Speaking to Bloomberg Television this week, Reddit.com co-founder Alexis Ohanian warned that the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act, which aim to shut down websites connected to copyright infringement, could “obliterate an entire tech industry” if their current provisions become law. Ohanian explained that Reddit, one of…
A drunk Denver woman decided last week that an abstract expressionist painting worth more than $30 million was missing a little something. Carmen Lucette Tisch was arrested on charges of criminal mischief after police said she punched Clyfford Still’s “1957-J no.2″ painting. She then dropped her pants and rubbed her…
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s newest high-profile supporter says it’s time for Republicans to “fix our problems with the Hispanics.” MSNBC’s Chuck Todd on Wednesday asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) if Arizona would be a swing state during the 2012 presidential election. “I think that if not this election cycle,…
The political satirist who led the charge against Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s bizarre “Strong” advertisement is back, and seemingly delighted that Iowans basically wanted nothing to do with the guy. This time, instead of mocking Perry’s bizarre claim that President Barack Obama is waging a “war on religion,” Cobb went…
The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in China bred 21 pandas in 2011, bringing the total number of the endangered animals in captivity to 333. Recently, 12 of the panda cubs from the program left their mothers for the first time to live as a group at the…
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is denying that he ever said he didn’t want to give welfare to “black people.” In fact, he says he doesn’t even use the term “black.” Earlier this week, the former Pennsylvania senator was caught on video telling a crowd in Iowa that he didn’t…
On last night’s Colbert Report, Stephen congratulated his colleagues in cable news for their coverage of the 2012 Iowa caucus results. He saluted the Fox News team’s willingness to soldier on in spite of the loss of all “basic mental functions” like speech and the ability to operate a calculator.…
Last night’s last night’s The Daily Show featured a two-part recap of the results of the Iowa caucuses. It explored the anachronistic thrill of watching people stuff handwritten ballots into boxes, weighed the value of winning the presidency versus the pleasure of little dogs in sunglasses, and then arrived at…