Florida primary headlines and famous women breaking taboos

  “Mary Tyler Moore’s taboo-breaking shows seen in a new light“: Between “The Dick Van Dyke Show’s” Laura Petrie and Mary Richards, Moore helped create two of televisions most influential and indelible roles — there’s a statue depicting the famous Mary hat toss in downtown Minneapolis. How many other television characters have their own statue? …

Headlines from the Republican campaign trail — did Gingrich get one of his talking points from Cracked.com?

“The 6 Stupidest Things We Use to Judge People We Don’t Know” — John Cheese, a columnist at Cracked.com, notes that Newt Gingrich adopted a new talking point shortly after it appeared in one of his columns: Last November, I wrote a piece on the Occupy Wall Street generation, and the first point was about how …

How to improve Paula Deen’s ‘The Lady’s Brunch Burger’

One of the first things I knew I had to do in June 2010 when I started the diet and exercise program that has trimmed over 65 pounds from my figure was to stop watching Paula Deen’s cooking shows. But I have to love and admire her. She brings people together and makes them feel …

The civility wars and gay conservatives

Yesterday Lisa De Pasquale, GOProud’s interim chair, published a piece worth reading in The Daily Caller calling out the gay Left for its vicious treatment of gay conservatives and their supporters while simultaneously deploring bullying: Dan Savage, the “It Gets Better” project’s co-founder, has been just as vicious toward gay conservatives as schoolyard bullies have …