And it will be on TBS! (via Conan O’ back in November on—and here’s a surprise—TBS | TV | Newswire | The A.V. Club.) Does this mean Conan will be dancing across the bottom of my screen during 7TH inning stretches?
Read more →Jay-Z is set to headline Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio. It’s a big deal because it’s the first time a hip-hop artist is the headlining act for the entire festival. From the LA Times profile of Jay the showman: “All my early years? Forget it. I was a horrible performer,” Jay...
Read more →Ugh… (and not because I am anti Clinton…I think she would throw herself into the job and make an excellent justice). The Utah Republican, a high-ranking GOPer on the Senate Judiciary Committee, implied that Clinton could be a strong nominee. “I even heard the name Hillary Clinton today, and that would be an interesting...
Read more →96 people dead, all high ranking members of the Polish government dead after a fatal plane crash. In the dark aftermath of the plane crash that claimed the lives of Poland’s president and dozens of top politicians and policy makers, Poles found solace and even hope in the performance of their young democracy. As...
Read more →No more Nike (and its not because of Tiger Woods). Citing labor issues in Honduras, the University of Wisconsin at Madison announced Friday that it is ending its licensing agreement with Nike. Madison, like many universities with lucrative licensing deals, has insisted that companies pledge to meet certain standards, especially in production outside the...
Read more →photo credit: anton hazewinkel Its confirmed by Science and peers in Luke Dittrich’s profile in Esquire of the gold medal winning, world record shattering sprinter. Ethan Siegel, a theoretical astrophysicist at Lewis & Clark College, recently charted a graph to demonstrate that, judging by the incremental progression of the 100-meter world record over the...
Read more →Wow, try to find any picture coming out of the Southern Republican Leadership Conference that wouldn’t double as a narcoleptic. via BAGnewsNotes: GOP Update, such as it is.. As a narcoleptic, I take serious offense to Michael Shaw’s anti-narcoleptic statement. My worst weekends are better than any SRLC conference. And I had a pretty...
Read more →Obama will have the opportunity to appoint another Supreme Court justice and Republicans are signaling the same boiler plate “activist judge” opposition. Closing one era and opening another, Justice John Paul Stevens notified President Obama on Friday that he will retire from the Court when the current Term ends, probably late in June. Stevens...
Read more →Suzanne Vega with The Roots – Tom’s Diner (live on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon)
Read more →This gets me hype. Today we’re releasing TransparencyData.com, a new service from the Sunlight Foundation, and technically the most challenging thing we’ve ever done. TransparencyData lets you query and download bulk data about transparency. We’re launching with two datasets that have never been merged before, and without an unprecedented amount of access. We’ve merged...
Read more →Even the “DRM Free” ones. They are “unlocked” but in reality, they are connected to you forever by name and other identifying personal information. Hidden in purchased music files from popular stores such as Apple and Walmart is information to identify the buyer and/or the transaction. You won’t find it disclosed in their published terms of...
Read more →so…rough.
Read more →Kim and his deceased father Kim Il-Sung are at the heart of a personality cult that borders on religion, with near-magical powers ascribed to the younger Kim. Rainbows supposedly appeared over sacred Mount Paekdu where Kim Jong-Il was allegedly born, and he is said once to have scored 11 holes-in-one in a single round...
Read more →We know what the fantasy was: ACORN employees around the country were helping a straight up pimp and his main girl smuggle underage prostitutes. Rachel Maddow shows us the reality. Andrew Breitbart ran a propaganda hit through James O’Keefe and his crew of frauds. Congressional Democrats flinched and agreed to defund ACORN. Win Breitbart.
Read more →Anne Korblut does not like the fact that President Obama answers a constituent’s concerns about taxation with regard to his primary policy achievement of his first term with a very long answer. He then spent the next 17 minutes and 12 seconds lulling the crowd into a daze. His discursive answer – more than...
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