Nichole Perkins points out that all too many black actresses nominated for Oscars don’t see the kind of career boost that other white actresses do. Can Hollywood avoid shoving aside 12 Years A Slave‘s Lupita Nyong’o?
CEO of Bitcoin exchange Mr. Gox loses $450 million of other peoples’ money on Bitcoin nonsense, apologizes for the “inconvenience.”
In terms of consequences and impact, it may not rate too high. But in terms of sheer, concentrated derp, this tale from the the Daily Mining Gazette out of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, may be one of the biggest journalistic goofs in maybe forever. We covered the initial round of the story a few weeks ago. But here’s TPM Reader JL’s update from this morning …
This is strange…my local paper did an interview with MI-1st congressional district democrat challenger (to republican incumbent Dan Benishek) Jerry Cannon in which the reporter, evidently, interviewed someone over the phone who represented himself as Mr. Cannon, but wasn’t Mr. Cannon.
After telling Valerie Jarrett he doesn’t think the President understands the “urgency” of the situation on the streets, Bill O’Reilly says the First Lady needs to come on The Factor and tell teenage girls “You stop having sex. You stop getting pregnant. This is wrong.”
And the President needs to “get people like Jay Z, Kanye West, all these gangsta rappers to knock it off.”
The short, sad history of the “religious liberty”/”cool to hate on the gays” mini-movement.
A Florida restaurant chain called Gator’s Dockside is charging customers a 1% Obamacare “surcharge” and their employees health care coverage doesn’t even start until almost a year from now.
ICYMI: Meet the geology grad student who ran the NRA out of Rhode Island. Amazing story.
Sahil Kapur reports some amazing doublespeak the GOP is doing on Social Security and Medicare.
I think we can now say with some confidence that the effort to rebrand anti-gay bigotry as ‘religious liberty’ has turned out to be a fairly epic debacle. Not just in Arizona where it’s now dead as legislation but in other states as well and even in the larger context of the evolving national conversation about equal rights and dignity for the LGBT community.
As we noted yesterday, as Brewer flew home from Arizona there was an almost comical run for the exits by various supporters and quasi-supporters trying to get out from under legislation that a growing body of people saw as silly, mean-spirited, economically damaging and completely needless. Brewer herself was compelled to say that she had yet to see a single instance of anyone’s religious liberty being violated.
According to the GOP’s new tax plan, it’s OK to raise taxes on the rich so long as they live in blue states.