Gold, the favored investment of Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and the old man at the post office who invited you over to see his industrial-size canned bean supply room, is down for the third straight year. Since peaking at “So many crazy fearful people” levels in 2011, the price of gold has fallen by 45%, […]
Month: December 2015


Star Trek Fan Film Makers Didn’t Know They Were Being Sued … Until They Read the News
Yesterday, Star Trek fans were up in arms at the news that CBS had filed a lawsuit seeking to shut down the hugely successful crowdfunded fan production Axanar, after a year of tolerating the project’s development. Also surprised? Axanar producer Alec Peters, who found out about it by reading said news. Ooh err. http://io9.gizmodo.com/cbs-suddenly-w… Following […]

The Bizarre Evolution of the Word “Cyber”
‘; if (google_ads[0].bidtype == ‘CPC’) { /* insert this snippet for each ad call */ google_adnum = google_adnum + google_ads.length; } document.write(s); } } google_ad_client = ‘ca-pub-0457527031304647’; google_ad_output = ‘js’; google_max_num_ads = ‘1’; google_ad_type = ‘text’; google_feedback = ‘on’; google_skip = google_adnum; google_ad_channel = ‘1102379497’; Today, cyber means war. But back in the 1990s, it […]

Steven Universe Guidebook Spills The Secrets Of The Crystal Gems
‘; if (google_ads[0].bidtype == ‘CPC’) { /* insert this snippet for each ad call */ google_adnum = google_adnum + google_ads.length; } document.write(s); } } google_ad_client = ‘ca-pub-0457527031304647’; google_ad_output = ‘js’; google_max_num_ads = ‘1’; google_ad_type = ‘text’; google_feedback = ‘on’; google_skip = google_adnum; google_ad_channel = ‘1102379497’; We’ve got the exclusive cover reveal for the the wildly […]

The Developer Formerly Known as FreeBSDGirl | randi.io
I’ve been trying to publish this post for 5 months. It’s been sitting in my queue, and I’ve been too worried about fallout to publish it, despite the support of friends familiar with the situation. But I’m not going to enter 2016 knowing that I was too scared to do something. So here it is. […]

What Do I Do About The Abandoned Porsche 911 In My Parking Garage?
Hello, ladies and gentlemen of Jalopnik, and welcome to the latest round of Letters to Doug, your favorite weekly Jalopnik column that includes both a) letters, and b) at least one insult of the first-generation Volkswagen Touareg. If you’d like to participate in Letters to Doug, you are more than welcome to send me an […]

Steven Universe Keeps Giving Us Some of the Most Complex Heroes on TV
‘; if (google_ads[0].bidtype == ‘CPC’) { /* insert this snippet for each ad call */ google_adnum = google_adnum + google_ads.length; } document.write(s); } } google_ad_client = ‘ca-pub-0457527031304647’; google_ad_output = ‘js’; google_max_num_ads = ‘1’; google_ad_type = ‘text’; google_feedback = ‘on’; google_skip = google_adnum; google_ad_channel = ‘1102379497’; Steven Universe graced our screens once again with a week […]

Steven Universe Is Quickly Becoming A Show About Flawed Mothers
‘; if (google_ads[0].bidtype == ‘CPC’) { /* insert this snippet for each ad call */ google_adnum = google_adnum + google_ads.length; } document.write(s); } } google_ad_client = ‘ca-pub-0457527031304647’; google_ad_output = ‘js’; google_max_num_ads = ‘1’; google_ad_type = ‘text’; google_feedback = ‘on’; google_skip = google_adnum; google_ad_channel = ‘1102379497’; In a way, Steven Universe has always been about the […]

Steven Universe Leaves Us Hanging In The Best—And Worst—Possible Way
‘; if (google_ads[0].bidtype == ‘CPC’) { /* insert this snippet for each ad call */ google_adnum = google_adnum + google_ads.length; } document.write(s); } } google_ad_client = ‘ca-pub-0457527031304647’; google_ad_output = ‘js’; google_max_num_ads = ‘1’; google_ad_type = ‘text’; google_feedback = ‘on’; google_skip = google_adnum; google_ad_channel = ‘1102379497’; Last night, Steven Universe returned for what is purportedly the […]

How much is government taxing your New Year’s champagne? | Washington Examiner
People across the country will pop bottles of champagne at midnight tonight to celebrate the new year. The question is, how much is the government raining on your New Year’s parade with champagne taxes? The Wine Institute has a list of the excise taxes on sparkling wines in each state. If you’re celebrating New Year’s […]