As we do, we quickly pounced on the term “fake news,” made it the flavour of the month (actually for several months now), all the while often using it incorrectly. For example: news that you simply don’t like IS NOT fake news. Misquoting someone IS NOT fake news. Announcing the wrong winner for the Best Picture Oscar […]
Holysmokes. I think this new Wonder Woman trailer, showing glimpses of Diana’s pre-wonderwoman years, just dropped.
If you haven’t noticed it yet, don’t sweat it. It’s nothing; just a turf war over an ephemeral piece of virtual real estate. On one side, the remarkably leaderless Twitterati – basically everyone already on Twitter and using the platform to express their dissatisfaction with how the country is going right now. And on the […]
Despite compelling studies showing that the threat of execution is no deterrent to crime; in the face of widespread opposition to the reinstatement of the death penalty; bucking the global trend towards the abolition of capital punishment, the Philippine House of Representatives today passed a bill to bring back state-sanctioned murder. This, despite the widely […]
Did EDSA fail? I am so over this question. And I am equally fed up with the self-flagellating answers most people, from either side of the divide, give. Look. EDSA removed a corrupt despot, alright? The operative word there isn’t “corrupt.” It’s despot. EDSA removed a man from power who, for 20 years, believed only […]
Wow. Just wow. New record! We’ve found 7 Earth-sized planets around a single star outside our solar system; 3 in habitable zone: https://t.co/GgBy5QOTpK pic.twitter.com/NEavRSXDU2— NASA (@NASA) February 22, 2017 And here’s the press release I’ve been waiting all day for: <a href=”https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-telescope-reveals-largest-batch-of-earth-size-habitable-zone-planets-around”><strong>NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star.</strong></a> It wasn’t […]
I met one of the key members of the Filipino community here in Karachi tonight. Aamna Adhel Khan – CEO of Mabuhay Associates, which runs a Training Institute, a Filipino deli, and a beauty salon. I also met her sister, Laura. And of course, I called them both Ate; out here, far from home, and just […]
If you can imagine trying to explain the subtleties of string theory with animation, within the frame of a metaphysical love story, set against a backdrop of real world science, then you start to get an idea of what a distinctly Japanese worldview looks like. And you also get this movie, <a href=”http://kissanime.ru/Anime/Kimi-no-Na-wa/Movie?id=129840″>Kimi no Na wa</a>. Coming in […]
Know what else is banned by the Bible? Lying about your virginity, seems like a good place to start. That’s prohibited in Deuteronomy 22:20-21. Oh, and in the same book, it is also written that it is a sin not to bleed when you lose your virginity. And even as raping an engaged female is […]
John Oliver just got back, and he’s already prodded the lion in the white house and launched the first direct attack on the new American Presidency that I’ve seen (and boy, do I mean direct), while completely redefining “Truth in Advertising.” Seriously. Watch this through to the end.