Is it that time again? Continue reading
Writer, actor, comedian, and, as his alter-ego Childish Gambino, musician, Donald Glover is an industry quadruple threat. His fourth album and his first commercial release, Camp, is intensely personal but wholly relatable. Continue reading
Unnerving, brutal and relentless are hardly words most people would use to describe sex. All of them apply to Steve McQueen’s new film Shame, but then, despite what you may have heard, the film isn’t actually about sex; it’s about addiction.
Sex happens to be the protagonist’s self-medicator of choice, Continue reading
A very special thanks to Sir Digby who put together this story for us.
On his October 26 broadcast, Jon Stewart ran footage of peaceful, sanguine scenes from various Occupy Wall Street protests across the country before cutting to teargas, blood, and chaos on the streets of Oakland, California. “What the fuck happened in Oakland?” he asked. Stewart was speaking for many people when he puzzled over the raw anger and violence on display as cops attacked Occupy Oakland protesters with flash bang grenades, teargas, and less-lethal projectiles in Oakland. What made this city so different? What’s the matter with Oakland? Continue reading
Yes, she’s been nominated sixteen times and won twice but that means she is fourteen times a loser. However, there are a few things that might be the cause of her twenty-eight year drought. Maybe other nominated performances are better than hers? Maybe politics gets in the way? Or MAYBE her performances just aren’t that good? Continue reading
Gawker posted a follow up to some other article about embarrassing things that could happen during sex. (Poop!)
I read it. Heck, I even commented. (Did you know I still have a star?! And that the last time I commented on a Gawker Media site was in March?! It’s like history.) Continue reading
Good morning. You guys are writing stuffs, which makes you awesome. Continue reading
Television. It’s a very risky game. You think your favorite network execs are a bunch of geniuses and maybe they are. Perhaps your favorite show is the best thing on television since Falcon Crest, however, you and your core group of Facebook friends are the only ones who think so. The rest of the viewing public would rather use an acid eyewash than watch that tripe you think is so entertaining. Hence we have what the industry calls “Shows on the Bubble.”
Let’s take a look at the latest cropping of Bubble shows. Get your Facebook petitions ready!
Much has been said of the increasing gap between rich and poor. But the past quarter-century has also seen a greatly increased gap between people under 35 and people over 65. A newly released report from Pew Social Trends highlights this: between 1984 and 2009, the average net worth of an under 35 actually fell by 68% (despite the massive booms that are meant to have taken place during that time). The average net worth of an over 65 increased by 42%.
To put it another way, the average American over 65 in 1984 had 10 times the net worth of an American under 35. In 2009, he or she had 47 times the net worth of an American under 35. The figures were not much different in 2005, before the financial crisis began, although the effect of the crisis has been to increase the gap further in percentage terms. See the handy-dandy charts after the jump.
What are the primary reasons for this increased gap?
Today voters in Mississippi will vote on an amendment to the state Constitution that would designate inseminated human eggs as legal persons from the “moment of fertilization.” The ramifications of such an amendment will outright challenge Roe v. Wade, abortion and contraception. And Republicans would like to make this a federal plan. Continue reading