Category: Aggregated

Chrissie Hynde has committed the ultimate sin for a former feminist icon: she has offended the Sisterhood. The Pretenders singer, whose sultry looks graced a million teenagers’ bedroom walls in the 1980s, has perpetrated the terrible crime of speaking her mind about rape and sexual assualt. For that she must now pay the price and be cast out of the Sisterhood. The exact details of her transgression have been angrily spelt out by professional feministas who lined up to attack Miss Hynde for daring to talk about her own personal experience of sexual violence. So what did the 63-year-old say … Continue reading →

Innocuous phrases Alison Parker used every day to describe her job may have led to her death, simply because Vester Lee Flanagan thought they were racist. The 24-year-old TV reporter who was shot and killed by the disgruntled ex-employee on Wednesday somehow angered him by using terms like ‘swinging’ by an address or going out into the ‘field’ while she was an intern at WDBJ. It sheds further light on the murderer’s erratic behavior, details of which have emerged since he callously gunned down Parker and cameraman Adam Ward live on breakfast TV. Flanagan, 41, clashed repeatedly with photojournalists, belittling … Continue reading →

“If the freedom of speech be taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”—George Washington The architects of the American police state must think we’re idiots. With every passing day, we’re being moved further down the road towards a totalitarian society characterized by government censorship, violence, corruption, hypocrisy and intolerance, all packaged for our supposed benefit in the Orwellian doublespeak of national security, tolerance and so-called “government speech.” Long gone are the days when advocates of free speech could prevail in a case such as Tinker v. Des Moines. Indeed, it’s been 50 … Continue reading →

Wheels can be hot in more than ways than one. The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) has released its annual report detailing the most stolen vehicles for the past year in the U.S. It also offers some tips to keep your car out of the hot wheels lot. The vehicle at the top of the top ten used hot wheels list is the Honda Accord with 51,290 Accords stolen in 2014. The Accord is closely followed by its little sibling the Honda Civic with 43,936 stolen last year. The Accord and Civic are not only the hottest nation wide models, … Continue reading →

It’s impossible to please everyone. Even the finest institutions struggle to make every guest happy—just look at the reviews complaining of long lines, large crowds, and curt security guards on sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor. But the toughest customers to leave reviews seem to have missed the point of the places they’ve visited entirely. 1. “I HATE ART, I HATE TOUR GUIDES, AND I HATE THEM FOR TAKIN DOWN THE ROCKY STATUE.” Dali. Degas. Manet. Monet. All of these artists are present at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. But the best piece of art at the museum, according to this … Continue reading →