Shock n Roll: 7 Controversial Band Names
Posted on August 24, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
Swing a guitar and there’s a good chance you’ll hit a band with a “look-at-me!” name incorporating some part of the human anatomy or a word you can’t say on television. But those aren’t the only entertainers with controversial aliases. Take all Asian-American band The Slants. As TIME reported on Wednesday, band founder Simon Tam plans to go to court this week in hopes of forcing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to register his band’s name—something government officials have declined to do so far, saying it’s disparaging to people of Asian descent.
[Read More]Stephen Hawking Was an Atheist: His Words on Death and God
Posted on August 24, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
For more than 50 years, death was a poignant part of Stephen Hawking’s remarkable life.
The physicist, who died Wednesday at age 76, wasn’t expected to see his 25th birthday, after being diagnosed with the incurable neurodegenerative condition ALS at age 21. Though Hawking beat the odds for more than five decades, the scientist told the Guardian in 2011 that death was never far from his mind.
“I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years,” Hawking said.
[Read More]Taylor Swift Look What You Made Me Do Music Video References
Posted on August 24, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
Make no mistake about it — Taylor Swift has plenty of feelings about what you think of her and the headlines she’s made in recent years, something that she reiterates relentlessly in her first single “Look What You Made Me Do” off her upcoming album Reputation.
If the track and album title (and all those creepy snake GIFs) weren’t obvious enough clues, Swift’s music video certainly drives home that fact that she feels keenly about being critiqued as a public figure and she’s back with a vengeance to call out her detractors.
[Read More]The Hobbit: Why Are There No Women in Tolkiens World?
Posted on August 24, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
Warner Bros. It has, at this point, become a bit obvious to point out the lack of female characters in children’s entertainment: the Pixar movies, the morning cartoon shows, even the Legos that they play with — unless, of course, the product in question was designed specifically for girls, which raises another set of issues about self-reinforcing stereotypes. But I was not prepared for the extreme skewing of the sexes in The Hobbit, which has been the No.
[Read More]The Presidency: Whatever You Say, Honey
Posted on August 24, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
In the first days of Christmas, Lyndon Johnson gave reporters: 60 souvenir ashtrays, 26 colorful relatives, four private chats, umpteen salty quotes, three guided tours, and an ensign now a jay gee. The climax of it all came at a Christmas-day picture-taking session for two busloads of newsmen on the lawn in front of the white clapboard and stone L.B.J. ranch house in Johnson City, Texas. The President mustered more than a score of Baineses, Johnsons and other friends and kinfolk, lined them up and got them to look real pretty for the cameramen.
[Read More]The Press: Newspaperman | TIME
Posted on August 24, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
(See front cover) At four o’clock one morning last May two cheap sedans collided at the cornerof Manhattan’s 86th Street and Central Park West. Eight people were badlysmashed up. The driver of one of the cars was laid out on the sidewalk on a seat cushion, and as an uninjured friend knelt over him waiting for the ambulances to come, he kept repeating: “Oh I’m hurt bad in the chest. My chest’s hurt bad.
[Read More]The woman dragged off a Southwest Airlines flight by police is pregnant, suffered injuries, and was
Posted on August 24, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
In a statement Wednesday, the attorney said the incident was especially distressing for his client, Anila Daulatzai, because she is pregnant with her first child. The incident occurred, he said, after she asked to be moved away from the dogs because of her allergies, which are not life-threatening. Daulatzai now faces criminal charges, the lawyer said. Southwest Airlines said the incident, which took place Sept. 26 on Flight 1525 from Baltimore to Los Angeles, started when Daulatzai told the flight crew that she had a "
[Read More]Video of Columbia University Rape Survivor Sharing her Story
Posted on August 24, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
May 15, 2014 8:04 AM EDT
Last month, 23 Columbia and Barnard students filed a federal Title IX complaint alleging that the university mishandled sexual assault cases. Emma Sulkowicz is one of the complainants. The junior says she and two other women reported the same attacker to the university. All three cases were dismissed. Emma tells her story about what it’s like to report an assault in the Ivy League:
[Read More]Who is Sarah Baartman? | Pulse Nigeria
Posted on August 24, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
The song is a celebration of the African woman's backside and its artwork was meant to depict that. On the face of it, it might have achieved that, but improper research caught up with the former Chocolate City act. The artwork is not just any artwork. It is one of Sarah Baartman. She was born Saartjie and nicknamed Hottentot Venus. She is a late 18th century from Eastern Cape (modern-day South Africa) who was used as a spectacle to please white masters across Europe.
[Read More]Why the Progressive 'Squad' is Getting Smaller
Posted on August 24, 2024
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| Martina Birk
WASHINGTON — The "Squad,” a group of progressive lawmakers in the House, is set to shrink next year after two members suffered primary defeats this election cycle following an unprecedented deluge of special interest spending.
The primary losses for Reps. Cori Bush in Missouri and Jamaal Bowman in New York came over the summer and dealt a blow to the progressive faction, which had amassed considerable clout within the Democratic Party since its initial rise in 2018.
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