George Takei gave an incredible TED Talk in June of this year. Although the talk was at a TEDx event, the TED editors decided to post it among their selections on their homepage. As the TED website reports: “When he was a child, George Takei and his family were forced into an internment camp for […]
A photographer pitched a question to Joan Rivers this weekend at a book signing for “Diary of A Mad Diva, shortly after she had officiated a same-sex wedding. Asked whether she thought the United States would see a gay or a woman as president first, Rivers had a rather interesting response, saying that we already […]
The October 15, 2009 broadcast of The Joy Behar Show provides some great insight on conservative media from actor Richard Belzer. In this clip, Behar and her two guests, actor and left-wing activist Belzer and New York Daily News Columnist Liz Benjamin discussed Rush Limbaugh’s failed effort to buy a stake in the NFL’s St. […]
The exact origin and inventor of the margarita is unknown. One of the earliest stories is of the margarita being invented in 1938 by Carlos “Danny” Herrera at his restaurant Rancho La Gloria, halfway between Tijuana and Rosarito, Mexico, created for customer and former Ziegfeld dancer Marjorie King, who was allergic to many spirits, but […]
The Affordable Care Act has expanded high-quality, affordable health insurance coverage to millions of Americans. One way it’s expanding coverage is by offering financial support to states that opt to expand Medicaid eligibility to all non-elderly individuals in families with incomes below 133 percent of the poverty line. Twenty-six states and the District of Columbia […]