“I feel like I’m not the main character in my own life story,” Joan, a character played by Annie Murphy in one of the episodes in the new season of Netflix’s Black Mirror, tells her therapist at the beginning of the episode.
“I was born in a small town,” John Mellencamp sang in 1985. “And I live in a small town.” Actually, according to a recent issue of that small-town staple Architectural Digest, Mellencamp currently resides in Montecito, California, on “six acres of land at a mountainous peak.” It’s not a little pink house. It’s a rambling, white-painted former ranch with Spanish-style decor inspired by Karl Malden’s house in the movie One-Eyed Jacks. Ain’t that America.
A House committee this week took a small step toward AI regulation, although broad calls for a sweeping AI bill have largely been ignored in the House and Senate.
Illinois improperly paid out billions of unemployment tax dollars during the COVID-19 pandemic, with tens of millions going to people who were either dead or in prison.
What is it with the Left that they want to ban nearly everything that is fun or convenient? Gas stoves, dishwashers, plastic straws, gas cars, snowmobiles, and diving boards. And now the health busybodies want to ban certain cigars.
Republican presidential candidate and Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) criticized and Florida Gov. Ron Desantis (R) for his state’s new standards on the teaching of Black history. Scott rebuked the new curriculum guidelines, including language that Florida students be taught enslaved people “developed skills” that benefited them under the system of American slavery, during a campaign...