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, The Simpsons vowed that it would no longer have white actors voice non-white characters. This was a big change for the long-running series, as it had allowed regular performers such as Harry Shearer and Hank Azaria to voice the likes of Apu, Carl and Dr. Hibbert for the past 30 years. It’s possible that the new mandate came from above, though, as creator Matt Groening has now revealed that he wasn’t the one pushing for the change. While speaking to The BBC, Groening defended the show’...

"The Simpsons" white voice actor Harry Shearer will no longer voice Black character Dr. Hibbert and be replaced by Kevin Michael Richardson.

Whenever I witness a transport airplane cross a runway threshold by a few feet, I think back to all the accidents in which aiming for "brick one" ended badly.

AP Photo/Susan Walsh As Nick Arama reported earlier, Joe Biden made a rather wild claim about the coronavirus vaccine during last night’s CNN town hall with Anderson Cooper. During a discussion on the availability of the vaccine and the timeline for Biden’s vaccine administration goals, Biden told Cooper that “we didn’t have” the vaccine when he came into office: And the biggest thing, though, as you remember when you and I, I shouldn’t say it that way, as remember, but when you and...

At nonsite, the art historian Blake Stimson throws some cold water on the currently fashionable injunctions to “decolonize your syllabus.” The problem, Stimson says, is that “decolonization” just doesn’t meaningfully apply to university curricula in former imperial centers. The idea that it does reflects a sort of “colonial narcissism.” For Stimson, "decolonizing your syllabus” in fact involves not decolonization but “neocolonialism,” a term he takes from Sartre via Kwame N...

tegnost While they struggle to control the narrative of the past, the future stretches out before them… I’ve never had that work out for me. Add on that what few plans they do have for the future leave most people suffering and what we’re looking at is the grinding, screeching end of the slow motion train wreck. I’m all for JD going after pelosi but it wasn’t the hill to die on. Now they’re all on vacay for lupercalia while stimulus what stimulus? and now for the next two weeks we�...

); //]]>//--> By Rob Enderle Jan 18, 2021 4:00 AM PT With the attack in Washington, D.C. happening right before CES, I was worried that I wouldnt focus on the show and, I expect, that distraction and the coming inauguration did split attention. However, one of the nice things about working from home is being able to watch TV while you are working. For many of us, the TV has become much more of a companion during the pandemic. One thing that continues to strike me is that we still seem to do t...

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Jan 18, 2021 4:00 AM PT With the attack in Washington, D.C. happening right before CES, I was worried that I wouldnt focus on the show and, I expect, that distraction and the coming inauguration did split attention. However, one of the nice things about working from home is being able to watch TV while you are working. For many of us, the TV has become much more of a companion during the pandemic. One thing that continues to strike me is that we still seem to do these remote activities as we ...

A teacher who could be banned from the classroom after being caught writing an anonymous gossip blog about his school has accused his former headmaster of being a “cheat” and “dishonest”. Alexander Price penned the “The Provoked Pedagogue” blog about students, parents and staff at Denbigh High School in Denbigh, North Wales. In one article titled “The Problem With Prom”, Mr Price called the event “a shallow, vacuous affair, about nothing more than who has spent the most on loo...