Class and Tawdriness on the Internet. Where’s the News? It Ain’t Cheap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvSHj2-UqFIIt was expected to premiere at Cannes, but Abel Ferrara’s “Welcome to New York”, based on the sex scandals and legal battles of French...

Schwarzenegger: Total Freefall?

In the 1993 action movie, Demolition Man, Bruce Willis’s character is thawed (after being cryogenically frozen in 1996) in the year 2023 in future...

The Republican Love for Women of Color

The Republican party's love for foreign women was once again on display last night at the Republican National Convention (RNC). The recent events I...

Kate’s Bare Breasts or the Prophet Muhammad’s je ne sais quoi? Why Not Both?

Amid continuing protests by Muslims around the globe over a controversial anti-Islam film made by an Egyptian Coptic Christian, and more protests to come because...

The Australian Times: If Sex and Money Engender a Political Career in Romania, Plagiarism...

SEX and money used to be the temptations that drew politicians into scandal: now it appears to be the copy and paste keys on...

NYT: In a New Approach to Fighting Disease, Helpful Genetic Mutations Are Sought.

FDA, seeking largest pool of mutations, asks Tea Partiers to submit genomes.

NYT: Sorority Anti-Rape Idea: Drinking on Own Turf

...nothing like a rape at home.

ISIS Militants

 capture Jordanian fighter pilot in Syria. Stoic pilot refuses to talk except "don't call me Roger."

Geithner’s Detroit Hope to End the Depression Shattered, Again

Broke, the US Treasury has enlisted the FBI to help find the Teamsters’ hundreds of millions of dollars, money which disappeared in 1975. For...

NYT: Clinic That Treated Joan Rivers Gets Another Chance to Keep Accreditation…

Must promise to try harder and stop stealing her jokes.

One Uncompromising Voice: Bill Martin’s

I do not know if Herbert Marcuse said somewhere that, despite the appearance of great dynamism in capitalist society, nothing really happens, but I...
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