Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson is thrilled with the success of his latest solo album, The Mandrake Project.The album debuted at #5 on the Billboard Top Album Sales chart, and at #1…
Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-St. Louis) doesn't often agree with former President Donald Trump, but they currently find themselves aligned on at least one issue: TikTok. This morning, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would force the social media app's parent company, the China-based ByteDance, to either spin TikTok into its own entity with a non-Chinese owner or have the app banned in the United States. The bill passed 352 to 65 with broad support from both sides.
The last time we wrote about an interaction between the Supreme Court and the famed art collective/pranksters/social commentators/cultural marketing jammers MSCHF, it was covering their interesting choice of amicus briefs. They sought to comment on the “Bad Spaniels” case by making the Justices and their clerks complete “connect the dot” artwork as an attempt to […]
Today on TAP: The annual World Trade Organization meeting came to an ignominious end last week with no ‘progress’ on major issues. That is a form of progress.
Former principal Cornelius Green was married and dating other women, none of whom knew about each other, prosecutors said. One, Jocelyn Peters, was pregnant.
After being let go from CNN, Don Lemon cut a deal with Elon Musk for a show on Twitter. Lemon's first episode was an interview with Musk, after which the deal was abruptly canceled. Why? His approach was basically just “CNN, but on social media”, which doesn’t work, as evidenced by the fact that CNN ...continue reading "Elon Musk says Don Lemon is a Jeff Zucker sock puppet"
March 14th is celebrated locally as 314 Day in the St. Louis area. On this day, the St. Louis region celebrates everything that makes the 314 coverage area unique.
Among the various ways of estimating worker pay, one of the most accurate is the BLS calculation of employer costs. This is released quarterly, and in Q4 of 2023 wages and salaries for civilian workers increased by a whopping 10%: From Q3 to Q4, wages increased 3.1%. Adjusting for inflation and then annualizing the quarterly ...continue reading "Worker pay increased 10% last quarter?"