• REWIND: Riding to Obama’s Rescue, After Wright’s Radicalism Exposed

    Sixteen years ago this weekend, Illinois Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign was in real trouble, after ABC publicized excerpts of sermons delivered by Obama’s longtime pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The video showed Wright, in the pulpit, rationalizing the 9/11 attacks as justified (“America’s chickens are coming home to roost!”) and blasting America as the “U.S. of K.K.K.A.” Obama, who had built his campaign around the idea of unity, had attended Wright’s church for two decades, so...

  • REWIND: Riding to Obama’s Rescue, After Wright’s Radicalism Exposed

    Sixteen years ago this weekend, Illinois Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign was in real trouble, after ABC publicized excerpts of sermons delivered by Obama’s longtime pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The video showed Wright, in the pulpit, rationalizing the 9/11 attacks as justified (“America’s chickens are coming home to roost!”) and blasting America as the “U.S. of K.K.K.A.” Obama, who had built his campaign around the idea of unity, had attended Wright’s church for two decades, so...

  • Is Frank Grillo’s Rick Flag Sr. In James Gunn’s Superman Movie?

    Could Frank Grillo be joining the cast of Superman? A new social media post suggests Rick Flag Sr. could be joining James Gunn’s next DC Universe project.

  • Aaron Taylor-Johnson Addressed Rumors He’s The Next James Bond, And Here’s What He Had To Say

    “I don’t feel like I need to have a future drawn out for me.”View Entire Post ›

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    James Harden’s Latest Adidas Sneaker Is the Year’s Most Divisive Basketball Shoe

    When images of the Harden Vol. 8—James Harden’s latest signature sneaker, as part of his 15-year, $200 million deal with Adidas—first leaked online last spring, things were very different for the future Hall of Famer. He was wrapping up his second season with the Philadelphia 76ers, who had fired head coach Doc Rivers after a painful elimination at the hands of the Boston Celtics, and was looking ahead to the great unknown of an offseason as a free agent. Since then, he’s opted in to the final...

  • James Madison’s Extremely Naked Mascot Disregards Kyle Filipowski’s Wishes To Troll Duke Villain

    Kyle Filipowski does not want to be cast as a villain, but the James Madison mascot had other plans. He trolled the Duke basketball star with a subtle sign at March Madness. It was hilarious. Filipowski, who recently called himself a “big teddy bear” while trying to explain that he is actually a nice guy, […]

  • The Joke’s On Us It’s April Fool’s Day!

    Get your joke book out and plan your pratfalls and pranks because April 1st, better known as April Fool’s Day, is the time once a year to celebrate by playing good-spirited tricks on friends and family. Funny enough, despite its worldwide popularity, this holiday has a long history but mysterious origins. One of the earliest possible explanations goes all the way back to 1508 when French Poet Eloy d’Amerval referred to a “poisson d’avril,” or “April Fool.” Although, translated, this […]

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    Housing minister mocks Doug Ford’s concerns with fourplexes. Here’s what happened at Ontario’s Queen’s Park this week

    Canada’s housing minister openly mocked Ontario Premier Doug Ford on social media Friday over his concerns over fourplexes. Throughout the week, the premier has made it clear that he does not support a provincial mandate to build fourplexes in residential neighbourhoods—something that both the Ontario Housing Affordability Task Force and the federal government have recommended. Later, he clarified he was just against four-storey “towers.” “You have to differentiate between putting four...

  • ‘We are all unwell’: a scholar’s radical approach to health

    Mimi Khúc discusses the concept of unwellness and how it is shaped by the structures around us in a new book, dear eliaMimi Khúc began thinking about “unwellness”, or the idea that we all struggle to be “well”, more than a decade ago. At the time, she was a graduate student and a new mother struggling with postpartum depression. She didn’t have the knowledge or language to talk about what she was feeling – she just felt like a bad mother to her daughter Elia.Now Khúc is a scholar of Asian...

  • James Gunn’s Superman to Have a ‘90s Mullet?

    We’ve had about three versions of a movie Superman, and all versions seem to have one core look that each design sticks pretty close to. Everyone is expecting James Gunn’s Man of Steel to have his own original look for Superman, and some are guessing he could have a radical

  • Derry’s St Mary’s is Ireland’s Choir of the Year!

    The choir celebrated on stage of the magnificent RDs Concert Hall singing a triumphant rendition of ‘The Undertones’ standard, Teenage Kicks. The choir, under the direction of Emma-Jayne Kelly and accompanied by Trevor Burnside won the two- part Youth choir, were placed second in The Alice Yoakley Cup and won the overall Folen’s Publisher Award Cup and £3000 for the "School Choir of the Year 2024". Miss Kelly described the whole experience as “a fantastic day for Derry as Thornhill College also...

  • Ollie Watkins told he’s playing his way out of being Harry Kane’s England back-up and it’s Ivan Toney’s time to shine

    Ollie Watkins’ chances of booking a plane ticket for Euro 2024 could be ended on Tuesday night. That’s according to Arsenal great Perry Groves, who expects Ivan Toney to play and shine agains