Tag: Politics
Kim Dotcom started a political party, and go figure, it’s called the “Internet Party.” In the excruciatingly long and awkward introduction video above, the Megaupload founder cavorts with Barack Obama and New Zealand Prime Minster John Key impersonators while introducing the his new organization’s ambitions. “The Internet Party was founded on the spirit of the […]
Russia’s surprise invasion of Ukraine has pundits on the right positively giddy, as they point to statements made during the elections in 2008 and 2012 by then-candidates Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney. But long before someone presumably ghostwrote that foreign policy position for Palin or Romney walked back his stance, it was liberal Cosmo Kramer […]
Back in October, the New Jersey Star-Ledger endorsed Chris Christie for a second term as governor of that state, citing his “remarkable political talent” and “skill at playing Trenton’s inside game” while admitting it had “deep reservations” about him as a public official. It was a strange, bifurcated endorsement, and now, Tom Moran, the paper’s editor, sounds […]
A new study from Georgia Tech on the intersection of politics and social media confirms what any casual Facebooker already knows to be true: it sucks when your friends post about politics, and it sucks even more when their politics differ from yours. The researchers, led by Catherine Grevet, found that people who believe most of their […]
In response to the Ten Commandments monument that was erected at Oklahoma’s state Capitol last year, the NYC-based Satanic Temple has petitioned to have a Baphomet statue installed as well. Here’s what their proposal looks like. Friendly, right? The Satanic Temple has already surpassed its $20,000 funding goal on IndieGogo, with 11 days left to […]
There’s no escaping the polar vortex that has gripped the nation. The cold snap has reached the highest levels of the U.S. government, right into the oval office itself. Politico was curious if President Obama knows about the freezing weather and reached out for a comment. They report: President Barack Obama knows about the severe […]
Republican mayoral candidate Joe Lhota’s main line of attack against his Democratic rival Bill de Blasio in recent weeks has been to go the classic Republican route and label de Blasio a “socialist.” The onslaught began after the New York Times published a piece explaining de Blasio’s 1980s ties to the Nicaraguan Sandinista movement. Now, an actual socialist–namely, […]
It’s 2:23pm and two tourists stand outside a non-descript building in Philadelphia, happily photographing each other with their new collectible coins in hand. On this gorgeous fall day there are plenty of visitors (mostly foreign ones) shuffling around one of the most uninspiring tourist attractions on planet earth: the U.S. Mint. Yes, even on a […]
You may be aware that NASA is one of the federal agencies being affected by the government shutdown; 18,000 workers, 97% of NASA’s employees, will not be reporting to work until Congress works out a solution. But perhaps the most notable furlough isn’t even a human: the Curiosity rover, all the way up on Mars, […]
The write-in vote remains one of the greatest, most useless tools in the American democratic system. Don’t like the assholes offered up by your political party of choice? Just write in literally anyone else–your dad, your high school English teacher, your favorite cartoon character. It’s often a gesture without any pragmatic effect, but writing in […]
