Rare is the politician who will say “I don’t know” about something and mean it, including her own future. That is one reason why I despise the question, “Are you running?” It generally wastes the time of journalists everywhere; candidates rarely say “yes,” even if they secretly intend to launch …
Read More »See Thrilling First Trailer for Live-Action 'Dora the Explorer' Movie
The first trailer for Dora and the Lost City of Gold,the live-action Dora the Explorer movie, has been revealed. The trailer features Dora adjusting to a regular high school following her life in the jungle. But soon she and her classmates are kidnapped, and Dora is enlisted to help criminals …
Read More »Could CDC Guidelines Be Driving Some Opioid Patients to Suicide?
Overall, we have every reason to believe that the opioid crisis is getting better, not worse. Since the Centers for Disease Control issued its guidelines dictating appropriate opioid prescription rates and dosages in 2016, opioid prescriptions have declined significantly. Overdose deaths have also been on the decline, though some health …
Read More »Did Michael Cohen Lie to Congress About Seeking a Pardon from Trump?
Michael Cohen sat before the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday for the last of four sessions. His story is far from over. The Wall Street Journal reports that President Trump’s embattled former attorney and fixer told his lawyer last year to look into the possibility of a presidential pardon. Lanny …
Read More »Oscars 2019: Enter the Shallowverse
The unquestioned highlight of the 2019 Oscars: Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, stealing the show with“Shallow.” It was bittersweet as the final “Shallow” of award season, especially for those of us who were rooting for Gaga to take Best Actress. But every detail was intense. The way she glided to …
Read More »Duff McKagan on New Guns N' Roses Album: 'Oh, It's Real'
Duff McKagan is the latest Guns N’ Roses member to promise that, following their reunion tour, a new album from the band is in the works. In an interview with Trunk Nation Friday, the bassist revealed that he has heard some of Axl Rose-penned music earmarked for Guns N’ Roses’ …
Read More »The Hidden Risk in the Fracking Boom
At 10:40 a.m. on Monday, January 21st, a pipeline carrying natural gas ruptured in rural Noble County, in southeastern Ohio, producing a fireball that surged 120 feet into the air and engulfed the Noll family home, with 12-year-old son Nash inside. The boy’s grandfather rushed into the inferno and rescued …
Read More »The Convenient Colorblindness of Howard Schultz
Howard Schultz was never going to be able to avoid what happened in that Philadelphia Starbucks. Over the past two nights, the billionaire former coffee chain chairman has been asked aboutthe arrests of two African-American businessmen, Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson, in a Center City Starbucks last April, and event …
Read More »Hear R.E.M./Sleater-Kinney Supergroup's New Song
Almost two years since they released their last album, Filthy Friends, which features Sleater-Kinney‘s Corin Tucker and R.E.M.‘s Peter Buck, are returning with another, Emerald Valley. The first track they’re releasing off the album, which is due out May 3rd, is the punkish “Last Chance County.” Tucker sings about feeling …
Read More »Law to Legalize Pot Introduced to U.S. Senate
With a supermajority of Americans supporting marijuana legalization, the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, Ron Wyden (D-OR), has introduced a bill to tax and regulate the substance like alcohol. In a nod to the mainstreaming of marijuana culture, the legislation carries the stony bill number S. 420. It …
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