There used to be some sort of membrane between Republicans in Congress and the right-wing infotainment ecosystem centered around Fox News. Some elected representatives were always getting high on the supply, but many others considered it bread and circuses for The Base while they went about the sacred work of cutting taxes on wealthy people and corporations. That's gone now, as exemplified by the visual of Sean Hannity holding court in the United States Capitol on Tuesday, presiding over his flock with a portrait of George Washington in the background. Last week, the House Republican caucus began a four-day food fight over who would be speaker of the House. The days since Kevin McCarthy became the first SINO have revealed that "food fight" may be a generous description. It may have been closer to pure theater. |
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| We were all disappointed by Ridley Scott's new vision for the series. But to quote Noomi Rapace's Dr. Shaw, "We were wrong. We were so, so wrong." |
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A whisky worth slowing down for. |
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| Feat. Jenny the Donkey, Austin Butler's perma-Elvis voice, and many a "Yes, Chef!" |
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| Your guide for freezing weather, from ribbed beanies to shearling trappers. |
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| It actually was a dark and stormy night. Angry thunderheads cloaked Houston's Hobby International Airport, and flash-flood warnings were being broadcast on the radio. The forecast was for as much as ten inches of rain before the end of the day. As the limousine plowed through the downpour, the passengers recall, the water was rising almost midway on the door panels. The driver turned and asked Anne Rice if she had brought the foul weather with her. Rice—the author of Interview with the Vampire and a half-dozen best-selling novels about the demonic doings of witches, ghosts, and other unearthly creatures in a whole series of dark and stormy nights—could only smile. Lately, she has been accused of greater mischief than mucking with the heavens. |
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