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Rick Perry, a swaggering idiot who found a pair of glasses on the street one day, is about to become the head of the Department of Energy, according to CBS News. The Department of Energy’s job right now is to develop the next generation of nuclear weapons. What this means practically speaking, of course, is…
The CIA officially determined that Russia intervened in our election, and President-elect Donald Trump dismissed the story as if it were a piece of fake news. “These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,” his transition team wrote in a statement. “The election ended a long time ago in…
Former Republican U.S. presidential candidate and former Texas Governor Rick Perry takes the stage at the RNC in Cleveland on July 18, 2016. He said, “Making America Great Again starts by taking care of our veterans.” Mike Segar/Reuters Donald Trump has selected Rick Perry to be energy secretary, according to two sources directly involved…
Image: CBS via Trek Core Star Trek: The Original Series has a lot of great episodes, running the gamut from the emotionally devastating (“The City on the Edge of Forever”) to the comedic (“The Trouble With Tribbles”). And yet, for my money, no episode is a better example of everything the Original Series got right…
Image: Deleted scene found on the Roddenberry Vault, CBS Home Entertainment With Star Trek: The Original Series celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, you wouldn’t think there was still more new footage to be found. You’d be wrong, and the experts behind the Star Trek Encyclopedia have spent nine years working to show it to…
Today in New York, 20th Century Fox showcased a few of its big genre movies that are currently in production. The one seemingly getting the most buzz is the third Wolverine film, Logan. We’ll have full write-ups of all the footage (which also included War for the Planet of the Apes and Alien: Covenant) soon,…
In Hollywood, the prevailing thought is an R-rating holds a film back. The feeling is, by limiting the audience to people over 17, studios aren’t allowing films to live up to their full financial potential. Forget the fact forcing a rating hinders creativity and kids will see a movie anyway, it’s just the way some…
Image: Getty Amazon is a very rich company, with a market cap of $361 billion and stock price of over $750 a share. But as we’ve seen, the fortune of huge tech companies don’t often translate down to its employees. In some cases, it leaves them living in squalor. Take the blight of Amazon’s warehouse…
Pokémon Go today rolled out at least seven new baby Pokémon, which spawn from eggs. All day, players have been dutifully hatching the new little guys from two, five and ten-kilometer eggs. It’s tiers below players’ hopes for an entire second generation, but hey, at this point, they take what they can get. Here’s how…
Screenshot from Crytek’s Ryse The game company Crytek is again facing financial trouble and hasn’t paid many of its employees in months, according to a number of people who work there. Paychecks have been missing or late throughout most of 2016, Crytek employees say. Staff in Crytek’s main office in Frankfurt, Germany have not received…