When I started out, a pretty girl did not go into comedy. If you saw a pretty girl walk into a nightclub, she was automatically a singer. Comedy was all white, older men. It was Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Bob Hope, Shelley Berman, Red Skelton...
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Shorter Verbatim some Economist hack, on The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism: "Unlike Mr Thomas, Mr Baptist has not written an objective history.
I'm a lifelong Seahawks fan, but a fairly casual and not particularly analytical NFL fan. So perhaps someone who knows the league better than I would care to explain why.
The D.C. Circuit will hear Halbig en banc, and in the order vacated this decade's answer to Bush v. Gore. Since the arguments for not hearing Halbig en banc were almost as terrible as the arguments made by the Halbig plurality itself, this is not...
Not the Onion: The New York Yankees announced Tuesday that the team will wear a patch of Derek Jeter's final-season logo on all player hats and uniforms from Sunday, the.
Jessica Williams has the final word on catcalling and sexual harassment.
Some thoughts at the Diplomat on Japan's entry into the diesel sub market: Germany, France, and Russia have long dominated the existing market for diesel-electric submarines. The German Type 209 submarine serves in over a dozen navies, with more than 60 boats currently in service....
This Rolling Stone profile of Willie Nelson is pretty great, even if magazines should not refer to their own work as "definitive," which is the equivalent of talking about your.
Liel Leibovitz has an extended defense of UIUC's firing of Steven Salaita. Let's start with this: Another tweet applied just as much nuance in declaring, “Zionists: transforming ‘anti-semitism’ from something.
Las Vegas casinos invariably give me the creeps. (My entry in a Saddest Place on Earth contest was "Nine PM Christmas Eve, all you can eat buffet, Caesar's Palace"). I can only imagine the unspeakable dread evoked by a few nights in Atlantic City. Revel...
Horning in on Damon Linker's turf, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry offers another defense of the "this time is different" argument regarding Christianity and mainstream american social and political norms. He first presents.
Good morning, LGMer's. Here are several things that have nothing to do with each other for you to look at. Anita Sarkeesian Kickstartered a video project continuing her work on.