Would you spend $339 on an interactive male masturbator/vibrator set that would allow you to simulate sex with your partner from hundreds of miles away? Unless you were an upwardly mobile pleasure enthusiast in a long-distance relationship, or an aspiring Elon Musk type, a few months ago your answer to …
Read More »Why Don't More Boomers Care About Coronavirus?
If you want to make a white man over the age of 60 mad, tell him he shouldn’t go to an Allman Brothers concert. While perhaps I should have assumed this, I didn’t know it for sure until my dad called to ask me if I wanted to go to …
Read More »NBA Suspends Season After Player Tests Positive for Coronavirus
UPDATE: Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell tested positive for the coronavirus Thursday, Adrian Wojnarowski tweeted Thursday. Mitchell’s test came just hours after the team’s game versus the Oklahoma City Thunder (and the NBA itself) was suspended after Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive to the coronavirus; Gobert allegedly “had been …
Read More »How Religions Are Adapting to Coronavirus
At this point, COVID-19 has infiltrated many aspects of our lives, including how we practice religion. Changes to religious services started earlier this month in various parts of the United States with confirmed cases of COVID-19, including New York City, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Religious gatherings, of course, get people …
Read More »Shaquille O'Neal on Kobe Bryant's Death: 'I Haven't Felt a Pain That Sharp in a While'
Shaquille O’Neal opened up about the death of his Lakers teammate Kobe Bryant during an emotional TNT tribute to Bryant at the Staples Center on Tuesday. Dwyane Wade, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, Ernie Johnson, Reggie Miller and Jerry West joined the Lakers basketball legend to pay homage. “I haven’t felt …
Read More »Why Did the Washington Post Suspend a Reporter After She Tweeted About Kobe Bryant's Rape Allegation?
Update Tues., Jan. 28, 2020, 5:44 p.m.: The Washington Postmanaging editor Tracy Grant issued the following statement: “After conducting an internal review, we have determined that, while we consider Felicia’s tweets ill-timed, she was not in clear and direct violation of our social media policy. Reporters on social media represent …
Read More »A Record Exec's Crusade for Justice
On a recent Sunday morning, music executive Jason Flom was cruising up the west side of Manhattan in his gray Bentley, going 57 in a 50, and enlivening the familiar drive to Sing Sing prison with the story of a letter he got some years back. “I opened it, and …
Read More »2019 Was a Terrible Year for Abortion Rights. TV Did Better – Kind Of
2019 was a mixed bag when it comes to reproductive rights. While the year saw draconian abortion legislation introduced in states like Alabama, Georgia, and Ohio, the nationwide backlash arguably lent greater momentum to the abortion rights movement, catapulting it to the center of cultural conversation. As a result, the …
Read More »Two Jail Guards Charged with Falsifying Records in Connection to Jeffrey Epstein Death
Two corrections officers at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York City werecharged on Tuesday for their alleged negligence in supervising Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier who died in custody last August. According to the New York Times,the two employees are scheduled to appear in United States District Court …
Read More »How to be a Social Media Sleuth
Billy Jensen doesn’t have the kind of insomnia that gives him trouble falling asleep. His is the kind that wakes him up a few hours later, in the dead of night, with questions. Questions about an unidentified woman and three girls found dead in barrels in the New Hampshire woods; …
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