Did they give him a nice bowl of ice cream (two scoops for Donnie!) and get him to allow the adults to make the deals?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate's top Republican and Democratic leaders began negotiating Tuesday after the White House indicated President Donald Trump does not want a federal government shutdown over his demand for $5 billion for the border wall with Mexico.
It’s better to give than receive, but the best is having a 24-year-old song that only seems to gain in popularity every year. I’m just guessing there, since I don’t actually have such a song to my own name, but it must be true! What could be better than sitting back and letting the cash and adoration roll in year…
There comes a time in every man’s life when he has to make an important decision: accept his destiny and shave the remainder of his rapidly balding hair or do whatever he possibly can to hang on to those remaining follicles.
Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller reported Friday the investigation of Russia interference in the 2016 election cost $25 million so far
The Weezer sketch was so perfectly written, it was weird to see it coming from SNL, which has had a pretty mediocre season
Comedy often thrives in specificity, and a sketch that came late in the most recent episode of Saturday Night Live was the perfect example, mining laugh after laugh from the minutiae of the band Weezer’s discography. Three couples, all neighbors, get together for dinner, and Weezer’s recent cover of Toto’s “Africa” randomly comes on the playlist. Two guests, played by Leslie Jones and the episode’s host, Matt Damon, have very strong opinions about the song, and about Weezer in general. The four others barely care about the disagreement that ensues, but they are suddenly a captive audience to a screaming argument.
Damon, wearing black-framed glasses, gives a spot-on performance as the self-satisfied nerd whose opinions are absolute, whether people like it or not. The equally brilliant Jones initially entertains his defense of the band’s more recent output, before hitting him with: “Real Weezer fans know that they haven’t had a good album since Pinkerton in ’96!” Their purist-versus-completist showdown continues, first in good fun, before descending into charged personal insults. “Oh, I’m sorry! You’re dumb!” Jones yells. “No offense, but burn in hell,” Damon shoots.
If you know Weezer’s back catalog intimately, every silly reference made in the sketch lands, but if you don’t, it’s still effective. Because above all, this is a sketch about the way some people discuss almost anything these days—with feigned politeness immediately escalating to personal cruelty. Though part of the joke was that this Weezer disagreement was playing out at a dinner party, I was immediately reminded of so much online discourse, where part of the point is coming up with the most extreme reaction possible. “No offense … but drink my blood,” Damon tells Cecily Strong, playing another of the guests, when she tries to intervene.
The biggest joke of all? Weezer is, at this point, the epitome of Gen X dad rock, a pleasant-enough group that has been plugging away for 26 years to mostly middling critical returns. Most people, like the four other dinner guests in the sketch, would be hard-pressed to summon anything but the gentlest opinion on the band. But once Damon and Jones’s critical discourse begins, it quickly descends into polarized hot takes and name-calling. “Weezer? I didn’t even know they were still a band,” muses Beck Bennett. “Is this a thing people care about?” asks Heidi Gardner. “No. No, it isn’t,” replies Kenan Thompson.
The sketch tapped into Matt Damon’s skill for exhibiting a particularly privileged, white-bread kind of aggression, which SNL also deployed to start this season by casting Damon as Brett Kavanaugh. Damon returned, briefly, to that role in the show’s political “cold open” sketch, which imagined a world where Donald Trump wasn’t president, à la It’s a Wonderful Life. But some of the best sketches in Damon’s episode tapped into something warmer and more empathetic, a nice balance to the cartoonish fury of the Weezer showdown.
A digital short titled “Best Christmas Ever” mocked the typical chaos of the holiday by juxtaposing scenes of Damon and Strong as a happy couple saluting the day with scenes of the stressful reality that came with hosting their family. “Cop Christmas” took the tradition of hard-drinking fellas busting one another’s chops at the bar to wince-inducing extremes, but the underlying gag was how much the assembled characters wanted to declare their love for one another. Damon’s opening monologue was surprisingly heartfelt and lovely without sacrificing jokes, recollecting his experiences watching the show as a kid with his dad, who passed away a year ago.
If you just looked at the political sketches of Saturday Night Live in 2018, you might get the impression that the show was a step behind the times, struggling to find angles on President Trump beyond simple buffoonery and stunt casting of celebrities such as Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro. The show has also been somewhat overshadowed by the uneasy tabloid drama of Pete Davidson’s personal life and his penchant for tasteless jokes. But its nonpolitical sketch writing has been strong this year, and some of its newer cast members, such as Gardner and Chris Redd, show tremendous promise as potential stars going forward. This Christmas episode thrived when it was tapping into absurd humor and gentler, more humanistic slice-of-life material. Given the daily fury of the real world, it might be a smart direction for the show to lean into in 2019.
On December 16, Stephen Miller headed over to Face the Nation to do some racism, presumably popping into Party City on the way for a discounted can of hairspray tinted the color of sadness.
This married A list DJ/performer decided to be with a random group of strippers and escorts than to get on a plane for a gig a half a world away. He knows nothing will happen because he is still in demand and also that he thinks he is going to be able to keep his deposit because it will cost too much to sue him to get it back.
Suggesting that he might not have a perfect grasp of how to show respect to an ex and her attempts to get on with her life—or possibly that he’s just watched Love fucking Actuallytoo many goddamn times—rapper Offset decided it would be very cool to crash his separated wife Cardi B’s headlining set at Los Angeles’…
Limited details are as yet available about the death of a seven-year-old Guatemalan girl who was dehydrated when she and her father turned themselves in to Border Patrol agents near Lordsburg, New Mexico on Dec. 6 to seek asylum in the United States.
I can't see "Sarah Rose" without thinking of Drop Dead Gorgeous
Sarah Rose Summers, aka Miss USA, faced intense criticism on Wednesday when a video recorded on Miss Colombia Valeria Morales’ Instagram Live showed the former Miss Nebraska making fun of Miss Universe contestants for not speaking fluent English. In the clip, Summers mockingly imitates H’Hen Niê (Miss Vietnam) and…
The house itself is just so mediocre, but that mural in the kid's room is neat, and the grounds are pretty cool
Seeking just shy of $2 million, the former NFL star will likely lose money on the sprawling property
Retired Chicago Bears’ defensive linebacker and recent hair restoration spokesman Brian Urlacher has cut the asking price of his 11,000-square-foot home in Mettawa, Illinois. While the 40-year-old former athlete first listed the suburban property last spring for a cool $3 million, its newly reduced price of $1.995 million is less than the $2.312 million he paid for the home in 2004.
Built in 1987, Urlacher’s enormous home features seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms. It sits on a 9.4-acre gated lot with a pond, putting green, basketball court, two-story kids playhouse, two barns, and bee colonies (good for a property tax exemption). Over 14 years of ownership, the eight-time Pro Bowler put an additional $1 million into upgrades and additions including a 1,300-square-foot entertainment wing, listing agent Alex Wolking of Keller Williams told Crain’s on Wednesday.
The former Bears player put the property on the market in 2017 because he was spending more time in Arizona, reported theChicago Tribune at the time. While it’s clear that Urlacher isn’t likely to see a big return on his suburban investment, it remains to be seen if the new sub-$2 million asking price will be enough to entice a new owner to take the plunge.
"Keep your head down, work hard, and you'll succeed." Not true.
"He's only mean to you because he likes you!" Hear it a lot with little girls, it instills a lifetime of terrible shame/self-blame when men abuse women
"Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life" Real good way to turn something you love into something you hate
“What’s the worst common piece of advice you can think of?” Josie Duffy Rice asks on Twitter. For her, it’s this:
On Wednesday, 15-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the UN plenary meeting at the COP24 climate talks in Poland. In it, she blasted world and business leaders for their political inaction on climate change, calling them immature (italics mine).
But to do that, we have to speak clearly, no matter how uncomfortable that may be. You only speak of green eternal economic growth because you are too scared of being unpopular. You only talk about moving forward with the same bad ideas that got us into this mess, even when the only sensible thing to do is pull the emergency brake. You are not mature enough to tell it like it is. Even that burden you leave to us children.
But I don’t care about being popular. I care about climate justice and the living planet. Our civilization is being sacrificed for the opportunity of a very small number of people to continue making enormous amounts of money. Our biosphere is being sacrificed so that rich people in countries like mine can live in luxury. It is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of the few.
The year 2078, I will celebrate my 75th birthday. If I have children, maybe they will spend that day with me. Maybe they will ask me about you. Maybe they will ask why you didn’t do anything while there still was time to act. You say you love your children above all else, and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes.
Thunberg developed her special interest in climate change when she was nine years old and in the third grade. “They were always talking about how we should turn off lights, save water, not throw out food,” she told me. “I asked why and they explained about climate change. And I thought this was very strange. If humans could really change the climate, everyone would be talking about it and people wouldn’t be talking about anything else. But this wasn’t happening.” Turnberg has an uncanny ability to concentrate, which she also attributes to her autism. “I can do the same thing for hours,” she said. Or, as it turns out, for years. She began researching climate change and has stayed on the topic for six years. She has stopped eating meat and buying anything that is not absolutely necessary. In 2015, she stopped flying on airplanes, and a year later, her mother followed suit, giving up an international performing career. The family has installed solar batteries and has started growing their own vegetables on an allotment outside the city. To meet me in central Stockholm, Thunberg and her father rode their bikes for about half an hour; the family has an electric car that they use only when necessary.
This permanent A/A- list singer is not really that great of an actual singer despite what she does for a living on and off stage, and that is the reason her boyfriend is giving for excluding her from a musical special he is hosting/coordinating.
Donald Trump has reportedly cancelled the annual White House Christmas party for members of the media. The festive gathering has been hosted by presidents for decades, and the apparent decision not to hold it this year, reported by Fox News, marks the latest episode in the Republican leader’s turbulent relationship with journalists. It follows weeks of speculation as to the fate of the reception – usually attended by legions of Washington journalists – after administration officials refused to say it was going ahead.
I want to like this, but something about it is off-putting. It feels too design-y, not home-y. It INSISTS on itself.
Name:Craig Byers, my husband Justin Greer, and Buddy The Glamour Cat Location: Long Island City — Queens, New York Size: 820 square feet Years lived in: 8 years, owned
Buddy the glamour cat has two dads. Justin is the dad who can never say no to Buddy. Justin used to be an actor in Broadway musicals, having been in nine shows over fifteen years. He's "retired" from that world now, and teaches performing arts to elementary school students at The Dalton School, a private institution on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Craig is the dad who keeps Buddy in check, making sure he stays model-skinny, since his cat job as photo muse is grueling. Craig is a Design Director for Gensler, a global architecture firm. Craig is responsible for the ideas and taste and style in the home. Together, the performing artist and the visual artist have created a home that is uniquely theirs, warm and welcoming.
Ever since the Kevin Hart . . . unpleasantness, the nation has been without an Oscar host for this year’s awards show, leaving America in dire peril. Seriously, without someone (preferably not a defensive, entitled homophobe) to ride herd over three-plus hours of unnecessary montages, musical numbers, and the very…
Time for another seasonal tale of holiday cheer and litigation, brought to us yet again by a devout Christian who feels sore oppressed by the nasty secularists (OK, fine, a bunch of other Christians, but bad ones) and their endless War on Christmas. This time, it's from northern Idaho, in the Coeur d'Alene suburb of Hayden, but for once when we talk about this area, there are no neo-Nazis involved. Oh, sure, there's an armed militia in the story, but that's pretty much a given in Idaho. Those guys show up for christenings, bar mitzvahs, and drivers tests around here. This is also one of those stories where to appreciate the full insane Culture War of the whole mess, you should go read the full article. But we'll try to do it justice.
The main thing to understand here is that Hayden resident Jeremy Morris isn't just any ol' devout rightwing Christian. He's the kind of fundamentalist who probably gets on the nerves of 1) probably most more mainstream Christians, and 2) a fair number of other fundamentalists. And by Crom, he's earned his right to dance the Superior Dance.
Morris grew up immersed in the religious right. He attended the church of evangelical Christian icon John MacArthur — author of the MacArthur Study Bible. He and his wife were married by Tony Perkins, president of the anti-gay-rights Family Research Council. The guy who told him to go to law school at Liberty University, the largest evangelical school in the country? Jerry Falwell.
Also noteworthy about Mr. Morris's faith is that it seems almost single-mindedly focused on the celebration of the Nativity, which is all jolly and stuff, but in Morris's case leads to certain enthusiasms, as Inlander writer Daniel Walters points out. Morris even has a Christmas theme in the braces on his teeth -- red on top and green on bottom, with the white being provided by his Pat Boone pearlies. He happily lets people call him "Mr. Christmas" and "Clark Griswold." And around this time of year, he changes his dog's name, from "Ronald Reagan" to "Clarence." Like the angel in It's a Wonderful Life, not the pilot with the clearance in Airplane! He named one of his kids "Nicholas" because you know exactly why.
Don't you already want to hang out with him all the time, playing the Nat King Cole Christmas album and sucking on candy canes until you barf? Dude probably knows at least seven festive things other than eggs you can make "nog" from. And will give you samples. No, you will not be allowed to not taste them all.
Morris got filled with far too much Christmas spirit in 2014, when he put the fictional Clark Griswold to shame by stringing up 200,000 Christmas lights (as opposed to the puny 25,000 in the movie, which may or may not be a secular abomination). Go look at the spectacle here. His Facebook invitation to come see the sparklies (with an announcement he'd be passing the hat for two local children's charities) took off far beyond his neighborhood, some 900-plus people RSVP-ed, and so he spontaneously decided to really do it up big:
He called up a woman who owned a camel, recruited kids at Lakeland High School to sing Christmas songs and marshalled an army of volunteers from his church, Candlelight Christian Fellowship, to help out.
The festival lasted eight crazy nights. It raised thousands of dollars for kids with cancer.
"People came up to me, hugging me, saying, 'Please do this again,'" Morris says.
And of course, Morris considered the fantastic turnout a sign and/or wonder and decided God had sent him a mission, to bring the light of Christ to Northern Idaho via vast expenditures on tiny lightbulbs, props, and festive costumes. It's a lot more fun than, say, feeding the hungry or showing kindness to refugees. Morris, informed he needed a permit to hold such extravaganzas in the Hayden city limits, went looking for a new home outside all that tyranny, so he could maybe blind astronauts on the International Space Station. Yes, he and his wife went shopping for a home specifically so they could do an insanely large Christmas display once a year, as is perfectly normal.
So Morris found a development called West Hayden Estates where his lawyers said the subdivision's covenants shouldn't restrict his freedom of nuisancing. Then suddenly, Walters shifted to present tense:
He calls Jennifer Scott, then president of the West Hayden Estates Homeowners Association, and gives her a heads up about the massive five-day Christmas bash he'd be bringing to their quiet neighborhood. He tells her that he considers it his ministry.
That's when things get really ugly, really fast.
The HOA -- a body that usually gets cast as Mean Mr. Potter in tales like this, although we're pleased to say that in this version, EVERYONE comes off looking awful -- sent Morris exactly the sort of letter you might expect, with equal parts welcome to our friendly community and if you run a multi-day carnival you will be in all sorts of trouble, mister. And then there's the typically HOA-ish warning about attracting "hundreds of people and possible undesirables." Oh, but this triggered Morris's Christian Persecution Spidey Sense:
I am somewhat hesitant in bringing up the fact that some of our residents are non-Christians or of another faith, and I don't even want to think of the problems that could bring up.
The current HOA president, Chuck Norlin, wasn't on the board then and had nothing to do with writing the letter, but he reads that as an attempt at doing the whole multi-culti inclusion thing. He also said the letter went out without the full approval of the board. He knows all about the history because Morris sued the HOA for discriminating against him for being a Christian. Never mind this is Northern Idaho we're talking about, where the predominant flavor is white, Republican, and Christian, generally but not exclusively of a fundamentalist bent. A Christian wasn't being allowed to do his (disruptive, heavy traffic-generating) thing, and the HOA mentioned non-Christians, so it was off to the front of the culture war for everyone.
And then things got ugly fast? More like stupid: Fox News picked it up, complete with Todd Starnes looking pained and (ALLEGEDLY) drinking pee, as did a few mainstream outlets, plus some fake-news site which added a fake claim that Muslins were behind it all, because as we all know, because of refugee resettlement, Idaho is simply crawling with tens of Muslims.
So, big surprise, the state's "Three Percent Militia," always looking for a chance at publicity, generously offered to do some heavily armed patriotism at Morris's house, showing up one day to offer ITS help with security. Morris apparently declined, but the arrival of the loonies was too much for one older neighbor named Larry Bird, and no he is not the basketball guy.
Russell Deming, one of Morris's friends, says he witnesses Larry Bird marching down Ferndale Drive to confront Morris over the Three Percenters.
Deming says he remembers Bird telling Morris about how he's "'got plenty of guns, too'" and that "'if he needed to, he'd come and take care of Jeremy himself.'"
Morris records the tail end of the argument on video, as his wife confronts Bird over his apparent threat to "take care of him," and Bird appears to backtrack.
"I didn't threaten you nothin'," Bird says on the video. "I may come over and offer him a hug. That's how I'll take care of him. And you just keep taping and filming. Typical shit."
Grumpy old Larry Bird, who is not the basketball guy, may be the most sympathetic character here, and he's still kind of a jerk. While Morris's friend Russell Deming didn't consider that a serious threat, Morris added it to the evidence that he's a persecuted Christian, and later told the judge in his lawsuit that Bird "threatened to murder me in front of my family, threatened in explicit detail about things that could be done." Like hugs, with malice aforethought.
Go read the whole thing. It's insane, and we haven't even gotten to the Christian Santa Claus who testified in the federal trial that he distributed candy canes that had a special Jesus message attached, "an apocryphal story about how the red in the candy cane stood for Jesus's blood, the white for his purity, and the "J" shape for Jesus's name."
See? It wasn't a nuisance, it was a ministry!
The jury awarded Morris a $75,000 judgement against the HOA for trying to kill baby Jesus with anti-Christian hatethink. Oddly -- probably because he too hates Christians -- Walters doesn't seem to find anyone in the subdivision who hates Morris's faith. Instead, they just seem to think he's an asshole. Can't imagine why, although it's worth noting that when Walters advises Morris he'll be referencing one of the depositions in the case for the article, Morris is quick to warn, "You paint me in a false light, and you will face a lawsuit." He seems nice! Very very nice, in fact, and probably not the least bit interested in what some silly mommyblog writes about him.
Also, as a little bonus, the Inlander followed up its story on the lawsuit with another story of Jeremy Morris, Best Christian, about an incident in 2017 in which Morris tried to start a crusade against the entire Hayden school board because one member of the board, Tom Hearn, said on his personal Facebook page, that confederate monuments were more about enforcing Jim Crow than about preserving history.
Hearn wasn't proposing anything specific. There wasn't a Confederate symbol in North Idaho he was targeting. He wasn't calling for a change in the Coeur d'Alene school district's curriculum.
But Morris was furious. Hearn says Morris, in Facebook comments (some since deleted), called him a "fascistic, disgusting excuse for a human being," an "ignorant buffoon," a "disgrace" and "Chairman Mao Tse-Hearn."
Things escalated, Morris demanded a place on the board's agenda, and then cried censorship when the board pointed out the online spat had nothing at all to do with the schools. Morris showed up outside a school board meeting with a prop showing books being burned, and explained school board elections are only "nonpartisan" in order to conceal the real political loyalties of every single board member:
"Every one of them voted for Obama, and they would have voted for Marx and Lenin if they were on the ballot. That's a fact," Morris says at his protest. "What they really are is they're card-carrying Communists. We need to expose these people for the frauds that they are."
Needless to say, he also accused Hearn of being an anti-Christian bigot, although Hearn says he's a Christian himself, which is ridiculous. How can anyone be a Christian and not honor the noble confederate cause? Also, why does the whole school board want to destroy the history of southern states thousands of miles from Idaho?
Nothing really came of the protest, but this much is clear: Jeremy Morris is a very nice Christian man about whom no one should speak unkindly, because golly, he will not stand for bullying.
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Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi went to the White House to meet Donald Trump over the possibility of a looming government shutdown, which Trump has been threatening if he doesn't get his damn WALL! WALL! WALL! WALL! Did you hear the uneducated moron baby say WALL? What if he throws his poop at you and screams and cries WALL? Will that make you understand that WALL?
It did not go well for the president of the United States. They brought cameras in, and instead of everybody just smiling for the picture and then meeting in private, Trump decided to try to debate Chuck 'n' Nancy, two people who have more brains in their pinky fingers than Trump has in his whole face, and who have more balls in their pinky toes than Trump has in his entire pants.
Here's the full video, and then we will walk you through what happened below that:
Trump's contentious meeting with Pelosi and Schumer
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Trump started out the meeting by saying WALL! Schumer just smirked at him and said, "It's calling funding the government, sir."
Trump replied that WALL! and WALL! and said he's already built and renovated a lot of WALL! (That is a lie. Or maybe he's just a fuckin' idiot and his people are telling him there is already lots of WALL! to keep him from having such a big tantrum in his crib he ends up hurting himself.)
Then it was Nancy Pelosi's turn to talk, and she started by making fun of Trump for whining about a government shutdown over WALL! when his GOP still controls the whole government, at least for a few more weeks. Then she called it a "Trump shutdown," which was SHOTS FIRED.
Trump responded, "What did you ...," because he couldn't believe a mere woman would disrespect him by accusing him of causing a shutdown because of WALL! Pelosi even tried to give Trump an opportunity to save face, by saying we probably shouldn't talk about this in front of the press, BUT YET HE PERSISTED. (In being a stupid fuckstain.)
Pelosi then made fun of Trump because there are not enough votes in the House for WALL!, even while the GOP still controls everything. (Womp womp.) When Trump protested that he could totally get the votes in the House if he needed them, Pelosi dared him to try.
Trump tried to say to Nancy Pelosi's face that there are terrorists coming across the Mexican border in droves, apparently because he briefly forgot Nancy Pelosi is not a scaredy gunhumper eating meth cookies and watching "Hannity" with his sister-wife in Alabama. Chuck Schumer chimed in and noted that the Washington Post says Trump is a huge fucking liar every time he talks about WALL!
AND THEN THE MURDERS BEGAN. No, seriously, this is when it got good.
Schumer correctly told Trump to his face that he, Trump, is the one who is always threatening to shut down the government because the baby didn't get his way. Trump responded by whining about WALL! Pelosi tried to settle things down by reminding Trump that they were there in good faith, as the "first branch of the government," the legislative, as opposed to the executive, which is not first, HAHA, TRUMP, NANCY PELOSI JUST CALLED YOU SECOND PLACE. Anyway, shouldn't we do this behind closed doors, so Trump doesn't have a meltdown on live TV? No?
Here is an approximate transcript of the next section, paraphrased with dick jokes:
TRUMP: WALL! You can't have border security without WALL!
PELOSI: Nope.
SCHUMER: Actual experts say Dipshit's wall is real dumb.
TRUMP: WALL!
PELOSI: Y'all notice how fucked up the stock market is lately?
TRUMP: Lowest unemployment in the past 50 years!
PELOSI: LOL not in the Republican wing of the House of Representatives!
TRUMP: I WINNED THE SENATE! NOBODY EVER SAYS I WINNED THE SENATE!
SCHUMER: Look at champ over here bragging about Republicans winning Indiana and North Dakota.
TRUMP: I DID WINNED THOSE STATES!
SCHUMER AND PELOSI IN UNISON: Bitch please.
TRUMP: WALL! CARAVAN! TERRORISTS! DISEASES! Also Nancy Pelosi is too weak to talk right now.
PELOSI: Can't hear you, thinking about how we just won the biggest Democratic landslide in the House since Watergate. Funny, right? Anyway, can we please meet in private now so we don't have to call the president a fucking idiot to his face on TV? Kinda feels like punching a wounded puppy, TBH.
And then Trump stated for the record that he definitely will goddamn shut down the government if he doesn't get WALL! because WHINE! WHINE! WHINE!
Exact transcript:
TRUMP: Yes. If we don't get what we want, one way or the other, whether it's through you, through a military, whoever you want to call, I will shut down the government. Absolutely. I am proud to shut down the government for border security. I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck! [...] I will take the mantle, I will be the one to shut it down. And I'm going to shut it down for border security."
Schumer was like "Hey, y'all got that on camera, right?"
After the meeting, Pelosi and Schumer came out to take a victory lap over how hard they just You Got Served the president. Pelosi said she told him he should "pray" about the proposals the Democrats brought him today. THAT'S RIGHT, NANCY PELOSI'S PARTING SHOT TO TRUMP WAS "YOU NEED JESUS."
Today was the best day in the history of the White House.
Former Trump campaign lawyer Michael Cohen, who once vowed to “take a bullet” for his old boss but abruptly changed his tune when the feds started chasing him, has been sentenced to 36 months in prison for financial crimes and another two months for lying to Congress. Calling the crimes “a veritable smorgasbord of…
From Neil Cicierega, who you may remember from this hilarious recap of J.R.P.G. Torkelson’s Lorne of the Rings trilogy, comes this short guide to the film career of Tom Hanks, including his best-known works like Tuber & Hoonis, Sadness in the Saddle, and You’ll Get Soil. I woke up feeling a little blah this morning, but this cheered me right the hell up.
The metro region has surged past several longtime stalwarts to become home to more breweries than any other city in the nation — 167 — according to statistics published this week by the Brewers Association.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday will call for state lawmakers to legalize marijuana, allow a Chicago casino and approve a state constitutional amendment to help the city address a looming pension crisis that will require nearly $1 billion in new annual retirement payments by 2023, according to...
A former Evanston police detective has been accused in a sweeping federal indictment of joining the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration so he could protect a vicious Puerto Rico-based drug organization responsible for numerous killings and other violence.
If you’re still afraid of the seasoning MSG giving you headaches, you should know you’ve bought into a decades-old myth. Don’t despair! Now that you know the truth, you can go celebrate with a meal at your favorite MSG-using restaurant, or treat yourself to a cute panda-shaped bottle of the stuff.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate's top Republican and Democratic leaders began negotiating Tuesday after the White House indicated President Donald Trump does not want a federal government shutdown over his demand for $5 billion for the border wall with Mexico.
Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller reported Friday the investigation of Russia interference in the 2016 election cost $25 million so far
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