Stop comparing Wendy Davis to the Khaleesi!
...Or Leslie Knope, or Tami Taylor. The filibustering Texas state senator deserves to be discussed on her own terms
Tuesday, Jul 2, 2013 12:00 AM UTCEntertainment tami taylor, khaleesi
My year of modesty
I swore off makeup and covered my hair, arms and legs for nine months. It was frightening -- and liberating
Entertainment tami taylor, khaleesi
The 10 nerdiest jokes of all time
Courtesy of a Reddit thread, these will make you the toast of your next philosophy study group
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 11:15 PM UTC 28Entertainment jokes, nerdy jokes, Philosophy
Why “real journalists” hate Sean Parker’s wedding
Silicon Valley has launched a backlash against ankle-biting journalists. Careful what you wish for, guys
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 9:36 PM UTC 15Technology Sean Parker, Bryan Goldberg
Best of the worst: Right-wing tweets on the Texas abortion battle
Conservatives' most discordant responses to Wendy Davis
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 8:30 PM UTC 76Life best of the worst
Fox News adopts George Zimmerman
Outside his legal team, few have done more to help Trayvon Martin's shooter than Sean Hannity. Here's why
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 8:11 PM UTC 352Media Trayvon Martin
Be employable, study philosophy
The discipline teaches you how to think clearly, a gift that can be applied to just about any line of work
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 5:45 PM UTC 74Business The Tyee, Philosophy
Everything you need to know about the great e-book price war
How the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit against Apple and the Big Six book publishers will affect the business of lit
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 5:02 PM UTC 24Entertainment Books, E-books, Apple, Amazon.com
We must hate our children
We crush them with debt to go to college -- and today, rates are actually set to double. Are we out of our minds?
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 11:45 AM UTC 555Business Student loan interest rates
Six amazing signs from the “Stand with Texas Women” rally
Thousands of Texans turned out on Monday to support reproductive rights -- and get cheeky with some poster board SLIDE SHOW
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 10:53 PM UTCLife slideshow, Texas, Wendy Davis
Edward Snowden releases statement from Moscow
The NSA whistle-blower says he left Hong Kong once it "became clear my freedom and safety were under threat"
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 10:26 PM UTC 20Life Edward Snowden, Russia
X-ray vision, coming soon
An MIT professor and her student have devised technology that lets us track a person's movements through walls
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 10:20 PM UTCTechnology WiFi, superman, x-ray vision, Wi-Vi
Dark money group lies to IRS about being dark money group
A Better America Now is the latest right-wing nonprofit to fail to report millions spent on campaign ads
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 9:27 PM UTCElections ProPublca, election
Report: Computer user believed to be Adam Lanza discovered
He had a "fetish" for a certain type of bullet and obsessively corrected Wikipedia articles about killers
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 9:13 PM UTC 14News Adam Lanza, Newtown, Sandy Hook
House GOPer introduces constitutional ban on same-sex marriage
Rep. Tim Huelskamp's amendment will fail, but it did pick up 28 co-sponsors
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 8:41 PM UTCPolitics House Republicans, DoMA
Hey, GOP: Mexican immigrants aren’t necessarily Democrats
New research suggests they're all over the political spectrum -- and that right-wingers are more likely to vote
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 8:30 PM UTCElections Pacific Standard
Texas Senate meets, promptly votes to recess until July 9
The opening day of the hotly anticipated second special legislative session lasted all of 30 minutes
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 7:56 PM UTC 10Life Wendy Davis, Texas, Abortion
Alison Lundergan Grimes will challenge Mitch McConnell
"Kentucky is tired of a senior senator that has lost touch with Kentucky issues, voters and their values," she said
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 7:51 PM UTCPolitics Alison Lundergan Grimes
Erick Erickson, Internet comedian, jokes about reproductive rights
He'll be here all week, folks
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 7:43 PM UTC 19Media Erick Erickson, Media, Twitter
Bodies of Arizona firefighters recovered
Flags in Prescott, Ariz., are flying at half-mast to commemorate the 19 lives lost in the wildfire
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 7:20 PM UTCNews Associated Press, Arizona
“Weird Al” Yankovic: It’s hard work being goofy
The musician-comedian on his childhood love for MAD Magazine, Prince and the secrets to writing a parody song
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment The Weeklings
Report: Snowden asks for political asylum in Russia
The Interfax news agency claims Snowden's representative handed over his request Sunday
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 6:00 PM UTC 10News Associated Press, Interfax
Please stop the bogus tech nostalgia eulogies
Here's what all the silly weeping over Google Reader and AltaVista really means: We miss being young and in love
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 5:17 PM UTC 12Technology AltaVista, Google Reader
Planned Parenthood gets the Tami Taylor seal of approval
Connie Britton has partnered with the women's health service provider on a campaign to "stand with Texas women" VIDEO
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 5:03 PM UTCLife Video, tami taylor
Lena Dunham’s $24,000 sofa confession
The "Girls" star priced out a five-figure couch -- and showed off the emails in Miranda July's public art project
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 4:21 PM UTCEntertainment Lena Dunham, miranda july, Girls
Koch brothers helped derail climate change with lawmaker pledge
Through Americans for Prosperity, the Kochs pushed a pledge to vote against any legislation not offset by tax cut
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 4:18 PM UTC 30Politics Koch Brothers, David Koch
Ohio governor signs budget laced with antiabortion provisions
The two-year budget also includes amendments to defund Planned Parenthood and cut funding to rape crisis centers
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 4:14 PM UTC 21Life Rape, rape crisis centers
James Clapper is still lying to America
A smoking gun shows Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is a big liar -- and it's not the first time
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 4:02 PM UTC 89Politics James Clapper, NSA
“The Killing’s” breakout character is a butch teenage girl
Bullet is not a character you see on TV very often, and she's one of the best reasons to watch the show
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 3:54 PM UTC 11Entertainment bullet, The Killing, TV, Television
Dem rep. calls for new probe of Jill Kelley, Gen. Allen emails
Rep. Jackie Speier says the Pentagon inspector general did not thoroughly investigate the thousands of exchanges
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 3:52 PM UTCPolitics Jill Kelley, Jackie Speier
Will Egypt’s army stage another coup?
The military has given the country's rival forces 48 hours to resolve the current political crisis
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 3:49 PM UTCNews GlobalPost, Egypt, Middle East
Putin: Russia won’t turn over Snowden
But the leaker should stop harming "our American partners"
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 3:37 PM UTCNews Putin, Vladimir Putin
The high cost of giving birth in the U.S.
The U.S. model encourages "more expensive care, rather than care that is good for the mother,” says one expert
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 3:30 PM UTCLife birth, Childbirth, Pregnancy
Why is Twitter so awful on Sundays?
Tweets about Sunday TV have taken on their own form of humor -- fun if you're watching, obnoxious if you're not
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 2:20 PM UTC 12Entertainment Twitter, True Blood
Bush defends his surveillance program: “Civil liberties were guaranteed”
"I put that program in place to protect the country," he said of the NSA's surveillance program VIDEO
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 1:08 PM UTC 12Politics Video, George W. Bush
Vatican monsignor questioned in corruption plot
Monsignor Nunzio Scarano has been arrested in a $26 million corruption plot
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 1:05 PM UTCLife Vatican, Rome, pope
Anthony Weiner makes jokes about his name at NYC pride
“You guys know that’s my name right?” Weiner said as people chanted "Weiner." “We’re not just saying that.”
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 12:59 PM UTCPolitics Anthony Weiner, New York City
CBO says GOP abortion bill would raise the deficit
Federal deficits would increase by an estimated $75 million between 2014 and 2018, according to the CBO
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 12:55 PM UTC 12Politics Trent Franks, Abortion
Wendy Davis gears up for round two of Texas abortion battle
Davis and her Democratic colleagues prepare for the second special session on Monday afternoon
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 12:53 PM UTC 16Life Wendy Davis, Texas, Abortion
Obama, Bush heading to the same African city
Both will be in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania at the same time, though it's unclear whether they will meet
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 12:45 PM UTC4 From the Wires, Barack Obama
Report: NSA spied on European diplomats
Der Spiegel says that secret NSA documents show that the US bugged offices in Washington, New York and Brussels
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 12:39 PM UTCNews NSA, Spying, Europe
