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May 2019

Posted by Tyler Hummel on May 15, 2019 0 Comments
The opening weekend of Avengers: Endgame was massive. In its opening weekend alone the film grossed $350 million domestically and $1.2 Billion globally in the highest grossing opening weekend of all time. This was following its tickets going on sale in early April only to have every major ticket website including AMC and Fandango crashing and selling out opening night tickets weeks before the premiere. It was clear immediately that the final Avengers movie was going to be a monster.

Posted by Tyler Hummel on May 15, 2019 17 Comments
The PBS cartoon Arthur is shockingly entering its 22nd season as one of the longest continuously running children's shows on television. For those of you who didn't grow up with it or aren't being forced to watch PBS Kids regularly, the show is effectively a series of moral lessons about a group of kids growing up and handling different life events such as bullying, medical problems, friends moving away and how to deal with them. It's a very gentle show and appropriate viewing material for young children.

Posted by Mary Chastain on May 15, 2019 13 Comments
A study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics found that women only gave birth to 3.79 million babies in 2018, which is a dip of 2%. We have not seen that low of a birth rate since the 1980s. The fertility rate, which they measure by "the number of births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44," went down to 59%. That is the lowest percentage ever since the federal government began to keep track of those births.

Posted by Daniel McGraw on May 14, 2019 63 Comments
Today was Day 3 of witness testimony in Gibson Bros. v. Oberlin College. The events giving rise to the lawsuit have been said to represent “the worst of identity politics.”  You can read about some of the background on this case here. Oberlin College Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo completed her testimony, which started yesterday. She is a defendant in the case, and the plaintiffs had called her as an “adverse witness.”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 14, 2019 46 Comments
There has been a lot of anger at Rep. Rashida Tlaib's statement about the Holocaust. Unfortunately, much of it has focused on her use of the term "calming feeling," which has enabled defenders to claim the term was taken out of context. But those defenders ignore the rest of the context, which was far worse than the term "calming feeling."

Posted by Mary Chastain on May 14, 2019 24 Comments
Oh for the love of everything in this world. Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Robert O'Rourke put his tail between his legs and became a beta male on the set of The View as a way to relaunch his campaign. How? Just that horrible white male guilt that every white male has to feel because feelings. Instead of giving credit to hard work for where he is now, he "acknowledged that his background and position of white male privilege has helped him advance in his career."

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 14, 2019 7 Comments
Hepatitis A, a virus capable of affecting the liver and causing death, has made a resurgence among adults in the U.S. According to a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Hepatitis A infections have soared nearly 300% in the past few years.
The staggering increase has come despite an effective vaccine and is seen mostly among drug abusers and the homeless, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Posted by Mary Chastain on May 14, 2019 13 Comments
Former Deputy Attorney Rod Rosenstein and former FBI Director James Comey have ventured into a public spat over President Donald Trump and Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian collusion. Comey wrote earlier this month that Rosenstein did not have the strength to "resist the compromises necessary to survive Mr. Trump." Rosenstein lashed out at Comey for becoming a "partisan pundit" and showed disgust that the former director would speculate "about the strength of my character and the fate of my immortal soul."

Posted by Stacey Matthews on May 14, 2019 27 Comments
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) became one of the first Democrats to jump into the 2020 presidential race earlier this year. She started with a large war chest left over from her successful Senate runs in 2012 and 2018, and hoped to capitalize on the historic 2018 election that saw a record number of women elected to the U.S. House. She first formed an exploratory committee in January, and visited several key states around the country. But by the time she formally announced her candidacy in March, the field already had 13 candidates.
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