It’s the day millions have been dreading, the day that many swore would be the end of red envelope-packed mailboxes, the day in which hordes of Americans might be forced to read a book instead of streaming Season Two of Party Down: Netflix jacks up its prices tomorrow. The Huffington…
Continue reading …AT&T tried to sugarcoat its $39 billion deal to buy T-Mobile USA by announcing this morning that it would, as a result of the merger, return 5,000 call-center jobs to US shores. But it still wasn’t sweet enough for the Justice Department, which has filed suit to block the…
Continue reading …Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony may not be together anymore , but both are still appearing in quirky Kohl’s ad campaigns touting their upcoming clothing lines. Promo clips show J.Lo dropping her own name to get past a guard at Kohl’s headquarters and Marc Anthony battling with the coffeemaker, among…
Continue reading …At least 88 people have been tortured and killed in Syrian detention centers over the past five months, including 10 children, according to a new report from Amnesty International. Victims were burned, beaten, and electrocuted, among other abuses, the report alleges. “These deaths behind bars are reaching massive proportions,” Neil…
Continue reading …You already knew Lady Gaga’s dedication to her drag performance at the VMAs was so intense that she didn’t drop character, even backstage . But apparently it was even more intense than we all presumed: so much so that she wore a prosthetic penis, which Us cutely refers to as a…
Continue reading …Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman unveiled his economic plan in New Hampshire this afternoon, calling for far-reaching structural reform of the U.S. tax code. Huntsman seeks the removal of “loopholes, deductions, and tax expenditures,” as well as an elimination of the capital gains, dividends and alternative minimum taxes. The former Utah governor’s plan, “Time to
Continue reading …Add Maya Angelou to the chorus of voices who are none too pleased with how the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial turned out. There’s already been some hullabaloo over the fact that one of the quotes on the wall by the Tidal Basin wasn’t actually uttered by King, but the…
Continue reading …Cord Jefferson at Good Magazine points to research that shows that first-and second-generation black immigrants make up 41 percent of all black students at Ivy League universities, even though they constitute less than 1 percent of the U.S. population. Jefferson writes that Ivy League schools brag about their diversity while “admitting hugely disproportionate numbers of
Continue reading …We all know Prince Harry loves to dance , and he showed off his skills once again this past weekend … for a few moments, at least, before he tumbled into a pool. The prince was partying at a Croatian island club, where the Mirror reports he drank a few double…
Continue reading …Ahh, babysitting: That rite of passage in which you get paid $3 an hour to take care of kids with no breaks, paid vacation, or worker’s comp. All that could soon change, however, if an Assembly bill quickly making its way through the California legislature becomes law. The measure, which…
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