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Dave Coulier Denies Alanis Morissette’s ‘You Oughta Know’ Is About Him

From Rolling Stone…

He ought to know.

He ought to know.

Although rumors continue to persist that Alanis Morissette’s 1995 song “You Oughta Know” is about Dave Coulier, the former Full House  star said in a recent  Buzzfeed interview that “it’s just really funny that it’s become this urban legend, so many years after the fact.” Describing the person in Morissette’s song as “a real a-hole,” Coulier insisted that he didn’t want to be associated with that guy. It is notable, however, that Morissette never explicitly told Coulier that the song is not about him. Coulier adds: “I asked Alanis, ‘I’m getting calls by the media and they want to know […]

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Q&A with SNL’s Bill Hader

Great conversation with the great Bill Hader…

Stefon from SNL.

Stefon from SNL.

Millions fantasize about becoming an SNL cast member, but only a handful get to live their dream. Some of the biggest names in comedy have come out of the SNL cast since its beginning in 1975. Although we’ve said farewell to two of the big names of the SNL cast this year, Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg, megastar Bill Hader will be coming back for another season, which means more spot-on impressions, more recurring characters and a lot more hot-spot highlights courtesy of Stefon. Before heading to the Great White North to host a Just for Laughs gala, we […]

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Late Libertarian Icon Murray Rothbard on Charles Koch: He “Considers Himself Above the Law”

Late Libertarian Icon Murray Rothbard on Charles Koch: He "Considers Himself Above the Law"

Must see doc, must see read from Mother Jones…

Late Libertarian Icon Murray Rothbard on Charles Koch: He "Considers Himself Above the Law"

Cross-posted from Kochology , where Daniel Schulman is releasing exclusive documents and other materials gathered in the process of reporting his new book  Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America’s Most Powerful and Private Dynasty . Long before Charles Koch became the left’s public enemy number one (or two, depending on where David Koch falls in the rankings), some of his most vocal detractors were not liberals but fellow libertarians. None of his erstwhile allies would come to loathe him more fiercely than Murray Rothbard, one of the movement’s intellectual forefathers, with whom Charles had worked closely to […]

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Review: ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Season 2

Review: ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Season 2

New York Times tackles the new season of Orange Is the New Black…

Review: ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Season 2Is it a problem that “ Orange Is the New Black ” essentially treats prison like a bad day in high school, the kind that includes both a scary walk to the principal’s office and an embarrassing visit to the school nurse? To put it another way, is Jenji Kohan, creator, executive producer and sometime writer of this Netflix series, which returns for a second season on Friday, trying to have it both ways: milking the women’s-penitentiary setting for pathos and the occasional flash of violence and then consistently defaulting to light satire and bad-hygiene jokes when things threaten […]

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Texas Republican Party Drafts New Platform Advocating For Ex-Gay Therapy

Texas Republican Party Drafts New Platform Advocating For Ex-Gay Therapy

From Think Progress we learn Texas is making Florida work for “Most Messed Up State in The Union”…

Texas Republican Party Drafts New Platform Advocating For Ex-Gay Therapy

CREDIT: Shutterstock/Jiri Flogel

Earlier this week, the Dallas Voice reported that the Texas Republican Party had stripped language from its platform that claimed that “homosexuality tears at the fabric of society and contributes to the breakdown of the family,” but the Houston Chronicle now reports that the language has been replaced with a different kind of condemnation. According to a first draft the Chronicle obtained, the Texas GOP will now endorse ex-gay therapy for “patients who are seeking escape from the homosexual lifestyle”: Homosexuality must not be presented as an acceptable alternative lifestyle, in public policy, nor should family […]

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Been There, Done That: New EPA Rule Is No Big Deal In Colorado

Been There, Done That: New EPA Rule Is No Big Deal In Colorado

Colorado leads the nation on Pot and Wind. Keep exhaling Colorado, keep exhaling…

Been There, Done That: New EPA Rule Is No Big Deal In Colorado

Ponnequin Wind Farm near Carr, Colo. CREDIT: AP Photo/Ed Andrieski

The radio silence at the Senate campaign headquarters of GOP candidate Rep. Cory Gardner says it all: the Obama administration’s Monday announcement of new emission rules for existing coal-fired power plants is unlikely to have much of an impact on that crucial political race in Colorado. Gardner, a young and aggressive challenger to incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Udall, hasn’t been shy about attacking his opponent on other aspects of energy policy. But Gardner has been silent regarding the EPA’s new rule to regulate carbon emissions from […]

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