Big news coming out of Wisconsin today: Republican state senator Pam Galloway, targeted in the recall elections coming up has resigned effective immediately!
It’s probably fair to say that this second season was really a tale of two disparate seasons. We began in a place that so far stretched the limits of modern television drama that it was enough to make even the most staunch soap opera fan weep. It was filled with long expositions about the meaning of life, life without hope, what it means to be truly dead, and if there is ever a hope of seeing the Walkers as anything but ambulating meat sacks during near constant contemplation of right and wrong. Continue reading
They say it takes a village to raise a child. Any new parent can tell you that the village certainly seems to think so. When you have children, people come out of the woodwork to offer you unsolicited and often, unhelpful advice.
It starts when you are pregnant. The first thing I remember is someone telling me to spend the money on a high-end digital thermometer. That’s actually not bad advice as babies are squirmy especially when they are sick. Those thermometers are fast and are certainly better than the mercury thermometers that were around when I was a child. They took forever and were next to impossible to read. Continue reading
Wake up and welcome to Crasstalk. Hope you are ready for a big week. Let’s get it started. Continue reading
Next time you go shopping for a new kidney or cocaine, perhaps pick up a bottle of Tide as well? Continue reading
Another installment in our series on abandoned places in the world. Continue reading
A good chicken sandwich can mimic a hamburger, becoming a delicious vehicle for toppings. We don’t go out to eat very often, but when we do my eyes always stray to the hamburger menu. I stopped eating beef in my late twenties because I had burned out on it and I’ve never fully redeveloped my taste for it. So, hamburgers are just little sandwiches that taunt my memory. When we do go out to eat, though, I’m a hamburger pusher for my husband. Continue reading
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Over 500 protestors have reoccupied Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan this evening. At 8:20 pm this evening the OWS General Assembly sent out a text message stating that they had returned to the park and urging others to join them. The move comes on the sixth month anniversary of the protest movement. New York Police Department presence is reportedly heavy. Continue reading
A new trailer for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus has hit the web. Much like the first trailer, this one is only about a minute long, but it conveys so much more (without really telling us a thing about the plot). Hit the jump and check it out!
Update
Thanks to Mrugby08 for pointing out that the full trailer is now online. Embedded after the jump.
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