US Representative and Senate candidate Katherine Harris is under fire again, this time for her baldly stated views on politics and faith, which she shared with Witness, a Florida Baptist publication. The transcript of the interview is an excellent resource on the cumulative effect of a Christian-right aproach to american politics, evidence of how in [...]

Mos Def interviews Al Gore and posts it on MySpace. The men, the medium, the topic– it’s a fantastic two minutes, the entertainment-politics continuum just shrinking to nothing. Best quote goes to Mos: “I’m a big fan of second acts.”

The truth is the Emmy’s are boring. So it makes sense that the hottest news coming out of last night’s show is Conan O’Brian’s opening segment in which the presenter is shown flying aboard a plane that starts to violently shake and then crash. (Watch it here.) This sketch might have been funny if a [...]

You know the song: that repetitive, annoying, senseless (”got my Vans on but they look like sneakers” — Vans are sneakers, fool!), and catchy ass hell song “Vans” by teenage Bay Area rap group the Pack has been banned by MTV. Despite its popularity, MTV refuses to play the video because they consider the video [...]

Slate magazine today posted a collection of Katrina memoirs written by four students from Walker Charter High School in New Orleans. The teenagers and their families rode out the storm but were evacuated later after the floodwaters overtook their neighborhoods. Here’s a sample from Vickey Brown, 17:
I ran all the way home. I was yelling [...]

Andrew Young, in offending Koreans and Jews and Arabs in one fell swoop this week, demonstrated that African-Americans, even those who have dedicated their entire life to working for expanded civil rights and inter-ethnic dialogue, are not immune to the “Turned Old, Tired, Bigoted and Cranky” syndrome known to affect white folk over 60 in [...]

The recently foiled terrorist attacks and the escalating violence in Iraq have given a cringing world another blast of the president’s vapid sound-bite foreign relations analysis that sounds more like the comments of a jilted lover than the leader of the world’s most powerful nation. Comments like “They hate us because they hate our freedom” [...]

The presidential election recount-standoff and protest-crackdown in Mexico continues and has spread to Chiapas, where votes cast for the governor’s seat are now also being recounted.
Election protestors have thronged public spaces. Riot police have been shooting people with water and real bullets. There are videos of political personalities involved taking bribes, fleeing to Cuba, stuffing [...]

In World Trade Center, one of the movies based on 9/11, PFC Dave Thomas is a hero who, after hearing news of the terrorist attack, takes it upon himself to strap into his military gear and head to ground zero to help out, starting a search and rescue mission with Sgt. Dave Kearnes. The movie [...]

I don’t have beef with American Apparel’s ads. You can call me a perv if you want to but that amateur porny dirty roach motel bed series looks kinda hot, and at least it’s better than fake-boobied airbrushed models, and it’s no worse than other ads.
The problem with AA, it seems, is their violations of [...]