• Erika Jayne makes a margarita and spills details on ‘RHOBH’ drama

    Erika Jayne makes a margarita and spills details on ‘RHOBH’ drama

    Erika Jayne knows how to stir things up in quarantine. The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star demonstrated how she makes a “Pretty Mess” margarita and then dished on the latest season of the Bravo show. “I’m not a very good bartender but I am a good drinker, so here we go,” she exclusively told …
  • The memes about X Æ A-12 make more sense than Elon Musk and Grimes’ baby name

    The memes about X Æ A-12 make more sense than Elon Musk and Grimes’ baby name

    This baby is memebait. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, 48, and Canadian singer Grimes, 32, welcomed their first child together Monday, christening him not with a name so much as a series of random characters: X Æ A-12. This has, unsurprisingly, led to a lot of memes. Grime: Where's the baby? Elon Musk: Outside in the …
  • COVID19 Isn't Our Biggest Problem

    COVID19 Isn't Our Biggest Problem

    The COVID-19 pandemic can be used to illustrate two problems that are both more destructive than the virus. The problems relate to how Americans view the role of government in their lives and to the belief that government money can always fix problems.  Let’s Look at the Money Issue First The immediate reaction of our …
  • US Department of Education: It's time to change now

    US Department of Education: It's time to change now

    Happy birthday U.S. Department of Education—I guess. Today is ED’s 40th (yes, that’s its official abbreviation) and its impact has been mixed at best, and most likely negative. The same goes for federal education intervention overall, which became especially centralized with ED’s birth. Thankfully, as I and my co‐​authors lay out in a new Cato paper, there …
  • Private Payrolls Dropped 20.2 Million Workers in Worst Month on Record

    Private Payrolls Dropped 20.2 Million Workers in Worst Month on Record

    Private payrolls dropped by more than 20 million in April as the economy ground to a halt due to lockdown orders that caused businesses to close their doors and hemorrhage employees. U.S. companies lost a total of 20,236,000 jobs last month, according to data released Wednesday by the ADP Research Institute. The total easily beats the …
  • Texas Judge Sentences Salon Owner to Jail Time after She Refuses to Apologize for ‘Selfish’ Decision to Open

    Texas Judge Sentences Salon Owner to Jail Time after She Refuses to Apologize for ‘Selfish’ Decision to Open

    A Texas judge sentenced a Dallas hair salon owner to seven days in jail and a $7,000 fine for opening the salon in defiance of lockdown orders, the local CBS affiliate reported. Judge Eric Moye told owner Shelley Luther that although her decision was “selfish,” she could avoid jail time if she apologized and admitted …
  • Norwegian tech firm with tiny NYC office snags $218K coronavirus loan

    Norwegian tech firm with tiny NYC office snags $218K coronavirus loan

    A Scandanavian tech firm with a tiny office in New York City snagged more than $200,000 in aid meant to help American small businesses survive the coronavirus crisis. Zedge, a digital publishing outfit founded in Trondheim, Norway, got a $217,900 loan last month through the feds’ $659 billion Paycheck Protection Program, according to a regulatory …
  • Kyle Cooke teases what to expect from the ‘Summer House’ reunion

    Kyle Cooke teases what to expect from the ‘Summer House’ reunion

    The “Summer House” virtual reunion is a rollercoaster, but it doesn’t hold a candle to the upcoming “Real Housewives of Atlanta” reunion. The Hamptons crew — including Kyle Cooke, Jules Daoud, Paige DeSorbo, Carl Radke, Lindsay Hubbard, Luke Gulbranson, Hannah Berner and Amanda Batula — is reuniting via Zoom on Wednesday night’s episode of “Watch …
  • Jill Zarin’s daughter Ally Shapiro is making face masks

    Jill Zarin’s daughter Ally Shapiro is making face masks

    As Page Six reported, “Real Housewives of New York” star Jill Zarin has been delivering food to healthcare workers in New York City and Boca Raton, Fla., through her “Noshes for Nurses” program. Now, Zarin, 56, tells us that her daughter Ally Shapiro, 27, is selling handmade tie-dye face masks to raise money for the …
  • Nas pays tribute to protégé Kiing Shooter on Instagram after death

    Nas pays tribute to protégé Kiing Shooter on Instagram after death

    Rap legend Nas has paid tribute to his Queens protégé Kiing Shooter, who died this week, reportedly of complications from the coronavirus. “This is never easy. One of Queensbridge’s finest,” Nas’ Street Dreams Records, Nas’ label with his brother Jungle, wrote on Instagram Tuesday when confirming the 24-year-old rising star’s death. “Rest in paradise,” they …