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Monster Kid Chronicles Part 3

It had started when packages of Universal Pictures’ horror films were released to TV stations, in those pre-video, pre-cable, pre-digital days. To see something then you had to wait for it to come on. I still remember the excitement we felt. But, how is it that we were hipped to…

Jon Stewart demolishes senators for swooning over JP Morgan CEO

On his show Thursday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart mocked members of the Senate Banking Committee for going soft on JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon after his firm lost at least $2 billion gambling on derivatives. During the hearing, Republican senators complimented Dimon and praised his financial…

Robert Reich: Romney is the reverse Robin Hood

Berkeley professor and former labor secretary Robert Reich suggested Thursday that Mitt Romney’s economic plan favored the wealthy at the expense of the poor. “Romney has said repeatedly, he wants to cut taxes on the very wealthy,” he said on MSNBC’s The Last Word. “The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center here…

Fox News host walks off set following co-host’s sexist joke

Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson walked off the show’s set on Thursday morning after her co-host Brian Kilmeade made a sexist comment. The comment came after Fox & Friends‘ Steve Doocy finished an interview with the Navy Sea Chanters, which had been all-male until 1980. “Women are everywhere,” Kilmeade…

Sen. Sanders: Consumers should know if food is genetically modified

Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) on Thursday introduced an amendment to the farm bill that would give states the power to label genetically modified food. “I personally believe, and I think most Americans believe, that when a mother goes to the store and purchases food for her…

Jose Antonio Vargas: Americans have profound misunderstanding of immigration

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas on Thursday said the immigration system was fundamentally broken. “Ordinary Americans have such a profound misunderstanding of what this issue is and who we exactly are,” he told CBS News. The Filipino writer — who has has worked for The San Francisco Chronicle, The…

Indonesian man jailed for posting ‘God does not exist’ on Facebook

An Indonesian man who professed his atheism online was sentenced on Thursday to serve two years and six months in prison, according to the Jakarta Post. Thirty-year-old Alexander Aan was assaulted by a mob and arrested after posting “God does not exist” on Facebook earlier this year. He was found…

Washington parent: Sex education is ‘just the same as raping somebody’

Parents in Washington state — and a few conservative websites — are outraged after an elementary school principal described sex acts during a sexual education class last week. According to KCPQ, the principal of Onalaska Elementary School was talking to 11- and 12-year-old students about HIV and sexually transmitted diseases…

WATCH LIVE: Mitt Romney speaks in Ohio

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney spoke to a crowd in Cincinnati, Ohio, Thursday. Watch live, broadcast on MSNBC, scheduled to begin around 1:50 p.m. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…

Forget Obama Girl, ‘Obama Boy’ sings about his ‘crush on Obama’

Obama Girl is so 2008. President Barack Obama’s recent decision to support same sex marriage has inspired a new video where “Obama Boy” sings about his “crush on Obama.” “The day President Obama went on record saying he was pro-gay marriage, I came up with the concept and wrote the…

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