In Which Christopher Rufo Heroically Fends Off Ezra Klein's Attempts To Paint Him As 'Reasonable'

Simon’s Sketch: Good Grace Beats Grudges as Kemi’s Sympathy Turns Savage

So, outside Downing St this week, Two-Tier Keir turned into Two-Tear Keir. He followed Weepy Reeves into the crying game with a very confident and effective performance. The manful containment of emotion could easily have been genuine and as a prime ministerial achievement it probably tops all his others. Let it lead his political obituary:

Why I’m Thirsting for Trump to Ban My ‘Supergay’ Memoir: Actor

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/ReutersMulti-hyphenate performer Frankie Grande hopes his memoir, Supergay, will infuriate Donald Trump and his supporters.Grande told Obsessed: The Podcast that the title of his debut book, Supergay!: A Memoir, embodies the attitude he hopes to see the rest of the LGBTQ community take in the age of Trump, in a shirtless interview (“It’s 102 degrees in New York City and not much better in my dressing room,” he said) that was recorded before the Broadway star suffered a mild concussion due to a stage mishap. Read more at The Daily Beast.

G.K. Chesterton and Spencer Tracy

Despite their very different backgrounds, the writer and the actor revealed each in his own way a humility impervious to the temptations of fame

Of course, teenage Clark Kent traveled back in time to work at the Pennsylvania Gazette for Benjamin Franklin. Who else but the inventor of bifocals would Superboy ask to invent the ultimate disguise? [Murica]

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Hollywood Star Labeled A ‘Coward’ For Refusing To Bash Trump

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is under fire for choosing to stay quiet on politics, with multiple celebrities publicly disparaging him for his choices. “Star Trek” star George Takei commented on The Rock’s stance in a Threads post, writing, “Silence is complicity.” “So disappointing to find out he is such a coward,” Wil Wheaton chimed in, ...