Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings andMagic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield have teamed up to create a new trivia card game, Half Truth. In a conversation with Rolling Stone, the two explained that Garfield was inspired to design the game after reading Jennings’ best-selling bookBrainiac. “I love trivia games — nobody …
Read More »FDA Makes It Easier for Queer Men to Donate Blood During COVID-19
For years, men who have sex with men have protested against FDA guidelines preventing them from donating blood, arguing that the policy is discriminatory. In the midst of a blood shortage brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, however, the FDA has issued a reversal of the policy — sort of. …
Read More »Hot Box the House: Inside the Marijuana Bills Congress Will Debate This Week
On Wednesday, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health will hold a hearing centered around six pieces of marijuana legislation, including two bills that would legalize marijuana on a federal level. A briefing memo for the hearing, obtained by Marijuana Moment last week, offers a breakdown of the six …
Read More »Ram Dass, LSD Pioneer and George Harrison Inspiration, Dead at 88
Ram Dass — an early proponent of LSD and a spiritual icon of the Seventies who notably inspired George Harrison — died Sunday at his home in Maui, Hawaii. He was 88. Related: Ram Dass Rides the Holy-Man Circus, 1972 Feature Story Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation confirmed his death …
Read More »It's Almost 2020, Why Hasn't the Baby Yoda Meme Died?
Baby Yoda is still a thing. Like a pretty big thing. The de facto star of Disney+’s The Mandalorian has (5) different related topics on KnowYourMeme.com: Baby Yoda itself, Baby Yoda Drinking Soup, Baby Yoda Turns on the Music, Baby Yoda Tattoo and the obviously questionable Baby Yobama (a Barack …
Read More »Art Basel Miami: 'Epstein Didn't Kill Himself' and the $120,000 Banana
For the nouveau riche, Miami’s annual Art Basel festival is an opportunity to take Instagram photos on yachts with rappers and show off your mistress’s new butt implants. It is also, incidentally, one of the biggest and most prestigious art shows in the country, even if many of the people …
Read More »So, Uh, Why Is Richard Spencer Still on Twitter?
On early Monday morning, leaked audio attributed to white supremacist Richard Spencer was published on fellow alt-right figure Milo Yiannopolous’ YouTube channel. In the clip, which was allegedly recorded in the summer of 2017, Spencer is heard yelling racial and ethnic slurs with reference to the Unite the Right rally, …
Read More »Porn Company Owner, Employees Charged With Sex Trafficking
The owner and three employees of Girls Do Porn, the porn company accused of lying to and coercing women into shooting content for them, were arrested and charged with sex trafficking on Thursday. According to an FBI press release, Girls Do Porn owners Michael Pratt, along with chief videographer Matthew …
Read More »'Washington Post' Doubles Down Amid Epstein Conspiracy Theory Controversy
Conspiracy theories follow a basic formula: They’re what happens when the absence of information meets the absence of verifiability meets the absence of oversight. While the first two are effective in helping plant the seeds of doubt, it’s the lack of a reliable, factual guiding force that really helps conspiracy …
Read More »Special Prosecutor to Investigate Sudden Dismissal of Jussie Smollett Charges
A Cook County judge ordered Friday that a special prosecutor review the dismissal of all charges against Jussie Smollett. The new investigation could potentially lead to Smollett being re-charged by a special prosecutor, the Chicago Tribune reports. The ruling, made by Judge Michael Toomin, said that even though State’s Attorney …
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