President Obama gave the commencement address at Hampton University on Sunday, encouraging the graduates of the historically-black school to close the achievement gap between African-American and Latino students and their white classmates. More importantly, he dissed the iPad.
Kurt Cobain was inarguably one of the most influential artists in music history. Widow Courtney Love's despairing quick speech to mourners on the day that Cobain died—16 years ago today—is an essential memory for the MTV Generation.
Roger Ross Williams, the Taylor Swift to Elinor Burkett's Kanye West, appeared on Larry King Live tonight to give, uninterrupted, the Oscar acceptance speech he wasn't able to during yesterday's big event. And then he was interrupted. Video inside.
During today's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)—currently underway in Washington, DC—a man named Ryan Sorba took the podium and condemned the organization for inviting GOProud, a gay rights group. The conservative crowd then booed him off the stage.
Well, this is ironic. Moments after criticizing President Obama as "charismatic guy with a teleprompter" at the National Tea Party convention tonight, Sarah Palin sat down for a Q&A session—and appeared to read notes written on her hand.
Can anyone on McCain's side speak for more than a minute without royally screwing up? There's "my fellow prisoners," everything Sarah Palin says, and the generally increasing ugliness of the whole campaign. It's infectious. Yesterday American Spectator managing editor J.P. Freire went on MSNBC to explain away the…
