On Monday, Comedy Central announced that the new host of “The Daily Show,” who will replace Jon Stewart when he leaves sometime within the next year, is a thirty-one-year-old comedian from South Africa named Trevor Noah. For most Americans, and even many regular viewers of “The Daily Show,” the name was unfamiliar. Noah made his first […]
Month: March 2015
Indiana Governor Asks for Changes in Religious Freedom Law – NYTimes.com
Photo Gov. Mike Pence held a news conference to discuss the Religious Freedom Restoration Act at the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis on Tuesday. “We want to make it clear that Hoosier hospitality is not a slogan but a way of life,” he said. Credit Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana said Tuesday […]
In Indiana, Using Religion as a Cover for Bigotry – NYTimes.com
Photo Demonstrators protested the religious freedom bill in Indianapolis on Saturday. Credit Nate Chute/Reuters Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, who last week signed a religious-freedom law driven by bigotry against gays and lesbians, has been complaining that the law’s opponents — which include top business leaders and civil-rights groups — are spreading “misinformation.” It is […]
Echo Chamber: ‘Bloodborne’s’ Critical Praise Is Gaming Journalism’s Failure
Read any review, discussion, forum thread or opinion on From Software’s new PS4 exclusive Bloodborne, and you’re bound to encounter the phrase: “it’s not for everyone.” Sometimes it’s sort of an embarrassed acknowledgement: “I know, this thing is weird and painful, but here’s what I like about it.” More often, it’s sort of a smirking […]
Class and family in America: Minding the nurture gap | The Economist
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis. By Robert Putnam. Simon & Schuster; 386 pages; $28 and £18.99. THE most important divide in America today is class, not race, and the place where it matters most is in the home. Conservatives have been banging on about family breakdown for decades. Now one of the nation’s […]
Pro-density renters group grows, snags tech giant CEO gift – San Francisco Business Times
Start Component ID: 4471 – Article Page: Video Player Main Asset End Component ID: 4471 – Article Page: Video Player Main Asset Start Component ID: 146 – Article Page: Image Gallery Begin Photos Enlarge Photo Jin Lee / Bloomberg News Jeremy Stoppelman, chief executive officer of Yelp Inc., speaks during an interview at the New […]
Martin O’Malley challenges Hillary Clinton – CNN.com
“Let’s be honest here,” O’Malley said. “The presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families.” READ: Can this Democrat really beat Hillary Clinton? The Democrat’s comments, in an appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” are another signal that he’s likely to challenge Clinton in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary. […]
Meerkat Vs Periscope: Tech journalism is a sickly mess | BGR
About three days after it received a lavish new funding round, Meerkat died an ugly and embarrassing death. It is hard to decide whether the Great Meerkat Debacle that has unfolded over the past week is a tragedy or a comedy — probably a bit of both. The mobile streaming app that had whipped U.S. […]
Indiana governor says he didn’t anticipate ‘the hostility that’s been directed at our state’ – LGBTQ Nation
INDIANAPOLIS — Three days after signing legislation widely criticized as a “license to discriminate” against LGBT people, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence says he didn’t anticipate “the hostility that’s been directed at our state.” Pence told the Indianapolis Star on Saturday he’s been in discussions with legislative leaders this weekend, and will support legislation to “clarify […]
Lena Dunham is not an anti-Semite: “Girls” star targeted yet again after controversial New Yorker piece – Salon.com
Earlier this week, Lena Dunham contributed a humor piece to the “Shouts and Murmurs” column of the New Yorker, called “Dog or Jewish Boyfriend? A Quiz” which lists scenarios and rhetorically asks readers to guess which applies to her dog and which applies to her boyfriend (examples: “He doesn’t tip. And he never brings his […]