From "Goodbye Terry Gross, we never knew ye—on liberal media denial" by Joe Bageant, in the Online Journal: As Helen Caldicott recently put it: “What’s to become of us? Ask any experienced mental health practitioner what happens to a person who constructs and tries to maintain a life based on denial … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2006
EXXON FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY
CLICK THE FALSIE: Did you know Sylvie Simmons has a whole page of interviews posted, and claims metal men are more respectful of women then "garden-variety" rockers? Wasn't that the joke in BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE...? KPFA has a pretty ROBUST podcast page Is this really Sylvie … [Read more...]
HOUSEBUCKET PROGENY
REVIEWS OF THE MONTH From Ed Condran in Giantmag.com (Beckensale issue, page 98): PLEDGE THIS! (2005) It's the female ANIMAL HOUSE starring Paris Hilton. I'm the professor of sexology and I'm obsessed with paris. She did very well considering that she's not an actor and not of this planet. I think … [Read more...]
McGLAUGHLIN USES THE WORD IMPEACH
YET URGED W. TO "STAY TOUGH" ON NSA WIRETAPPING... David Weigel on the Patriot Act (Reason): ...no senator who voted against the PATRIOT Act in 2001 or subsequently voted to amend it has ever lost a race; five congressmen who voted to reject or amend the act have lost their seats, but those losses … [Read more...]
NYTIMES THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
When Tierney and Brooks replaced Safire, I made some crack about how that would be bad for the wordmeister's ego. Now it's not so funny: in today's column, Brooks misrepresents a half-century of cultural politics so lamely you'd think you were reading a Murdoch rag: But by the late 1960's, … [Read more...]
NOT NOW WHEN?
As a longtime ER fanatic, I come to praise its latest themes: Maura Tierney is getting BETTER, and their abortion episode last week, replete with "fundamentalists" (which they slyly equated with Catholicism), pushed a lot of over-familiar buttons in ingenious ways. John Leguizamo's so good he plays … [Read more...]
THE WAY NAOMI LOOKS AT KING KONG…
Ken Auletta on Judy Miller? Did you gulp hard after you bumped into "(A disclosure: My wife, a literary agent, represents both Keller and Miller.)" So did every other self-respecting journalist. Seth Mnookin's piece in Vanity Fair was superior. PREDICTION OF THE YEAR: Scooter Libby Gets Pardoned … [Read more...]