Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son was killed while serving in Iraq, stood before the Democratic convention on Thursday, July 28 and blasted Donald Trump’s rhetoric on Muslims and immigrants. Here’s what happened next. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post) By Ghazala Khan July 31 at 9:45 AM Ghazala Khan’s son, U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, was […]
Month: July 2016
Could Women Be Trusted With Their Own Pregnancy Tests? – The New York Times
Happily, her work on the application had required that she meet with Mr. Sturtevant. When he asked her out for drinks at the Barclay Hotel bar in Midtown Manhattan, she wore a little navy dress from Ohrbach’s, with her hair in a bun. After a few martinis, she walked him back to her apartment. A […]
Why Are All These Gold Star Families Being So Mean To Poor Donald Trump?
Everybody is being really mean to that nice Donald Trump, and Wonkette for one is not going to take it! All Mister Trump did is respond to criticism — and is he not allowed to respond to criticism? did someone take his First Amendment away?? — and everybody is acting like he is some petulant […]
Overwatch Map Glitch Reveals Entire Second Map
Ever gaze into the hoary peaks of Overwatch’s Nepal map and wonder what’s out there? What lies beyond the map space’s endless combat purgatory, Blizzard’s tiny death island? A couple Overwatch players managed to break free. Here’s what they found. In this video, hulkman503 and friend of hulkman503 demonstrate how to break outside Nepal’s usual […]
Trump: Tribune Of Poor White People | The American Conservative
I wrote last week about the new nonfiction book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance, the Yale Law School graduate who grew up in the poverty and chaos of an Appalachian clan. The book is an American classic, an extraordinary testimony to the brokenness of the […]
Jill Stein Thinks There Are ‘Real Questions’ About Vaccine Safety, in Case You Were Voting Green
Image via AP. Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presidential candidate and also an actual medical doctor, doesn’t appear to be anti-vaccination. But she’s sort of anti-vaxxer adjacent, giving a series of mealy statements to the Washington Post and in a Reddit AMA about whether vaccines are safe. Jill: you don’t have to do this! It’s […]
NFL Says Donald Trump Is Full Of Shit; League Never Sent Him Letter About Debate Schedule
Photo credit: Marty Lederhandler/ Associated Press Donald Trump’s efforts to weasel out of debating Hillary Clinton have hit a peak, as the GOP presidential nominee has repeatedly blamed his opponent for the scheduled debates that were approved by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates nearly a year ago. That lie apparently not being bold enough, […]
Donald Trump to Father of Fallen Soldier: ‘I’ve Made a Lot of Sacrifices’ – ABC News
In his first response to a searing charge from bereaved Army father Khizr Khan that he’d “sacrificed nothing” for his country, Donald Trump claimed that he had in fact sacrificed by employing “thousands and thousands of people.” He also suggested that Khan’s wife didn’t speak because she was forbidden to as a Muslim and questioned […]
Where Did Drake’s “Jamaican” Accent Come From?
“Cock up yuh bumpa, siddung pon it!” I knew the words, but they were coming from an unfamiliar voice. Drake’s quick interpolation of Popcaan’s 2014 hit “Love Yuh Bad” on Views’ “Too Good” felt stilted, an awkward attempt to reconcile the fact that Poppy was missing from the album’s cut of “Controlla.” For many American […]
Hillary Clinton needs to wake up. Trump is stealing the voters she takes for granted | Thomas Frank | Opinion | The Guardian
The Republican party wants my liberal vote. This was the most shocking wave to wash over my brain last week as I sat in the convention center in Cleveland. It was more startling in its way than the storm of hate that I saw descend on former GOP hero Ted Cruz, stranger than the absence […]