In its official statement following last night's presidential debate, Sesame Workshop responded to Mitt Romney's remark that he "likes Big Bird" but will cut PBS funding anyway by reiterating its policy as a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization not to comment on campaigns, quipping that at least "we can all agree that everyone likes Big Bird."
Students at the University of Texas in Austin — Texas' last bastion of hope — rallied earlier this week, in response to what they call a rash of racist behavior in Austin's West Campus neighborhood, home to many students at the nearby university. According to The Horn, several people (all minorities) have reported having had bleach-filled water balloons thrown at them— known as "bleach bombing" — as they walked to and from campus in the last few weeks.
Malcolm may only be four years old, but he's already quite the little shredder.
Threatening to cut PBS' funding — and therefore Jim Lehrer's job — wasn't the only way ole Massachusetts Mitt was impolite to Jim Lehrer at last night's debate. And the Democratic National Committee (eager to distract you from the President's lackluster performance last night) is already capitalizing.
Actor Ron Livingston, best remembered for his roles as Peter Gibbons in Mike Judge's cult comedy Office Space and terrible breaker-upper Jack Berger in Sex in the City, finally weighed in yesterday on the ongoing saga of his local news anchor sister's very public smackdown of a viewer who said her size made her a poor role model for kids.
Poor Jim Lehrer could not keep up with the pace of the presidential debate last night. Here he is, stuttering is way through his moderating gig.
So amid the barrage of very, very substantive numbers and equations we heard last night was this: Mitt Romney wants to cut marginal tax rates by 20% across the board. Most people agree that this action, taken on its own, would reduce federal receipts by $4.8 trillion over ten years. But! Romney says he will make up for that lost revenue by eliminating loopholes to the tune of $4.8 trillion over the next decade, so there won't really be a tax cut. Which raises the question: Why the fuck are you cutting taxes, then?
Just two nights after they were allegedly spotted allegedly making out at a New York nightclub, and then definitely spotted definitely leaving the same New York hotel, Rihanna and Chris Brown were once again allegedly spotted allegedly hanging out together with Beyoncé, Rita Ora, and Santigold in the VIP section of a Jay-Z concert in Brooklyn's Barclays Center.
Courtney Stodden and her husband Doug Hutchison made their reality TV debut last night via the second season of VH1's Couples Therapy. Alongside the likes of The Real Housewives of New York's Alex McCord and Simon van Kempen, Jodeci's JoJo and his non-famous wife, and that douchebag who runs The Dirty (whose own wife and daughter of Lorenzo Lamas, Shayne Lamas, thinks is a douchebag), Courtney and Doug will attempt to hammer out their differences...well, most of them except the difference that is responsible for their notoriety: the 35 years that separate them.
Baby Benjamin is such a picky eater.
Many in the left-leaning media were extremely unhappy with Obama's performance during last night's presidential debate, but none made it clearer than MSNBC's Chris Matthews, who wailed like a Truth Siren at the president's feckless, listless first round.
To nonpartisan senses, neither candidate came off looking particularly presidential during last night's first-of-three presidential debates.
Chicago police discovered roughly $10 million worth of pot growing in a field on Chicago's South Side. The plants, some of which were ten feet tall, took up a plot of land the size of two football fields. Even with so much weed, authorities only found the field during a routine helicopter patrol, and even that was mostly due to luck, according to Cook County Sherriff's officer Ed Graney.
Last night, a 2008 speech surfaced of Todd Akin saying, among other ludicrous statements, that doctors perform abortions on women "who are not actually pregnant." Today, Buzzfeed's Rebecca Berg contacted Rep. Akin's campaign for comment and, guess what, they're standing by the comments, if not Akin's exact phrasing.
