Miitt Romney, the Republicans’ top family values and big love candidate, is fearful of the internet because… he doesn’t know anything about it. Over the last few weeks, he has been turning his campaign into an anti-internet-porn crusade, taking a strong stand against sexual predators on “these networking sites.” He wants to lock up the [...]

So Lohan carjacks three guys and then tells the cops that, no no no, it wasn’t she who was driving over people’s feet and racing down PCH at 100 mph, it was one of the guys she carjacked— ie, “the black kid.” (Anyway, that’s the way it would be in the movie, right officer?) And [...]

It’s very warm in Los Angeles these days. Every year I pray for a mild summer, but Summer ‘07 just hasn’t been very obliging. Something about this weather just isn’t conducive to my usual, melancholy musical favorites. In the interest of embracing the summertime vibe, here’s some fun stuff for you:
Why is Brazil so damned [...]

 

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This has been all over the web but it’s just too good not to post. Imagine showing up anywhere in the world this clueless and ready to lie—and smiling the whole time. I hope for the sake of the country that our attorney general has got like a major heroin addiction or something. SG speculates [...]

CNN wanted to understand YouTube. But it didn’t. Stewart explains.

They wanted us to watch, so we did. So where was the YouTube in the YouTube debate?

Longtime New Orleans resident and writer and film director and general production guy Jim Gabour has been writing for the British site Open Democracy for a few years, usually about life in his hometown post-Katrina.
His most-recent post is a gem of a report from the set of an Uncle Ben’s Rice commercial filmed by [...]

Giuliani? Romney? Thompson? Um, what happened to the Bush-America Christian-right revolution?

Dear Diary. Today, I was part of something that I have mixed feelings about…
As I’ve mentioned before, I am fortunate enough to be a DJ at KXLU 88.9fm here in Los Angeles. We were recently offered to take part in a 13-event series called Free Yr Radio. The idea was to “pair” a band with [...]

 

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Remember the classic Apple ads about revolution (“Your only limits will be the size of your ideas and the degree of your dedication!”)? It was funny then. It’s just plain sad now, especially after the archetypal corporate deal we’ve just witnessed, where Apple teamed with AT&T in the iPhone project, condemning users to Cingular wireless [...]

A new novel about the darkland of the Dear Leader had me wandering in a DMZ of the mind.

Finally something moving for voters to dwell upon in considering who they want to be their next president.

There’s an adage that advises against mixing friends and money… but it must have been formulated before a presidential candidate could gain hundreds of thousands of virtual friends on the web, each with their own credit card.
The New York Times reported this week that Democratic presidential candidates have had more success than their Republican counterparts [...]

I love post-rock as much as the next fellow. Explosions in the Sky, Mono, Red Sparowes… they’re all great. But sometimes, I can’t help but feel like there’s something the genre is kinda missing. It needs some soul, some funk. There’s no good reason a tune can’t be epic and still groove. Fortunately, Maserati agrees [...]

 

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Getting rejected by your dream school is a small price to pay for larger racial equality. Or maybe not.