Both were pilloried, but that was then. Today, one has beaten a rape conviction, the other may return as presidentAccording to his representatives, former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is still digesting the overturning of his rape conviction by a New York court, but they did come out to say he was “cautiously excited”. Cautiously excited? I’m not sure these are the words I’d alight on to paint a word-picture of a rapist. You might as well say “tentatively aroused”. Then again, as we’re about...
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We discuss how many holidays get co-opted, and how we can turn cultural appropriation into appreciation. (But also drink. And sell mattresses).
The South Dakota governor’s proud dog murder tells a lot about how posturing Trumpists like she and Greg Gianforte thinkAfter South Dakota’s Republican governor, Kristi Noem, proudly admitted in a forthcoming memoir to marching her young puppy Cricket to a gravel pit to kill her with a shotgun, she rationalized the despicable act by arguing that Cricket had been aggressive.She also said that she used the same gravel pit to shoot a “disgusting, musky, rancid” unnamed goat – but botched the job,...
A scheme to allow British under-30s to live and work in the EU has been flatly rejected. Why punish them for older voters’ mistakes?Only those born before 1998 could vote on Brexit, so there is no conceivable way of knowing which way today’s 18- to 30-year-olds would have felt about it. Oh, except there is: 70% of 18- to 24-year-olds think leaving the EU was a bad idea. Of the 25- to 49-year-olds, 66% also think we were wrong to leave. If you can bear to drag your mind back to the immediate...
TL;DR AKT is the best performer amongst the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap today, adding 54% to its value. Algotech’s presale is approaching the $4 million mark as more investors troop into the project. AKT leads the market charge The cryptocurrency market has been performing well since the Bitcoin halving on Friday. However, Akash […]
Congressional correspondent Annie Karni got snarky against Republicans (and, perhaps, some of her fellow reporters?) in Sunday’s New York Times, after House Speaker Mike Johnson received some backhanded praise from some quarters of the media/Democratic alliance for pushing a military aid bill for Ukraine through: “Mike Johnson, Like Pence, Does What Passes for Brave in Today’s GOP: His Job.” The accolades directed at Speaker Mike Johnson in recent days for finally defying the right wing of his...
Congressional correspondent Annie Karni got snarky against Republicans (and, perhaps, some of her fellow reporters?) in Sunday’s New York Times, after House Speaker Mike Johnson received some backhanded praise from some quarters of the media/Democratic alliance for pushing a military aid bill for Ukraine through: “Mike Johnson, Like Pence, Does What Passes for Brave in Today’s GOP: His Job.” The accolades directed at Speaker Mike Johnson in recent days for finally defying the right wing of his...
PROGRESO, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Let's get popping! Kettle corn is a staple snack in many carnivals, festivals, and events. For Eliud Cardenas, owner of Milo's Kettle Corn, he did not just want to create kettle corn but bring a flavorful twist to the popular treat. Cardenas created his business in March 2023 and named it []
CORNING, N.Y. (WETM) -- Centerway Square in Corning was voted as the fifth best public square in the U.S. by USA Today's 10Best readers after previously coming in first and second place. Centerway Square was one of 20 public squares from across the country to be nominated to be on 10Best's 2024 list of Best []
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The way that the U.S. empire expands its control into targeted countries so as to perpetrate coups that formerly the CIA had been doing (such as, most famously, in Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954, and Chile 1973 — all of which replaced a democratically elected progressive leader by a fascist dictator […]
It is hard not to look at the recent scenes from Columbia and recoil in