Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, And Daniel Day-Lewis Come Out As Gay Also Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé, Brian Williams, Meryl Streep, And LeBron James July 25, 2012 …. A small sampling of famous American public figures who came out of the closet this week. LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK, LONDON, PARIS, CHICAGO, BOSTON, MIAMI,…
A Bollywood starlet has become the first Indian woman to pose nude for Playboy, sparking a wave of criticism in her home country where the magazine is banned. Sherlyn Chopra, 28, will appear in the November issue. However, a series of teasing interviews has provoked a round of condemnation from women’s rights activists who…
Fencer Mariel Zagunis Will Carry U.S. Flag In Opening Ceremony Mariel Zagunis has been named the U.S. flagbearer for the London 2012 Opening Ceremony. Here, Zagunis celebrates a win in the individual sabre final at the Pan American Games last year. Mariel Zagunis, the two-time gold medalist in sabre, has been named the…
Watching the crooks: Researcher monitors cyber-espionage ring Good guys are keeping an eye on large espionage and botnet campaigns that are stealing corporate secrets from government and private industry and money from peoples’ bank accounts. by Elinor Mills July 25, 2012 2:00 PM PDT This graph shows the confirmed espionage malware samples researcher Joe Stewart…
One day when I was drawing a young girl, I suddenly noticed that the only thing that was alive was her gaze. The rest of her head meant no more to me than the skull of a dead man. One does want to sculpt a living person, but what makes him alive is without doubt…
When Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney used the idiom “Obamacare” at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), it was another sign of how the Republican Party practices intellectual laziness and dishonesty. It also signified a lengthy “rewording” campaign to manipulate Americans. Starting in 1990, Republican leaders issued a list…
January 15, 2004, and TomDispatch had only been in existence for a year when Chalmers Johnson, author of the prophetic book Blowback (published in 2000 and a bestseller after the 9/11 attacks), did a piece for this site entitled “America’s Empire of Bases.” He wrote then: “Due to government secrecy, our citizens are…
Car Waiting There is a big difference between “shock and awe” and disruptive innovation. Shock and awe is a superficial and short-lived gut response. True disruptive innovation changes the course of the way we see, think or do things. The core of all art is expression of the deep self. If, in following your deepest…
Everyone loves smut, says Patty Marks of Ellora’s Cave, who turned kinky fiction into millions before E.L. James It might seem that women reading super-smutty romance novels is a new phenomenon, thanks to deafening buzz around the series whose name cannot be spoken. (Fine, “Fifty Shades of Grey.” There! I said it.) But to Patty…
Speaking to a packed audience Wednesday morning in Geneva, CERN director general Rolf Heuer confirmed that two separate teams working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are more than 99 percent certain they’ve discovered the Higgs boson, aka the God particle—or at the least a brand-new particle exactly where they expected the Higgs to…