Archive for October, 2006
and they’re off…
The 2008 presidential race is already heating up. On Tuesday Senator John McCain responded to his potential rival Senator Hillary Clinton’s suggestion that George W. Bush bears some responsibility for North Korea’s nuclear status by turning the blame back on her husband.
According to the Washington Post, in a campaign speech in Michigan McCain said:
“I would [...]
american twinks
So, hey, why isn’t President Pervez “Mushy” Musharraf of Pakistan afraid of the Big Bad Wolf (ie, terrorism generally and al Qaeda in particular)? Is it maybe because he’s secretly on the side of Osama in the War on Terror? Or maybe because he’s a Muslim living among Muslims in a combative part of the [...]
Thanks. Now Please Go Away
By Ian Thomas
They’re mostly young, poor and desperate. They’re the men and women of the US military who have been killing and being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now they’re coming home. Are you ready? A review of the new documentary, The Ground Truth…
Young Black Voters
by Vanessa Mizell
The most enthusiastic voting demographic this election season…
gootube
Mega-search engine company Google bought the profitless YouTube for $1.65 million yesterday and this silly thank you video from Chad Hurley and Steve Chen shows the two YouTube twentysomething founders giddy to be billionaires.
Mark Cuban, media critic/owner of the Dallas Mavericks, HDNet and HDTV cable network, claims this is the beginning of the end of [...]
Fun and Games in North Korea
The next contestant on “Today’s Horrifically Bad National Leaders”– an unofficial Talk Back game show– is a return guest and high-fashion fanatic. He has fluffy hair and a penchant for enormous eyeglasses. When traveling, he enjoys feasting on exotic foods, gulping Henessey cognac and “partying with female pleasure teams.” At home, he trades in arms [...]
bush’s job
Jon Stewart is convinced that the reason for Bush’s low job approval rating is that Americans just don’t understand what his job entails. This montage of Bush spouting sound bites about what he believes his job to be is both disturbing and hilarious.
incestuous amplification
We all know that politics is increasingly driven by public relations campaigns and that Bush and his administration are masters of spin. Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber’s recently released book “The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies and the Mess in Iraq” argues that America has been defeated by its own PR machine—a phenomenon [...]
Our Paris
A favorite of every pulp tabloid, insider blog and gossip show, Paris Hilton has achieved pop-cultural ubiquity. No mere celebrity, she has created a public persona outrageously exploitable in the marketplace– a long-legged, cat-walking, air-kissing, drunk-driving designer advertisement.
Rodeo Grrls
Tatoos, love, ten-gallon hats and steers! Take an audio-visual ride to the rodeo with two way-brave cowgirls!
free speech ain’t cool on college campus
Rapper Kamikaze, one half of Crooked Lettaz with rap star David Banner, sparked a student boycott at Milsaps College in his home state of Mississippi. What did he do to outrage the campus kiddies? As an invited performer for “Sexual Awareness Week 2006,” he bashed bush.
During an interlude in his set, the rapper made comments [...]
priests and politicians
Yup, that’s now-resigned Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) chatting it up in an “over friendly,” not explicit manner, with an underage boy. By now you’ve heard about it, and the fact this his Christian conservative GOP buddies knew about it yet refused to take action, though House Speaker Dennis Hastert claims it was taken care of [...]
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