A defiant Naoto Matsumara, 53, is known in some circles as Radioactive Man for his refusal to leave his hometown despite its level of radiation. Now designated an evacuated zone, the quiet town of Tomioko, Japan, is located less than six miles from the recently crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Matsumara, a fifth generation rice farmer […]
George Carlin may have passed on, but his timeless body of work lives on. Here’s one of his classic routines. “I have a problem with the Ten Commandments. Here it is: Why are there ten? We don’t need that many. I think the list of commandments was deliberately and artificially inflated to get it up […]
Last night on “Ask a tea partier,” Scottie Nell Hughes, News Director for Tea Party News Network, Rick Unger of Forbes.com and comedian Jim Mendrinos debate the complexities of the tea party’s views on gay marriage. Unger asks Hughes to explain, given the tea party’s roots in Libertarianism, “how can the tea party not support gay […]
Current TV’s John Fugelsang takes a look at prisoner abuse in Guantanamo Bay noting it has been “operating too long, costs too much … It weakens our nation. It is racist and inspires hate and makes no sense, yet it keeps on going.” You can watch the segment below from Current TV’s YouTube page:
Rutgers University has fired basketball coach Mike Rice after footage of his behavior ws shown on ESPN’s Outside the Lines which showed Rice being physically and verbally abusive to players. Rutgers officials made the announcement early Wednesday morning: “Based upon recently revealed information and a review of previously discovered issues, Rutgers has terminated the contract […]