Monthly Archives: November 2009
Two dudes kissing: Get over it or help the homophobes to get over it already
Associated Press photos Openly gay artist Adam Lambert plants a kiss on an androgynous (but presumably XY-chromosome-possessing) keyboard player during his performance at last night’s American Music Awards. I love Lambert and I loved his same-sex kiss, except that in the video of it … Continue reading
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American Taliban (a.k.a. Catholic church) tries to sink health care reform
Reuters photo They look the same to me: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is surrounded by clerics during his swearing-in ceremony in Tehran in August (above). Although Ahmadinejad holds the title of president, it is Iran’s clerics who hold the power and call the … Continue reading
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Forgo the Christmas sweater and see Zemeckis’ ‘A Christmas Carol’
Film review (with gratuitous political commentary) In stills from Robert Zemeckis’ version of “A Christmas Carol,” Ebenezer Scrooge, voiced by Jim Carrey, is confronted by the tortured ghost of his deceased business partner Jacob Marley and is shown by the … Continue reading
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‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams fires opening salvo at the baby boomers?
“Dilbert” cartoonist Scott Adams for the first time, to my knowledge, has taken the baby-boom generation head on in his strip for today: (The full-sized strip is at the end of this post.) The “pointy-haired boss” of “Dilbert” for years has … Continue reading
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Pot calls the kettle ‘radical’
Media bias can be subtle. But there it is. Take this from The Associated Press today: A radical American imam on Yemen’s most-wanted militant list who had contact with two 9/11 hijackers praised alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik … Continue reading
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Texas massacre is another ‘senseless’ tragedy we won’t bother to learn from
Associated Press image Palestinian-American Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who joined the U.S. military before Sept. 11, 2001 (and pictured above in 2007), apparently struggled to reconcile his Muslim faith and Arab background in an anti-Muslim and anti-Arab environment. Ultimately, Hasan, … Continue reading
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Win some, lose some
Election results are coming in, and I fail to see how Repugnican wins for the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia are some harbinger of a big Repugnican comeback in 2010, as the media are speculating. There are a lot … Continue reading
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