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HBO late-night host Bill Maher angered many in the comic book community this week with a blog post about the reaction to Stan Lee’s death. “The guy who created Spider-Man and the Hulk has died, and America is in mourning. Deep, deep mourning for a man who inspired millions to, I don’t know, watch a movie, I guess,” he began the post. It quickly sparked backlash, and Maher clarified his comments while doubling down on them in an interview with Larry King on Wednesday. “Talk about making my point for me,” Maher said. “Yeah, I don’t know very much about Stan Lee and it certainly wasn’t a swipe at Stan Lee…I am agnostic on Stan Lee. I don’t read comic books. I didn’t even read them when I was a child.  “What I was saying is: A culture that thinks that comic books and comic book movies are profound meditations on the human condition is a dumb f—ing culture. And for people to, like, get mad at that just proves my point.” Watch more Maher added that he was slow to pick up on the rea

Washington President Donald Trump is surrounded by fools. There’s that fool William H. McRaven, Special Operations commander of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and the other fools in the U.S. military, who should have brought down bin Laden “a lot sooner,” because “everybody in Pakistan” — all 208 million of them — knew the terrorist leader was living in “a nice mansion.” Trump alone “predicted Osama bin Laden” in 2000 when “nobody really knew who he was.” (Were they waiting for Trump to give them bin Laden’s ZIP code plus four?) There are the fools in the CIA, who have concluded based on so-called evidence that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered last month’s killing of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi. But Trump alone understands that we’ll never know the truth, because the crown prince denied involvement “maybe five different times.” There’s that fool Chris Wallace at Fox News, who didn’t understand why Trump skipped Arlington National Cemetery on the Mo

Two drivers exchanged verbal blows after a minor traffic incident sparked a foul-mouthed rant. The pair of road rage motorists began swearing at each other after a manoeuvre by a BMW driver escalated into a verbal altercation. Tom Albon was driving through York yesterday when the BMW driver cut him up and pulled in front of his vehicle in a left-hand lane, causing him to brake hard. Both drivers were moving off from a set of traffic lights when the grey BMW Z4 convertible sports car then moved into the lane in front of Albon. His dashcam audio picked up Albon swearing under his breath at his fellow driver"s actions as Kylie Minogue"s "Can"t Get You Out of My Head" played in the background.  The BMW driver stopped in the middle of the lane and got out of his vehicle to confront Tom Albon in York yesterday  As the driver marched over to his rival"s car the pair exchanged swear words before going their separate ways As the BMW driver broke he th

DEAR ABBY: We received a wedding invitation in the mail today from my husband’s nephew. First of all, we are to RSVP by tomorrow. (WHAT?) Here are our options in responding: Gladly attend Regretfully decline Resentfully attend Enthusiastically decline I’ll surprise you The invitation also asked which song we’d like “blasted over our awkward small talk.” Granted, there is some animosity among the groom’s father’s siblings, but I think this is rude, sarcastic and inappropriate. I have a sense of humor but do not find this funny. Am I off the mark? — INSULTED GUEST IN THE MIDWEST DEAR GUEST: Obviously, you and your husband would have preferred a more formal — and possibly more timely — invitation. Considering the sorry state of family relations on the groom’s side, the wording may have been an attempt at humor. It may also have been sincere. If you cannot GLADLY attend, rather than fume, send your regrets. DEAR ABBY: We don’t care much for the wife of one of our new neighbors. The husban

It"s a moment every parent knows well - when limited budgets take precedence over basic human decency. Steven watched in amazement as the exhausted parents carefully filled their bags with tiny milk cartons before heading out for a day of fun at a nearby theme park. With a start, the US man realised the couple were stealing the milk to “satisfy their little monsters for the entire day for free!” “The parents were completely abusing the system,” he wrote on Quora .  If you"ve ever travelled with kids this story will be familiar to you. The moment when your limited budget takes over from basic human decency and you find yourself loading Tupperware containers from home at the hotel buffet each morning.  So how much is too much to take? On this juicy topic, the internet seemed pretty divided. Sabre Norris gives great food buffet advice on "The Ellen Show" What"s wrong with taking a few muffins? Some savvy travellers thought it was completely fine to grab a few e

PUBLISHED: 14:57 22 November 2018 | UPDATED: 16:09 22 November 2018 Simon Parkin The Little History of Suffolk author Sarah E Doig will be at Diss Publishing Bookshop. Picture: Sarah E Doig Archant A drunken king. A ‘tax’ on pregnant daughters with illegitimate children. Rival markets…The Little History of Suffolk is a book that has facts aplenty – many weird and funny. The Little History of Suffolk by Sarah E Doig includes some fascinating facts. Picture: The History Press One thing you really didn’t want to be in Bronze Age Suffolk was a laid-back procrastinator. The clock ticked quite loudly as soon as you were born, so best crack on with life. “The average age of death for men was 34, whereas for women it was 37½,” says the book’s author Sarah E Doig, who will be at Diss Publishing Bookshop on November 24 to meet readers and signs copies. It was a short existence in more ways than one. “Their average height was smaller than modern-day man at 5ft 7½in and women at 5