Critics are quite pleased with George Clooney’s latest directorial offering, The Ides of March ; the taut political drama currently enjoys an 83% rating on Rotten Tomatoes —although some of its supporters have qualms about its themes. Here’s what they’re saying: “Are you sitting down? George Clooney has some shocking news:…
Continue reading …Paul Krugman today gets squarely behind Occupy Wall Street, which “is starting to look like an important event that might even eventually be seen as a turning point,” he writes in the New York Times . Wall Street’s bankers deserve the anger being directed their way, and the protests are a…
Continue reading …With Amanda Knox back home, the media circus is just getting started. Tomorrow, CBS’s 48 Hours Mystery will reveal her “Untold Story”—including some disturbing stories from her time in jail, where she faced “cruel manipulation and sexual intimidation,” the network says. A top prison official reportedly “ordered her into…
Continue reading …Visitors are thrilled by blue whales’ frequent appearances at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach—but for the whales, such visits could be deadly, experts warn. The biggest port complex in the country now boasts “the densest concentration” of whales “close to shore in all of California,” says…
Continue reading …It’s a bad day for bizarre violence. Earlier, we heard about karaoke-inspired fisticuffs ; now an apparent Facebook-based argument has led to an attack. A Texas man who reportedly said he was furious at his estranged wife for not “liking” his Facebook status allegedly punched her in the face and pulled…
Continue reading …The big banks’ financial maneuvers brought our economy to the brink of collapse, but you don’t see any bankers behind bars. Instead, it’s the Occupy Wall Street protesters who are getting arrested—for such heinous crimes as stopping traffic, writes Michael Daly in the Daily Beast . Goldman Sachs got away…
Continue reading …Not only are lefties and righties split on their politics and what kind of food they like —they’re split on their entertainment choices as well. A recent poll for the Hollywood Reporter finds that a whopping 45% of Tea Partiers consider a celebrity’s politics before paying to watch his or…
Continue reading …The EPA finalized a new rule to curb industrial pollution this summer; three months later, the agency has proposed to loosen the restrictions in 10 of 27 affected states. The Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, meant to cut power-plant emissions that can blow across state lines, has faced sharp criticism from…
Continue reading …Moody’s sliced the credit ratings of a dozen British financial companies today, including two of the UK’s “Big Four” lenders, Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland, both of which were partially nationalized during the financial crisis. Moody’s explained that it “believes that the government is likely to continue to provide…
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