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Last weekend, The New York Times editorial board shocked everyone and endorsed The Ladies 2020—picking both Elizabeth Warren (the “radical”) and Amy Klobuchar (a sort of back-up “realist” pick) in the Democratic presidential primary, in which they felt required to offer a multi-platform intervention. It was a farce—a tiresome exercise mainly constructed for the purpose of reminding everyone that the Times has a television show. It is not worth spilling any more ink on the stupidity of picking two candidates at all... Читать дальше...

In 2017’s The Young Pope, Paolo Sorrentino served up what was arguably one of the best television scenes of the last decade—namely Jude Law, as Pope Pius XIII, being dressed in his ceremonial finery to the blasphemous, perfect strains of LMFAO’s club hit I’m Sexy and I Know It. Not since Dickie Greenleaf had Law found a character so suited to his particular combination of good looks and arrogance, his cocky mien suggesting that desirability and divinity may be more or less the same thing. (“You know something... Читать дальше...

There was a time not so long ago, before President Donald Trump’s surprise decision early this year to liquidate the Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, when it appeared that America’s neoconservatives were floundering. The president was itching to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan. He was staging exuberant photo-ops with a beaming Kim Jong-un. He was reportedly willing to hold talks with the president of Iran, while clearly preferring trade wars to hot ones.

And a resulting acquittal verdict would present Americans with something far worse than a constitutional crisis.

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It’s going to be a while before the Penguins are back on the ice, but there is still some news floating around. Catch up on everything right here in Pens Points.

The HP Elite Dragonfly is a corporate laptop made to please your manager—and isn’t that the best way to get ahead in the working world? With a fingerprint-resistant finish, a beautiful cerulean magnesium body, and shoulder-friendly weight, the Elite Dragonfly is sure to earn you permission to leave 15 minutes early on Friday (thanks, boss!).

If you have the patience for delving into user forums if you need help, Garadget is worth a look.

Cord-cutting might not save as much money for sports fans, but these tips can help.

Twitter is a great source of news about R — especially during conferences like useR! and RStudio Conference. And thanks to R and the rtweet package, you can build your own tool to download tweets for easy searching, sorting, and filtering. Let’s take a look, step by step.

Testing applications used to be a technically challenging, time-crunched activity scheduled days or weeks before an application’s release. Development teams were given the leeway to code until the eleventh hour, and testers, who did much of their work manually, had little choice but to make do with the bit of time given to them. The result was that many applications underwent substandard testing, and technology teams were forced to respond to the production issues and defects escalated by end-users and application monitoring systems. Читать дальше...

A dream kitchen space comes to life in an $800K modern update on a century home in the Playter Estates neighbourhood

“We’re ready for something different,” says the actress/author, of her move to downsize with husband, Canadian Alan Hamel

‘These are very difficult times,’ says Sir Patrick Stewart, who returns to the character he thought he had abandoned, Jean-Luc Picard, in ‘Star Trek: Picard,’ which debuts Jan. 23.

Egypt and the United Kingdom have announced an agreement to intensify their economic partnership.

Lions scrum coach Julian Redelinghuys believes there is a new energy around, and appreciation for, powerful scrumming following the Springboks’ dominant performance upfront on their way to winning the Rugby World Cup in Japan last year.

Rassie Erasmus’ Bok pack dominated all-comers in 2019 and annihilated the much-vaunted England pack in the World Cup final, paving the way for their stunning victory at the tournament.

Sysadmin pilot fish is working at home when he gets a trouble ticket that was logged the night before.

Microsoft quietly announced last week that it will change the default search engine of Google's Chrome to Bing - Microsoft's own search service - on personal computers running Office 365 ProPlus, the productivity applications that serve as the heart of the enterprise-grade subscriptions.

You know what we never get sick of around here? A cup of good coffee and some demonstrated wisdom. Luckily, True Stone Coffee Roasters is picking up what we’re putting down, if you know what we mean.  As of tomorrow – Friday, January 24 – the longtime workhorse of the local restaurant and cafe scene ...

Smart pop-culture personality quizzes have gone viral on every newsfeed

71st Republic Day: Full dress rehearsal at Rajpath ahead of parade | In Photos

There are many examples of a cat and a dog becoming real friends; of them playing together, sleeping in an embrace, and missing each other when apart. Such unlikely pals often grew up together.

Michael Schulman reviews the documentary “Making Montgomery Clift,” directed by Robert Clift and Hillary Demmon, which explores the ethics of biography.