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For shame. A podcast with hundreds of thousands of subscribers and followers across online platforms is stoking the flames of controversy — by belittling female guests and making them look dumb. “Whatever,” hosted by Brian Atlas, masquerades as a dating talk show while delving into gender roles, body counts and the legitimacy of the patriarchy. The podcast team uses social media to seek women panelists, only to later “roast” them online in snippets pandering to the virality of the inflammatory hot takes. In other words, it’s perfect clickbait. The “Whatever” podcast has been slammed for belittling women. In one episode,...

The Washington Post is closing down its free daily commuter paper, Express, this week. The final edition of Express will be published on Thursday. The staff learned of the news at a meeting at noon on Wednesday. In a post on its public relations blog, WaPo said that the growth of WiFi in D.C.’s Metro is partially the cause for the closure: “More and more readers are consuming The Post’s content digitally, and The Post will continue to serve those who commute via Metro with digital products, including its mobile site, apps, newsletters, and podcasts.” (Earlier this year, WaPo partnered...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Democrats and Republicans prepared to vote in the Iowa caucuses on Thursday, some U.S. editorials said the midwestern state was too unrepresentative and voter turnout too small to merit such an outsized role in the U.S. presidential election process. Jeff Greenfield, political correspondent for CBS News, wrote in the online magazine Slate.com that the caucuses, in which Iowans gather to discuss and vote for their party's candidate in the November 2008 election, "violate some of the most elemental values of a vibrant and open political process" - the secret ballot and the principle of one person,...

MONTGOMERY, N.J. - Barbara Lehman has lived in this central New Jersey community for 30 years, but her time here is nearing an end. She sent her children through Montgomery's well-regarded schools. And she enjoys the rolling landscape even as housing developments have spread across it in recent years. But her property taxes have climbed 56 percent since 2000 to a knee-buckling $14,000 a year — a heavy load for a high school French teacher whose salary goes up only about 3 percent a year. "Oh, it's terrible," Lehman said. Despite efforts by governors and lawmakers to do something about...

Just thought I would start my own vanity thread.

Fatal Beating of Bar Owner by Homeless Man in Tulsa, Okla., Sparks War Against Indigents The Associated Press TULSA, Okla. Aug. 17, 2004 — A homeless man's fatal beating of a brass-knuckle-wielding bar owner has triggered something approaching a war against Tulsa's homeless population. T-shirts around town blast homeless people with a four-letter word, and some people are warning of vigilante justice. Downtown bar owners have stapled wanted posters to telephone poles with a picture of Terry Badgewell, the man who used a length of pipe to kill Deadtown Tavern owner Shawn Howard. A prosecutor said the killing was self...

My wife is serious about taking a job in the DC area and we are planning on moving there soon. However, we are not getting much help and we are on a budget. I figured a network of people in the area might be able to help me out the answers to my questions. First is finding a place to live. We are a little strapped for cash and I am looking for the most economical, but cleanest, and safest place to live. From what I gather, that means living the VA suburbs. Does anyone know of an apartment service...

<p>Simon was leaning over the railing of the Pirates dugout between the sixth and seventh innings when the customary sausage race was being contested, with four people in costumes running around the infield warning track. When the Italian sausage (19-year-old Mandy Block) passed Simon, he struck her with a bat, knocking her and the hot dog (a 19-year-old woman) down. The women suffered a few scrapes.</p>

A man accused of impersonating a Medal of Honor hero pleaded guilty Tuesday to new federal charges that carry a combined maximum penalty of 34 years in prison and a fine of $850,000. Ralph Ervin Crowder, 46, of Independence, waived an appearance before a grand jury and admitted guilt to four counts in new federal allegations that replaced a criminal complaint filed in July. Crowder came to the attention of the FBI when a Navy veteran noticed a photograph of Crowder wearing an admiral's white uniform with a Medal of Honor pinned to his chest. The veteran noticed details that...

Gary Winnick treated Global Crossing as his personal cash cow--until the company went bankrupt. Michael Nighan couldn't believe his eyes. As Global Crossing's North America director of regulatory affairs, one of Nighan's tasks was to review all of the startup telco's marketing and sales material. But what confused him in late 1999 was a map of Global Crossing's network that showed a fiber-optic loop around the continent of Africa. "What's this?" asked Nighan. He was told it was Africa One, an undersea broadband cable that Global Crossing planned to build for a group of telecom carriers. "But I said...

ON JULY 5, 1995, Enron Corporation donated $100,000 to the Democratic National Committee. Six days later, Enron executives were on a trade mission with Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor to Bosnia and Croatia. With Kantor's support, Enron signed a $100 million contract to build a 150-megawatt power plant. Enron, then a growing giant in energy trading, practically had a reserved seat on Clinton administration trade junkets. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, who egregiously linked political donations to government assistance, accompanied Enron chairman Ken Lay on a mission to India. Enron president Joseph Sutton was on the trip to Bosnia during which ...

Each Modern Democrat President Has Had Unique Shame KANSAS CITY -- Free Republic expert KC_Conspirator offers a collection of essays on modern American presidents. The material is drawn from various discussions on the Free Republic and deals in truth, thus the babblings of Doris Kearns Goodwin and Michael Beschloss are discounted for the revisionist fluff they are. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Lyndon Baines Johnson's shame flowed from his sinister ability to wreck anything he got his hands on. First, he ran the dispicable election ad featuring the "Daisy Girl" with the nuclear explosion in her eye.&nbsp; He functioned as ...

&nbsp; During Easter Weekend 2000. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; During Easter week 2001. The U.S. spy plane crew touch down on Guam before heading to Hawaii. &nbsp; &nbsp; One President snatches a young boy from freedom and sends him to a brutal communist regime on Easter weekend.&nbsp; The other works to free those held in communist captivity and deliver them home before Easter. You be the judge...

JEFFERSON CITY -- In a historic victory, Republicans took control of the Missouri Senate on Wednesday, winning a crucial 18th seat in special elections. The GOP kept its seat in the 12th District and picked up another in the 18th District. Not surprisingly, Democrats held onto the 4th district in St. Louis. That gives Republicans control of the Senate for the first time since 1948. "It's a huge victory for the Republican Party," said John Hancock, executive director of the Missouri Republican Party. "It means for the first time in many years, we have a seat at the table in ...

Ashcroft for U.S. Senate in Missouri The contest for the U.S. Senate in Missouri was one of the fiercest and tightest in the nation until the Democratic candidate, Mel Carnahan, was killed in a plane crash Oct. 16, too late for his name to be removed from the ballot. Carnahan, a two-term governor, was challenging Republican Sen. John Ashcroft, himself a former two-term governor, in a contest that was thought to be crucial to which party will control the Senate next year. Carnahan was an outstanding governor whose stature is reaching mythic proportions in a massive outpouring of sympathy. ...

Here's a pic I grabbed from the Drudge site. Have fun!

Is anyone watching MSNBC tonight? Most smart people are not, however I was quite foolish and wandered over to take a gander. All Brian Williams is concentrating on the interview with former President Bush and trying to make it the headline. The normal gang of smear-mongers are all aboard: Paul Begala, Doris Kearns-Goodwin, and wolf-in-sheeps-clothing Chris Matthews. They called the ex-president's mood "bitter" and made it sound as if his sour grapes is part of his sons' platform. The criticized him for calling the Democrats "nerds" and "minions". Howard Fineman also announced he will run with the headline "The Avengers" ...

We all know the grand history of the Democrat party and how they are "for" minorities. Here is a little history: &nbsp; &nbsp; Today... &nbsp; &nbsp; ...and yesteryear. &nbsp; &nbsp; Mayor Daley reponds to Democrat Senator Abraham Ribicoff by yelling "*uck you, *ike" (rhymes with bike) at the 86' Democrat convention in Chicago.&nbsp; One of Daley's son's is currently running Algore's presidential campaign.

Subscribe:Click here for home delivery of the printed Kansas City Star. Home Minivans and sport-utilities appeal to different personas, study shows By KEITH BRADSHER - The New York Times Date: 07/16/00 22:15 DETROIT -- Of all the mysteries facing automakers in recent years, few have been as engrossing as the way families choose between minivans and sport-utility vehicles. In median income, age, occupation, family size, and place of residence, people who buy minivans and those who buy sport-utilities look fairly similar, the automakers' research has found. The typical minivan or sport-utility buyers are fairly affluent married couples in their ...