Culture

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: an ESPN commentator desires to get his name in the news by cracking a joke at the expense of a Republican. That well-worn, lefty sports tactic was executed, yet again, by ESPN’s new Monday Night Football play-by-play man.

Apparently maintaining the pretense of objectivity and neutrality has just grown entirely too tiresome.

It is not enough for a Huffington Post contributor to write a hit piece on someone who challenges the  Equal Rights Amendment. She made sure to throw in a slur. On Monday, HuffPo’s Kimberley A. Johnson urged feminists of all stripes to embrace and push for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). She blamed its failure to pass in the 1970s on a “toxic gender traitor by the name of Phyllis Schlafly.”

Hell’s glory days could be over, according to National Geographic. The idea of eternal punishment is not as chic as it was in olden days. In a NatGeo story published last week, senior science correspondent Mark Strauss explained a “campaign to eliminate hell” headed by a “new generation of evangelical scholars” who take issue with the idea that sinners are doomed forever.

Hillary Clinton: secretary of state, presidential candidate and, now, ghostbuster.  Entertainment Weekly just announced that Clinton will be joining the all-female cast members of the upcoming Ghostbusters film on The Ellen DeGeneres Show airing May 25. 

Get ‘em while they last! For only $50, shoppers on Marc Jacobs’ website can buy a T-shirt featuring Miley Cyrus and give money to Planned Parenthood at the same time. On Monday, Teen Vogue reported that the actress and singer, known for her wild antics and ‘twerking,’ has decided to use her fame for a cause she believes in: access to so-called “reproductive healthcare,” such as abortion. 

First it was the boogie monster, followed by the Sandman and Dracula. And now, the latest to join the list of irrational fears people have: the Transgender. The Charlotte Observer has decided it knows why people are opposed to those with male genitalia sharing the bathroom with their daughters: they’re just scared of the idea, but they don’t need to be. 

ABC decided yesterday that anti-Catholic shows are worth keeping afloat a little longer even when ratings continue to drag. Despite pushback from conservative and Catholic groups, ABC renewed its new sitcom The Real O’Neals for a second season, Deadline reports.

Mark Ruffalo makes a better Hulk than a commencement speaker. The Oscar nominee best known for his role in The Avengers, Shutter Island, and Spotlight, addressed this year’s graduates from Ringling College of Art and Design yesterday.

After only one season, ABC has cancelled the reboot of The Muppets. The show was supposed to be an instant success (who doesn’t love Kermit and Miss Piggy?), but the reboot took on a dark and edgy flair that didn’t resonate with fans of the original Muppets. Instead of sticking to what made the original Muppets a classic, this new batch used their TV platform to push a social agenda. One episode…

Someone really should come up with a typesetter’s font for when our liberal betters to use when forced to write about things they disdain. We could call it “Helvetica Sneer,” and it would save busy cosmopolitan authors a lot of time and trouble.

Scandal creator Shonda Rhimes took a really lame swipe at Republicans tonight. I realize I could say that every week, but tonight's episode "That's My Girl" was especially pathetic. She had former RNC head and campaign manager Elizabeth North ramble to Attorney General David Rosen that because she's a Republican, she doesn't believe in college and that education is worthless. 

Torn between fighting both Donald Trump and gays, evangelical Christians are “depressed” and out of “energy,” according to one comedian.

Western civilization and its philosophical underpinning are overrated, according to leftist university students and faculty and many members of the media. Each year they try their best to take Western philosophy courses down more than a few pegs in academic importance and sometimes even replace them. The New York Times’ opinion page featured a column Wednesday undermining the value of Western…