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It is a bad time for political conversation if all that the brightest commentators can do is point out trivial non sequiturs. Or, probably...
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...
U.S.-Facilitated Security
Six days ago the Internet was abuzz with news about "our trumpeted success in persuading Pakistan to end its seven-month blockade of supplies for...
Magic Mike. Bloomberg, the Male Stripper
Amid concerns that the Marathon may let foreigners gauge the depth of the American dream a week after a tropical storm ravaged what used...
NYT: Searching for Sex
...and saying ,'excuse me,' when you find it
Jeff Cohen’s Right – Hill-Billy Clinton Turns Stand-Up Comic
Jeff Cohen is cofounder of RootsAction.org, founder of the media watch group FAIR, and director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College got Hill-Billy's number: she...
NYT: Afghan Spy Chief Defies Labels, Usefully…
says spy is a mere label thus he's not a spy, and stop blowing my cover.
NYT: Redefining Mental Illness
...Fucking Crazy.
Gitlin’s View on Charlottesville: A Step-Up Moment for Leadership
The fire that burns the length and breadth of American history has burst through a firebreak.
BY TODD GITLIN | AUGUST 14, 2017
First published here: http://billmoyers.com/story/charlottesville-step-moment-leadership/
Charlottesville...
Who Needs Poison When You Can Tweet?
With one 137-character tweet, Valerie Trierweiler, 48, the French First Lady, proved to be an amazing Lady Macbeth: She got rid of her predecessor,...
Facebook Takes over Craig’s List (and Amy’s …)
I have always bought my soap according to TV ads. I continue to buy Dove soap whether my skin gets smoother or rougher because...
NYT: Clinic That Treated Joan Rivers Gets Another Chance to Keep Accreditation…
Must promise to try harder and stop stealing her jokes.
Le Blog de Juan-Luc Melenchon: Denied Rumors that Obama Is This French Chavez’s BFF
NY Times confirmed rumors that Mitt and Bibi remain BF4E (best friends forever or as long as the money lasts).
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