Early criticism of Obamacare’s consequences on working families might be premature; such consequences couldn’t possibly be realized until it all actually goes into effect. Would it really be a “job killer”? (The Washington Post) (NY Daily News) CVS won’t be selling cigarettes anymore as they further expand their in-store clinics. They don’t play around. (Los Angeles Times) […]

Everyone/many people have heard about weird porn in Butler. Our legacy, ladies and gentlemen. (NY Daily News, NY Observer, HuffPo, NY Mag) School of Public Health recently conducted a study suggesting that happier people may be likelier to have safer sex. Granted, the experiment was conducted purely on sexually active, HIV-positive men so it may […]

Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft have all released details about the number of secret government requests for data they have received.  Ugh, like do they even know the first rule of keeping secrets?  (Newsweek) A restaurant in Brooklyn is offering a Beyonce-themed menu for Valentine’s Day.  So Beyonce can officially be our Valentine now right? […]

In case you haven’t heard, the Seattle Seahawks handed the Denver Broncos one of the most potent ass-kickings in Superbowl history.  (NYT) Even more sad (if you’re a Broncos fan) and if you’re not, one of America’s great character actors, Oscar winning actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman died yesterday morning from an apparent heroin overdose. He’d […]

It was pretty much the best Weekend Update last night to tearfully send off Seth Meyers. (Hollywood Reporter) It has been 10 years since we saw our first nipple with our parents on TV (and hopefully the last?) (Yahoo) Here’s a new app to hide on the last home screen: one that reminds you to […]

Another politician lied? Never. (NY Times) This could be a “success” for the peanut M&M-deprived everywhere, but “success” in quotation marks does not sound reassuring. (BBC) It might be violent, but Katniss and Legolas look so good with bows and arrows. We would let them shoot arrows at us any day. (Gothamist) Being unsure how football works, we […]

That woman that most of us had forgotten about is going back to jail. Turns out the Italian court system is almost as convoluted as ours. (ABC News) Mayor De Blasio came through on his word to reform the controversial “Stop-and-Frisk” program. Despite our attempts to look suspicious, Bwog has yet to be  frisked (at […]

And on this day, Bwog turns eight years old. Happy birthday to us! All we want is to see our friends, listen to some good music, and eat some cute cake. (YouTube) (Buzzfeed) Jay Z can crash our party whenever he wants. (NY Post) Would you pay $80 for some time with a professional cuddler? That seems… […]

The State of the Union happened yesterday, and it probably means a lot of things to a lot of people. (NY Times) Scientists have spent lots of money to learn that jellyfish will in fact eat peanut butter. That’s about all there is to it. (GrindTV) Pope Francis made the cover of Rolling Stone. This is […]

Angry Birds? More like “Angry-Because-They-Leaked-My-Info Birds,” amiright? Turns out the NSA could be watching you through your unhealthy addiction to Angry Birds. How embarrassing. (New York Daily News) If you missed the Grammys on Sunday… there was a lot of knitting and arguing about who had the cutest grandchild. GET IT? HAH. Anyway, if you […]

President Obama, in tomorrow’s State of the Union Address, is expected to discuss how he will be using executive action to circumvent a gridlocked Congress and further his goals of bridging the income-inequality gap. (AlJazeera America) Apparently SPAM (yeah, like that gelatinous pork stuff hipsters buy) is a rather classy holiday gift in Korea. Bwog […]

For New York private schools, parents are now joining their children in being vetted to see if they’re “jerks” or not. (Gothamist) 300 people got sick on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, so maybe Bwog might rethink their Spring Break plans. (CNN) It’s still hard to be in the middle class. (CNN Money) Joaquin and […]

Last year, Americans collectively put $4 billion on their Starbucks gift cards, and 10% of Americans received them during the holidays. For those who don’t want Starbucks, coffee startup Tonx will gladly accept them. (Quartz) “On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you’ll see why 1984 won’t be like 1984.” Yesterday was the Mac’s 30th anniversary. […]

Columbia and the NYC parks department have opened a new wetland park on the Harlem River, up by Baker Field, called Muscota Marsh. (Commercial Observer) Netflix is here to stay, which is good, because otherwise we’d have to go back to binge watching shows on DVD. (Wired) Columbia fencing rocks. Fence, Lions, fence! (College Fencing […]

Just yesterday, Obama spoke out about the college sexual assault epidemic and presented a White House report detailing how “1 in 5 female students assaulted while only 1 in 8 student victims report it,” now initiating a “task force” to work on this issue. (The Washington Post) Speaking of shattering: one of the glass panes in […]