Saturday, August 9, 2014

Salon: I spent a day watching AtheistTV -- and it was horrifying

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August 9th, 2014

I spent a day watching AtheistTV — and it was horrifying

The Atheist streaming network apparently learned nothing from Neil deGrasse Tyson's success

George W. Bush, Barack Obama

Is Obama haunted by Bush's ghost – or possessed by him?

On the Iraq nightmare, CIA torture, the economy and more, Obama can't escape his predecessor – and hasn't tried

Antonin Scalia

Stop calling Scalia a scrotum: Liberals, asshats and the nasty politics of vile insults

Can't we disagree with each other without comparing people to genitals? Yes, we most certainly can!

Joseph Lieberman, John McCain

"They don't have the courage": How the two-party system aided Israel disaster

To get principled responses to humanitarian crises, break up DC's pro-Israel status quo, leading socialist explains

Ted Cruz, Sean Hannity, Michele Bachmann

It's even worse than Fox News: How Ted Cruz and Michele Bachmann get away with it

Hannity helps, but right-wing obstruction and lies take hold because the centrist, objective press wears blinders

Guy Fieri

How one man destroyed the Food Network: Guy Fieri has made culinary TV into a viewer's hell

It used to be full of chefs serenely baking in sunlit kitchens. But now I despise the network I used to love

Jeff Bezos

Amazon's evolving PR strategy: A brief history of the company's public statements

The historically tight-lipped corporate giant is losing its cool as writers rally against it

Florida voters at a polling place in Boca Raton

5 human rights abuses America commits at home

From voter ID laws to broken immigration detention centers, the U.S. is not the model democracy it fancies itself

Rand Paul

The GOP's dangerous new BFF: What the Republican love affair with Uber is really about

Republicans and "sharing" don't often go well together. So what explains their allegiance to the sharing economy?

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What men are really saying when they harass women on the street

BuzzFeed translates catcalling into the objectifying language it really implies VIDEO

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Ocean acidification poses imminent threat to Alaskan fishing communities

A new report reveals that keeping fisheries sustainable is going to be a serious challenge in the years to come

APTOPIX Southern Sudan

Global aid operations are just one catastrophe away from total collapse

America's African experiment in nation building has its limits. And we're this close to flying over the edge

Richard Nixon

"Honk if you think he's guilty": Michael Winship on the 40th anniversary of Nixon's resignation

Nixon's bizarre and emotional East Room address was unlike anything I've ever seen as a reporter on Capital Hill

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Deltron 3030: You can't really sell music

Del the Funky Homosapien and Dan the Automator on the demise of the music industry and their anticipated reunion VIDEO

Boyz II Men, at the Grammy Museum gala tribute concert on Nov. 11, 2013 in Los Angeles.

Move over, Boyz II Men: We're in a new golden age of R&B pop

It's been years since TLC and Destiny's Child owned the charts—but the genre they popularized is making a comeback VIDEO

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When Superman and Wonder Woman had sex in the sky: The hottest comic book romances

From Thor and Roz Solomon to Batman and Maggie Sawyer, comics feature some surprisingly sizzling love stories

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Meet the woman who has felt constantly dizzy for an entire year

Warning: reading this article will make you dizzy

President Barack Obama reads his speech for photographers after delivering a prime-time televised address marking the the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq from the Oval Office Tuesday.

Saying "uh" makes you sound like a dude

Common speech fillers will, um, give away a person's gender, like, immediately

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The guy who gave us "I Heart NY" has a depressing new logo for our dying planet

Milton Glaser wants to unite the world in the fight against climate change

Richard Nixon

R.I.P. "Law and Order" conservatives: Why Nixon's party abandoned his obsession

While Nixon crusaded against protests and riots, the right now boasts of bucking authority. Here's what changed

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