Mother’s Day. It wasn’t declared a national holiday until 1972, while Mother’s Day has been legally enshrined since 1914. Americans spend 55% more ...
It’s official: Big Brother is watching you. And despite previous denials, he’s finally been forced to admit it. The term “leaks” seems insufficient to describe a pair of revelations regarding US government surveillance last week. They were more like floods, or perhaps even ...
SPECIAL “DELIVER US FROM CHAOS” EDITION The past week brought a near-catastrophe in the celestial realm, a deadly calamity in the meteorological realm, and news of a potential pandemic in the biological realm. And here on the ground where human beings rub elbows and battle over ...
Last Week's Most Captivating and Infuriating News Stories HATEFUL COMMENTS FROM THE RIGHT (FINALLY!) After enduring decades of accusations that they relentlessly spewed out boiling rancid vats of hateful vitriol"accusations that were long on hyperbole but short on evidence"two right-wing ...
One of the countless unsightly blemishes upon the human condition’s soiled visage is that people tend to only get outraged about injustice when it directly affects them. Witness the American media’s reaction last week after the Associated Press revealed on Monday that the US Justice ...
SPECIAL EDITION: A BAD WEEK FOR OBAMA (Disclaimer: Please disregard all of the following, because the mainstream media and America’s social-sciences community have already established beyond all doubt that anyone who criticizes, or even dares to think bad thoughts about, America’s 44th ...
Last Week's Most Captivating and Infuriating News Stories OBAMA-LAMA-DING-DONG! America’s 44th president says he’s comfortable with the fact that the morning-after pill has been approved for over-the-counter sales for anyone over 15, which means his daughter Malia will be eligible to ...
HOME Two bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon. A female restaurant manager, a Chinese graduate student, and an 8-year-old boy were killed, and nearly 200 others were injured. Federal agents pieced together that a black bag and pressure cooker were used to create the explosives. The FBI released ...
HOME The City of New York agreed to pay Occupy Wall Street $365K for stomping all over its book tent when the NYPD raided Zuccotti Park in November 2011. ... Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell asked the FBI to investigate how Mother Jones obtained an audio device that secretly recorded one of ...
HOME Film critic Roger Ebert announced Tuesday that he would be taking a leave of absence, adding, “I am not going away.” He died on Thursday. ... Two young girls called 911 after witnessing the abduction of a couple in Manhattan. Witnesses claimed that masked men forced the couple into ...
