For its 2018 Person of the Year, Time Magazine has selected a group of journalists who have faced prison time, put themselves at great risk, and, in some cases, given their lives for reporting the truth. Billed as "The Guardians and the War on Truth," they include the staff of ...read more
Friday, People magazine did what magazines do: they printed an issue on the new President-elect and his family. They didn't, however, include in that article the hatred he encouraged and the fear that he has inspired in different halves of the country. This drew the anger of ...read more
In the wake of the police response to protests in Ferguson, Mo., Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) took to TIME magazine on Thursday to write an op-ed decrying the increasing militarization of domestic police forces as well as the inherent racism in the U.S. criminal justice system. While ...read more
I'll make this quick. While I may not personally like what he did, how he did it, or the sanctimonious and nihilistic reasoning behind it, it's tough to deny that the single biggest newsmaker of 2013 was Edward Snowden. I won't fully criticize Time's choice of Pope Francis, ...read more
Pope Francis was chosen as TIME magazine's Person of the Year, with fugitive NSA leaker Edward Snowden ranking as Runner Up. And so, Glenn Greenwald, Snowden's media flack and former blogger for The Guardian, reacted with his usual grace and dignity. Strike that. Silly of ...read more
Civil society can breathe a sigh of relief: Pope Francis is TIME Magazine’s Person of the year for 2013, beating out the likes of Miley Cyrus to claim the mantle of the world's most influential person. The award that started in 1927 is one of the biggest headline grabbers in ...read more
There's a reason the Supreme Court exists: to keep the truly important decisions out of the hands of average idiots and to act as an 11th hour bulwark against the important decisions those idiots have already fucked-up. It's bad enough we're forced to trust people who typically ...read more
TIME Magazine covers are cultural benchmarks for us as a society. I remember even in elementary school seeing the classic red-framed periodicals on display in the library and recognizing that they were something important. Those covers, those arbiters of truth, letting us know ...read more
No, see, that's all wrong. You put it squarely between your opposing thumbs and forefingers and push in hard. That snaps the roll in half along the center-line perfectly and you don't get any of that mess (which tastes terrible, by the way). Don't worry, it took me a while to ...read more
By Bob Cesca: When we do the list of names that occupy the rogues gallery of political villains, Mark Halperin's name doesn't often make the cut. It's chiefly because Halperin doesn't shout or speechify at length like many cable news talking heads. Make no mistake, however. He ...read more
Yesterday she seriously claimed Barack Obama had insulted Jessica Simpson. Now, she's arguing that idiot Mitt Romney should be the new HHS secretary. ...read more
Because people like Mark Halperin aren't just grabbing coffee for people, they're "senior" level correspondents. According to Halperin, the McCain has 7 houses gaffe is bad... for Obama. You know that "this is good for John McCain" thing we Democrats have been joking about? ...read more
