Conspiracy Review: Was Michelle Obama really born as a man?

A conspiracy theory going around the internet says Michelle Obama was really a man, originally born as “Michael LaVaughn Robinson” and after high school had a sex change operation done, after having supposedly claimed for years to have been a woman in a man’s body. Perhaps the conspiracy theory is believed by many because, after all, Michelle Obama appears to be more masculine in appearance than Barack Obama, and because so much is already known to be fraudulent about Barack Obama, could this also be true? Another part of the conspiracy, which seems less likely believeable, is that their two … Continue reading Conspiracy Review: Was Michelle Obama really born as a man?

Rashida Jones and the Pornification of Pop

by Lizzie Crocker When actress Rashida Jones admonished female pop stars for ‘acting like whores,’ she set off a firestorm of criticism—and started a conversation about the pornification of everything. Rashida Jones bristles at the suggestion that she’s a prude. “I love sex,” the 37-year-old actress and writer declared recently in Glamour magazine. “Hell, I’ve even posed in my underwear.” But Jones also bristles at an instinct so common among young female pop stars to showcase their private parts, à la Miley Cyrus gyrating on stage in latex scanties. Last October, Jones created a mini-furor when she tweeted, “This week’s … Continue reading Rashida Jones and the Pornification of Pop

The Ghosts of Reality

by Angie Riedel The universe seems to be impersonal, it has to be. It doesn’t play favorites and is unimpressed with things that captivate our weak mortal minds. Still I’m sure it has magic, there is a great deal we don’t know, and even more we’re not even remotely aware of or can even conceive of. We need to take our arrogant sciences much less seriously, especially the more they appoint themselves masters of reality. They’re just a team of goobers who are as clueless as anybody else, only they do it with such arrogance and solidarity you almost half … Continue reading The Ghosts of Reality

During Cold War, CIA used ‘Doctor Zhivago’ as a tool to undermine Soviet Union

Soviet writer and poet Boris Pasternak near his home in the countryside outside Moscow on Oct. 23, 1958. (HAROLD K. MILKS/ASSOCIATED PRESS) Written by Peter FinnPetra Couvée A secret package arrived at CIA headquarters in January 1958. Inside were two rolls of film from British intelligence — pictures of the pages of a Russian-language novel titled “Doctor Zhivago.” The book, by poet Boris Pasternak, had been banned from publication in the Soviet Union. The British were suggesting that the CIA get copies of the novel behind the Iron Curtain. The idea immediately gained traction in Washington. “This book has great … Continue reading During Cold War, CIA used ‘Doctor Zhivago’ as a tool to undermine Soviet Union