Residents of Whitesboro voted on Monday to keep the village’s seal, which, according to the village’s website, “depicts a friendly wrestling match that helped foster good relations between [village founder Hugh White] and the Indians.”
On Thursday, the Huffington Post’s senior politics editor, Sam Stein, reported on Twitter that the upcoming State of the Union will be a “non-traditional speech,” citing a senior administration official. What does that mean? Here are some ideas:
Accusations of gender discrimination are gaining traction at Stanford’s business school. But! “Just because the majority of women interviewed felt that it was not always a respectful workplace, [Debra Zumwalt, Stanford’s chief counsel] said, ‘that does not mean that it was not a respectful workplace.’” Oh.
“The primary reason people meditate, the experts tell me, is that it may reduce stress. Fine. But so does quality sleep and exercise. And you can reduce stress simply by changing the way you think about it.” Some people you know immediately must just be a pleasure to be around.
After catching quite a bit of flak for questioning John McCain’s warrior bonafides, Donald Trump assembled a coalition called the Veterans for Trump. The relevant press release included a list of names of veterans, some of whom have now denied, to The Guardian, that they were consulted at all.
Because there is nowhere to live, the Clinton campaign asked the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce to help its young staffers out. “The chamber suggested Clinton Hill, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights, but has not made much progress in convincing staffers to consider these less gentrified neighborhoods.”
The city of Spokane, Washington, has opened an investigation into whether Rachel Dolezal, the president of the local chapter of the NAACP, lied about her race when she identified herself as African-American on her application to serve on the citizen police ombudsman commission, thereby violating the city’s code of ethics.
Los Angeles: “It’s like grown-up version of Williamsburg.” But also: “Los Angeles is really the wage-theft capital of the country.” Hmm.
The acting chief executive of the Clinton Foundation admitted on Sunday that the charity had made mistakes on its tax returns regarding its list of donors, Reuters reports. The admission comes after a Reuters review of the foundation’s taxes.
Here in the liberal media, we all like to joke, in our little liberal elite cabal, about how dumb Republicans are. And Republicans sure are dumb! But are they dumber than Democrats?
Republican senator Thomas Croci of the New York state senate introduced a bill this week to establish a "New York State Terrorist Registry," the New York Daily News reports. It would be modeled on the existing registry used to track sex offenders.
What is the first thing that Eddie Murphy should do when he gets on stage to do a stand-up comedy routine? If you said "give a hearty 'thank-you' to the African tribes who originated the concept of The Dozens hundreds of years ago," well, your name is probably author and educator Elizabeth Evans! It's all right here in the press release of the day—and your mother is portly!
Spike TV's annual Video Game Awards uses a strangely familiar inverted rainbow triangle for the "V" in VGA, notes TMZ. Coincidentally, noted inverted triangle Neil Patrick Harris is this year's host.
Austria's "incest monster" Josef Fritzl—who used his daughter as a baby-bearing dungeon sex slave for 24 years—just gave his first jailhouse interview: "I hate hairdressers more than dentists." And: "My favorite show is Two and a Half Men."
Internet journalist Matt Drudge is quitting his radio show "to focus on his website and other endeavors." [Cincinnati Enquirer]
