Hours after calling legendary Washington Post reporter and current CNN contributor Carl Bernstein a “degenerate fool,” President Trump roused himself out of bed Thursday to levy another series of unhinged attacks against the media. Beginning just before 7 a.m., the president tweeted a whopping 10 times over the next three …
Read More »It's Not Sony's Fault If It Sold Fake Michael Jackson Songs
Michael Jackson fans may be a bit disappointed during this worldwide celebration of the icon’s diamond birthday. A ruling has been issued in the years-long class-action lawsuit alleging that three King of Pop songs were not in fact sung by the King of Pop — but it doesn’t actually give …
Read More »How a Young 'Rolling Stone' Writer Sparred With Dennis Hopper — And Won
Long before Robin Green was an Emmy-winning writer and producer for The Sopranos, she was a young post-grad living in Berkeley, California. In 1971, she got a job interview with Jann Wenner, co-founder of an upstart magazine called Rolling Stone. She thought she was interviewing for a clerical position; instead, …
Read More »Keep an Eye on Rudy Giuliani's Collusion Bait-and-Switch
The traveling sad-clown show that is latter-day Rudy Giuliani appeared on cable news Monday morning to begin another work week with a torrent of laughable claims and theories about the federal investigation closing in on his client, President Donald Trump. The always-risible, factually-suspect “there-was-no-collusion” mantra chanted by the president’s many …
Read More »'Midnight Run' at 30: In Praise of the 'Casablanca' of Buddy Comedies
“Jack, you’re a grown man. You have control over your own words.” “You’re goddamn right I do. So here come two words for you: shut the fuck up.” Over the course of Midnight Run, bounty hunter Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro) and fugitive accountant Jonathan “Duke” Mardukas (Charles Grodin) travel …
Read More »Trump Lied About Supporting U.S. Intelligence and No One Seems to Care
President Trump knew it was bad when he lost Fox & Friends. The morning after he fluffed up Vladimir Putin while teeing off on the U.S. intelligence community during a press conference in Helsinki, the president was roundly criticized by his favorite morning news program. At one point, host Brian …
Read More »Watch Beyonce, Jay-Z Screen France's World Cup Win During Final Paris Concert
Beyoncé and Jay-Zoffered French fans the ultimate opening act at their final show in Paris by screening France’s World Cup victory. Before taking the stage at Stade de France, the Carters showed the match on massive screens, so fans could still watch the epic victory. In SB Nation’s video of …
Read More »Why Brett Kavanaugh Will Carry Trump's Water
President Trump’s new Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, already has signaled that he will be sympathetic to the president’s legal position in the looming court showdown over the Russia investigation. For all we know about Trump, that may be the single most important reason why he picked Kavanaugh to succeed …
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