He’s a bible-thumping, anti-gay marriage, privileged son of the south. He’s Harold Ford Jr, and he’s the key to the midterm elections and a barometer in many ways for the future of the country.
He wants to change course in Iraq, proposing to divide the country, former-Yugoslavia-style, into three roughly independent cantons or states. He attacks [...]

A few days ago I blogged about how “NBC 2.0” restructuring plans were merely faux 2.0. Well it seems everyone is talking about 2.0 these day: what it is, what it is not, and whether it is becoming the platform for the short-term future of greedy people.
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Salon’s video blog offers a gem today: a Republican National Committee ad that ran on CNN this weekend, featuring no candidate positions, no policy info, no attack on rival candidates, nothing but grainy footage of Osama and other men in Arab garb doing “scary” things that look like maybe combat training or parody martial arts [...]

Immigrant + Rapper = Criminal: How the INS hates on hip-hop.

There wasn’t a parental warning on the site. I didn’t have to fork over my credit card number or proof of age. And yet I’m freely paging through images of hundreds of pouty women clad in the most outlandish of role-playing fetish gear. There oughta be a law … against the superskanky women’s costumes at [...]

NBC announced its decision to save $750 million over the next 2 years by filling the first hour of prime time with low-cost schlock like reality programs and and game shows, and by laying off 5 percent of by cutting NBC Universal’s full-time workforce of 15,000. (This amounts to about 700 job cuts.)
NBC plans to [...]

You’re black, gay, and gettin’ hated. So where’s Al Sharpton? Where’s Jesse Jackson?

Like, that book doesn’t totally suck. A high school flashback with King Dork.

It happened today and now we have to live with it. The disgraceful Slobodan Milosevic-style “Act to Protect My Peoples” has been signed into U.S. law.
What was once a misguided reaction to 9/11– the elevation of the President to the Decider, the sham trials, the secret kidnapping and torturing, the flaunting of national and international [...]

The internet has long provoked fear and suspicion. It has been accused of everything from promoting child porn to spurring disaffected youth to violence. And now the internet is being named as the latest enemy in the war on terror.
Today’s Reuters story Web could be terror training camp: Chertoff leads with this description of a [...]