Archive for October, 2008
The Week in Gossip: Diddy of the Year, Right Here!
Oh no he Diddy! ICYMI: Diddy and his daughters posed for the October issue of L’Uomo Vogue. (Charges are still pending.)
Gun used to murder J.Hud’s relatives found. Or so they think. It’s been a rough week (to put it lightly) for the “American Idol” showstopper. Her mother, brother and nephew were found dead—and not all [...]
Halloween Treat: Voodoo for Sale in New Orleans
The woods of Louisiana are deep and dark enough to send a shiver down anyone’s spine. The woods span on for miles, sandwiching long stretches of winding highway, creating never-ending canopies of green, suspended high atop the long, lean trunks of mature pine trees. These canopies block the sun from penetrating the soil below and [...]
The Obama-rama Tour’s Adventure of Video Tagging in the Swing States
Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy has inspired a legion of supporters from the artistic community. From the infamous Will.I.Am “Yes We Can” video to the heavyweights like Wyclef Jean performing in Denver for the DNC to the ubiquitous Shepherd Fairey posters, those with creative bones have rallied behind the Illinois senator and created art inspired by [...]
Barack Obama: Better TV than America’s Pastime
If a political advertisement starts with amber waves of grain, it’s got to be horribly cheesy, right? Somehow Barack Obama’s 30-minute infomercial, shown on seven networks Wednesday night, passed the schlock test: It was moving without being too sticky sweet. Obama, stepping out from behind a presidential-looking desk, and standing in an Oval Office-looking room, [...]
The News in Brief: A Partially Halloween-Related Edition
Ohio…Where Post-Election Lawsuits May Come to Sit The New York Times has predicted that should the election be a close one, angry folks in swing state Ohio will be suing to find out whether their votes really counted…or not.
Palin in Comparison A CBS/The New York Times poll showed 59 percent of voters had serious misgivings [...]
The Green Report: Is America A Bunch of Green Backsliders?
Now that gas and oil prices drop, will America keep its push to “go green?” A recent NPR article investigates whether American energy consumers will revert back to their old, gas guzzling, non-recyclable ways with low oil prices.
Speaking of fossil fuels, a new study by Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council claims the world [...]
Music News You Can Use: Old Hitmakers Make Headlines
Move over New Kids On The Block, the real boy band’s back! Jermaine Jackson has confirmed a Jackson 5 reunion in 2009, according to the Australian AP. Sister Janet plans to be their opener, while Mikey is iffy. Even so, it’s a sweet way to end one of the longest boy band droughts of [...]
Notes from the Other Ground(s)
Not The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky, tortured Russian literary behemoth behind Crime and Punishment, Brothers Karamazov, Notes from the Underground and The Idiot (among many other works fit to make the rest of the world feel unworthy) would have been 187 today.
Another Casualty in the Afghan War…a soldier’s hearing. One of the 10 British soldiers in [...]
Daily News Roundup: Got . . . Costume?
Who says you need blood dripping down your face and Palin’s spectacles bridging your nose to be scary this Halloween? Instead, you could easily be the next contestant on The Price Is Right, which is kind of a half-arse costume, but the economy is doing enough scaring for all of us these days. No ghosts, [...]
Amuse Bouche: More Celebs, More Votes?
Shepard Fairey, creator of the iconic Barack Obama image, recruited people to record video postcards at his Los Angeles gallery space explaining why they were voting for Obama.
John C. Reilly does make a compelling point …
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In other celebrity voting news, Leonardo DiCaprio and friends have another PSA [...]
The Middle
This video from People for the American Way is one of a series with people in “the middle” of the electorate, many of whom identify themselves as lifelong Republicans and Evangelicals. All of the people featured in the video are voting for Barack Obama. They give their reasons why.
Right Wing Response: Define Socialism
Michael Ramirez cartoon posted at Jewish World Review for Oct. 29, 2008.
Voters don’t know what socialism means, anymore. Hop to it, McCain. In the 21st part of an on-going series entitled “The Audacity of Socialism,” Investor’s Business Daily argues that the post-Cold War generation doesn’t really understand what socialism’s about, so when Republican candidate John [...]
Don’t Want to Tickle These Ivories
Ivory’s for sale again. Legally.
And here I thought the taboo was strong enough never to make the substance available as anything but a black (er white) market ware; I was wrong.
Merchants in Namibia held a closed door auction for nine tons of ivory (the product of roughly 10,000 dead elephants) yesterday morning. Six buyers from [...]
Daily News Roundup: A Quake and Possible Landslide?
Early Wednesday morning a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 170 people and leaving an estimated 15,000 people homeless. Rescuers are currently digging and searching for survivors in the a remote valley in Baluchistan, a province bordering Afghanistan. The worst hit was a British hilltop village of Ziarat and eight surrounding [...]
Colin Powell’s Endorsement: What It Means to a Young Black Repub
While former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama last week in a fairly straightforward (and diplomatic) manner, the reactions from the media and blogosphere have been not so subtle.
From Rush Limbaugh’s radio rant saying that Powell’s support was based on race, to political experts suggesting that his decision will undoubtedly sway the independent [...]
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