I guess this means my kids are Generation Z. I can already hear them rolling their eyes.
How young is too young to take public transit by yourself?
“In a just world, the name of Joseph De Laine would already be familiar to South Carolinians.”
Basically, everything about this. Just go read it.
“It is 2017, and this grown man is on my show talking with me — a female host — about boobs. Is this seriously happening?”
“At North Farmington High in Michigan, there’s a senior tradition in which students get to take their ID photo in whatever pop culture costume they desire. The creativity and execution alone will make you wish you lived in this district.”
You will be relieved to know there’s been a settlement in the case of the monkey selfie.
“When you treat politics as entertainment, you get Sean Spicer at the Emmys”.
“This is the beating heart of the Žižek Game: the disbelief that something you care about has failed to register on the consciousness of another.”
RIP, Stanislav Petrov, lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces who literally saved the world in 1983.
Equifax should definitely get the “Son of Sam” treatment.
Some foreign-born MLB players are learning English by watching reruns of Friends. This is my favorite baseball story in at least a year.
“The President of the United States is regularly manipulated by Twitter bots”.
What you need to know about the latest (for now) Trump/Russia revelations.
Why Stephen Colbert invited Sean Spicer to the Emmys.
“Most of the congresspeople who vote on this bill probably won’t even read it. And they want us to do the same thing. They want us to treat it like an iTunes service agreement. And this guy, [Sen.] Bill Cassidy, just lied right to my face.”
“We are supposed to be in rehab from our housing binge of ten years ago, the one that nearly bankrupted the country. We are supposed to be in a state of contrition. But our national love of HGTV suggests that the dream won’t die.”
“You could do a post office renaming and call it ‘repeal-replace’ and 48 Republican senators would vote for it sight unseen.” That was a Republican legislative aide speaking, by the way.
RIP, Jake LaMotta, the Raging Bull.
“On Monday, a new project was announced at the Google News Lab Summit that aims to place 1,000 journalists in local newsrooms in the next five years. Report For America takes ideas from several existing organizations, including the Peace Corps, Americorps, Teach for America and public media.”
RIP, Bernie Casey, football player turned versatile actor.
The horniest people you know are nowhere near as obsessed with sex as professional conservative pundits.
“Were Manafort and Flynn Recruited By the Russians?”
“Facebook has struck a deal with Capitol Hill investigators to release ads purchased by Russians to influence the 2016 presidential campaign”.
“Germany is likely to send far-right delegates to the Bundestag for the first time since 1945.” What could possibly go wrong?
“Written by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), this bill is so bad that you’d either have to be lying through your teeth or dumber than bricks to support it. Every argument that’s being used to sell the bill is flatly contradicted by what’s inside of it.”
“A Texas Billionaire, The Stripper He Beat Up, And The Mugshot He Doesn’t Want You To See”.