On tonight's Real Time, Bill Maher offered some advice to the Occupy Movement: get organized and take it to the next level. Maher wants, and believes it to be possible, that with the right moves, the Occupy Movement can be as important for driving Democratic ideology as the Tea Party is for the Republicans.
Stephen Colbert doesn't trust the New York Times, and hasn't for a while. On tonight's Colbert Report, Stephen explained their latest offense: attacking Mitt Romney for nothing more than the size of one of his homes and the massive renovation that he has undertaken there.
In New York, you may not be able to drink large quantities of soda but, if Governor Cuomo's new proposed marijuana decriminalization becomes law, you will be able to carry around an ounce of weed without it being a misdemeanor. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart had a little trouble reconciling these two ideas.
Meet Brian Presley, actor, and Melissa Stetten, model. Brian sat next to Melissa on a recent flight and thought he'd make a connection with his seat mate. Even though he's been married for ten years and has a kid. Melissa wasn't really feeling it. So she live-Tweeted the entire encounter. Enjoy the storify below. [via Ohno-Polio]
On Tuesday night, millions of people on Twitter were talking about the recall election in Wisconsin, in which Republican Governor Scott Walker beat his Democratic challenger Tom Barrett. Some were gleeful; some were despondent. And some were violent: "KILL SCOTT WALKER KILL SCOTT WALKER KILL SCOTT WALKER KILL SCOTT WALKER KILL SCOTT WALKER KILL SCOTT WALKER! Ole Bitch Ass Pig Ass Nigga!!!!" tweeted a fellow named @__SupaMcNASTY__.
Obviously, the result in Wisconsin's recall election dealt a death blow to unions everywhere and on tonight's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert celebrated. That is, until he received a Sicilian message from his crew.
As the results from last night's recall in Wisconsin came rolling in, the reaction on cable news outlets became more and more extreme. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart charted the reactions: the gloating on Fox News and the stages of grief on MSNBC.
Despite the fact that college education in America is a years-long exercise in dodging crippling debt and financial exploitation with uncertain payoffs, it goes without saying that having a college degree is still preferable to only having a high school diploma, all things being equal. Because while indebted college graduates may be screwed at the moment, at least they get to cut ahead in line when the jobs come around.
The recent incidents of cannibalism and other heinous crimes have got Stephen Colbert thinking: maybe it's time to prepare for the zombie apocalypse. On tonight's Colbert Report, Stephen sorted through the whole mess and looked towards a possibly terrifying future.
Actually it's not, it just provides Stewart and the Daily Show writers a moment of clever word play. A lot more clever than the pro-Walker folks Fox and Friends trotted out today.
So: Des Moines school superintendent Nancy Sebring resigned last week, which is normally the kind of thing that you, an affluent, college-educated, 18-to-35-year-old brand influencer living in New York and/or San Francisco, would ignore, because first of all, where even is Des Moines (Colorado, I think), and second of all, who cares.
A few years ago, Sister Margaret Farley, a nun and a teacher at Yale's Divinity School, published Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics—a book that did not say that your sexual urges are nothing more than the shameful pangs of demon penises fucking your soul which should be repressed and repressed and repressed until you are absolutely warped, underneath that church outfit. Burn the witch! Ahh, apparently we don't do that any more? Well... censure the witch!
When a climate change study forecasted an unpleasant result in terms of rising sea levels, North Carolina decided to outlaw the result. Tonight's Colbert Report showed that Stephen Colbert is not a fan of such practices.
In order to properly cover the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, CNN went with wall to wall coverage that provided ample opportunity for Piers Morgan and the other commentators to gush about all the boats and the way they turned and other various non-events. CNN was so committed to the event, they didn't even break away when that horrible plane crash in Nigeria occurred. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart recapped their coverage and was highly amused.
Dan Lissvik and Young Galaxy are finally in Gothenburg together. It took a little while. In 2010 the Swedish producer and the Canadian band spent nearly a year collaborating every day, over Skype. "We became quite good friends," Stephen Ramsay, one of Young Galaxy's founders, says. "It took him nine months. He didn't want us to hear anything. He'd play things to us through Skype, and I'd be like, that sounds incredible — and then three weeks later he'd play it to me again and it'd have been completely changed."
Here in Gawker Media "HQ," the temperature, in the summertime, stays at approximately 43 degrees Fahrenheit (estimated), due to the wonders of air conditioning, necessitating the wearing of winter clothes inside the office during the most sweltering season of the year. Now—in a classic example of the mainstream media turning a minor everyday nuisance into something I can write a blog post about (thank god)—the Washington Post reports that office workers in DC are also very cold in the summer, because of the air conditioning. Coincidence—or trend????
You know that thing where you're really trying to avoid thinking of an ex but the universe mysteriously conspires to remind you of them at every moment? That happened to the Chinese government today, except with violent repression. The Chinese stock market fell 64.89 points today, the 23rd anniversary of the military crackdown on student protests in Tiananmen Square on June 4th, 1989. 6/4/89. Whoops.
Yeah, don't get up off of your La-Z-Boy reclining chair or anything, but just to let you know, right this very second, while you're seeing how many Cheez™ Stix you can fit into your mouth before swallowing, there is a whole freaking galaxy of super-hot flaming stars COMING RIGHT AT US.
The North African nation of Mali is in the midst of an uprising by strict conservative Islamist rebels who have captured Timbuktu and locked it down under harsh Sharia law and are running around with guns and making all the women wear veils and chasing off all the Westerners and generally just throwing a wrench into any fun summer bikini party plans that Timbuktuans may have had. This is all very troubling, we grant you, (LIP SERVICE ABOUT 'RIGHTS'). But the New York Times' excellent story yesterday on the situation really buried the scariest penalty of all that the cruel extremists are imposing on the not-even-allowed-to-fuck-casually citizenry:
I'm not sure when the MTV Movie Awards started creating new categories each year but this year's award for New Cult Film (that didn't even have nominees) was clearly just an excuse to give Charlie Sheen something to do. Why he had to be involved remains a mystery to me.
