Media Says Netanyahu Totally Booed At ‘Hamilton,’ Video Says Otherwise
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went to the Saturday night showing of the Broadway show “Hamilton” in New York this weekend. This is not all that remarkable. Plenty of VIPs go to “Hamilton.”...
View ArticleClarissa Explains Millennials By Joining The Johnson Campaign
Melissa Joan Hart, the actress best known for her roles on Nickelodeon’s “Clarissa Explains It All” and the WB’s “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch,” announced Wednesday she is joining the Gary Johnson...
View Article6 Things That Made The Veep Debate Better Than Trump’s And Clinton’s
The American people can be so delightfully politically schizophrenic. “What we wouldn’t give for some normal candidates having a discussion of policy in basically polite terms,” they say. “Here are...
View ArticleShep Smith’s Hurricane Matthew Meltdown Is Proof He Should Be Your Life Coach
Shephard Smith is a ridiculous, operatic gift to live television and the United States of America, and if you’re letting his hyperbolic hurricane warning bother you in this year, of all years, you are...
View ArticleMike Huckabee’s Flawed ‘Jaws’ Analogy Has Trump Getting Eaten By Shark Hillary
Sometimes an analogy just doesn’t play out the way you want. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was on “The Kelly File” Monday night when he swam up the wrong metaphorical stream, getting his preferred...
View ArticleStop Lumping Jenny Sanford In With the Stand-By-Your-Man Political Wives
In the annals of political history, there are plenty of wronged wives who have taken one for the team, stood by their husbands, and asked forgiveness on their behalves. Melania Trump did her part...
View ArticleMy Defective Obamacare Health Insurance Product Just Blew Up
Like many other Americans, I got a letter last week. This letter is becoming an annual tradition, arriving on my doorstep in October to inform me of my Obamacare insurance premium hike. Last year, the...
View ArticleNo, North Carolina Didn’t ‘Slash’ Early Voting Hours
Early voter turnout among key demographics of the Obama coalition is down in the battleground state of North Carolina compared to 2012 at this time. The New York Times reported this week that black...
View Article7 Reasons We Should Just Give America To Chip And Joanna Gaines After Tuesday
Whoever wins this presidential election, we’re gonna have a fixer-upper on our hands. America has spent the last two years in the constant presence of two of the least popular candidates the country...
View ArticleEvery Facebook Post Right Now About Coping With Clinton’s Loss And Trump’s Win
I am so deeply saddened for our country. My head hurts from crying for the last 72 hours. Crying for those who feel less loved, who feel less important because of what has happened this week. It is a...
View ArticleRefusing To Serve Customers You Don’t Agree With Is Suddenly Cool Again
To the many things the Trump administration in waiting has made cool again, add private businesses refusing service to customers based on moral objections. Friday, fashion designer Sophie Theallet, who...
View ArticleWhy Is Press Evasion Innovation Under Obama But A Threat Under Trump?
President-Elect Donald J. Trump posted a two-and-a-half minute video to his YouTube account last week. It was the first public address since his late-night acceptance speech. Trump also sat for...
View Article5 Reasons It’s Basically Your Patriotic Duty To Watch Dolly Parton’s TV...
Dolly Parton, for many reasons we’ve laid out here, is on par with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson when it comes to people we all wish would run for president. In a tough week for her, she has still given...
View ArticleHere’s The Hallmark Christmas Movie Party Game You’ve Been Waiting For
We all know we’re going to watch 79 Hallmark Christmas movies in December— while decorating the tree, while opening presents, while crashing at our parents’ house in uncomfortably close quarters. Never...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren Embarrasses Herself With Innacurate Facebook Rant Attacking...
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A nationally elected loudmouth from the Northeast doesn’t think before opining on Twitter and is suddenly found in an embarrassing back-and-forth with a smart...
View Article24 Things A Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Album Is Like
Everyone has a Christmas song that evokes the opposite of the Christmas spirit for her. For me, it is Mannheim Steamroller’s “Deck the Halls,” which makes me viscerally, physically angry and near...
View Article5 Amazing Things The Hero of ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ Did That Aren’t In the Movie
Most movie adaptations of true stories exaggerate for effect, condensing timelines and adding action to heighten drama. In “Hacksaw Ridge,” the story of a World War II conscientious objector who was...
View ArticleWatch The Voting Community Demand Hollywood Try Harder On Their Lame Activist...
How many times have we watched this exact same video, offered once again by yet another group of celebrities of middling fame this week. This one tells Members of Congress to “obstruct, obstruct,...
View Article4 Times The NYT Reported On GOP Health Care Plans Nick Kristof Thinks Don’t...
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof did some cute work covering the Affordable Care Act this week, leaving a blank space in his column after the opening paragraph: “This week, President-elect...
View ArticleTrump’s Presser Shows Media Double Standard On Politicians Attacking The Press
At his first press conference since winning the election, President-elect Donald Trump made news by making the media the news. He called BuzzFeed, which published an unverified dossier of unclear...
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