The “immigration debate” may be over for now on Capitol Hill but it’s still simmering at YouTube, the real site of serious exchange in this country! Browsing the comment threads on this remix Army recruitment ad is an essential part of the viewing experience.
Remember: The Army is more than a job; it’s an adventure; [...]

The way the wits at Sadly No! chase evil-wrong punditry all over the nets!

A big story this week was the findings of a poll on the political views of people ages 17 to 29. The nation’s papers reported that, according to the poll, young people were much more likely than older people to know which end was up! Or, as some put it, that young people were more [...]

The Supreme Court decision today on two school segregation cases is a crazy retreat from the national policy of desegregation set in place by Brown vs Board of Ed in 1954. Given the altered balance of the Court over the past decade, though, it is a retreat that is both totally shocking and not surprising. [...]

British wag Brendan O’Neil at Spiked went hard after Bono last week. It was a case of a fish, a barrel, and a smoking gun. The subject was Bono’s stumping for aid to Africa with the big-time government leaders at the G8 summit. Bono, according to O’Neil, is a not-cool wrinkled rocker on a messianic [...]

I’ve been finding myself behind the wheel a whole lot more than usual lately. Braving the horrors of L.A. traffic is not for the faint of heart, and a man needs to find solace in the confines of his little Japanese driving machine if he’s going to make it crosstown with sanity intact. Recently, that [...]

 

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She and she made a he called JT. It is the story of a girl in a wig; a phone-sex worker punk-rock singer; and a child-prostitute protagonist. None of it was true, some of it was real, and all of it was really fucked up, which made for some whiz-bang literary fun. Now, of course—this [...]

Fox terror drama 24 is such damned good entertainment it apparently has persuaded not only US military personnel to ignore their commanders and the law regarding prisoner abuse but also has Supreme Court justice and apparent TV addict Antonin Scalia approaching the Constitution as if he were a character in the same exciting fictional world [...]

There’s something of an epidemic afflicting record stores across Los Angeles. They are dying off at an alarming rate, and it’s really starting to bum me out. Obviously, no one really knows why, but everyone seems to have a viable reason that it can be attributed to. The catch-all being our poor economy. Others prefer [...]

 

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This little YouTube gem of a cultural product is stirring up the madness. In the same vein but more raw than Alanis’s “humps,” it has been viewed 1.09 million times and has drawn 3,719 comments, many of which move along the subject of race in a predictably half-baked typing-at-work kinda (hateful) way. It’s an interesting [...]

I couldn’t resist a look back at last weekend’s Gaypridefest in Los Angeles. West Hollywood is LA’s version of the Castro in San Fran. I might have been the straightest girl there, but the pridefest was too crazy for me to miss. I saw a cholo gangster couple, a guy with condoms around his nipples, [...]

Last month Ben Herson’s Senegalese hip-hop project released “Depths of Dakar,” the follow-up to his Nomadic Wax label’s “African Underground Volume One: Hip-Hop Senegal” cd from 2003. Depths of Dakar is another, and I think even better, compilation of tracks recorded in Dakar and New York.
For those not in the loop, Herson has been [...]

End-of-the-dial, low-signal, creative, unscripted music-radio. Yeah!

George Michael last week at Wembley? A half-liter watermelon-sake martini? Neither. The gay bomb was a $7.5 million dollar Air Force chemical weapon project proposed in 1994. Here it is as told by CBS channel 5 local news in San Francisco. (Note that the TV guys misspelled “soldiers” “subsequently” and “irresistible” in the original. [...]

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