Woke

Just three months after being elected to the Huntington Beach City Council, its new conservative majority voted to bar the rainbow flag from flying over City Hall each spring in celebration of Pride Month. The prior council’s decision in 2021 to start raising the flag on city property — though common elsewhere in California — grabbed headlines in a city that for decades has borne a reputation for tolerating hate and bigotry. It turned out to be a short-lived embrace of liberalism. The new majority elected in fall 2022…

John Madden, directorShakespeare in Love had been in development for years before I got involved. At one point, Julia Roberts was going to be the female lead. The big problem, though, was casting Shakespeare. Julia wanted Daniel Day-Lewis, but I think pretty much every male actor of a certain age was suggested. In the end, she withdrew from the project.A film with the word “Shakespeare” in its title was considered risky, and without Julia involved the project languished – until the script was bought by Harvey Weinstein,…

The general rule about consumer boycotts is that they rarely work, at least in terms of taking a real bite out of a company’s bottom line. Take some recent examples. Plenty of coffee drinkers still love their Keurigs, despite a handful of people smashing their already-purchased machines in 2017. In 2018, Nike got a sales boost after angering some conservatives for doing an ad campaign with former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. In 2020, calls among progressives for a boycott of Goya products semi-backfired — the…

Meghan McCain SLATES ‘AJLT’ ( Photo Credit – Bang Showbiz ) Meghan McCain has branded the second season of ‘And Just Like That’ “woke slop”. The former ‘View’ co-presenter, 38, slated the first season of the show, and has now hit out at the second series of the ‘Sex and the City’ spin-off as criticism spreads it does not live up to the original show. She said in an essay for the Daily Mail about how “soulless” showrunners seemed as if they were using it to tick off “a woke checklist”: “The knock-off lacked everything…

An elderly Ecuadorian woman who woke up inside a coffin at her own wake – sparking a viral video, of course – has now died for real, authorities said Sunday.A video posted on social media last week shows Bella Montoya, 76, in her open coffin breathing heavily while two men assist her.Her son, Gilbert Barbera, said she had been banging on the inside of the casket, desperate to get out as her relatives mourned her.She had been erroneously declared dead on June 9.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY8OAJ4FYnI frameborder="0″…

Rob Liefeld will be introducing Shatterstorm, a female take on Mojoworld's Shatterstar in the upcoming Deadpool: Badder Blood #2.Rob Liefeld is writing and drawing the upcoming Deadpool: Badder Blood series, a sequel to his graphic novel from 2017, Deadpool: Bad Blood. And with issue 2 he will be introducing Shatterstorm, a female take on Mojoworld's Shatterstar. Though, as Liefeld tells Comic Book, "Shatterstorm is her own woman entirely and not a derivative. Shatterstorm hails from Mojoworld and was born and bred to…

DEI, short for diversity, equity, and inclusion, is the latest three-letter term to become a target of the right. That focus burst into view this week as conservatives went after Chick-fil-A, a fast food restaurant they’ve often supported in the past given its Christian roots and its prior donations to anti-LGBTQ groups. Despite Republicans’ longtime backing, the chain’s decision to employ a vice president of DEI has prompted backlash from some who now slam the company for being too “woke” for considering policies…

On air, Fox News personalities have been endlessly attacking so-called “woke corporations.” But now, Fox News finds itself in the right’s cultural crosshairs — with conservatives accusing it of promoting “trans ideology” in its own workplace. The inciting incident is a Monday morning story in the Daily Signal, the media arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank. In the story, reporter Mary Margaret Olohan writes that Fox’s employee handbook allows employees to use “bathrooms that align with their gender…

A pair of prominent Republican senators co-opted yesterday’s hearing on NASA’s 2024 budget request by accusing the space agency of siding with Biden-friendly initiatives pertaining to climate change and diversity.China's Plan to Land Astronauts on the MoonThe Senate Commerce, Science,and Transportation Committee got together yesterday to discuss NASA’s fiscal year 2024 $27.2 billion budget proposal. Senators on both sides of the aisle grilled NASA administrator Bill Nelson on a variety of topics, but Senators Ted Cruz…

A newly published study has rediscovered one of the most singular and strange cases of brain injury in history: the case of Patient M, who, having been shot in the head in 1938 during the Spanish Civil War, woke up seeing the world backwards.People and objects appeared to Patient M to be coming from the opposite side to where they actually were, something that extended to his hearing and sense of touch too.He could read letters and numbers printed both normally and back-to-front, without his brain being able to see any…