A leading US art critic has blasted a Fox news station for being "sexually sick" after the network blurred out the breasts on Pablo Picasso's The Women of Algiers (Version O) in a report about the masterpiece selling for a record-breaking $US179million ($227million) in New York on Monday. The New York magazine senior art critic Jerry Saltz took to Twitter to voice his disapproval, tweeting: "How sexually sick are conservatives & Fox News? They blurred parts of the Picasso painting #SickMinds."
The New York magazine senior art critic Jerry Saltz took to Twitter to voice his disapproval, tweeting: "How sexually sick are conservatives & Fox News? They blurred parts of the Picasso painting #SickMinds."
GOP: "we discussed ceding the decision entirely to Fox News", by MBNYC WTF? Blue Buffalo Caught Lying About Pet Food Ingredients., by joedemocrat Pope: God Will Judge Climate Denialists, by Dartagnan
WTF? Blue Buffalo Caught Lying About Pet Food Ingredients., by joedemocrat
Pope: God Will Judge Climate Denialists, by Dartagnan
The Baltimore Orioles announced Wednesday that the organization will pay its hourly employees for the hours they were not able to work due to the Freddie Gray protests and subsequent rescheduling of the team's games last month. Some worried Orioles employees would lose money as a result of the decision to reschedule a number of games in late April as a safety precaution amid protests over the death of the 25-year-old.
Some worried Orioles employees would lose money as a result of the decision to reschedule a number of games in late April as a safety precaution amid protests over the death of the 25-year-old.
After a series of heated debates, committee chairman Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) stated bluntly that there is "nothing in this act that violates the law. The Outer Space Treaty is a series of guiding principles subject to legal interpretation," not a binding law. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Colorado) snapped back: "We wrote the treaty, and the language is pretty clear," he said. "We need to present this idea to our treaty partners about how to mine all of this stuff without getting in a fight … I don't think we want to step away from the agreement."
Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Colorado) snapped back: "We wrote the treaty, and the language is pretty clear," he said. "We need to present this idea to our treaty partners about how to mine all of this stuff without getting in a fight … I don't think we want to step away from the agreement."
[C]ommercial harvests of wild clams didn't begin until 1970 in Washington, after divers discovered them aplenty in Puget Sound and lawmakers established a fishery. Commercial geoduck farming followed in the mid-1990s, really taking off in the last decade with modernized growing techniques. Today, geoduck aquaculture represents one-tenth of the global geoduck market, and Washington claims 90 percent of that share, according to Shamsak.
Today, geoduck aquaculture represents one-tenth of the global geoduck market, and Washington claims 90 percent of that share, according to Shamsak.
This is far from "excellent": Harry Shearer is leaving The Simpsons. The actor, who has been with the show since it started all those years ago, will not return to voice iconic characters such as Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Waylon Smithers and Principal Skinner. [...] Shearer took to Twitter to announce his exit. "From James L. Brooks' lawyer: 'show will go on, Harry will not be part of it, wish him the best,'" he tweeted. "This because I wanted what we've always had: the freedom to do other work. Of course, I wish him the very best."
Shearer took to Twitter to announce his exit. "From James L. Brooks' lawyer: 'show will go on, Harry will not be part of it, wish him the best,'" he tweeted. "This because I wanted what we've always had: the freedom to do other work. Of course, I wish him the very best."
When a reporter for the New York Post asked him about about it, Snoop replied: “I watch it for historic reasons, to try to understand what this world was based on before I got here. Also discussed was the gay pedestrian crossing lights in Vienna, the devastating Amtrak crash in Philadelphia, and the United States's citing by the U.N. review on human rights for police violence and racism.