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The "Rugrats" reboot — a 1990s Nickelodeon staple — features an openly gay main character, much to the chagrin of some viewers who say the move is "performative wokeness." The show's reboot made its Paramount+ debut Thursday. What are the details?According to Newsweek, cast members said that the show's new CGI version introduces a variety of diverse changes. One character, Betty DeVille — mother of twins Phil and Lil — is now openly gay, for example. In 2020, voice actor Melanie Chartoff, who voices another character, admitted of the reboot, "One of the characters is now a lesbian." Chartoff added,...

Mr. & Mrs. Fred Thompson will be interviewed on Hannity & Colmes tonight.

JUDGING BY LETTERS to the editor and furious Internet circulation, the New York Times struck a collective nerve the other week with its front-page story announcing that "Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood." According to the article, surveys of 138 female students at Yale revealed that roughly 60 percent planned to cut back or stop work when they had children. Scattered interviews at other high-end schools confirmed that many of today's young women do not dream of supercharged 12-hour days at the future office, at least not when their children are young. And though hardly scientific,...

Condom ad airs on Nickelodeon Comcast blames human error for spot running during 'Rugrats' Think of it as a car entering the wrong on-ramp to an interstate. But in this case, the "trafficking error" aired a condom commercial during an after-school Nickelodeon show in a small portion of Comcast cable's Dallas service area. Because of human error, the condom ad appeared on the kids' network at 3:51 p.m. Tuesday instead of on another network, said Biff Niven, vice president and general manager of Comcast Spotlight. The advertising and sales division of Comcast is "taking additional measures to make sure it...