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This article originally appeared at International Business Times. Can it happen in Texas, too? The United Kingdom’s bombshell decision to quit the European Union has emboldened a long-gestating secessionist movement in Texas, where disenchanted residents of the second-largest U.S. state have been building a coalition of voters, hoping to finally put the matter of Texas independence up for…
Not content to wait idly by until Deadpool 2 starts shooting next year, the merc with a mouth infiltrated this Japanese trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse. It was partly in preparation for the Japanese release of his own film (where it opened earlier this month; this is a few weeks old) but mainly to continue biting…
Generally, a lot people learned how to search on the internet from Ask Jeeves. Just last week we saw a story about a woman that always searched politely: It’s not a stretch to think that many people’s interaction with Google and other search providers are by asking a question, instead of putting in a topic….
Barrier Status: ‘none’ Last month, Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for President, and Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, met at the headquarters of the Republican National Committee, two blocks from the Capitol. Ryan, the Vice-Presidential candidate in 2012, is widely regarded in the G.O.P. as a policy intellectual and…
‘I was drunk,’ ‘I was joking,’ ‘It’s free speech’: men are making awful excuses for why they harass women online. In Australia last year, a young woman named Olivia Meville faced an onslaught of Tinder shaming by strange men for simply posting a Drake lyric in her bio—“The type of girl that will suck you…
Ray Smock is director of the Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. He served as Historian of the U. S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1995 and was a planner of the bicentennial commemoration of Congress in 1989. The beating of Senator Charles…
“If we are victorious in one more battle … we shall be utterly ruined.” Like the good intellectual that he’s vigorously pretended not to be of late, Boris Johnson will probably know that line. It’s from the Greek historian Plutarch’s account of the battle that gave us the phrase “pyrrhic victory”, the kind of victory…
On Friday, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump tweeted something—stop me if you’ve heard this before—truly stupid: Just arrived in Scotland. Place is going wild over the vote. They took their country back, just like we will take America back. No games! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 24, 2016 Trump’s tweet is even more ignorant…
Every week throughout season six, a handful of Vox’s writers will discuss the latest episode of Game of Thrones. Before you dig in, check out our recap of Sunday’s episode, as well the archive of our entire discussion to date. Next up this week is energy writer David Roberts. David Roberts: The “Battle of the…
Today is the 20th anniversary of the Nintendo 64, which is an excuse to play one of the console’s better games, Goldeneye. Which means I must remember the brilliant meme that game inspired: Geddan. Unfortunately, remembering is the best I can do. Geddan, my favorite meme, has been all but erased from the internet. Geddan…